[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s Armor group picked up an £11m contract, a snip compared to the £246m going to Aegis, whose chief executive is Tim Spicer, the former SAS man who founded Sandline. Am I paranoid enough? Lord Robertson of Port Ellen is on the board of another Iraq contract beneficiary, the Weir Group, one […]
[…] of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Spring 1994. pp 1-28. Dennison was Director of Intelligence for the Sultanate in the 1970s and the essay surveys the subject – coups, SAS et al – from the mid 1950s onwards in considerable detail. Promises and Disappointments In the previous issue I wrote a positive review of this, the […]
Following the initial investigation by the West Mercia Police, there have been over a dozen reviews of this extraordinary case. Reviewers include Robert Green, (1) Tam Dalyell MP, (2) Graham Smith,(3) World in Action,(4) BBC Crimewatch,(5) John Osborne,(6) Amanda Mitchison, (7) Bob Parker (8); and more recently, David Cole and Peter Acland, (9) Nick Davies,(10) […]
[…] there is a William Massie sniping at MI6 for his friends in MI5 with a piece which begins ‘Security at MI6’s new £240 million headquarters has been blown apart by the SAS…’ with a very nice photograph taken from the platform of Vauxhall station showing what a lovely target the MI6 building makes from there.
[…] 18 April 2005) These include former Tory Defence Secretary and Foreign Secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind (non executive Chairman); ex-CIA operative, Jerry Hoffman (Chief Executive Officer); and former SAS officer, Noel Philip (Chief Operating Officer). The company also recently appointed Stephen Kappes (former Director of Operations with the CIA) as Executive Vice President Global Strategy. […]
[…] abroad living in this country. (Guardian 24 October – NCCL spokesperson spells it out: Guardian 25 October Parliamentary reports) “Terrorism” alert Heathrow. “Security” exercise involving police, troops, SAS, armoured cars. British Airports Authority said “regular exercise”. (Black Flag December 1983) Report that Gov. preparing to introduce internment for anti-nuclear protesters. Various prison camps said […]
[…] a detonator, wrapped in Christmas gift paper. The target of the explosives was to have been Lieutenant Colonel Brian Baty who had been liaison officer for the SAS when they were in Ireland. He lived in retirement in King’s Pryon, near Hereford. Jordan collected information on members of the establishment (particularly those on the […]
