Al-Fayed's persistence in asserting Diana was pregnant led him to get members of his staff to tell the media that on their final day together, Diana and his son had visited a villa he owned in Paris to choose a room "for the baby". In 2003, Diana's butler, Paul Burrell, published a note that he claimed had been written by Diana in 1993, in which there were allegations that her husband was "planning 'an accident' in [Diana's] car, brake failure and serious head injury" so that he could marry again.

Tomlinson was teamed with Mikhail Butkov, who defected to Britain from the KGB in Norway in 1991 and had been given a large house outside Reading, Berkshire. He worked briefly in the summer of 1986 as an intern at the World Bank and then subsequent to graduation from MIT, won a further prize from the Rotary Foundation, allowing him to study in the country of his choice for a year. The Paget report states that when the car was found, Andanson's body was in the driver's seat of the car, and his head was detached and lay between the front seats.Operation Paget found no evidence Andanson was known to any security service and, contrary to Al-Fayed's claims, his death was thoroughly investigated by French police (although the whereabouts of the car keys has never been explained). Theorists have alleged that the driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, Henri Paul, was in the pay of a national security service, though different versions of the allegation name the country of the security service alternately as Britain, France or the United States. In May 1999, a list of 116 alleged MI6 agents was sent to the LaRouche movement's publication Executive Intelligence Review, [42] a weekly magazine which published it online.

He was arrested alongside ex-MI5 agent David Shayler, who is facing charges under the Official Secrets Act. Dorril argued, "it is well known that rival intelligence networks know who these people are and accept them. He enjoyed the experience, and subsequently applied to join MI6, and officially joined the Service on 23 September 1991. The renegade former MI6 agent Richard Tomlinson has given evidence to the judge investigating the crash which killed Diana, Princess of Wales almost one year ago. Financial Times (London,England) March 31, 2001 Saturday London Edition 1 BOOKS: The spy who talked too much: The renegade MI6 agent is an unconvincing advocate of free speech, argues Jimmy Burns BYLINE: By JIMMY BURNS SECTION: BOOKS ; Pg.He had suggested that MI6 was monitoring Diana before her death and that her driver on the night she died, Henri Paul, had been an MI6 informant, and that her death resembled plans he saw during 1992 for the assassination of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević, using a bright light to cause a traffic accident.