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The Big Breach: From Top Secret to Maximum Security
Richard Tomlinson was recruited by MI6, the British foreign intelligence service, during his senior year at Cambridge University. He quickly gained the trust and confidence of one of the world's most effective intelligence organisations. MI6 relied on Tomlinson to smuggle nuclear secrets out of Moscow, to run an undercover operation in Sarajevo while the city was under siege, and to infiltrate and dismantle a criminal group that sought to export chemical weapons capabilities to Iran. Four years after joining MI6, Tomlinson's career was abruptly terminated for reasons that are still unclear. When he tried to fight the unjust dismissal, government accused him in breaching the Official Secrets Act and imprisoned him in one of the Britain's toughest maximum security prisons. Following his release, MI6 kept up its pressure, hounding Tomlinson, launching a smear campaign in the international press, and pressuring its allies around the world to illegally arrest and expel him. The British intelligence service has used threats of legal action to force publishers in several European countries to abandon plans to publish this book.
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March 21, 2012
Short version: It's a David and Goliath story.
Longer version: To get to us, the readers, this book has been hidden in boots, televisions, etc, while the author was taking a beating and/or fending of international police who were acting on the request of the author's former employer, MI6. It was written while the author was having to move from country to country often at the drop of a hat, often not knowing where he was going to stay or whether he'd be caught and sent off to another destination. It wasn't written by a professional author, he wrote this book because he felt backed into a corner and needed some way to get MI6, off his back. With all that in mind you have to forgive the jumpy writing style, the overuse of initialisms (no doubt part of his trade, but I really had to grit my teeth and bear them) and just take it all in.
What did I take from the book? That despite the aura that surrounds espionage, MI6 is a bureaucracy like any governmental organisation. The fact that it's also, unsurprisingly, a secretive and very well connected one, means that disgruntled ex-employees face a huge struggle trying to fight for fairness. Finally, that working with such commitment to any organisation runs the risk of losing part of your identity if you lose your position within that organisation.
Longer version: To get to us, the readers, this book has been hidden in boots, televisions, etc, while the author was taking a beating and/or fending of international police who were acting on the request of the author's former employer, MI6. It was written while the author was having to move from country to country often at the drop of a hat, often not knowing where he was going to stay or whether he'd be caught and sent off to another destination. It wasn't written by a professional author, he wrote this book because he felt backed into a corner and needed some way to get MI6, off his back. With all that in mind you have to forgive the jumpy writing style, the overuse of initialisms (no doubt part of his trade, but I really had to grit my teeth and bear them) and just take it all in.
What did I take from the book? That despite the aura that surrounds espionage, MI6 is a bureaucracy like any governmental organisation. The fact that it's also, unsurprisingly, a secretive and very well connected one, means that disgruntled ex-employees face a huge struggle trying to fight for fairness. Finally, that working with such commitment to any organisation runs the risk of losing part of your identity if you lose your position within that organisation.
May 6, 2016
Interesting read, good insight into MI6 in the mid to late 90s.
The author's dismissal and battle with his former employers was quite astonishing, and I wouldn't tend to believe it if MI6 hadn't apologised and settled with him. If everything he says is true, then hopefully they have changed their ways...but I'm still not convinced that everything I just read is gospel.
The author quite clearly didn't help his own case with some of his behaviour, but he wrote a reasonable book.
The author's dismissal and battle with his former employers was quite astonishing, and I wouldn't tend to believe it if MI6 hadn't apologised and settled with him. If everything he says is true, then hopefully they have changed their ways...but I'm still not convinced that everything I just read is gospel.
The author quite clearly didn't help his own case with some of his behaviour, but he wrote a reasonable book.
June 18, 2013
First 2/3 of the book are pretty much like a spy novel -- but a real, non-fiction one. It was very entertaining to get an insight on how secret service works. At times it reminded me of some bureaucratic institutions of Soviet Union (believe it or not), which is ironic, I guess. The last part of the book is a true spy story, and I really feel for the author who was placed in such an unpleasant life conditions.
Overall I'd say that the book is worth reading -- at least for the sake of widening once horizons.
Overall I'd say that the book is worth reading -- at least for the sake of widening once horizons.
March 24, 2024
I am livid at the naked abuses of power that Tomlinson had been subjected to. In New Zealand, Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, the MI6, with the help of local intelligence officers put him through the sort of indignities befitting a terrorist, not a Cambridge-educated former spy.
