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Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years
[PDF file]: […] leave from Coldingley prison in Surrey. He was recaptured in late 1981.1 2 Ever one to follow a trend, Banks was involved in a Customs and Excise drugs sting in the 1990s.1 3 Much more recently he has been touting a story that ‘western intelligence agencies actually wanted the bombing to take place’ of […]
View from Lob 73
View from the Bridge
Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley
[PDF file]: […] Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS could make any impact on the world drugs trade when the U.S. agencies had failed with hundreds of times the resources of SIS, a ‘man from the FO replied: Ah yes, but you have […]
Swedish echoes
[PDF file]: […] Fire: My Own Story (London: W. H. Allen, 1989), an account by Captain Simon Hayward, late of Her Majesty’s Life Guards, of being caught up in a drugs bust in the city of Linköping in southern Sweden. In March of 1987 Captain Hayward was arrested when he was found to be driving a car […]