Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that government embarrassment could lead to more documents been retained. An uproar ensued when documents released showed that Lord Howe, the then foreign secretary, had sent an SAS officer to advice Gandhi on the Golden Temple siege in Amritsar. Subsequently the raid on the temple led to the killing of hundreds of Sikhs. Cameron […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] Bull, journalist Jonathan Moyle, Belgian politician André Cools, and one Lionel Jones – commissioned by the late Stephan Kock, allegedly of MI6, and carried out by British (SAS) personnel. 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 […]

Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] shocked at the torture at NAMA that it withdrew its interrogators from the base in August 2003’. He quotes one former NAMA interrogator who saw ‘a British SAS officer……mercilessly beat a detainee’. What the US were operating in Iraq were ‘death squads’, taking out America’s enemies, in a rerun of the Vietnam War’s Phoenix […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] Bull, journalist Jonathan Moyle, Belgian politician André Cools, and one Lionel Jones – commissioned by the late Stephan Kock, allegedly of MI6, and carried out by British (SAS) personnel. 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 judicialstate conspiracy to cover it up. But is the document genuine? We will probably never know: the CIA certainly […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 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 Bridge copy

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[…] picked up a copy of Dominic Sandbrook’s 2019 account of the early years of Mrs Thatcher, Who Dares Wins. Yes, the title is meant to evoke the SAS and the Iranian Embassy siege but it also represents Sandbrook’s view that Mrs T had come to rescue Blighty from decline.1 And after 40 years of […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Colin Wallace’s superior English officers in Northern Ireland at the time. This is the period when the British Army’s MRF was active. A recent book, Tom Siegrist, SAS Warlord (2010), purports to be a memoir of the MRF period. As to its veracity, I have no idea. Page 45 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 and […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of Colin Wallace’s superior English officers in Northern Ireland at the time. This is the period when the British MRF was active. A recent book, Tom Siegrist, SAS Warlord (2010), purports to be a memoir of the MRF period. As to its veracity, I have no idea. 13 For details see the case of […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

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[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. […]

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