Piper Alpha – Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services
Happy July 4 th everybody! We don’t celebrate it over here of course, as we came second. When we’re beaten fair and square however we don’t behave like the Germans and have a centuries’ long hissy-fit. Speaking of Jerry’s hissy-fits, Tuesday sees the 33 rd anniversary of the sabotage by German intelligence (GO2) of the Piper Alpha oil and gas facility in the North Sea. All told Jerry murdered 167 men. At the time it was the single largest insurance loss for a disaster, around £1.7 billion, although a reinsurance swindle magnified that several times over. There is no doubt that Pipe...
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