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The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name ‘Grin’ by Clive Jones

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[PDF file]: […] the British government was determined to keep him in power. Smiley took charge of the operation to capture the last rebel stronghold, the Jebel Akhdar plateau. The SAS were brought in to secure access to the plateau and they and their apologists subsequently claimed credit for the defeat of the rebellion, much to Smiley’s […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] – is disingenuous at best. In a similar manner, the way he is selectively short on the detail, provides a skewed picture when he briefly mentions the SAS killing of three IRA members on Gibraltar – the infamous ‘Operation Flavius’: As Farrell, McCann and Savage crossed the Spanish border into Gibraltar, they were intercepted […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

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[PDF file]: […] prisoners. Morton returned to the country to offer further advice as an emissary of the Thatcher government and his recommendations were gradually implemented. In June 1980 an SAS team was sent to provide training. How do we know this? One of their number mentions it in his memoirs. This is ‘the only record . […]

Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike

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[PDF file]: […] did, and were told not to make any arrests because the police would do all that. He said the soldiers used were from the Military Police, the SAS and the Green Jackets . . . I told him he should write it all down before he forgot it. He said, ‘There’s the Official Secrets […]

Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike

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[…] did, and were told not to make any arrests because the police would do all that. He said the soldiers used were from the Military Police, the SAS and the Green Jackets . . . I told him he should write it all down before he forgot it. He said, ‘There’s the Official Secrets […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

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[PDF file]: […] – is disingenuous at best. In a similar manner, the way he is selectively short on the detail, provides a skewed picture when he briefly mentions the SAS killing of three IRA members on Gibraltar – the infamous ‘Operation Flavius’: As Farrell, McCann and Savage crossed the Spanish border into Gibraltar, they were intercepted […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] means the CIA’s ‘computer file or database’ of mujahideen proxy fighters funded, armed, and trained by America’s Green Berets, Navy SEALS and CIA, and Britain’s MI6 and SAS from 1979 to 1989, in an effort to ‘draw the Russians into the Afghan trap’ and destroy the Soviet Union, to quote Jimmy Carter’s National Security […]

South of the Border

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[PDF file]: […] – in February of 198031 – of Ulrich Wegener, the head of Germany’s anti-terrorist force GSG9. In contrast, the book Fire Magic: Hijack at Mogadishu by ex- SAS Sergeant Major Barry Davies (which detailed how he and Major Alastair Morrison had provided technical assistance to a GSG9 unit at Mogadishu airport in 1977) was […]

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[…] – in February of 198031 – of Ulrich Wegener, the head of Germany’s anti-terrorist force GSG9. In contrast, the book Fire Magic: Hijack at Mogadishu by ex- SAS Sergeant Major Barry Davies (which detailed how he and Major Alastair Morrison had provided technical assistance to a GSG9 unit at Mogadishu airport in 1977) was […]