Date: June 29, 2006 12:40:31 AM PDT
Subject: [ctrl] Police raid Riviera home
Police raid Riviera home of former MI6 officer
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday June 29, 2006
Guardian
British and French police raided the Riviera house of the former MI6
officer Richard Tomlinson, arrested him, and seized all his computer
equipment and personal papers.
Mr Tomlinson, who has been engaged in cat and mouse operations with his
former employer ever since he was released from jail in 1999, told the
Guardian yesterday: "At 6.27am on Tuesday, 12 police were outside my home
with an EU arrest warrant.
"They took every bit of computer equipment, all my phones, my emails, all
my personal files, my Psion organiser with my bank account details. It is
a complete and utter catastrophe," he said.
They then searched his boat. British police wanted to take away the files
in his office and both his passports - he has dual UK-New Zealand
nationality - but their French colleagues prevented them, he said.
Mr Tomlinson and MI6 have not been in touch since he published The Big
Breach, an account of his life as a British secret agent, in 2001. He is
now employed as a yacht broker, selling and chartering boats from an
Antibes-based company, BCR Yachts. He lives in nearby Cannes.
He has set up an internet blog, with the provocative title of "Tomlinson
v MI6". It is this which seems to be worrying Britain's intelligence
agency.
He has posted an aerial photograph of MI6's training facility at Fort
Monckton in Hampshire. He wrote: "This is where new recruits undertake
their IONEC [a six-month training course]. It is also where pre-posting
refresher training takes place, as well as courses for liaison officers
from other friendly intelligence services." MI6 is particularly worried
Mr Tomlinson will reveal names of its officers on his website.
Government lawyers recently asked him to take the names of two MI6
officers off his site. He agreed and wrote: "It is a most encouraging
first response from MI6 and the Treasury solicitor. If they had
approached things as sensibly as this 11 years ago, the dispute between
us need never have happened."
After his arrest in 1997 under the Official Secrets Act, Mr Tomlinson was
accused of placing lists of alleged MI6 officers on websites. He said
yesterday the police accused him of placing new lists on known subversive
sites last year. "It was absolutely nothing to do with me whatsoever," he
said yesterday. "It's so easy to prove it wasn't me. It absolutely wasn't
me. It's causing me enormous hardship and distress." He said the police
insisted the list was genuine. The list is apparently concocted from the
official British diplomatic list. As a list purporting to be one of MI6
officers, it is inaccurate.
Mr Tomlinson, 42, described on his blog how he was arrested and held in
Cannes police station. "I am having to write this blog from work now, as
MI6 have again confiscated all my computer gear with trumped-up and
invented charges," he wrote.
He said the police would not show him the lists while he was being
questioned.
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