[…] Solicitor General in Alberta in the 1970s and later Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Farran was an authentic war hero, serving in the SAS during the Second World War. He was, as Cesarani shows, very much ‘a child of empire’, someone ‘raised to be an imperial warrior’. It has to […]
[…] in the South African Army. Another UDR man who died in Southern Africa was John McLaurin, from Belfast. He moved to South Africa before joining the Rhodesian SAS in 1979. He died a few weeks later in another mysterious explosion. (Phoenix 18 March 1983) See Lobsters 1 / 3 / 4 for previous Kincora […]
[…] Simon Matthews wrote this of Fraser, who with Thatcher, challenged Heath for the leadership of the Tory Party in 1975: ‘The emergence of Fraser – a war-time SAS colleague of Clermont member David Stirling – was curious, as neither prior to this event nor subsequently, did he demonstrate any interest in being leader of […]
[…] Nairac’s name in a letter to the New Statesman (26th June). Cunningham’s address was Ampleforth College, York, identified by Stuart Christie as a breeding ground for the SAS officer class. (The Golden Road to Samarkand, Anarchist Review No 6, 1982) At the same time as Holroyd’s exposes there was the strange affair of the […]
[…] Conservative Party in February 1975 when a formal challenge was made to Heath’s leadership by Margaret Thatcher and Hugh Fraser. The emergence of Fraser – a wartime SAS colleague of Clermont member David Stirling – was curious, as neither prior to this event nor subsequently did he demonstrate any interest in being leader of […]
[…] do anything. (p. 186) ‘Within British Army HQ…….. groups… employed loyalists terrorists and targeted members of the IRA for as sassination….. covert units…….. were trained by the SAS to gather intelligence, assassinate terrorists and run loyalist agents. Loyalist paramilitaries were supplied with intelligence files on members of the IRA to enable them to kill […]
[…] of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Spring 1994. pp 1-28. Dennison was Director of Intelligence for the Sultanate in the 1970s and the essay surveys the subject – coups, SAS et al – from the mid 1950s onwards in considerable detail. Promises and Disappointments In the previous issue I wrote a positive review of this, the […]
[…] Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s Armor group picked up an £11m contract, a snip compared to the £246m going to Aegis, whose chief executive is Tim Spicer, the former SAS man who founded Sandline. Am I paranoid enough? Lord Robertson of Port Ellen is on the board of another Iraq contract beneficiary, the Weir Group, one […]
Following the initial investigation by the West Mercia Police, there have been over a dozen reviews of this extraordinary case. Reviewers include Robert Green, (1) Tam Dalyell MP, (2) Graham Smith,(3) World in Action,(4) BBC Crimewatch,(5) John Osborne,(6) Amanda Mitchison, (7) Bob Parker (8); and more recently, David Cole and Peter Acland, (9) Nick Davies,(10) […]
[…] there is a William Massie sniping at MI6 for his friends in MI5 with a piece which begins ‘Security at MI6’s new £240 million headquarters has been blown apart by the SAS…’ with a very nice photograph taken from the platform of Vauxhall station showing what a lovely target the MI6 building makes from there.
