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The Big Breach; From Top Secret to Maximum SecurityCompliments of http://www.192.comLudmilla Sushkova 'who works for the Andrew Nurnberg agency'. He didnot know her telephone number, but gave her e-mail address, adding thathis London agent had already contacted her. 'Hopefully this will getthings moving', he said.However Kirill Chashin - impatient with the delay over an agent – hadalready taken steps to 'get things moving'. He had contactedTomlinson directly and urged him to find another agent in any othercountry but Russia. On April 17 - some two weeks before Fielding'ssuggestion of an agent in Moscow - Tomlinson had appointedMediaPartners GmbH in Zurich; the deal was concluded in Switzerland onFriday May 9 after Kirill Chashin flew in to meet the company anddeposited $40,000 as an advance on royalties.It was to be a short-lived arrangement. Three days later, on Monday,May 12, 2000, Media Partners received a letter from lawyers, promptedby London, threatening action against them and citing a Swissinjunction against Tomlinson granted in June 1999. The literary agentswere a small firm, without the kind of resources they would have neededto fight an expensive legal battle; in the circumstances they felt theyhad no choice but to withdraw and to refund the money to Chashin.Recognising that now there was virtually no chance of any Westernliterary agent being willing to take the risk of finding themselvesembroiled in a war with the British government, Kirill Chashin brieflyconsidered the alternative of the Moscow agent suggested by Fielding aweek earlier but quickly decided that it would not be in his interests.If she was appointed she might well start 'trading' the book amongother publishers, as she would be entitled to do - and he might wellthen find himself being priced-out with nothing to show for the effortshe had already made.So he immediately contacted Richard Tomlinson directly to suggest thatinstead they should just deal between themselves on the samecontractual terms which had been just been negotiated and settled inSwitzerland. The author agreed. Chashin then arranged for a $10,000advance to be deposited into Tomlinson's account; with that the authorsent off his manuscript to Moscow. It was just in time; a few hourslater on Saturday May 17 Italian police arrived at Tomlinson's Riminiapartment and - presumably on instructions from London - arrested theauthor and confiscated his computer.However, with the manuscript safely in Moscow, there was now nothingthat could be done to prevent its publication. As a necessary firststep Kirill Chashin needed an editor; the man chosen for that was anAmerican journalist Steve U who had worked in Moscow years ago, andwhom he had come to know as a friend. Steve U had gone back toWashington, but he was willing to take on the job - the terms beingthat he would be paid all his expenses, including the costs of a tripto Rimini to meet the author.It would not be long before Steve U would also find himself underpressure from the authorities - in his case, the FBI. They summonedhim to their local offices and there produced MI6 surveillancephotographs of Chashin and Tomlinson together in Rimini. On the basisof information provided to them by London the FBI claimed that Chashinwas 'an undercover agent with the FSB’ - and warned Steve U to keeppage- 239 - To purchase the original limited edition hardback version of this bookplease call 08000 192 192 or go to http://www.192.com
The Big Breach; From Top Secret to Maximum SecurityCompliments of http://www.192.comwell away from him. Echoing MI6’s spin, the FBI asserted that the bookwould reveal the identities of serving intelligence officers and wouldendanger the national security of the United States and the UnitedKingdom. The FBI also indicated that they had conducted surveillance ofSteve U’s home and had monitored his telephone conversations Anastonished Steve U told the FBI to 'mind their own business'. The FBIlater requested meetings with Steve U’s wife and members of his family.Steve U finished his editing on October 23, 2000 and sent off his finaldraft of the book to Moscow. On January 27, 2001, he received a letterfrom Jeffrey Smith, former Chief Counsel to the CIA and currently apartner at the Washington law firm of Arnold & Porter, acting oninstructions from the British government. Arnold & Porter was employedby former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to harrass Seymour Hersch,a leading American investigative journalist, and has sued andthreatened litigation against other reporters who disclosed informationthat embarrassed government officials. The two-page letter threatenedboth civil and criminal action against him unless he withdrew from anyfurther involvement in the project. He was told that injunctions 'arecurrently in place in the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland and NewZealand prohibiting the publication of information relating to Mr.Tomlinson's employment in the Secret Intelligence Service. It is ourview that these injunctions are enforceable in the United States.' Theletter went on to claim that 'United States law prohibits therevelation of the identities of secret intelligence offices. See 50U.S.C. 421 (1991). This law may be applicable to the publication ofthe identities of British Secret Intelligence Officers and thereforecreates possible criminal liability in the United States.' Thewriter, Jeffrey Smith, ended by saying 'thank you in advance forunderstanding the seriousness of this matter'. Not surprisingly, SteveU understood it only too well.However, by that stage the printing in Moscow was nearing completion.Despite the inevitable delays attached to book publishing - and thiswas no exception - Kirill Chashin had a final proof copy in his handby January 20. A few days later he received a telephone call from NickFielding at The Sunday Times in London. Telling Chashin that he wasdisappointed to hear of the delays he asked when the books would be ongeneral sale in Moscow. His newspaper was seeking to lift a 1996 HighCourt injunction against publication by them of extracts from the book;but in order to succeed they had to show that the book was alreadybeing distributed and in the public domain. He ended by askingChashin to contact the newspaper's representative in Moscow - MarkFranchetti.Chashin did so, and The Sunday Times journalist then arranged tocollect one of the 20 proof books; the freelance photographer workingfor Sunday Times, Dmitri Beliakov, then went to his nearest book store,The English Book at 18 Kuznetsky Most Street, paid the owner to rentthe window space, put the book on display, and took pictures of it.Two days later, on January 23, the photograph was produced at theLondon High Court as evidence that the book was in the public domain.The court ruled that the book could be published once ‘widely availableelsewhere’ which was a slightly ‘inconvenient’ result. It meant thatThe Sunday Times, which was eager to serialise the book, had to requestChashin to also authorised relevant extracts from the book to bepublished on the Internet at www.thebigbreach.com.page- 240 - To purchase the original limited edition hardback version of this bookplease call 08000 192 192 or go to http://www.192.com
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