This is also a story of hypocrisy. While Tomlinson was being handcuffed for the umpteenth time, an outgoing MI5 head was on the verge of publishing her memoir - the very sin that Tomlinson was being persecuted for.
This is also a story of hypocrisy. While Tomlinson was being handcuffed for the umpteenth time, an outgoing MI5 head was on the verge of publishing her memoir - the very sin that Tomlinson was being persecuted for.
January 18, 2023
Richard Tomlinson was a brilliant young spy. The UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), also known as MI6, was lucky to have him. He was intelligent, tough both mentally and physically, skilled, brave and had loads of initiative. He was also successful.
Why then, after just a few years, was he summarily dismissed from the Service he loved - without adequate explanation, refused access to an employment tribunal, banged up in Belmarsh high security jail as a dangerous Category A prisoner, then pursued across Europe and Australasia, harried and harassed, detained and deported from one country after another, all apparently at the behest of SIS/MI6.
He was under surveillance at home and abroad. Even in London, SIS paid for a helicopter to keep a close eye on him as he roller-bladed around Hyde Park. This remarkable book was banned. Potential publishers were threatened and warned off in the UK and elsewhere. Their offices were raided by police, their computers confiscated. Allied security and intelligence services were asked to arrest Tomlinson and kick him out of their territories.
Tomlinson would like to know why. His UK readers might also want to know why SIS spent so much of the taxpayers’ money persecuting him, seemingly without rhyme or reason and almost certainly in breach of Tomlinson’s human rights as well as his rights as a UK citizen. It seems SIS was working unlawfully in its efforts to break him - not because he was a security risk or a traitor, but out of sheer vindictiveness.
At the end of this riveting account, an extraordinary tale of how an unaccountable intelligence service more or less does whatever it likes, he makes his former employers an offer, quite a reasonable one considering what he’d been through. At this stage he’s still loyal, still a keeper of the nation’s secrets. One can’t help wondering if that’s still the case 22 years later.
‘Yet MI6 could save themselves all the effort, legal battles and the British taxpayer considerable expense if they were to accept this simple pledge from me. I will come back to the UK voluntarily, hand over to charity all my personal profits from this book, accept whatever legal charges MI6 wish to bring against me, and if necessary go to prison again, on one simple condition: that I first be allowed to take them to an employment tribunal.
‘If MI6 were a noble and fair organisation, genuinely interested in protecting national security and accountable for the public money that they spend, then they would accept this offer with alacrity. But having worked both for, and been targeted by, them for nearly a decade, I doubt that they will.’
Nor have they, apparently.
Before joining SIS, Tomlinson demonstrated a taste for adventure. He travelled widely and cheaply, in Africa and South America. He qualified as a scuba diver, won a scholarship to study at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, qualified as a private pilot, joined the Territorial Army and was badged a member of 22 Special Air Service Regiment.
This was no entitled old Etonian from a banking family who read Greats at Oxford. Maybe that was held against him, too.
One can understand why efforts were made to stop this book from being published, and when that failed, why it was banned. It was not because of the detailed description of working as a UK intelligence officer, I’m sure, though it certainly is a detailed account of real-life espionage. Instead, it’s surely because it shows an SIS/MI6 out of control, answerable for all practical purposes to no-one, able and willing to do as it pleases without legal restraints.
Even at IONEC - the Intelligence Officers’ New Entry Course - Tomlinson stood out. He was the only one of his cohort (all white, all male, all middle class) to be awarded a Box 1 grade. (This was part of an appraisal system, using a form called a ‘staff appraisal form’ or SAF. Box 1 was outstanding, Box 2 above average, Box 3 satisfactory and so on). Not only was Tomlinson the only Box 1 on his course, but he was apparently the only IONEC graduate to have ever achieved that grade.
So it went on. Working as a junior officer in SOV/OPS he did excellent work again, developing ‘natural cover’ identities. Completing one of these can take a couple of months if done properly. Working under natural cover means without diplomatic status, as a businessman, academic or perhaps journalist, but it involves obtaining birth certificates, school and academic records, financial records, and detailed personal histories that should withstand the most thorough investigations by the Russians, for example.
He helped set up a fake news organisation to attract Soviet journalists with good access in Moscow. Using journalism as a cover for covert operations is - or was - apparently commonplace. The reader also learns how the United Sates had commendably banned the manipulation of media and journalists by the CIA, so instead the CIA asked its allies, SIS in this instance, to help plant fake news to discredit targeted politicians.
