
For decades, the SAS has operated beyond public view, its missions shaped by secrecy and its reputation burnished by the rare moments when that secrecy has fallen away.
In SAS: The Shadow War, The Independent's world affairs editor Sam Kiley traces the regiment’s covert campaign against the IRA in Northern Ireland, from the surveillance operations and ambushes of the Troubles to the hard questions... more
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 6 | Founded | a month ago |
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On St Patrick’s Day 1978, a covert surveillance mission in rural Londonderry went catastrophically wrong.
In episode five of SAS: The Shadow War, The Independent’s world affairs editor Sam Kiley meets ‘Blue’, a former 14 Intelligence Company operati... more
By the mid-1980s, intelligence had become one of the British state’s most important weapons in Northern Ireland, with covert surveillance teams working the streets of Belfast knowing discovery could prove fatal.
In episode four of SAS: The Shadow Wa... more
Two SAS operations, eight years apart, produced radically different legacies. The first made the regiment national heroes. The second sparked decades of controversy.
In 1980, the world watched as the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy in London to free... more
For days at a time, SAS operatives lay hidden in freezing hedgerows and fields, watching and waiting. Discovery could mean capture – or death.
In this episode of SAS: The Shadow War, The Independent’s world affairs editor Sam Kiley enters the covert... more
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