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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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07-14-2015, 04:58 PM
Tyroc
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Following that link John provided I now have an wealth of info to follow. Does anyone know more about the Revolutionary Warfare Wing (RWW) Squadron 'E', the Increment? Sounds like the "Activity"
There's been all kinds of stuff in conspiracy land about E Squadron aka the Increment. Whole articles about how they helped kill Princess Diana, training the Khmer Rouge,etc.Its existence first came to light when a MI6 agent called Richard Thomplinson wrote an autobiography and the details were not denied.
From what I've read, the Revolutionary Warfare Wing was created as an outgrowth of SAS operations in Northern Ireland. Proven SAS and SBS operators (guys with at least 5 years Special Forces experience) were sent to work with Military Intelligence groups like 'The Det' and Force Research Unit (FRU) which would later become the Special Reconnaissance Regiment, as well as MI5 and sometimes MI6.
Their missions involved mostly close target surveillance, counter sniper and Close protection / VIP Bodyguarding and Foreign Training.
Later on, as the situation in Northern Ireland drew down, the RWW worked mostly on deniable operations for MI5 and MI6. Kind of like Delta and DEVGRU working outsourced missions for the CIA.
The size of the RWW has always varied according to different reports and authors. Ex-SBS, Royal Marine, Det operator and ex-Increment Duncan Falconer wrote about it in his exploits in his autobiography 'First Into Action'.
Both Chris Ryan and Andy McNab of Bravo Two Zero fame wrote about it in their biographies and their 'fiction' novels, (both of them write alot of themselves and real operations in their books).
In Chris Ryan's 'The Increment' he wrote that there were only 8 members at any one time. 6 men, 2 women. Subsequently in his other novels, he described the unit as being led by a Major and having 2 full troops, with each troop having 2 6 man teams. I'm reading Ryan's 'The Kremlin Device'. In it, an RWW team of 12 men led by a Warrant Officer 2 (SGM) is sent to Russia to help train a new Spetsnaz unit called 'Tiger Force' to combat the influence of the Russian Mafia. However, just before they deploy, MI6 tasks them with hiding 2 suitcase nukes into Moscow as a just in case deterrent.
About a year ago, E Squadron was officially stood up, officially it's composed of veteran SAS operators who are coming to the end of their 20 year careers and it's a way of keeping their organizational memory. Unofficially, I've read that it's now the MI5 / MI6 version of the CIA SAD / SOG.
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