David Stirling
 David Stirling    (soldier, spook) | |
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| Born | 15 November 1915 Lecropt, Perthshire, Scotland |
| Died | 4 November 1990 (Age 74) United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Ampleforth College |
| Founder of | Greater Britain 1975, Special Air Service |
| Member of | Clermont Set |
Founded the SAS. "If there hadn’t been a global war for survival taking place, Major David Stirling is the type of British Officer who would have been thrown out of the army, if not court-martialed." | |
Major David Stirling founded the SAS. "If there hadn’t been a global war for survival taking place, Major David Stirling is the type of British Officer who would have been thrown out of the army, if not court-martialed."[1]
Political Involvement
Alan Hoe's (1992) biography featured short chapters on Stirling's role in GB75 and TRUEMID (The Movement for True Industrial Democracy), Stirling's "battles with the trades unions" apart from his allies such as Reg Prentice and Frank Chapple.
The author (and indeed Stirling) deliberately confuses "the left" with those attempting the overthrow of the government. Stirling's people were not that happy with the government either and according to Hoe's account Stirling offered "conduits into Whitehall, Scotland yard and the security services" to TRUEMID, which published the upper classes, in the shape of James Goldsmith instructing the lower classes "Towards an Open and Classless Society", a title not without its parallels to the communism they opposed.[2]
Affiliations
References
- ↑ https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/david-stirling-british-sas.html
- ↑ David Stirling, The Authorised Biography of the Creator of the SAS, by Alan Hoe, Warne Books, p455.
