'Diana death-crash mirrored MI6 plot to assassinate top Balk
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:50 am'Diana death-crash mirrored MI6 plot to assassinate top Balkan leader', admits former spy
Daily Mail
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
A former spy told the Diana inquest today he believed the Princess could have been murdered by MI6 officers.
Sacked secret agent Richard Tomlinson said he realised there could have been a conspiracy to assassinate Diana after seeing a documentary alleging there was a flash as her car entered a Paris tunnel.
The ex-MI6 officer said that after watching the film he had remembered an MI6 training session in which he was shown how a strobe gun could be used to kill targets.
He also spoke about MI6 plans to assassinate a top Balkan leader in a way that was almost identical to Diana's fatal crash.
Speaking via videolink, Mr Tomlinson, understood to be in Marseille, spoke about a secret agent named only as "A" who had drawn up the Balkan plan.
The court heard that Mr Tomlinson, who was recruited by MI6 in 1991 after studying at Cambridge, told a Scotland Yard team investigating Diana's death: "MI6 do have a capacity to stage accidents whether by helicopter, aeroplane or car and also that the strobe light was shown to us by the SBS at Poole during our training."
He explained that drunk driver Henri Paul would have been the "first choice" for MI6 to recruit and that one of the paparazzi following the princess may also have been in the pay of the service.
Mr Paul died in the Paris crash that killed the princess and her lover Dodi Fayed on 31 August 1997.
Mr Tomlinson, who was jailed for a year in 1997 for breaking the Official Secrets Act, said he became aware of a possible assassination bid in mid-1998.
He said: "I happened to see a thing on TV about it and that made me wonder whether something that I had seen within MI6 when I was working there might have been relevant."
He told the inquest that a colleague, referred to as "A", had shown him a document proposing the assassination of Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic.
Mr Tomlinson claimed in his book The Big Breach - published after his dismissal from the service - that the options outlined included staging a crash in a tunnel involving a blinding flash of light from a strobe gun while Mr Milosevic was at a peace conference in Geneva, the court heard.
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Daily Mail
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
A former spy told the Diana inquest today he believed the Princess could have been murdered by MI6 officers.
Sacked secret agent Richard Tomlinson said he realised there could have been a conspiracy to assassinate Diana after seeing a documentary alleging there was a flash as her car entered a Paris tunnel.
The ex-MI6 officer said that after watching the film he had remembered an MI6 training session in which he was shown how a strobe gun could be used to kill targets.
He also spoke about MI6 plans to assassinate a top Balkan leader in a way that was almost identical to Diana's fatal crash.
Speaking via videolink, Mr Tomlinson, understood to be in Marseille, spoke about a secret agent named only as "A" who had drawn up the Balkan plan.
The court heard that Mr Tomlinson, who was recruited by MI6 in 1991 after studying at Cambridge, told a Scotland Yard team investigating Diana's death: "MI6 do have a capacity to stage accidents whether by helicopter, aeroplane or car and also that the strobe light was shown to us by the SBS at Poole during our training."
He explained that drunk driver Henri Paul would have been the "first choice" for MI6 to recruit and that one of the paparazzi following the princess may also have been in the pay of the service.
Mr Paul died in the Paris crash that killed the princess and her lover Dodi Fayed on 31 August 1997.
Mr Tomlinson, who was jailed for a year in 1997 for breaking the Official Secrets Act, said he became aware of a possible assassination bid in mid-1998.
He said: "I happened to see a thing on TV about it and that made me wonder whether something that I had seen within MI6 when I was working there might have been relevant."
He told the inquest that a colleague, referred to as "A", had shown him a document proposing the assassination of Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic.
Mr Tomlinson claimed in his book The Big Breach - published after his dismissal from the service - that the options outlined included staging a crash in a tunnel involving a blinding flash of light from a strobe gun while Mr Milosevic was at a peace conference in Geneva, the court heard.
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I pray that this fool gets a forum ban what a wonderful gift that would be