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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 5) August 1984 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 5 SAS Close Quarter Battle (CQB) training is undertaken by an unusual group calling itself the CTT or Combat Training Team. The CTT group has two centres near London where it trains people in the art of silent killing and similar accomplishments. It poses as a commercial organisation, but its two centres at Fort Pilgrim and at Pinewood are both owned by the Property Services Agency, Whitehall's accommodation bureau. The CTT's valuable services are available only ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 32) December 1996 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 32 SAS: the Stiff Memoir John Newsinger There are a growing number of SAS memoirs, including most recently even one by an 'SAS wife'! These are testimony to the incredible interest that the unit attracts, an interest that has, at last, come to be seen as counter-productive by the military authorities. Amidst all of this interest, one memoir by a former SAS member has been completely ignored. It has never been published or ...
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... October 1989 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 18 The SAS, their early days in Ireland and the Wilson Plot AMBUSH: the war between the SAS and the IRA James Adams, Robin Morgan and Anthony Bambridge (Pan, London 1988, 200 pp 3.99) Alexander Platow Following the Gibralter shootings, the Sunday Times 'Insight' team lead the campaign to discredit eyewitness accounts of how the SAS killed the IRA unit.(1) Ambush is their account of the shootings and SAS operations in Northern Ireland, and claims to be ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 30) December 1995 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 30 The Myth of the SAS John Newsinger Since the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London on 5 May 1980, the Special Air Service (SAS) has become a cultural phenomenon as much as a military one; has become, in the words of its former Director, Peter de la Billiere, 'a living embodiment of the individualism of the British'. Their heroic exploits have been relentlessly celebrated over the last fifteen years in a still ...
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... British military personnel in the Vietnam war. "More sensitive operations, such as those in Vietnam, have been refuted by political sleight of hand..." (Whisper Who Dares Terence Strong, Coronet, 1982) Some 'experts' deny totally the idea that SAS (and other regiments) personnel saw service in Vietnam. I was told, some years ago, by a soldier who had worked with the SAS, that the most respected SAS men were those who had fought in Vietnam, the most popular stories in the ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 34) Winter 1998 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 34 Dangerous Men: the SAS and Popular Culture John Newsinger Pluto Press, 1997 35.00 h.b., 10.99 p.b. This book has four sections. The first 38 pages is a brief history of the regiment from WW2 foundation, through various colonial roles-- Yemen, Malaya, Indonesia etc.-- to its peripheral role in the Gulf War. This provides the backdrop for the other three sections. The first, the SAS-as-autobiography, ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 21) May 1991 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 21 Books: The Dirty War and The SAS in Ireland The Dirty War Martin Dillon, Hutchinson, London, 1990. The SAS in Ireland Raymond Murray, Mercier Press, Cork and Dublin, 1991 Martin Dillon is a freelance journalist in Northern Ireland with a long career behind him: editor and radio presenter for the BBC in Northern Ireland, co-author of the Penguin Special, Political Murder In Northern Ireland (1973), and author of ...
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... was sent from Fred Holroyd on May 13th 1987 Dear sir, It comes as no surprise that Mrs Thatcher over reacted to the media attempting to discover the real facts of the Gibraltar shootings. Her attitude is vulnerable to close scrutiny, especially in the two areas of SAS operational deployment and the ethics of soldiering. Recently Mr Ken Livingstone MP asked the Prime Minister details of a unit of Royal Engineers which operated in Northern Ireland in the 1970s in the Armagh area. The written reply which Mr Livingstone received was, I believe, ...
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... reported directly to Century House (ie MI6 London base) When MI5 gained control of the overall intelligence operation they tried to replace those who were already in key posts with others with total loyalty to them. For example, in 1974 there was an attempt to use SAS personnel to replace the normal Army SMIU men.* This was a total disaster. Not only did MI5 have much less experience of running agents in a hostile environment than SIS, the SAS at that time had no experience of Northern Ireland-type operations- they had ...
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... in Iran met the same fate; claiming ownership of the nation's oil resources was beyond the pale.(24) British governments supported repression and killing in Uganda, Chile and South Africa. In Vietnam in the 1960s, unknown to Parliament and the public, British SAS troops fought alongside American "special forces".' Pilger's footnote refers the reader to a section of William Blum's The CIA: a Forgotten History, on the Iran coup. But what are the 'official records' which tell us about 'British and CIA terrorism' ...
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