AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

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 […]

British Counterinsurgency by John Newsinger

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Dofar (Dofar?) and Northern Ireland – nicely illustrates the decline of the British empire. Twenty years after the big wars of the early 1950s, we’re down to SAS skirmishes in minor bits of the Middle East. It’s a difficult trick, producing a synthesis of subjects as large as, say, the war in Kenya, in […]

A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Amongst the list of reserved occupations were transport workers, farm hands, doctors and those who had taken Holy Orders. One of the wartime members of the regular SAS regiment was Rev. Fraser Mcluskey, later The Very Rev Fraser Mcluskey and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. See . 7 Current […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] a British to a Turkish prison, some of his supporters uploaded to their website, jancom.org, a document, described as a CIA intelligence report, naming two British former SAS men as the killers of Dr Gerald Bull, the designer of Saddam Hussein’s socalled supergun. The unsolved murder of the 62-year old Canadian-born engineer Gerald Bull, […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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 […]

lob86South of the Border

Lobster Issue

[…] – 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 […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] the new country which, thank the Lord, Northern Ireland is becoming and, God willing, will continue to be.’ In his Ghost Force: the Secret History of the SAS, (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998), former SAS Warrant Officer Ken Connor, who was involved in the creation of what later became known as ‘14 Int’, noted: […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the Joint Warfare Establishment near Salisbury commanded by Maj. Gen. Patrick Ovens, a former Commando. The committee also formed close links with the Special Air Services ( SAS), and secured access to the Foreign Office’s Information and Research Department, which has historically been used as a cover Department for M16 agents. The MOD gave […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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 […]

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