At the CIA’s behest, for example, SIS is said to have planted false personal attacks on the Egyptian politician Boutros Boutros Ghali in the media in an effort to stop his bid to become U.N. Secretary-General in 1992. The slander had little impact and the plot failed.
Tomlinson helped recruit a defector with detailed knowledge of Russian missile tests, then worked in Bosnia - in the Balkans it seems he was inadequately briefed, the mission poorly prepared, but he managed to pull it off. Penetrating an Iranian chemical weapons smuggling set-up was his next assignment. It was at this point that he somehow earned the displeasure of the all-powerful SIS personnel department, in particular an officer nicknamed for good reason the ‘Poisoned Dwarf’.
Tomlinson was criticised and attacked for no good reason. Having just learned his wife had terminal cancer, he was in no state to argue or fight back. But one day he was simply stopped at the entrance of SIS headquarters in Vauxhall. His pass had been cancelled without explanation.
He’d been sacked, just four years after joining SIS. No reason was given. The firing was a behind-doors decision, taken peremptorily, apparently signed off by senior officers who resented Tomlinson’s effectiveness and bore him a grudge. It was never clear why this was. He was offered a job in the City - something for which he’d obviously be unsuited.
Tomlinson was given three months’ pay. Denied the opportunity to take his case to an employment tribunal, Tomlinson became increasingly angry - and determined to fight against what he saw as an unfair dismissal, but he faced a barrage of rumour and innuendo in an effort to discredit him and his case.
The rest, as they say, is history and it’s not pretty.
Tomlinson’s final word:
‘The Official Secrets Act should be abolished immediately and replaced with a Freedom of Information Act, similar to the laws that exist in Australia and New Zealand. “National Security” should be clearly defined in the act. The Chiefs of both MI5 and MI6 should be replaced by a single Intelligence Tsar from outside the services who is not indoctrinated with the existing cover-up secrecy culture, and who is fully answerable to a Parliamentary Select Committee. Only then will there be full democratic control over the intelligence services.’
Maybe. My guess is it will never happen; what remains of a weak and sordid post-Brexit UK seems to have slid too far down the slope of oligarchy and corruption to ever find its way back.
Why then, after just a few years, was he summarily dismissed from the Service he loved - without adequate explanation, refused access to an employment tribunal, banged up in Belmarsh high security jail as a dangerous Category A prisoner, then pursued across Europe and Australasia, harried and harassed, detained and deported from one country after another, all apparently at the behest of SIS/MI6.
He was under surveillance at home and abroad. Even in London, SIS paid for a helicopter to keep a close eye on him as he roller-bladed around Hyde Park. This remarkable book was banned. Potential publishers were threatened and warned off in the UK and elsewhere. Their offices were raided by police, their computers confiscated. Allied security and intelligence services were asked to arrest Tomlinson and kick him out of their territories.
Tomlinson would like to know why. His UK readers might also want to know why SIS spent so much of the taxpayers’ money persecuting him, seemingly without rhyme or reason and almost certainly in breach of Tomlinson’s human rights as well as his rights as a UK citizen. It seems SIS was working unlawfully in its efforts to break him - not because he was a security risk or a traitor, but out of sheer vindictiveness.
At the end of this riveting account, an extraordinary tale of how an unaccountable intelligence service more or less does whatever it likes, he makes his former employers an offer, quite a reasonable one considering what he’d been through. At this stage he’s still loyal, still a keeper of the nation’s secrets. One can’t help wondering if that’s still the case 22 years later.
‘Yet MI6 could save themselves all the effort, legal battles and the British taxpayer considerable expense if they were to accept this simple pledge from me. I will come back to the UK voluntarily, hand over to charity all my personal profits from this book, accept whatever legal charges MI6 wish to bring against me, and if necessary go to prison again, on one simple condition: that I first be allowed to take them to an employment tribunal.
‘If MI6 were a noble and fair organisation, genuinely interested in protecting national security and accountable for the public money that they spend, then they would accept this offer with alacrity. But having worked both for, and been targeted by, them for nearly a decade, I doubt that they will.’
Nor have they, apparently.
Before joining SIS, Tomlinson demonstrated a taste for adventure. He travelled widely and cheaply, in Africa and South America. He qualified as a scuba diver, won a scholarship to study at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, qualified as a private pilot, joined the Territorial Army and was badged a member of 22 Special Air Service Regiment.
