British Special Air Service organization
also: British Special Air Services, SAS, British Special Air Surfaces, Special Air Services, British special air service
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British Special Air Service founded
Plan Blue host_asserted
“So there's all kinds of turmoil that goes on there. And at the initiative of the British Special Air Services, the SAS, which kind of oversaw their stay-behind units in England during World War II, there was a series of armed networks that …”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 10:32
Burrus Junior member_of
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“at Fort Bragg. He then goes and completes the British Special Air Services, which is basically their version of our special forces, which is very interesting because not a lot of them are dual qualified like that. And he gets, it talks abou…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 1:09:24
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“and an SAS group officer, Andrew Nightingale, was part of the original cast. Both men would later go on to manage Saladin Security, which was another SAS private military company. The relationship between KMS and SAS was so close that KMS w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 53:03
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British Special Air Service host_asserted
“The SAS is the UK's most elite special forces unit specializing in covert guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency. They are generally considered to be among the most elite special forces in the world and was said to be the inspiration for t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 48:28
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▶ 10:32
So there's all kinds of turmoil that goes on there. And at the initiative of the British Special Air Services, the SAS, which kind of oversaw their stay-behind units in England during World War II, there was a series of armed networks that …
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paratroopers. And then they spell shock C-H-O-C. But when it's translated to English in some of these books that I've read, it actually is written S-H-O-C-K, like shock troops. And I tell you that just because I want you to be able to find …
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These are the people that was referred to as Cuban exiles up until the point that we find out the Cuban exiles are actually Gladio operators inside the United States that were deployed all over the world to do this kind of shit. Charlie Bec…
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at Fort Bragg. He then goes and completes the British Special Air Services, which is basically their version of our special forces, which is very interesting because not a lot of them are dual qualified like that. And he gets, it talks abou…
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which would be during the whole time that Iran-Contra is going on and the CIA is running all of their drug operations out of there. So he definitely had some, he also assisted the British having his SAS qualifications in the Falkland Island…
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was being subjected to armed aggression from Iran and Pakistan. It was. The first CIA weapons entered the pipeline while time remained to prepare for their use. Nothing moves in Afghanistan during the early months of the year when the snows…
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He's often described as a veteran of the Special Air Services, or SAS, their most elite special forces. By his own admission, he was actually rejected by the SAS, according to him. You don't know whether to believe him or not. But he did ta…
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Spicer received early backing from a guy by the name of Simon Mann and another helper, Tony Buckingham. They were SAS men who had helped launch Executive Outcome. Mann had originally offered Spicer a role in Executive Outcomes, but he had d…
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General Tony Hunter Choke, so it's Hunter-C-H-O-A-T, headed the security for the project management office and is credited for aiding Spicer to get the contract. Hunter Choke served in the British SAS for over 20 years. His military career …
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It had been modeled off of the British Special Air Surfaces, making it basically a special operations unit. It was infamous worldwide because it was used all over for torture and terrorist acts. They actually, most people accredit them with…
▶ 47:56
actual flights were logged as logistical support, which is bullshit. Generally, WatchGuard International is considered to be the first true private military company. It was founded by Special Air Services, SAS, founder Sir David Sterling an…
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The SAS is the UK's most elite special forces unit specializing in covert guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency. They are generally considered to be among the most elite special forces in the world and was said to be the inspiration for t…
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This shadowy network of former SAS men working at various private military companies came to be known as the Circuit. WatchGuard was a trailblazer. Its first operation was in where? Yemen. It also did work for the governments of Saudi Arabi…
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which, by the way, their main office was in the UK, and I don't think that's a coincidence, suddenly got born. And what was it doing? Financing all the same shit. Throughout the 1970s, a legion of British private military corporations close…
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And it's created by the same people that kidnap and ransom people. What the hell? Yes, yes, that's what was going on. That is what you refer to as a money laundering operation, guys. Upon hiring former SAS Major Rish, A-R-I-S-H, Turtle, lik…
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as Swahils for movement of snake through the grass, or a kind of South Arabian slang meaning clandestine or under the counter. Okay. KMS was managed by former SAS man David Walker, who had first broken into the private security racket while…
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and an SAS group officer, Andrew Nightingale, was part of the original cast. Both men would later go on to manage Saladin Security, which was another SAS private military company. The relationship between KMS and SAS was so close that KMS w…
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While not a member of the circle, David Sterling was a very close friend of Lord Julian Emery, A-M-E-R-Y, who became the circle's chairman by the 1980s. During the early 60s, Emery, Sterling, and other future circle members like Neal Billy …
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conspired to deploy former SAS troops to Yemen to aid the royalist factions that had recently been deposed and stop advances of Nasser's Egyptian forces. Sterling's work in Yemen would lay the foundation for WatchGuard International and the…