[…] the memoir of a female member of the ‘det’, another undercover Army unit in Northern Ireland: Sarah Ford (pseudonym) One Up: A Woman in Action with the SAS (London: HarperCollins, 1997). The top brass in the British armed forces may be debating whether women should be allowed in the front line but they are […]
[…] p. 2; 29 May, 1983, p. 2; 5 June, 1983, p.2; 12 June, 1983, p.2. The South African link — Sunday News, 24 July 1983, p. 9. SAS dirty tricks — Phoenix, 9 December 1983, p. 14. Edgar Graham — was he set up? — Frank Doherty — Sunday News, 18 December 1983, p. […]
[…] anybody about what she had witnessed. See Lobster 38. Posting by Liberius to the alt.conspiracy.princess-diana discussion forum – 2 November 1999. The two documentaries were ‘Inside Russia’s SAS’ (broadcast on BBC2 13 and 20 June 1999) and ‘Spetsnaz, a Maverick Commando Unit’ (broadcast on the Franco-German TV channel La Sept Arte, 28 September 1999). […]
[…] things: all France clamours to know what price was paid for the release of the last three hostages. The DGSE is embroiled in another scandal like the SAS in Gibraltar. It seems that several of the FLNKS militants killed during Operation Victor were unarmed and had been shot down in cold blood. As in […]
[…] example, in May last year he smeared Wallace and Holroyd in the Los Angeles Times, and more recently joined in the Sunday Times’ attempt to exculpate the SAS from their assassinations in Gibraltar. (On this latter story see Private Eye 27 May 1988) And Secret Armies contains one or two ‘lines’ that are familiar […]
[…] section) August 23, 1998, and several conversations with Mr. Dowling Telephone conversation with Dr. Eric Olsen, October 20, 1998; plus exchanged e-mails. In his memoir the former SAS member Peter Stiff discusses forms of assassination and describes ‘an old trick popular with the various government security services throughout the world. I would knock on […]
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[…] had spent 23 years in the British Army, much of it in Northern Ireland. Can anybody supply more information on either of these two people? And the Fijian SAS? GETTING WPR WPR is monthly, average so far 10 sides of A4. Send 25 dollars New Zealand (or equivalent) to WPR, Box 9314, Wellington, New Zealand.
[…] SPARROWE CMG (1968), OBE (60) B 5.3.18 MAGDALEN COLL OXFORD, TRAVELLERS MI6 (‘C’ RICHARD DEACON. LONDON 1985) COLLEAGUE OF OLDFIELD 1940-3 OXFORD AND BUCKS LIGHT INFANTRY 1944-46 SAS 2ND REGT (CAPT) 1947 FO 1950 2ND SEC ISTANBUL 1954 FO 1956 CONSUL ZURICH 1960 1ST SEC ATHENS 1964 FO 1968 COUNSELLOR PARIS 1972 RETIRED, THEOLOGICAL […]
[…] letters but I got a corker after Lobster 34. The anonymous and abusive author pointed out that in my review of the John Newsinger book on the SAS I had written that in Gulf War 1: ‘All Britain could muster was one tank regiment and a handful of Tornado aircraft which crashed with alarming […]
