Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] but no promises. In the forthcoming issues there will be essays on: ** The as sassination of Airy Neave; ** Flight 007; ** The anti CND groups; ** The SAS in Vietnam; and a variety of bits and pieces on policing/intelligence/the Falklands/Kincoragate etc. Plus reviews of some of the flood of books on these areas.
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] pp. 62/3 and 101. Martin Dillon, The Dirty War, Hutchinson, London 1988, p. 393; James Adams (and Robin Morgan and Anthony Bambridge), Ambush: The War Between the SAS and the IRA, Pan, London 1988, p. 93. See the Observer 28 September ’86 for details of Burton’s links to the RUC. The Observer 28 September […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] Dofar (Dofar?) and Northern Ireland – nicely illustrates the decline of the British empire. Twenty years after the big wars of the early 1950s, we’re down to SAS skirmishes in minor bits of the Middle East. It’s a difficult trick, producing a synthesis of subjects as large as, say, the war in Kenya, in […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] he is covered by the Vienna Convention (protecting diplomats), or the Geneva Convention (protecting soldiers) or whether he is operating without such protection relying instead on the SAS soldiers whom I understand are guarding him. Non-staff spooks, of course, have always operated without any protection. Declaration of Interests: I am a friend of former […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] not adhered to by any member state. 5 Any inquiry into the military, rather than private security consultancies, would necessitate a similar journey, this time through the SAS and other elite units (‘hired’ or ‘loaned’ to friendly governments,), as well as the SIS. This, in consequence, would place the conduct of British foreign policy […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] communities outside it. It therefore misses the importance of non-corporate issues, such as the long term implications of little boys, separated from their mothers, attending fundamentalist madras sas (schools). In addition, it does not develop or promote links with those overseas who are not (yet) status quo. Sir Richard Dearlove continued: ‘David inherited a […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] p. 2; 29 May, 1983, p. 2; 5 June, 1983, p.2; 12 June, 1983, p.2. The South African link — Sunday News, 24 July 1983, p. 9. SAS dirty tricks — Phoenix, 9 December 1983, p. 14. Edgar Graham — was he set up? — Frank Doherty — Sunday News, 18 December 1983, p. […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] the memoir of a female member of the ‘det’, another undercover Army unit in Northern Ireland: Sarah Ford (pseudonym) One Up: A Woman in Action with the SAS (London: HarperCollins, 1997). The top brass in the British armed forces may be debating whether women should be allowed in the front line but they are […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] things: all France clamours to know what price was paid for the release of the last three hostages. The DGSE is embroiled in another scandal like the SAS in Gibraltar. It seems that several of the FLNKS militants killed during Operation Victor were unarmed and had been shot down in cold blood. As in […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] anybody about what she had witnessed. See Lobster 38. Posting by Liberius to the alt.conspiracy.princess-diana discussion forum – 2 November 1999. The two documentaries were ‘Inside Russia’s SAS’ (broadcast on BBC2 13 and 20 June 1999) and ‘Spetsnaz, a Maverick Commando Unit’ (broadcast on the Franco-German TV channel La Sept Arte, 28 September 1999). […]