From: steuart@btinternet.com   
      
   "rich"  wrote in message   
   news:9Mthh.21106$n36.7227@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...   
   > From yesterday's Sunday Express:   
      
   Laughable.  Do these people think we are fools.  The 800 page Paget report   
   is on the net and available for all to read.   
      
   >   
   > Speaking to the Sunday Express from his home in the south of France,   
   > Tomlinson was furious with the way his evidence appeared in in Lord   
   Stevens's   
   > report. He said last night: "The report put words in my mouth that I never   
   > used. I gave them detailed information about the Milosevic plan for an   
   > assassination.   
   >   
   > "They told me in a subsequent interview they had checked and found the   
   > document outlining the plan exactly where I said it was.   
      
      
   Would those words be these(Tomlinson quoted in the report)   
   'my deeply felt anger towards MI6 it may be that I wrongly linked this   
   capability to the Milosevic minute. When I came out of prison I was strongly   
   embittered towards MI6 and certainly wanted to cause them embarrassment and   
   difficulty and this may have contributed to my mixing of my knowledge of   
   techniques with my eventual account.'(Page 762)   
      
      
   'subsequent interview'?  So they only checked SIS agents and files AFTER   
   Tomlinson made his confession.  So why did he make it?  Paget makes that   
   perfectly clear.  Tomlinsons signed his confession, not because of   
   contradictions or agreements with SIS, BUT BECAUSE HE HAD CONTRADICTED AND   
   EMBELLISHED HIS OWN ACCOUNT.   In  1996,   
      
    "Civil Proceedings taken against Richard Tomlinson. As a result of the   
   civil proceedings being taken against him relating to the writing of a book   
   about his time as an SIS officer, a court order was served. This resulted in   
   the recovery of three floppy disks, each of which included a version of   
   'Chapter 8' of a draft manuscript (provisionally titled 'I Spy'). A hard   
   copy version was also seized. These were written before the crash in Paris   
   on 31 August 1997(Page 755)   
      
   Paget quotes directly, the relevant part of Tomlinson's pre-crash   
   manuscript, which refers to "a two-page minute entitled 'a proposal to   
   assassinate Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic'",   
      
   "The second page was a brief outline of his assassination plan. He proposed   
   to use RWW in a drive-past ambush during one of Milosevic's visits to Geneva   
   for the ICFY peace talks. The attack would be carefully staged to suggest   
   that it had been carried out by elements of the Bosnian emigree population   
   in Switzerland."(Page 757)   
      
   Paget then notes,   
      
   "There was no reference in either version of the manuscript to other   
   possible scenarios, and no reference to: road traffic accidents; tunnels;   
   absence of witnesses; proximity to concrete or bright flashes."(Page 757)   
      
   Paget contains Tomlinson's the excerpt from Tomlinson's original manuscript.   
      
   Paget then explains,   
      
   "After he left prison in May 1998 and, by his own account, after watching a   
   television programme about the crash that referred to a bright, white flash,   
   Richard Tomlinson claimed to then recall the detail of the other options.   
   His accounts from August 1998 onwards then contain very specific details   
   about the operational options"(Page 760).   
      
   Tomlinson is also not truthful when he say's that Paget ' had checked and   
   found the   
    document outlining the plan exactly where I said it was.'  What Paget   
   actually said is that   
      
   "The line managers ordered the memorandum and any copies of it to be   
   destroyed. This was done before the memorandum was registered or placed on   
   record."(Page 762)   
      
   So if the document did not exist, perhaps SIS officers confirmed Tomlinsons   
   account.   
      
    Paget interviewed "a middle-ranking officer working in the Balkans Section   
   of the SIS" who authored the memo which outlined a,   
      
   "plan to kill a named extremist leader who was reported to have been   
   involved in acts of genocide, should that person became significantly more   
   powerful. The person referred to, whose name is known to Operation Paget,   
   was not Slobodan Milosevic. The memorandum did not contain detailed means of   
   carrying out the proposal, nor any of the alleged similarities to the crash   
   in Paris in 1997."(Page 762)   
      
   >   
   > "They confirmed it was accurate.   
      
   As we have seen, Paget and SIS did no such thing..   
      
    However, in the Stevens report it is   
   > claimed I admitted that the plan did not refer to Milosevic but to someone   
   > else. This is a crude attempt by the intelligence service to cover up the   
   > truth."   
      
   Who does Tomlinson think he is fooling.  Clearly MI6 taught him well.  Paget   
   actually concludes,   
      
   "Richard Tomlinson has changed his account and no longer links his   
   understanding of the specific details he saw of the 'Milosevic Plot' to the   
   use of a stroboscopic light to blind a driver. There is no evidence to   
   support this claim and all the available evidence showed that there was no   
   link at all between the 'Milosvic Plot' and a blinding light. There is no   
   evidence that the 'security services' were developing such a technique with   
   a view to assassination."(Page 820)   
      
      
      
   Geoff.   
      
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