Security Advisory Services

In 1967, the founder of SAS David Stirling set up the Watchguard International Ltd,[17] with the official mission of supplying bodyguards to heads of states in Africa and the Middle East.

[22]He opened an office of the Security Advisory Services in Sandhurst and planned to recruit mercenaries for the war in Southern Rhodesia.

[24] In November 1975, Norman Hall, a former paratrooper and assistant to the head of the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) Holden Roberto, arrived in Britain.

[25] Hall brought $25,000 to the Security Advisory Services asking for help in recruiting mercenaries to support FNLA in the Angolan Civil War.

[29] Before their departure to Angola, mercenaries gathered in the pub Dirty Dick's and stayed overnight in the St George in the East church in London.