The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] and minds’ operations in countries like Afghanistan are purely psychological operations. She is somewhat mistaken here, as the original hearts and minds process was established by the SAS in conflicts such as those in Oman and Borneo. This included sending medics to treat the local populations with antibiotics, etc, that were not available to […]

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 5 Department for M16 agents. The MOD […]

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 […]

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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 […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Bull, journalist Jonathan Moyle, Belgian politician André Cools, and one Lionel Jones – commissioned by the late Stephan Kock, allegedly of MI6, and carried out by British (SAS) personnel. 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 […]

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