Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] Michael Ledeen, Ariel Merari, Robert Moss, Claire Sterling, Maurice Tugwell and Paul Wilkinson. British propaganda institutes dealt with include the Institute for the Study of Conflict ( Crozier), the Institute for the Study of Terrorism (Becker/Chalfont), Control Risks Janke/Goss/Clutterbuck) and the Research Foundation for the Study of Terrorism (Wilkinson). Non-UK groups include the Centre […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] I was talking to. Under a pseudonym Morris wrote a couple of prescient articles in the early 1980s about the anti-subversion crowd which had gathered round Brian Crozier and ISC. It is those which should be remembered rather than his uninteresting book about Philby. John McGuffin died in April. I came across McGuffin as […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] editor has either excluded this material or he was conscientious enough not to record it. Tantalisingly, on 2 June 1986, however, he wrote: ‘Meeting with conspirators, Brian Crozier, Julian Lewis and a man from Aims of Industry whose name I’ve forgotten and another man who I never identified. How to make the public realise […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] Senate Report No. 94-755, Foreign and Military Intelligence, p. 192. CIA-sponsored channels also disseminated the Chinese arms story at this time inside the United States: e.g. Brian Crozier, ‘Indonesia’s Civil War,’ New Leader, November 1965, p. 4. Mortimer, p. 386. The Evans and Novak column coincided with the surfacing of the so called ‘Gilchrist […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] an orthodox biography doesn’t make it. None of the paramilitary and psy-ops events of the 1974-79 period which led to her 1979 election victory are mentioned. Brian Crozier is referred to twice, once as a ‘disillusioned socialist intellectual’ (p. 372) – an absurd description for a man who, by his own admission, spent virtually […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] include the fact a largish chunk of their subject matter has, in effect, been covertly controlled by the British state. Which is more or less what Brian Crozier was telling us in his memoir, Free Agent, wasn’t it? Notes See Tom Easton’s piece in Lobster 36. Dodds-Parker was also busy in the 1960s peddling […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] Report” drew an average of 50% of its material from the IRD’. (p. 27) Presumably this refers to the Economist’s Foreign Report, among whose editors were Brian Crozier and Robert Moss. ‘Crucial to the IRD’s success was its relationship with the BBC.’ (p. 29) What is wrong with Mayhew’s account is his ignorance of […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] was the best known (and had the silliest title). David Floyd (obit Guardian 3 September 1997). Journalist, Soviet specialist, chiefly with the Daily Telegraph, later with Brian Crozier at Goldsmith’s Now!; IRD asset or employee – I don’t know which. Brigadier Michael Harbottle (obit Guardian 8 May 1997). Founder member of Generals for Peace […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] indirect and circumstantial. What can be said with certainty is that almost all of the leading promoters of the ‘Soviet terror network’ thesis – for example Brian Crozier, Arnaud de Borchegrave, Ray Cline, Paul Henze, Michael Ledeen, Robert Moss, John Rees, Claire Sterling, Pierre de Villemarest and a number of Israelis – have a […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] first volume of her memoirs; and when she became leader of the Tory Party she was given tutorials by a group of retired spooks, which included Brian Crozier. Little wonder that she once told an interviewer that she’d read Frederick Forsyth’s execrable The Fourth Protocol twice. Forsyth’s novel, you may recall, describes a Kinnock-led […]