This was no entitled old Etonian from a banking family who read Greats at Oxford. Maybe that was held against him, too.
One can understand why efforts were made to stop this book from being published, and when that failed, why it was banned. It was not because of the detailed description of working as a UK intelligence officer, I’m sure, though it certainly is a detailed account of real-life espionage. Instead, it’s surely because it shows an SIS/MI6 out of control, answerable for all practical purposes to no-one, able and willing to do as it pleases without legal restraints.
Even at IONEC - the Intelligence Officers’ New Entry Course - Tomlinson stood out. He was the only one of his cohort (all white, all male, all middle class) to be awarded a Box 1 grade. (This was part of an appraisal system, using a form called a ‘staff appraisal form’ or SAF. Box 1 was outstanding, Box 2 above average, Box 3 satisfactory and so on). Not only was Tomlinson the only Box 1 on his course, but he was apparently the only IONEC graduate to have ever achieved that grade.
So it went on. Working as a junior officer in SOV/OPS he did excellent work again, developing ‘natural cover’ identities. Completing one of these can take a couple of months if done properly. Working under natural cover means without diplomatic status, as a businessman, academic or perhaps journalist, but it involves obtaining birth certificates, school and academic records, financial records, and detailed personal histories that should withstand the most thorough investigations by the Russians, for example.
He helped set up a fake news organisation to attract Soviet journalists with good access in Moscow. Using journalism as a cover for covert operations is - or was - apparently commonplace. The reader also learns how the United Sates had commendably banned the manipulation of media and journalists by the CIA, so instead the CIA asked its allies, SIS in this instance, to help plant fake news to discredit targeted politicians.
At the CIA’s behest, for example, SIS is said to have planted false personal attacks on the Egyptian politician Boutros Boutros Ghali in the media in an effort to stop his bid to become U.N. Secretary-General in 1992. The slander had little impact and the plot failed.
Tomlinson helped recruit a defector with detailed knowledge of Russian missile tests, then worked in Bosnia - in the Balkans it seems he was inadequately briefed, the mission poorly prepared, but he managed to pull it off. Penetrating an Iranian chemical weapons smuggling set-up was his next assignment. It was at this point that he somehow earned the displeasure of the all-powerful SIS personnel department, in particular an officer nicknamed for good reason the ‘Poisoned Dwarf’.
Tomlinson was criticised and attacked for no good reason. Having just learned his wife had terminal cancer, he was in no state to argue or fight back. But one day he was simply stopped at the entrance of SIS headquarters in Vauxhall. His pass had been cancelled without explanation.
He’d been sacked, just four years after joining SIS. No reason was given. The firing was a behind-doors decision, taken peremptorily, apparently signed off by senior officers who resented Tomlinson’s effectiveness and bore him a grudge. It was never clear why this was. He was offered a job in the City - something for which he’d obviously be unsuited.
Tomlinson was given three months’ pay. Denied the opportunity to take his case to an employment tribunal, Tomlinson became increasingly angry - and determined to fight against what he saw as an unfair dismissal, but he faced a barrage of rumour and innuendo in an effort to discredit him and his case.
The rest, as they say, is history and it’s not pretty.
Tomlinson’s final word:
‘The Official Secrets Act should be abolished immediately and replaced with a Freedom of Information Act, similar to the laws that exist in Australia and New Zealand. “National Security” should be clearly defined in the act. The Chiefs of both MI5 and MI6 should be replaced by a single Intelligence Tsar from outside the services who is not indoctrinated with the existing cover-up secrecy culture, and who is fully answerable to a Parliamentary Select Committee. Only then will there be full democratic control over the intelligence services.’
Maybe. My guess is it will never happen; what remains of a weak and sordid post-Brexit UK seems to have slid too far down the slope of oligarchy and corruption to ever find its way back.
