Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)
[PDF file]: […] responsible officials that ISC is also the creature of an intelligence service, British this time.” International Herald Tribune 24 July 1975. 13 According to Christie (1982) 23 SAS (V) was formed in London in 1959 but then transferred to Birmingham. It was formed from an existing unit, The Joint Reconnaissance Unit (TA), which in […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] will by then be identifiable as the key issues. What these may be are indicated in our report; but we recognise that events can confound predictions.’ The SAS did Di? First there was one ‘SAS-killed-Diana’ story. But as that story, to quote the Mirror, ‘….came in a letter to the elite unit’s commanding officer […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[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 . […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[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 […]