Richard Tomlinson, author of 'The Big Breach' about his life in the Secret Intelligence Service, launched a blog in April so he can continue to annoy his former employers. It seems to have worked as he was recently re-arrested in France on suspicion of authoring the 'MI6 member lists' which  http://cryptome.org has hosted for some time.

Just lately no end of wild stories have been appearing on the reader's comments section of his rather dry blog. Some of these come from conspiracy buffs, some from out-and-out Icke-y loonies and some from people who do seem to be fellow ex- or current SIS agents.

Here's a precis of some of the fun:

*SIS training in the IONEC program at Fort Monckton, Hampshire involves electric shocks being given to recruits, while their controllers implant key words in their subconscious. These are meant to be suicide triggers, but they never actually work, and the MI6 controllers basically just do it for the S/M thrill angle.

*Some MI6 members are involved in something called the 'Yezidi Peacock' branch of Royal Arch Freemasonry, as well as some kind of Temple of Set-type set up known as the Trapezoid Lodges.

*Mind control programming is a reality, and MI6 use a handbook known as the 'Annotated Alice' for training sex slaves, blah blah blah the usual O'Brien/Philips Neuro-Linguistic Programming derived gibberish.

Well, I don't know what to make of all of it - see for yourself at  http://www.richardtomlinson.typepad.com

At the very least it's good for a laugh and shows that these Telegraph reading poshos can be as incoherent, rude to each other and bonkers as Indymedia contributors.

One final thing - Richard Tomlinson has an affidavit online in which he claims that Henri Paul (Diana & Dodi's pissed-up chauffeur) worked as an MI6 asset. His latest arrest came as the official investigation into the Spectacular Death in Paris nears its publication date in August.