A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

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[PDF file]: […] article in the New Statesman in November 1984 and amplified by Tam Dalyell MP. Pursuing the Belgrano issue, and prompted by leaks from Clive Ponting at the MoD, Dalyell was misinformed by one of his sources (unidentified) about Green’s actual role during the Falklands War and suggested in the Commons that Murrell had been […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 the RFA a grant to pass on to RPOC. Now, Pincher claims, the Labour government are worried that their supporters will find out that the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 the RFA a grant to pass on to RPOC. Now, Pincher claims, the Labour government are worried that their supporters will find out that the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Services (SAS), and secured access to the Foreign Office’s Information and Research Department, which has historically been used as a cover 5 Department for M16 agents. The MOD gave the RFA a grant to pass on to RPOC. Now, Pincher claims, the Labour government are worried that their supporters will find out that the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 the RFA a grant to pass on to RPOC. Now, Pincher claims, the Labour government are worried that 2 their supporters will find out that […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 the RFA a grant to pass on 2 to RPOC. Now, Pincher claims, the Labour government are worried that their supporters will find out that […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 the RFA a grant to pass on 2 to RPOC. Now, Pincher claims, the Labour government are worried that their supporters will find out that […]

The View from the Bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* SNAFU or FUBAR? I glance at the financial pages of some of the newspapers, mainly to see the latest idiocy that has been allowed to happen. Most recently that has been the collapse […]

ATTACK WARNING RED! How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall

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[PDF file]: […] for the likes of the monarchy, government, civil servants. Despite some of its space being sold off (including for a rather large wine cellar), the caverns underneath MoD ‘What to do in a radiation emergency’ or 5 or 6 or 7 4 Corsham, near Bath must remain a possible refuge even though the existence […]

Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike

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[PDF file]: […] the armed services in these situations of ‘urgent national importance’ as ‘providing either support to the management and sustainability of civil power operations, or the use of MOD facilities in connection with a civil power’s operation’. One of the main ‘civil power operations’ discussed is ‘Support to Police Public Order Operations’. The document admits […]

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