The Big Breach : From Top Secret to Maximum Security

About this book

Richard Tomlinson was recruited initially by MI6 the British foreign intelligence service during his senior year at Cambridge University. In these memoirs he claims to have quickly gained the trust and confidence of one of the worlds most effective intelligence organizations and that he was relied on to smuggle nuclear secrets out of Moscow. Tomlinson also writes that he ran an undercover operation in Sarajevo while the city was under siege and infiltrated and dismantled a criminal group that sought to export chemical weapons capabilities to Iran. Four years after joining MI6 Tomlinsons career was abruptly halted. Attempting to fight a case for unjust dismissal Tomlinson was arrested for breaking the Official Secrets Act and imprisoned. He was subsequently released.