Fourteen UK mercenaries executed

Feb 09, 1976; London, UK; The Foreign Office has ordered an urgent investigation about a report that 14 British mercenaries have been executed by a firing squad in Northern Angola for refusing to fight. John Banks, the man who recruited many of the mercenaries through an organisation called SAS (Security Advisory Services) was shocked at the news of the executions and threatened to pull out all the mercenaries. The picture shows JOHN BANKS watched by FRANK PERREN an original partner of the SAS, stressing a point during a press conference at the London Press Center

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