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The Diana Document
http://www.1underground.com/Features/features253tomlinson.shtml
MI6 and the Princess of Wales
Attached below is a sworn and testified statement that I have made on 12th
May 1999 to the enquiry into the deaths of the Princess of Wales,
Dodi Al Fayed, and Henri Paul. I firmly believe that MI6 have information in
their files that would assist Judge Stephan's enquiry. Why don't they
yield up this information? They should not be entitled to use the Official
Secrets Act to protect themselves from investigation into the deaths of
three people, particularly in the case of an incident of this magnitude and
historical importance.
I, Richard John Charles Tomlinson, former MI6 officer, of Geneva,
Switzerland hereby declare:
1.I firmly believe that there exist documents held by the British Secret
Intelligence Service (MI6) that would yield important new evidence into the
cause and circumstances leading to the deaths of the Princess of Wales,
Mr Dodi Al Fayed, and M. Henri Paul in Paris in August 1997.
2.I was employed by MI6 between September 1991 and April 1995. During
that time, I saw various documents that I believe would provide new
evidence and new leads into the investigation into these deaths. I also
heard various rumours – which though I was not able to see supporting
documents – I am confident were based on solid fact.
3.In 1992, I was working in the Eastern European Controllerate of MI6 and I
was peripherally involved in a large and complicated operation to smuggle
advanced Soviet weaponry out of the then disintegrating and disorganised
remnants of the Soviet Union. During 1992, I spent several days reading
the substantial files on this operation. These files contain a wide miscellany
of contact notes, telegrams, intelligence reports, photographs etc, from
which it was possible to build up a detailed understanding of the operation.
The operation involved a large cast of officers and agents of MI6. One
more than one occasion, meetings between various figures in the
operation took place at the Ritz Hotel, Place de Vendome, Paris. There
were in the file several intelligence reports on these meetings, which had
been written by one of the MI6 officers based in Paris at the time (identified
in the file only by a coded designation). The source of the information was
an informant in the Ritz Hotel, who again was identified in the files only by a
code number. The MI6 officer paid the informant in cash for his information.
I became curious to learn more about the identity of this particular
informant, because his number cropped up several times and he seemed
to have extremely good access to the goings on in the Ritz Hotel. I therefore
ordered this informant’s personal file from MI6’s central file registry. When I
read this new file, I was not at all surprised to learn that the informant was a
security officer of the Ritz Hotel. Intelligence services always target the
security officer’s of important hotels because they have such good access
to intelligence. I remember, however, being mildly surprised that the
nationality of this informant was French, and this stuck in my memory,
because it is rare that MI6 succeeds in recruiting a French informer. I
cannot claim that I remember from this reading of the file that the name of
this person was Henri Paul, but I have no doubt with the benefit of hindsight
that this was he. Although I did not subsequently come across Henri Paul
again during my time in MI6, I am confident that the relationship between he
and MI6 would have continued until his death, because MI6 would never
willingly relinquish control over such a well placed informant. I am sure that
the personal file of Henri Paul will therefore contain notes of meetings
between him and his MI6 controlling officer right up until the point of his
death. I firmly believe that these files will contain evidence of crucial
importance to the circumstances and causes of the incident that killed M.
Paul, together with the Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed.
4.The most senior undeclared officer in the local MI6 station would normally
control an informant of M.Paul’s usefulness and seniority. Officers declared
to the local counter-intelligence service (in this case the Directorate de
Surveillance Territoire, or DST) would not be used to control such an
informant, because it might lead to the identity of the informant becoming
known to the local intelligence services. In Paris at the time of M. Paul’s
death, there were two relatively experienced but undeclared MI6 officers.
The first was Mr Nicholas John Andrew LANGMAN, born 1960. The
second was Mr Richard David SPEARMAN, again born in 1960. I firmly
believe that either one or both of these officers will be well acquainted with
M Paul, and most probably also met M. Paul shortly before his death. I
believe that either or both of these officers will have knowledge that will be
of crucial importance in establishing the sequence of events leading up to
the deaths of M.Paul, Dodi Al Fayed and the Princess of Wales. Mr
Spearman in particular was an extremely well connected and influential
officer, because he had been, prior to his appointment in Paris, the
personal secretary to the Chief of MI6 Mr David SPEDDING. As such, he
would have been privy to even the most confidential of MI6 operations. I
believe that there may well be significance in the fact that Mr Spearman
was posted to Paris in the month immediately before the deaths.
