[…] her the truth? If they did – and this is not a given – did she chose to ignore MI5’s briefings and believe those, such as Brian Crozier and David Hart, who had been telling her about ‘the threat’?3 She would not be unique in being unable or unwilling State Research, no. 2 November […]
[PDF file]: That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 John Medhurst Winchester: Zero Books, 2014, £11.99, p/b www.zero-books.net Rexamaining the mid-1970s from a Labour left perspective, as the author does, is an interesting idea. Once again we can read about: * the Communist Party’s Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, which resulted in the CP […]
[PDF file]: […] the Coalition. One of McKnight’s achievements is to uncover some of Murdoch’s connections with what he describes as the ‘ultraThatcherites’, the likes of David Hart and Brian Crozier. Murdoch was right behind Hart during the miners’ strike when Hart was instrumental in establishing the scab Union of Democratic Mineworkers. Indeed, there is a suspicion […]
[…] of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and McDowell were serving members of the British army’s UDR seemed to confirm, without concrete evidence, the suspicions of many nationalists that collusion was involved in […]
[PDF file]: […] The most comprehensive source for information about this remains Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: 4th Estate, 1991). See also Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 121-122; Gerald James, In the Public Interest (London: Little Brown, 1995); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain […]
[PDF file]: […] matter was in British domestic politics. Angleton’s delusions spread to MI5 and thence into the Conservative Party’s right-wing, parts of the military and professional subversive-hunters like Brian Crozier and IRD. This produced a network which believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent in a Labour Party which was controlled by the KGB through […]
[PDF file]: […] pages from telephone directories – the ‘full Monty’ of analogue, retro-journalism. It is also a big step back to a time peopled by the likes of Brian Crozier and Lyndon la Rouche – the Cold War and all its spookery during its final, critical, pre-Glasnost phase. In terms of a contemporary, rather than an […]
[PDF file]: […] which the intelligence agencies occasionally feel obliged to gob. Under Thatcher there was the dramatic rise of private intelligence agencies run by various of her admirers, Brian Crozier and the like, that operated alongside MI5. CND was apparently a particular target of these ‘privateers’. But what of the war her government waged against the […]
[PDF file]: […] British political life. Not that any of this is secret. The House of Commons Intelligence and The first was The Andropov Deception by ‘John Rossiter’ (actually Brian Crozier) in issue 10. There is an interview with the author at . His voice has been digitally altered to conceal his identity and I found it […]
[…] British political life. Not that any of this is secret. The House of Commons Intelligence and The first was The Andropov Deception by ‘John Rossiter’ (actually Brian Crozier) in issue 10. There is an interview with the author at . His voice has been digitally altered to conceal his identity and I found it […]
