Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] and – rather oddly, given how much attention he gives it – ‘covert action in the colonies amounted to little’. He sees apparent successes in Oman (the SAS); Iran (the SIS-CIA coup) – but with disastrous long-term consequences; and Indonesia in 1965 – if involvement in the massacre of half a million people can […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] FOIA appeal. In June it was decided that the journalist Phil Miller should be allowed access to previously secret information related to the involvement of a British SAS officer who, in the summer of 1984, provided advice to the Indian government during the siege of the Golden Temple at Amritsar. The Cabinet Office had […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] regular service, can be found in the small permanent staff of the Territorial Army special forces regiments. 13 The ‘rogue spy’ Richard Tomlinson passed selection for 21 SAS before he was recruited to MI6 (his account of this process forms a large chunk of Chapter 2 of The Big Breach (London: Cutting Edge Press, […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] advised against intervention against Gaddafi, but Cameron went ahead anyway. While the pretext for intervention was, as always, humanitarian, the real object was regime change. MI6 and SAS ‘advisers’ helped train the rebels and supplied them with weapons and ‘a thousand sets of body armour’. The British intended to send Gaddafi off into exile […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Trail who said that either Oswald went to Taiwan or that he did not go to Taiwan. His contradictory testimony begins on 5 December 1963 when FBI SAs Kinzer and Waldrup interviewed him. Trail states that Oswald went to Taiwan. From the interview: ‘He served in the United States Marine Corps from September 1956 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Party, is one of the more interesting mainstream politicians today. He is a prominent defender of civil liberties, a free marketeer, a sometime member of a territorial SAS regiment and – this is what made me take notice – was a close friend of the late Tony Benn. Surprising? Yes, a bit: but both […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] that government embarrassment could lead to more documents been retained. An uproar ensued when documents released showed that Lord Howe, the then foreign secretary, had sent an SAS officer to advice Gandhi on the Golden Temple siege in Amritsar. Subsequently the raid on the temple led to the killing of hundreds of Sikhs. Cameron […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] shocked at the torture at NAMA that it withdrew its interrogators from the base in August 2003’. He quotes one former NAMA interrogator who saw ‘a British SAS officer……mercilessly beat a detainee’. What the US were operating in Iraq were ‘death squads’, taking out America’s enemies, in a rerun of the Vietnam War’s Phoenix […]