[…] headquarters in Aden, where the political situation was already deteriorating. This failed to prevent Britain’s most humiliating postwar defeat. He was also involved in setting up an SAS operation against insurgents in Oman in 1958-59, an operation that arguably saved the SAS from disbandment. Certainly this is what Kitson believed. (6) In 1962 he […]
[…] On the other hand, these MRF references may be part of the on-going joint Ministry of Defence/MI5 effort to contain and discredit Fred Holroyd’s account of the SAS undercover units in Northern Ireland. In 1988 the MOD fed a barrow-load of disinformation to a trio of Sunday Times journalists, led by James Adams, about […]
[…] new book One Up (Harper Collins, 1997), about her time undercover in Northern Ireland, referred to 14th Intelligence as ‘a cover story’ and then to ’14th Int. SAS’; and an article in the Daily Telegraph 17 March 1997 refers to ‘a small undercover SAS team stationed at Castledillon in the mid 1970s’. One interpretation […]
[…] hunger strike was being held. The troops wore balaclavas and blue anoraks with orange armbands and carried automatic weapons and sledgehammers. Official sources would not say whether SAS troops had been involved but neighbours said that soldiers and policemen did not arrive until later and a regular major was told to ‘go away by […]
Into the Dark Johnston Brown Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2006, £22.99, h/b When Fred Holroyd first made his disclosures regarding the activities of SAS Captain Robert Nairac to Duncan Campbell of The New Statesman in 1984, they were credible because Holroyd was a loyal Army Intelligence Captain with absolutely no sympathies for IRA […]
[…] called ‘Defence Systems International’ arrived at the mines, ostensibly to help stop smuggling. But the men, who are still there, have military backgrounds, and many are ex- SAS. One told me he had been recruited privately and had no experience of preventive security operations. Like all expatriates, he denied having any access to weapons.” […]
In March a member of the SAS resigned from the British Army, stating, inter alia, that he ‘didn’t join the British army to conduct American foreign policy’. (1) My initial reaction was: well, what did he think he would be doing? Where is this independent British foreign policy he thought he was going to […]
[…] twenty five years Gary Murray worked as an RAF policeman and private investigator. In the early 1970s Murray ‘unexpectedly’ (invitation?) joined the Operations Intelligence cadre of 21 SAS, and this led to close contact with people from MI6, Army SIB, the Royal Military Police and the Parachute Regiment. In 1980 Murray became increasingly involved […]
[…] as well as internally. For this reason, the public is told: ‘…..fraud investigators from the Benefit Agency are being taught how to use surveillance techniques by former SAS and MI6 officers. The company, AMA Associates, a security agency, has coached nearly 1000 government fraud officers on a Professionalism in Security (PINS) course accredited by […]
[…] In effect, in the late 1980s the British state decided that while they could not kill the IRA openly (the late Alan Clark MP’s solution: let the SAS loose), they could get the Prods to do it for them. A case can be made that part of the reason we have an IRA cease-fire […]
