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The Big Breach; From Top Secret to Maximum SecurityCompliments of http://www.192.comThe facts are these: Kirill Vladislavovich Chashin was born in Moscowin May 1969 and educated at Moscow Aviation Institute, where his fatherwas a lecturer; his younger brother Serge is now known as FatherTheoktist and is a Russian Orthodox monk, working in Siberia. Afterleaving the Institute in 1994 Kirill Chashin worked for a US technologycompany and was then employed in a number of business and governmentorganisations -none of them involved in intelligence work. He and anassociate set up Narodny Variant for the sole purpose of raising fundsintended to assist Serbian resistance in the event of a land invasionby Nato forces during the Kosovo crisis; in the event the conflictended with the coffers still empty and the company left with no purposewhatsoever - which was why it then became dormant.Kirill Chashin became interested in the present book when he read pressreports about the author having published names of MI6 agents on theInternet. Having browsed the site he e-mailed the contact address andfor the first time found himself in correspondence with RichardTomlinson. It was then that the idea of publishing the book in Russiaoccurred to him, though the author was at that stage not convinced thatit would be in his interests to do so.The first face-to-face meeting took place in Constanz in southernGermany on July 24, 1999, where Richard Tomlinson then had a smallapartment. They met at a hotel opposite the train station. It wasclear that Tomlinson was not satisfied that 'Serge Korovin' - the nameused in negotiations by Kirill Chashin - was the partner he wanted andthat he would need further reassurance before committing himself in anyway.On January 11, 2000, in Munich, the two menmet again but without making any furtherprogress. Two months later, on March 8,2000, another meeting took place at Riminiin Italy, with a British journalistpresent. He was Nick Fielding of TheSunday Times, whom Kirill Chashinunderstood to be a trusted friend of theauthor - in an earlier e-mail he had saidthat Fielding was advising him onpublication of his book. Richard Tomlinsonwould later say that the idea of publishinghis story came from Nick Fielding, after hehad complained to the journalist about theharassment he had been suffering. Fielding suggested that bypublishing his book the British authorities would have no choice but toleave him alone.At the Rimini meeting all three agreed in principle that Chashin’scompany would publish the book, provided that a literary agent actingfor Tomlinson approved the contract. Fielding proposed his own Londonagent, Robert Kirby of Peters, Fraser and Dunlop. In the event Kirbydeclined to be involved, but passed on to Fielding the name of apossible agent for the project in Moscow.On May 5, 2000, two months after their meeting in Rimini, Fielding e-mailed Kirill Chashin from The Sunday Times, suggesting that he contactpage- 238 - To purchase the original limited edition hardback version of this bookplease call 08000 192 192 or go to http://www.192.com