[…] be a move away from the endless recycling of anarchy’s glorious past. The last two issues have been excellent, with hard original research on the Masons, the SAS, the World Anti-Communist League, etc. Available from the address above @ 50p plus postage. Author Jonathan Bloch has been refused permanent residence in Britain. A South […]
[…] to any public interest test, and include information supplied by, or concerning: the Security Service, MI5; the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6; GCHQ; the Special Forces, e.g. the SAS; tribunals concerning intelligence and interception of communications including the Investigatory Powers Tribunal; and the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) (s23). Other records covered by an absolute […]
Sir George Terry’s report on Kincora has at last been made public. But if Terry had hoped to quash further speculation he failed.(1) In a second debate in the Northern Ireland Assembly on Kincora there was widespread criticism of the report, particularly of Terry “stepping outside his brief” in suggesting that the matter needs no […]
[…] Africa. “PO Box 500′ used to be the UK contact point for MI5. What a curious coincidence… Apologies to Ms Cramen Proetta, the woman who witnessed the SAS shooting of the 3 IRA members on Gibraltar, for not including her in my list of “enemies of the state’ who had been persecuted by the […]
[…] the theft of North Sea Oil; and a bibliography on Italy since 1970. Plus, of course, the continuing clippings service, reviews etc. Steve Dorril is still researching SAS in Vietnam and would like to hear from anyone with information, no matter how slight it may appear, on that subject. Robin Ramsay/Steve Dorril Cover drawing […]
[…] Union. War intelligence, March 2003 In March 2003, as we now know, SIS had excellent sources close to Saddam Hussein; among some religious leaders; and Brits, probably SAS, running around with tribesmen in, say, southern Iraq, who were also nipping in and out of Basrah. This daringly acquired singular information aided a military advance. […]
[…] 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.
The British American Project and the war on Iraq The war on Iraq proved a busy time for members of the British American Project (Lobster 33 et seq) on this side of the pond. To cover the American countdown to war, long-time UK advisory board member Jim Naughtie returned to the New York home of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
