[…] Colin Wallace’s superior English officers in Northern Ireland at the time. This is the period when the British Army’s MRF was active. A recent book, Tom Siegrist, SAS Warlord (2010), purports to be a memoir of the MRF period. As to its veracity, I have no idea. Page 45 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 and […]
[PDF file]: […] in the 1940s had edited Transatlantic, a magazine published at that time by Penguin Books. Max Rayne was a property developer and conducted various business ventures with SAS founder David Stirling in the 1950s and ‘60s. He later married Lady Jane VaneTempest-Stewart, sister of Lady Annabel Birley, subsequently the wife of Sir James Goldsmith. […]
[PDF file]: […] Bull, journalist Jonathan Moyle, Belgian politician André Cools, and one Lionel Jones2 – commissioned by the late Stephan Kock, allegedly of MI6, and carried out by British (SAS) personnel.3 This was followed by a vast judicial-state conspiracy to cover it up. But is the document genuine? We will probably never know: the CIA certainly […]
[PDF file]: […] equipment for internal security (i.e. against political opposition). There was also military hardware (tanks, armoured cars, aircraft) and staff (this included contingents from the RAF and the SAS), along with training for the armed services of the Gulf states (both in their home countries and at establishments such as Sandhurst). Notwithstanding the political and […]
[PDF file]: […] when he visited Britain in 1998 (she actually sent him a bottle of the finest Scotch whiskey); and perhaps less well-known, in 1983 she had sent the SAS to help train the Khmer Rouge. What was crucial, of course, was doing what was acceptable to the United States. Pinochet was very much their man […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] he is said to have told Roger Hardy, a BBC foreign correspondent, that David Holden had told him back in the 1970s, after they had investigated secret SAS activities in Yemen, that Holden ‘was secretly a Marxist and that he was working as an agent for the KGB.’ 17 The authors nowhere mention that […]
[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 […]
[…] including 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 […]
[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, […]