5.Later in 1992, as the civil war in the former Yugoslavia became
increasingly topical, I started to work primarily on operations in Serbia.
During this time, I became acquainted with Dr Nicholas Bernard Frank
FISHWICK, born 1958, the MI6 officer who at the time was in charge of
planning Balkan operations. During one meeting with Dr Fishwick, he
casually showed to me a three-page document that on closer inspection
turned out to be an outline plan to assassinate the Serbian leader
President Slobodan Milosevic. The plan was fully typed, and attached to a
yellow "minute board", signifying that this was a formal and accountable
document. It will therefore still be in existence. Fishwick had annotated that
the document be circulated to the following senior MI6 officers: Maurice
KENDWRICK-PIERCEY, then head of Balkan operations, John RIDDE,
then the security officer for Balkan operations, the SAS liaison officer to
MI6 (designation MODA/SO, but I have forgotten his name), the head of the
Eastern European Controllerate (then Richard FLETCHER) and finally Alan
PETTY, the personal secretary to the then Chief of MI6, Colin McCOLL.
This plan contained a political justification for the assassination of
Milosevic, followed by three outline proposals on how to achieve this
objective. I firmly believe that the third of these scenarios contained
information that could be useful in establishing the causes of death of Henri
Paul, the Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed. This third scenario
suggested that Milosevic could be assassinated by causing his personal
limousine to crash. Dr Fishwick proposed to arrange the crash in a tunnel,
because the proximity of concrete close to the road would ensure that the
crash would be sufficiently violent to cause death or serious injury, and
would also reduce the possibility that there might be independent, casual
witnesses. Dr Fishwick suggested that one way to cause the crash might
be to disorientate the chauffeur using a strobe flash gun, a device which is
occasionally deployed by special forces to, for example, disorientate
helicopter pilots or terrorists, and about which MI6 officers are briefed
about during their training. In short, this scenario bore remarkable
similarities to the circumstances and witness accounts of the crash that
killed the Princess of Wales, Dodi Al Fayed, and Henri Paul. I firmly believe
that this document should be yielded by MI6 to the Judge investigating
these deaths, and would provide further leads that he could follow.
6.During my service in MI6, I also learnt unofficially and second-hand
something of the links between MI6 and the Royal Household. MI6 are
frequently and routinely asked by the Royal Household (usually via the
Foreign Office) to provide intelligence on potential threats to members of
the Royal Family whilst on overseas trips. This service would frequently
extend to asking friendly intelligence services (such as the CIA) to place
members of the Royal Family under discrete surveillance, ostensibly for
their own protection. This was particularly the case for the Princess of
Wales, who often insisted on doing without overt personal protection, even
on overseas trips. Although contact between MI6 and the Royal Household
was officially only via the Foreign Office, I learnt while in MI6 that there was
unofficial direct contact between certain senior and influential MI6 officers
and senior members of the Royal Household. I did not see any official
papers on this subject, but I am confident that the information is correct. I
firmly believe that MI6 documents would yield substantial leads on the
nature of their links with the Royal Household, and would yield vital
information about MI6 surveillance on the Princess of Wales in the days
leading to her death.
7.I also learnt while in MI6 that one of the "paparazzi" photographers who
routinely followed the Princess of Wales was a member of "UKN", a small
corps of part-time MI6 agents who provide miscellaneous services to MI6
such as surveillance and photography expertise. I do not know the identity
of this photographer, or whether he was one of the photographers present
at the time of the fatal incident. However, I am confident that examination of
UKN records would yield the identity of this photographer, and would
enable the inquest to eliminate or further investigate that potential line of
enquiry.
8.On Friday August 28 1998, I gave much of this information to Judge
Hervé Stephan, the French investigative Judge in charge of the inquest into
the accident. The lengths which MI6, the CIA and the DST have taken to
deter me giving this evidence and subsequently to stop me talking about it,
suggests that they have something to hide.
