The SAS Deniables

Special Forces Operations, denied by the Authorities, from Vietnam

By Tony May
Published by Big Sky Publishing
RRP $32.99 in paperback | ISBN 9781922896445

This book was first published in 2022 by UK publisher Pen & Sword. It was then published in Australia the following year by Big Sky Publishing.

About the Author
Tony May brought a diverse background to the research and writing of this book. He obtained a degree in Welding Engineering then entered the oilpatch construction industry spending many years working in Australia, Thailand and Indonesia managing fabrication facilities. At the conclusion of the Gulf War, he joined the massive reconstruction project for the 1991 Kuwait oil fires project. His work and travels provided the material that allowed him to create this challenging insight into a secret world. He now resides in Canada and remains involved within the oilpatch construction industry and continues to write.

NOTE:  All the names are fictitious to protect the identity of the participants.

Synopsis
During the 10,000-day Vietnam war Australia had agreed with the United States to have a team of Australian Army Special Air Services (SAS) soldiers conduct covert missions into Cambodia. The SAS soldiers would be bivouacked in Thailand. This is a dramatized story of events that actually happened involving a small band of Australian Special Air Service trained specialists involved in covert intelligence activities who were co-opted into the Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO) of Plausibly Deniable assets deployed worldwide into the shadows of political indulgence in locations where Australian forces should not be seen or heard.

These Australian SAS covert operations undertaken are incidents that have never before been exposed and include cross-sovereign-border infiltrations into Cambodia and the daily operations of the elimination of Viet Cong munition dumps. Also revealed is an unauthorised fatal attack by United States Army helicopters on SAS warriors; the rescue of French tourists kidnapped by Muslim terrorists in Mindanao, Philippines, and Operation Eye of the Storm into Northern Kuwait/Eastern Iraq evolving into Desert Storm.

Covert operations also included offshore intervention of East Timorese Fretilin Terrorists sabotaging Australian offshore Exploration and Oil Drilling activities in the Timor Sea; Back Door into Hell during the Somalia conflict, plus covert black ops elimination of Muslim Jihadist activities on homeland soil, assisted by Israeli intelligence.

This extraordinary exposé opens the previously closed door behind which governments operate to deal quietly with situations they prefer not to mention.

Praise for this book from reader reviews describes the book as ‘… one of those books that I did not want to finish …’ with the added praise for the correct use of oil-field jargon and military jargon.

VERDICT: It’s clearly a book for those readers who enjoy stories of SAS covert operations in far-flung places. If this is you, then it comes highly recommended.