TOMLINSON, RICHARD• 543TISDALL, SARAH.A junior civil servant in the Foreign Office, Sarah
Tisdall in October 1983 leaked to theGuardiantwo copies of highly
classified documents concerning the security arrangements for the
imminent deployment of cruise missiles to RAF Greenham Com-
mon. The newspaper published several stories based on the leak, and
in March 1984 she pleaded guilty to offenses under theOfficial Se-
crets Actand was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.
TOKAEV, GRIGORI.In 1947 theSecret Intelligence Service(SIS)
acquired its first postwar Sovietdefector, Colonel Grigori Tokaev, a
top aeronautical engineer, a graduate of the prestigious Zhukovsky
Institute, and Moscow’s leading expert on jet propulsion and rockets.
Tokaev had been co-opted by theGRUto supervise the abduction
of key German scientists who could assist Soviet reconstruction and
provide valuable technical information, but when he learned that Dr.
Kurt Tank, the Focke-Wolf chief designer, had been selected as a tar-
get, he opted to escape to the West. He was welcomed by SIS, which
exploited his propaganda value by arranging for theInformation
Research Departmentto publicize his book,Notes on Communism–
Bolshevism. However, Tokaev leaked details of his book before the
newspaper serialization could be published. He went on to writeBe-
trayal of an Ideal,Comrade X, andStalin Means War. He adopted the
name Gregory Tokaty and continues to lecture at London University.
TOMLINSON, RICHARD.Born in New Zealand to English emigrant
parents, Richard Tomlinson joined theSecret Intelligence Service
(SIS) in September 1991 after graduating from Gonville and Caius
College, Cambridge, with a first-class engineering degree and serv-
ing with the territorial 21stSpecial Air Serviceregiment. He spoke
fluent Spanish and Russian and performed well in the required intelli-
gence officer new entry course (IONEC), which lasts for six months,
during which candidates are trained at Fort Monckton and assessed
for their skills. Tomlinson rated highly in the 89th IONEC and was
posted to Soviet operations at the Eastern Europecontrollerateat
Century House.
In June 1993 Tomlinson was sent to Belgrade under journalistic
cover as a targets officer to recruit a source, followed by another sim-
ilar assignment to Skopje, Yugoslavia. Then in September 1993 he