The Big Breach: From Top Secret to Maximum Security

Product Information

a b "I fear for my life, says renegade MI6 spy". The Guardian. 16 May 1999. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021 . Retrieved 4 December 2012. More revealing was the statement given by Diana's eldest sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, who testified that in a phone conversation with Diana on Friday 29 August, Diana spoke about Dodi Fayed in a manner that gave her sister the impression the relationship was on "stony ground". [53] Statements from other friends and confidantes Diana spoke to in the week before her death, including her butler Paul Burrell, her friend Lady Annabel Goldsmith, and her spiritual adviser Rita Rogers, were unanimous that she was firm about not wanting to get engaged or married to anyone at that point in her life. A week before she died, the princess had told Goldsmith: "I need marriage like a rash on my face." [54] Tomlinson was apprehended by French Authorities in July 2006 on a European Arrest Warrant issued by the United Kingdom. The warrant claimed Tomlinson was involved in the publication of two lists containing the names of 116 MI6 officers in 2005. The police seized computers, personal papers and other items from his home in Cannes, and from his place of employment, leading to the loss of this employment. He was subsequently cleared entirely of any involvements in the lists, though was never compensated for the damage to his career caused by the allegations. It was reported in some quarters that this arrest was linked to the inquiries into the death of Diana. During this period Tomlinson kept a number of blogs publicising his treatment.

John Macnamara, a former senior detective at Scotland Yard, headed Al-Fayed's own investigation for five years from 1997. Cross-examined at the inquest on 14 February, he conceded that he had found no evidence of a criminal conspiracy to kill the Princess, or that she was engaged or pregnant at the time of her death, apart from the claims Al-Fayed had relayed to him. [59] Pregnancy [ edit ] Pavia, Will (21 February 2008). "James Andanson was 'at home on night of Diana crash' ". The Times. London . Retrieved 12 January 2016. (subscription required)

Tomlinson says that Truefax was established in Conduit Street in central London by him and a KGB defector in 1992 with a view to cultivating Russian journalists, obtaining military secrets, and recruiting Russian agents. During 2008, Tomlinson was a witness for the inquest into the deaths of the Princess of Wales and Dodi al Fayed. [48] He had suggested that MI6 was monitoring Diana before her death and that her driver on the night she died, Henri Paul, may have been an MI6 informant, and that her death resembled plans he saw during 1992 for the assassination of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević, using a bright light to cause a traffic accident. [48]

In 1998, Tomlinson was described as possessing "the air of slight arrogance that goes with good looks, a hard-trained body and a sharp intellect". [55] The Geneva press reported that he had a "perfect command of [the] French [language]". [56] He is also fluent in Spanish, German and Italian.Government officials later conceded that the list did not originate from Tomlinson. [2] Diana, Princess of Wales [ ] a b c d Barnett, Antony (13 June 1999). "British agents helped Iran to make killer gas". The Observer. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 15 February 2013. Mohamed Al-Fayed alleged that Diana's body was deliberately embalmed shortly after her death to ensure that any pregnancy test at the post-mortem would produce a false result. Robert Chapman, who carried out the post-mortem examination, stated that the embalming fluids would have had no effect on determining whether Diana was pregnant or not as the physical evidence would have been present in her womb and ovaries. [61] Mr Tomlinson, 35, fled to Paris last year after serving a six-month jail sentence for breaching the official secrets act.