December 5, 2018
Richard Tomlinson was a controversial MI6 whistleblower that made international headlines during his messy fallout with Britain's foreign intelligence service. Initially after a first class degree from Cambridge he was approached for recruitment by SIS but he postponed this work, beginning a career in the city and in his spare time qualifying for the SAS regiment in the Territorial Army. eventually he decided to follow up the MI6 interest and embarked upon a career with the secret service. He was a high flyer in qualification and the interview and was given top jobs following his employment. He was trusted to head out to Moscow and had a rough and ready role in Sarajevo during the Balkan conflict where he got into trouble for not wearing a tie during a diplomatic meet with Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadic. His early years looked promising and then suddenly, mid operation whilst dealing with Iranian terrorists, Tomlinson found his security clearance at the spanking new MI6 headquarters revoked and his unpleasant personnel management announced that he had been fired. An angry ex agent, Tomlinson wanted justice and tried to appeal his sacking and to take his employers to an industrial tribunal. Using national security as a barrier to any court action MI6 frustrated Tomlinson's attempts to overturn the firing. An angry Tomlinson felt he had no recourse but to write a book and tell his story to the world. A manuscript was seized from an Australian publisher and in breach of the Official Secrets Act, Tomlinson was arrested and banged up in the high security Belmarsh prison. On his release Tomlinson had an international cat and mouse game with MI6. Funded by large amounts of taxpayers money they disrupted his life internationally leading to his arrest in various countries where he tried to rebuild his life. His revelations about his work led him to the Princess Diana death tribunal where he revealed an almost identical audacious MI6 plot to assassinate Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic using high powered strobes to disrupt a car whilst travelling through a road tunnel. Eventually Tomlinson had his bitter memoirs published and this book offers a fascinating insight into the murky world of espionage. Ultimately this former spy's campaign for justice led to MI6 employees getting union rights and employment statuses within the UK as they would working for any other company. This is a fascinating read and a must for any student of the intelligence services.
October 11, 2022
Even as an 'Apartheid-culprit' not that I had any say in matters, I dare say that the disclosed info, regarding South African information, is negligible.
The readability, trend and overall style of the book are remarkable, and of good selection. Obviously, some professional input was gained in the process of getting the book ready for print and the 'bookshop shelf'.
Although it did not provide the information I needed, I quite enjoyed the book, In my opinion, with some dramatising and final touches may even turn out a good movie base.
The confirmation I needed and hoped to find in this book was all about the plan and strategic moves and actions that were taken by the ANC before they moved from a forbidden organisation to a 'ruling- party.
There is information that implicates these actions and plans as utterly criminal and unconstitutional.
Everyone that knows the ANC from its origin and beyond would know that Mandela was the biggest sellout and fake. Being a confirmed Muslim, he acted and spoke 'Christian' because 'Christianity' is so perverted and distorted that one will never find 'the christ' that is portrayed today, not in heaven or on earth, in hell maybe because that's the place prepared for illusionists and deceivers.
This information, which would still be traceable, if anyone bothers, will show how by Cash in transit heists and armed robberies money was gathered to fund the 1994 election campaign, buy out plans to 'fix' the election results, possibly via the IEC.
The killing of their 'own' inside criminal by the name of Collin Chuke, after he became 'redundant' and a threat to the 'plan'.
This used to be classified info, in those days. Now it's only another ' embarrassment, and that's a common phenomenon these days.
Now if this book really revealed anything about this, it could be even better the book.
The pure description of the evil agendas of MI6, and their operations does lift an eyebrow. But it's not really sensitive information.
Still time to delve into the provided info lead. This may result in a follow-up
book...
The readability, trend and overall style of the book are remarkable, and of good selection. Obviously, some professional input was gained in the process of getting the book ready for print and the 'bookshop shelf'.
Although it did not provide the information I needed, I quite enjoyed the book, In my opinion, with some dramatising and final touches may even turn out a good movie base.
The confirmation I needed and hoped to find in this book was all about the plan and strategic moves and actions that were taken by the ANC before they moved from a forbidden organisation to a 'ruling- party.
There is information that implicates these actions and plans as utterly criminal and unconstitutional.
Everyone that knows the ANC from its origin and beyond would know that Mandela was the biggest sellout and fake. Being a confirmed Muslim, he acted and spoke 'Christian' because 'Christianity' is so perverted and distorted that one will never find 'the christ' that is portrayed today, not in heaven or on earth, in hell maybe because that's the place prepared for illusionists and deceivers.
This information, which would still be traceable, if anyone bothers, will show how by Cash in transit heists and armed robberies money was gathered to fund the 1994 election campaign, buy out plans to 'fix' the election results, possibly via the IEC.
The killing of their 'own' inside criminal by the name of Collin Chuke, after he became 'redundant' and a threat to the 'plan'.
This used to be classified info, in those days. Now it's only another ' embarrassment, and that's a common phenomenon these days.
