Are you interested in Kim Philby and John le Carré’s secrets, Dead Lions, the excellent TV series SAS Rogue Heroes and even Ungentlemanly Warfare in which Henry Cavill is to star? Well, there existed a less renowned but SAS related clique of maverick and patriotic British scoundrels in British Intelligence called Pemberton’s People who worked for Colonel Alan Brooke Pemberton CVO MBE.

During the Malayan Emergency (really a war) British Intelligence and covert units such as the Special Air Service worked closely together under the eagle eyes of Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer and his ADC Alan Pemberton. In 1952 in Malaya they oversaw the establishment of 22 SAS Regiment. Since then its home has been in Hereford, England. Malaya proved to be an exquisite training ground for all involved in the dark arts of modern warfare.

Even the notorious spy Philby (who was a cousin of Field Marshal Montgomery) tried to get in on the act to support the communist backed insurgents and later some of Pemberton’s People starred in the real Clockwork Orange Plot as to be depicted in Samuel Martin’s The Ghost of Harold Wilson.

If you are interested in all this and more besides do check it out at TheBurlingtonFiles website and see the brief News Article dated 31 October 2022 … Pemberton’s People, Ungentlemanly Officers & Rogue Heroes.

See https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2022.10.31.php