[…] In reality these firms enjoy close ties with the British Government. These firms are also usually involved in more traditional mercenary activities. A few years ago the SAS distributed a memo to its members informing them that “service in the regiment was incompatible with work undertaken” for eight named security firms. At the time […]
[…] the aftermath of the bombing (McDonald and Cusack, 2004; 78). According to ex-Army Intelligence Captain Fred Holroyd, there is good evidence linking Captain Robert Nairac of the SAS, who was subsequently involved in the Miami Showband massacre, to these bombings, which were later claimed by the UVF in its Fernhill House Declaration of 1994 […]
[…] no war, only terrorism or crime. Hence also the difficulties involved in killing IRA/INLA personnel, at its most acute in the many ambushes carried out by the SAS and other special units in Northern Ireland (and Gibralter). Without a state of war, setting an ambush is just a conspiracy to murder. No declaration of […]
[…] AND FRANCE 44-48 3RD SEC. PARIS 48-53 FO JOURNALIST. GREECE, MIDDLE EAST AND PERSIAN GULF -55 WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON -67 ALISON PRESS ALSTON, GORDON MI5 (C) WW2 SAS 1958 ‘CIVIL ASSISTANT WAR OFFICE’ (P.309 VIRGINIA COWLES “THE PHANTOM MAJOR”) ANDREW, DR. CHRISTOPHER MAURICE B. 23/7/41 CORPUS CHRISTI COLL. CAMB. -67 FELLOW AND DIRECTOR OF […]
[…] proxy wars, ethnic risings and organised terrorism of one kind or another, and that HMG should recreate a service to tackle this and supplement the role of SAS. The former Chindit leader and SAS founder, Brigadier Michael Calvert, and he produced detailed studies of this in the eighties and lobbied MP’s vigorously to bring […]
[…] areas of covert operations. After training he was secretly recruited by MI6 but also worked with and under the direction of MI5, also Special Branch and the SAS. He described in detail unlawful killings carried out on the instructions of MI5. In some cases killings were carried out by renegade SAS ‘types’, “for kicks”. […]
[…] first sight, Geraghty is a most unlikely target for the secret state. He is the author of the best-selling Who Dares Wins, a popular history of the SAS that played a major part in creating that regiment’s overblown myth. More recently, he published Brixmis: The Untold Exploits of Britain’s Most Daring Cold War Spy […]
[…] seems that Selwyn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary, expressly opposed such action. According to Chapman Pincher (Their Trade is Treachery p 206), in collaboration with leaders of the SAS, a plan to kill Nasser, his bodyguards, and anyone else who got in the way, was put together. They were going to use cannisters of poison […]
[…] stormed, freeing all its civilian passengers. Davies provides more on this aspect of the operation than the hints at the time. Davies was one of two UK-based SAS officers seconded to ‘GS9’ – the German anti-terrorist unit – to specifically help beat the hijack. The hijackers were four pro-Palestinian Arabs whose demands included the […]
[…] of Commons about military operations in Northern Ireland on behalf of former British Army Captain Fred Holroyd. Some of the questions he asked concerned a group of SAS men, with whom Holroyd had worked, who were in Northern Ireland under various covers. (This was significant because, officially, the SAS were not then in Northern […]