9.On Friday 31 July 1998, shortly before my appointment with Judge Hervé
Stephan, the DST arrested me in my Paris hotel room. Although I have no
record of violent conduct I was arrested with such ferocity and at gunpoint
that I received a broken rib. I was taken to the headquarters of the DST,
and interrogated for 38 hours. Despite my repeated requests, I was never
given any justification for the arrest and was not shown the arrest warrant.
Even though I was released without charge, the DST confiscated from me
my laptop computer and Psion organiser. They illegally gave these to MI6
who took them back to the UK. They were not returned for six months,
which is illegal and caused me great inconvenience and financial cost.
10.On Friday 7th August 1998 I boarded a Qantas flight at Auckland
International airport, New Zealand, for a flight to Sydney, Australia where I
was due to give a television interview to the Australian Channel Nine
television company. I was in my seat, awaiting take off, when an official
boarded the plane and told me to get off. At the airbridge, he told me that
the airline had received a fax "from Canberra" saying that there was a
problem with my travel papers. I immediately asked to see the fax, but I was
told that "it was not possible". I believe that this is because it didn't exist.
This action was a ploy to keep me in New Zealand so that the New Zealand
police could take further action against me. I had been back in my
Auckland hotel room for about half an hour when the New Zealand police
and NZSIS, the New Zealand Secret Intelligence Service, raided me. After
being detained and searched for about three hours, they eventually
confiscated from me all my remaining computer equipment that the French
DST had not succeeded in taking from me. Again, I didn't get some of
these items back until six months later.
11.Moreover, shortly after I had given this evidence to Judge Stephan, I
was invited to talk about this evidence in a live television interview on
America’s NBC television channel. I flew from Geneva to JFK airport on
Sunday 30 August to give the interview in New York on the following
Monday morning. Shortly after arrival at John F Kennedy airport, the
captain of the Swiss Air flight told all passengers to return to their seats.
Four US Immigration authority officers entered the plane, came straight to
my seat, asked for my passport as identity, and then frogmarched me off
the plane. I was taken to the immigration detention centre, photographed,
fingerprinted, manacled by my ankle to a chair for seven hours, served with
deportation papers (exhibit 1) and then returned on the next available plane
to Geneva. I was not allowed to make any telephone calls to the
representatives of NBC awaiting me in the airport. The US Immigration
Officers - who were all openly sympathetic to my situation and apologised
for treating me so badly - openly admitted that they were acting under
instructions from the CIA.
12.In January of this year, I booked a chalet in the village of Samoens in the
French Alps for a ten day snowboarding holiday with my parents. I picked
up my parents from Geneva airport in a hire car on the evening of January
8, and set off for the French border. At the French customs post, our car
was stopped and I was detained. Four officers from the DST held me for
four hours. At the end of this interview, I was served with the deportation
papers below (exhibit 2), and ordered to return to Switzerland. Note that in
the papers, my supposed destination has been changed from "Chamonix"
to "Samoens". This is because when first questioned by a junior DST
officer, I told him that my destination was "Chamonix". When a senior
officer arrived an hour or so later, he crossed out the word and changed it
to "Samoens", without ever even asking or confirming this with me. I
believe this is because MI6 had told them of my true destination, having
learnt the information through surveillance on my parent's telephone in the
UK. My banning from France is entirely illegal under European law. I have a
British passport and am entitled to travel freely within the European Union.
MI6 have "done a deal" with the DST to have me banned, and have not
used any recognised legal mechanism to deny my rights to freedom of
travel. I believe that the DST and MI6 have banned me from France
because they wanted to prevent me from giving further evidence to Judge
Stephan’s inquest, which at the time, I was planning to do.
13.Whatever MI6’s role in the events leading to the death of the Princess of
Wales, Dodi Al Fayed and Henri Paul, I am absolutely certain that there is
substantial evidence in their files that would provide crucial evidence in
establishing the exact causes of this tragedy. I believe that they have gone
to considerable lengths to obstruct the course of justice by interfering with
my freedom of speech and travel, and this in my view confirms my belief
that they have something to hide. I believe that the protection given to MI6
files under the Official Secrets Act should be set aside in the public interest
in uncovering once and for all the truth behind these dramatic and
historically momentous events.
SWORN at )
this day of )
1998, before me:- )
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A Notary Public
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