The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] 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 […]

Kincoragate: parapolitics

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] 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 […]

Kiss me on the apocalypse!

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] 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 […]

Publications

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] 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 […]

The Enemy Within; the IRA’s War Against the British

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] 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 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] 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 […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] 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 […]

The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

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) […]

MI5: New Threats for Old? Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] 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.

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££

[PDF file]: […] line on “subversion” at Bramshill, the police training centre, the National Defence College, the Royal Military College of Science, the Army Staff College, and to the 23 SAS (Territorials). (15). Further indications of ISC’s integration into the British state was shown in the correspondence between ISC’s Peter Janke and a member of the Cabinet […]

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