The Big Breach: From Top Secret to Maximum Security

Author: Tomlinson, Richard
ISBN: 9780732270940
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 234mm x 154mm x 24mm
Format: Paperback / softback

Description:

Richard tomlinson was recruited by M16, the British foreign intelligence service, during his final year at Cambridge University. He was relied on to smuggle nuclear secrets out of Moscow, to run an undercover operation in Sarajevo while the city was under siege, and was immersed in the underbelly of contemporary espionage. Four years after joining M16, tomlinson's career was abruptly terminated for reasons that are still not clear. When he tried to fight for unjust dismissal tomlinson was arrested and imprisoned for breaking the Official Secrets Act. Since then he has been hounded by smear campaigns and dogged by international bullying. Former attempts to publish this book were thwarted by M16's legal manoeuvring but now it's tomlinson's turn to have his say........