[…] Africa. “PO Box 500′ used to be the UK contact point for MI5. What a curious coincidence… Apologies to Ms Cramen Proetta, the woman who witnessed the SAS shooting of the 3 IRA members on Gibraltar, for not including her in my list of “enemies of the state’ who had been persecuted by the […]
[…] the theft of North Sea Oil; and a bibliography on Italy since 1970. Plus, of course, the continuing clippings service, reviews etc. Steve Dorril is still researching SAS in Vietnam and would like to hear from anyone with information, no matter how slight it may appear, on that subject. Robin Ramsay/Steve Dorril Cover drawing […]
[…] Union. War intelligence, March 2003 In March 2003, as we now know, SIS had excellent sources close to Saddam Hussein; among some religious leaders; and Brits, probably SAS, running around with tribesmen in, say, southern Iraq, who were also nipping in and out of Basrah. This daringly acquired singular information aided a military advance. […]
[…] but no promises. In the forthcoming issues there will be essays on: ** The as sassination of Airy Neave; ** Flight 007; ** The anti CND groups; ** The SAS in Vietnam; and a variety of bits and pieces on policing/intelligence/the Falklands/Kincoragate etc. Plus reviews of some of the flood of books on these areas.
The British American Project and the war on Iraq The war on Iraq proved a busy time for members of the British American Project (Lobster 33 et seq) on this side of the pond. To cover the American countdown to war, long-time UK advisory board member Jim Naughtie returned to the New York home of […]
[…] pp. 62/3 and 101. Martin Dillon, The Dirty War, Hutchinson, London 1988, p. 393; James Adams (and Robin Morgan and Anthony Bambridge), Ambush: The War Between the SAS and the IRA, Pan, London 1988, p. 93. See the Observer 28 September ’86 for details of Burton’s links to the RUC. The Observer 28 September […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] he is covered by the Vienna Convention (protecting diplomats), or the Geneva Convention (protecting soldiers) or whether he is operating without such protection relying instead on the SAS soldiers whom I understand are guarding him. Non-staff spooks, of course, have always operated without any protection. Declaration of Interests: I am a friend of former […]
[…] not adhered to by any member state. 5 Any inquiry into the military, rather than private security consultancies, would necessitate a similar journey, this time through the SAS and other elite units (‘hired’ or ‘loaned’ to friendly governments,), as well as the SIS. This, in consequence, would place the conduct of British foreign policy […]
[…] communities outside it. It therefore misses the importance of non-corporate issues, such as the long term implications of little boys, separated from their mothers, attending fundamentalist madras sas (schools). In addition, it does not develop or promote links with those overseas who are not (yet) status quo. Sir Richard Dearlove continued: ‘David inherited a […]
