The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] which she had become accustomed during the 1970s. ….this is now Robert Moss, one of the creators of the Thatcher-led revolution of the 1980s, ally of Brian Crozier, propagandist on behalf of Pinochet’s Chile, international hunter of subversion, and author of The Death of Democracy and The Spike, spreading disinformation about the British and […]

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Our Searchlight problem

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] works for the left wing paper ‘Liberation’ and who lives in very grand style in a huge Paris apartment. When Hosenball and Kelly had hold of the Crozier material they were very keen not to check out right wing connections but to trace phone numbers they felt belonged to Secret Service establishments etc. Hosenball […]

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Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] the BBC), Carl Gershman (see below) and a whole swathe of politicos and propagandists later to be known as Neoconservatives. Travelling from Britain with Chalfont were Brian Crozier, Robert Moss, former New Statesman editor turned Thatcher cheerleader Paul Johnson and former Labour Home Secretary Merlyn Rees. Quite why Rees should be in this company […]

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The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] the Tom Mahl thesis Ken Weller for trusting me with one of his cuttings files Anthony Carew and Ken Fleet for their comments on the text Brian Crozier for being so (relatively) candid in his memoir and providing so many clues Richard Fletcher for his pioneering research in the 1970s, without which none of […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] before and during the life of the SDP, itself largely formulated along a US model.1 Haseler formed the SDA in 1975 with the distanced help of Brian Crozier, with the intention of drawing votes from the Labour Party up to the 1983 election. In a letter to The Times, Crozier alluded to his previous […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] that point only 18 months from its formal registration as a charity (sic). (11) ISC’s inclusion in this grouping is less surprising than it might look. Brian Crozier, ISC’s founder, had established links with the British domestic antiunion, anti-left organisations in the 1960s. He edited the 1970 anthology We Will Bury You which included […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Kindle edition, available from Amazon.co.uk for £1.98 Well, How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of the British Economy, Minus the Wishful Thinking RIP Whitney and Crozier Two of the the subversion-hunters of the 1970s died since the last edition of Lobster. Ray Whitney, whom my brain still records as ‘head of the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] by any means. But no doubt the US Air Force’s bureaucratic rivals for the shrinking US defence budget will come up with more evidence. RIP Whitney and Crozier Two of the the subversion-hunters of the 1970s died since the last edition of Lobster. Ray Whitney, whom my brain still records as ‘head of the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] and secrecy entered his soul.’110 St Antony’s College, Oxford again.111 It was presumably during Lewis’ attempt to take control of Newham Labour Party that he met Brian Crozier. Crozier was a founder member of the Freedom Association and in his memoir, Free Agent (London: HarperCollins, 1993)112 he writes of that period: ‘To avoid the […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the CIA (see Lobster 69) was the fact that in 1984 Mr Murdoch had funded a European ‘fact finding’ mission by that noted spook-cum-hack the late Brian Crozier. Consortium’s piece did not explore what Crozier did to earn his keep, but a little niggle at the back of my head told me that this […]

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