Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: Disrupt and Deny Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy Rory Cormac Oxford University Press: 2018, £20.00, h/b Robin Ramsay First things first: this is very good and anyone interested in our secret services, post-WW2 British history, or British colonial history, let alone the actual subject matter implied by the title, […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 from the left’?26 She would not be unique in being unable or unwilling to give […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 State Research, no. 2 November 1977. Chapman Pincher makes no reference to this story in his […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 from the left ’?3 She would not be unique in being unable or unwilling to […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] new mouthpiece.14 Mr Murdoch snapped up 20th Century Fox and six US TV stations in 1984 (the same year that he apparently supplied cash to fund Brian Crozier on a supposed fact-finding mission in Europe). In 1985, Mr Murdoch became a naturalised US citizen in order to meet a regulatory requirement that TV stations […]

That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 by John Medhurst

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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 […]

Beaumont novel copy

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[…] the ‘laundromat’ in ‘Londongrad’ for Russian money and the consequent Russian influence on British political life. 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] 76 A Hellfire missile costs upwards of $100,000. 77 A partial biography is at . 27 bases.74 Teacher began this in an essay in Lobster 17 (’Brian Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith’) and he just kept pursuing it, expanding it. This (final?) version is 564 pages, including 603 endnotes, bibliography and appendices. […]

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