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January 23, 2006

Richard Tomlinson and the Big Breach

These two breaking stories are a bizarre throwback to Cold War days.

Firstly Richard Tomlinson is going to get his book 'The Big Breach' published in Moscow. I have been reading it in English recently (you can download it free online) and it is interesting stuff. The best bit is about MI6 gadgets, which include the PETTLE cassette recorder, which records on a hidden track in the middle of a cassette reel (just press stop and record simultaneously), and shoes with an inbuilt GPS/distress signal.

Second, the news is breaking on the BBC site at the moment that British agents have been accused of spying in Russia - downloading information stored in a spy rock on the streets of Moscow. Fake rocks, indeed. Uncannily, I wrote a similar scene for 'The Yellowcake Mystery' the other night involving a fake cow-skull. Funny old world.

richard tomlinson, The Big Breach, spy rock

Posted by sahelsteve at January 23, 2006 09:16 AM