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Aug 11, 2016 · LE. 11 Aug 2016. #1. It's 40 years since Colonel Callan and his mercenaries were tried and executed in Angola for their part in a Cold war proxy war between the CIA and the Soviet and Cuban backed MPLA . Holden Roberto , the CIA backed FNLA leader put together a small , mostly British , mercenary force led by a former 1 PARA corporal , Costas ...
Oct 16, 2012 · The mercs he sent out to Angola were recruited haphazardly (they included two ex-RN submariners), and were promised non-combat roles with the FNLA. Eleven of these guys ended up being murdered by Costas Georgiou ('Colonel Callan') and Sammy Copeland in Jan 1976. Peter McAleese describes the whole business in his memoirs as well.
Aug 11, 2016 · Execution by firing squad: Costas Georgiou (aka "Colonel Tony Callan"), 25 (Cyprus/UK) Andrew Gordon McKenzie, 25 (UK) Derek John Barker, 35 (UK) Daniel Francis Gearhart, 34 (USA) Some of the verdicts had been expected, especially regarding Georgiou.
Aug 11, 2016 · Mindja, he did pass out as champion recruit of his platoon. There's a pretty horrendous account of Georgiou and others torturing an MPLA spy to death, with red hot bayonets used to disembowel and castrate him. Georgiou finally shoots him through the head, although he probably would not have lived too long, anyway.
Aug 14, 2016 · Take a look online for information about a company called Executive Outcomes. They were the first people (in the modern era) to use an actual business model for this and made a lot of money. One of them wrote a book about it but I can't remember the title of the top of my head. 1. 1.
Nov 21, 2017 · I wonder how many of the guys survived their 24-30 year jail sentences in Angola. Bet they lost some weight.Someone posted earlier in this thread that they were released in 1985 or so.
Aug 12, 2016 · I was surprised how much of a 'hello peeps' bubble Georgiou sounded. I'd always imagined that he would be more of the Cypriot Cockney type. I've always had strong reservations about what motivates mercs, but with him there was little doubt. He was simply a vicious psychopath.
Nov 23, 2017 · 23 Nov 2017. #95. I cant tell you if this fact or not but somewhere in the mists of time I read something like this . Col callan was putting up a brave face at the trial, he won *sympathy* from the media for standing up and taking responsibility for his and his mens actions . This did not sit well with his prosecutors who dug up two of the ...
Oct 22, 2023 · A few years back when I was employed, with a former OC PS Wing, in a Government Department (I think you know the one I mean WB), I had the misfortune of bumping into Spicer when he managed to bluff and be invited by the then Head of one of the Branches in my Directorate, with an offer to "provide security and supply an armed response" on behalf of the Government for a specific task that had ...
Dec 18, 2014 · 18 Dec 2014. #1. Following on from the British Forces in Vietnam thread, we started to discuss soldiers who had fought in multiple nations' militaries and then onto mercenaries. There are many interesting characters out there - from the incredibly able such as Mike Hoare to the not so successful such as Costas Georgiou.
