Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[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, […]

South of the Border

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[PDF file]: […] – in February of 198031 – of Ulrich Wegener, the head of Germany’s anti-terrorist force GSG9. In contrast, the book Fire Magic: Hijack at Mogadishu by ex- SAS Sergeant Major Barry Davies (which detailed how he and Major Alastair Morrison had provided technical assistance to a GSG9 unit at Mogadishu airport in 1977) was […]

lob86South of the Border

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[…] – in February of 198031 – of Ulrich Wegener, the head of Germany’s anti-terrorist force GSG9. In contrast, the book Fire Magic: Hijack at Mogadishu by ex- SAS Sergeant Major Barry Davies (which detailed how he and Major Alastair Morrison had provided technical assistance to a GSG9 unit at Mogadishu airport in 1977) was […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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: […]

Using the UK FOIA, part III

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] FOIA appeal. In June it was decided that the journalist Phil Miller should be allowed access to previously secret information related to the involvement of a British SAS officer who, in the summer of 1984, provided advice to the Indian government during the siege of the Golden Temple at Amritsar. The Cabinet Office had […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

An accidental tourist? A British connection to the death of Otto Warmbier

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] regular service, can be found in the small permanent staff of the Territorial Army special forces regiments. 13 The ‘rogue spy’ Richard Tomlinson passed selection for 21 SAS before he was recruited to MI6 (his account of this process forms a large chunk of Chapter 2 of The Big Breach (London: Cutting Edge Press, […]

Murder in Cairo

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[…] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] and minds’ operations in countries like Afghanistan are purely psychological operations. She is somewhat mistaken here, as the original hearts and minds process was established by the SAS in conflicts such as those in Oman and Borneo. This included sending medics to treat the local populations with antibiotics, etc, that were not available to […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

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