Now if this book really revealed anything about this, it could be even better the book.
The pure description of the evil agendas of MI6, and their operations does lift an eyebrow. But it's not really sensitive information.
Still time to delve into the provided info lead. This may result in a follow-up
book...
March 27, 2021
Достаточно интересный рассказ об особенностях подготовки и функционирования спецслужб, их операциях, а также их способности к преследованию неугодных.
Несмотря на то, что автор описывает себя как успешного и перспективного агента, это плохо объясняет тот факт, что он был внезапно уволен одним днем всего после 4 лет службы, после чего и начались его злоключения. Википедия помогает закрыть некоторые пробелы в книге, но полностью на этот вопрос не отвечает.
Некоторые занятные детали из книги:
- "палочная система" в Ми-6 того времени
- история с вербовкой российского корреспондента, сын которого как раз сейчас находится под следствием якобы по той же причине
- упоминание о работе с "перебежчиком из КГБ" Михаилом Бутковым, о котором довольно сложно найти подробности в сети, в отличие от тоже упомянутого Гордиевского
- промышленный и политический шпионаж против европейских "партнеров".
Несмотря на то, что автор описывает себя как успешного и перспективного агента, это плохо объясняет тот факт, что он был внезапно уволен одним днем всего после 4 лет службы, после чего и начались его злоключения. Википедия помогает закрыть некоторые пробелы в книге, но полностью на этот вопрос не отвечает.
Некоторые занятные детали из книги:
- "палочная система" в Ми-6 того времени
- история с вербовкой российского корреспондента, сын которого как раз сейчас находится под следствием якобы по той же причине
- упоминание о работе с "перебежчиком из КГБ" Михаилом Бутковым, о котором довольно сложно найти подробности в сети, в отличие от тоже упомянутого Гордиевского
- промышленный и политический шпионаж против европейских "партнеров".
December 12, 2018
Интересная книга. Рассказ происходит от лица бывшего разведчика из МИ-6, работавшего там в начале 90. Рассказываются подробности о подготовке агентов и методах работы в других странах. После несправедливого увольнения на него начинаются гонения. Подробно описывает как и за что его арестовывают, и как МИ-6 препятствовала его нормальной жизни.
August 31, 2019
Very interesting and somewhat worrying. The author obviously had a very strong and stubborn insistence on achieving his aims. But was it worth it? Perhaps not. He could have avoided most of the misfortune he suffered by toeing the line and honoring his original employment contract. But he chose a different path.
May 31, 2022
Having met Richard and read his book, he is to be believed totally. His treatment by Mi6,was,after all no surprise really, as it was often populated by people working for Government, but not necessarily the British one.
September 15, 2025
ترجمه فارسی مهین قهرمان رو خوندم. خیلی فصل هه وحدت موضوعی نداشت و نمیدونم مشکل از ترجمه بود یا لحن نویسنده یا سانسور
در قیاس با کتاب : شناسایی و شکار جاسوس
چیز زیادی برای گفتن نداشت. و افشاگری خاصی هم نداشت
جز همکاری یا مامور mi6 بودن ماندلا. و حدسی که در مورد نحوه مرگ پرنسس دایانا داشت
در قیاس با کتاب : شناسایی و شکار جاسوس
چیز زیادی برای گفتن نداشت. و افشاگری خاصی هم نداشت
جز همکاری یا مامور mi6 بودن ماندلا. و حدسی که در مورد نحوه مرگ پرنسس دایانا داشت
May 9, 2023
A eye opener to the Security Service.
January 24, 2017
Superb and the first modern insight into life as an MI6/UK-SIS Intelligence Branch Officer-the real-life James Bonds (No, they don't kill villains). Contentious and controversial, this book saw Tomlinson jailed in Belmarsh, normally a prison reserved for terrorist prisoners. I have been advised not everything in the book is accurate, but even so, it's a must for what IS...
May 5, 2023
MI6 caught with it's pants down. The book is written very well and engaging. The message that keeps lingering for me is; no accountability of Uk government agency leads and has led to abuse of power and the law. What on earth were they thinking?
October 22, 2013
Felt a traitor for reading it . It never really stacks up his reasoning to write this book. Good insight to secret world but didn't take to author .
December 3, 2016
Fascinating book about smart man with an interesting experience, but the most important message is the necessity of persistence to stand up for your rights. I loved this book very much.
June 23, 2025
first half 1/5, second half 4/5. v long
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