[PDF file]: […] the new country which, thank the Lord, Northern Ireland is becoming and, God willing, will continue to be.’ In his Ghost Force: the Secret History of the SAS, (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998), former SAS Warrant Officer Ken Connor, who was involved in the creation of what later became known as ‘14 Int’, noted: […]
[PDF file]: […] Dofar (Dofar?) and Northern Ireland – nicely illustrates the decline of the British empire. Twenty years after the big wars of the early 1950s, we’re down to SAS skirmishes in minor bits of the Middle East. It’s a difficult trick, producing a synthesis of subjects as large as, say, the war in Kenya, in […]
[PDF file]: […] Amongst the list of reserved occupations were transport workers, farm hands, doctors and those who had taken Holy Orders. One of the wartime members of the regular SAS regiment was Rev. Fraser Mcluskey, later The Very Rev Fraser Mcluskey and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. See . 7 Current […]
[PDF file]: […] a British to a Turkish prison, some of his supporters uploaded to their website, jancom.org, a document, described as a CIA intelligence report, naming two British former SAS men as the killers of Dr Gerald Bull, the designer of Saddam Hussein’s socalled supergun. The unsolved murder of the 62-year old Canadian-born engineer Gerald Bull, […]
[PDF file]: […] in the 1940s had edited Transatlantic, a magazine published at that time by Penguin Books. Max Rayne was a property developer and conducted various business ventures with SAS founder David Stirling in the 1950s and ‘60s. He later married Lady Jane VaneTempest-Stewart, sister of Lady Annabel Birley, subsequently the wife of Sir James Goldsmith. […]
[PDF file]: […] Bull, journalist Jonathan Moyle, Belgian politician André Cools, and one Lionel Jones2 – commissioned by the late Stephan Kock, allegedly of MI6, and carried out by British (SAS) personnel.3 This was followed by a vast judicial-state conspiracy to cover it up. But is the document genuine? We will probably never know: the CIA certainly […]
[PDF file]: […] equipment for internal security (i.e. against political opposition). There was also military hardware (tanks, armoured cars, aircraft) and staff (this included contingents from the RAF and the SAS), along with training for the armed services of the Gulf states (both in their home countries and at establishments such as Sandhurst). Notwithstanding the political and […]
[PDF file]: […] he is said to have told Roger Hardy, a BBC foreign correspondent, that David Holden had told him back in the 1970s, after they had investigated secret SAS activities in Yemen, that Holden ‘was secretly a Marxist and that he was working as an agent for the KGB.’ 17 The authors nowhere mention that […]
[PDF file]: […] and – rather oddly, given how much attention he gives it – ‘covert action in the colonies amounted to little’. He sees apparent successes in Oman (the SAS); Iran (the SIS-CIA coup) – but with disastrous long-term consequences; and Indonesia in 1965 – if involvement in the massacre of half a million people can […]
[…] including the Joint Warfare Establishment near Salisbury commanded by Maj. Gen. Patrick Ovens, a former Commando. The committee also formed close links with the Special Air Services (SAS), and secured access to the Foreign Office’s Information and Research Department, which has historically been used as a cover Department for M16 agents. The MOD gave […]
