David Stirling: the authorised biography of the creator of the SAS
Alan Hoe
Little, Brown and Co, London 1992, £17.50
As the subtitle suggests, most of this book is taken up with the story of the foundation of the SAS. I didn’t read that section. I read the last third which contains lengthy accounts of both Stirling’s ventures in Africa, especially with the Capricorn Africa Society in the 1950s, and his Better Britain, GB75, Truemid activities in the 1970s. This is certainly the longest published account of the latter, containing a number of interesting bits and pieces which fill out the extant sketchy accounts, and the only account of the former I have seen. Stirling may only be a footnote in British post-war history but an interesting one nonetheless.
The Gemstone File
edited by Jim Keith
IllumiNet Press PO Box 746,
Avondale Estates, GA 30002, USA $14.95
Gemstone trundles on. This anthology includes the original 1976 Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File; the text to the so-called Kiwi Gemstone (discussed in Lobster 20); an interview with the Key’s author, Stephanie Caruana which includes some information on the original Gemstone author Bruce Roberts; and the text of the late Mae Brussel’s radio programme devoted to the file.
Eustace Clarence Mullins; the World’s Premier Conspiracy Historian on the Jews, the Fed and the New World Order
A. Baron
InfoText Manuscripts, co 93c Venner Road, Sydenham, London SE26 5HU, £3.99
This is 60 A4 pages, typed on one side and stapled together. It comprises an interview with Mullins conducted while he was in the U.K. at Mary Seal’s Global Conspiracy Conference in London, January 1993; some commentary on the conference itself; and a detailed bibliography on Mullins and other conspiracy theorists. Mullins is a rather important, old-time, Jew-hater on the American far right, now trying to play down his Jew-hating. Baron tries to nail Mullins down with quotes from his earlier work: Mullins claims not to remember. Mr Baron is obviously something of an expert on this subject.
Mr Baron has been circulating odd bits and pieces around the British far right for quite a while now and his political aims — and his beliefs — are entirely unclear to me. This is quite interesting to the bit of me which is interested in the conspiracy theories of far right of the USA. But I didn’t have to pay for it. Mr Baron should teach himself elementary typsetting (like this), then his manuscript would have come down to about 25 pages and could have been priced at £2.