-Caveat Lector- Wednesday June 9 8:01 AM ET Wanted British Spy Out In The Cold Again By Elif Kaban GENEVA (Reuters) - Former spy Richard Tomlinson, wanted in London for allegedly divulging a list of British intelligence officers on the Internet, has fled Switzerland and is now on the run and out in the cold in Europe. Speaking to Reuters on a mobile phone, Tomlinson said he left Switzerland Tuesday after Swiss authorities Monday gave him 24 hours to leave the country, alleging he had violated a civil order not to publish the list. ``I didn't even have time to say goodbye to my friends,'' he said. Asked how it felt to be a runaway renegade spy, Tomlinson said: ``It's not nice. I just want to find a place to live.'' The disgruntled former member of the British intelligence service, who denies responsibility for posting the list, said he took the train from Geneva to Zurich Tuesday and left Switzerland for an undisclosed destination in Europe. ``If they find out where I am now, they'd chuck me out,'' he said, refusing to disclose his whereabouts. A spokesman at the Swiss federal prosecutor's office confirmed that Tomlinson had left Switzerland. He said Tomlinson faced a five-year entry ban. But Dominique Reymond said Tomlinson could come back if a Geneva court investigating the charges cleared him. Tomlinson said he hoped to return to Geneva: ``I want to go back to Geneva. I can come back after I prove my innocence.'' Tomlinson was sacked in 1995 from the British Secret Intelligence Service -- the foreign intelligence arm known as MI6. He was jailed in Britain in late 1997 after he showed the synopsis of a book on his career to an Australian publisher. He says the British authorities were persecuting him. Tomlinson said he could not go to the United States, France and Australia because of pressure from the British government. ``All countries I've been to, I've been banned from.'' He said he would not go back to Britain. ``I'd be sent to prison straight away while they get a case together.'' Going to a ``hostile'' country or Russia or Serbia was a possibility, he said. ``I have considered going to a hostile country, but not to cause any problems. I really don't have anything to say anymore. I've been out of the MI6 for five years now.'' Tomlinson's credibility has been at a low ebb following a series of increasingly bizarre revelations about his former employers at the MI6 in interviews with the spy-obsessed media. His claims include an alleged plot to kill Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in a road tunnel near Geneva in 1992 and his testimony to a French magistrate that the driver of the car in which Diana, Princess of Wales, died in 1997 was an MI6 agent. British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook has said that Tomlinson was behind the publication of the names, which he has described as ``a deeply irresponsible and dangerous act.'' British officials have said the list was not accurate, but the publication of secret agents' names could put the lives and careers of undercover agents in sensitive postings at risk. The list was removed and the Internet site shut down after urgent pleas by British officials. But soon after it was purged, the list was on the loose again on the Internet, where many copies were flying through cyberspace and showing up on other Web sites. -- Justice does exist in the world, whether people choose to practice it or not. The men of ability are being avenged. The avenger is reality. Its weapon is slow, silent, invisible, and men perceive it only by its consequences - by the gutted ruins and the moans of agony it leaves in its wake. The name of the weapon is: inflation. -- Ayn Rand, "Egalitarianism And Inflation," Philosophy: Who Needs It ICQ: 9815080 Operator Taliesin_2 of #SacredNemeton on IRC PaganPaths DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
