[…] letters but I got a corker after Lobster 34. The anonymous and abusive author pointed out that in my review of the John Newsinger book on the SAS I had written that in Gulf War 1: ‘All Britain could muster was one tank regiment and a handful of Tornado aircraft which crashed with alarming […]
[…] Secret Kingdom http://www.cc.umist.ac.uk/sk/index.html ‘An initiation into the very real world of some of the more secretive government and military organisations in the UK.’ e.g. MI5, MI6, GCHQ, SAS, SBS, others. Basic stuff but all we have at the moment; and links e.g. to Mossad, Seals, Green Berets, Special Forces and counter-terrorism site. Unofficial NSA […]
[…] of an article arguing for an aggressive, expansionist British military posture (‘an extrovert defence policy’). This is apparently known as ‘horizon stretching’ in Whitehall. Sandhurst and the SAS go world-wide! The Belgrano business Bob Woodward (of Woodstein fame) quoted in the Observer (24 Feb. 1985) on the Belgrano business: “It’s pretty obvious that the […]
[…] 203 464 2282 Ben Hoitsma 274 8786 Hitchiner 203 765 2331 Joe Hanmer 313 581 1665 Otto Hoeller 203 324 6118 Cybil Gernintov 233 3836 Ralph Hanson SAS 612 647 0500 Howmet Bill Ganci 361 0300 Howmedica 935 2100 Jim Hamill 202 332 2827 Hoffman La Roche 235 4248 Geo Hadad Universal Bank 21798 […]
[…] 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 […]
