[…] in Ecuador in the same year. Strauss and CSU were the main beneficiaries of identified Pinay Circle activities; i.e. the promotion of right-wing European politicians through Brian Crozier, Robert Moss, Fred Luchsinger of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and Gerhard Lowenthal, anchorman on current affairs programmes for ZDF television, the major German network. The Pinay […]
At the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of non-German workers, mostly from the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries, were stranded in Germany, while many thousands more were fleeing from areas overrun by Soviet forces. Most of these workers were anti-communist, anti-Soviet and anti-Russian; some had voluntarily collaborated with the Nazis, […]
[…] bloc unions fronts for the state or not? My impression is that they were. (Ditto the Libyan unions.) Is it not the case, for example, as Brian Crozier was fond of reminding us, that the head of the Soviet equivalent of the TUC, the Soviet All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions in the mid […]
Steamshovel 11 The arrival of a new Steamshovel is an event. No matter that I am going to want to be picky about something in it, every issue contains items both substantial and intriguing – and much that would find a home nowhere else, that I can think of. (Except maybe Lobster. I wish I […]
[…] of the extraordinary distance we have come since, say, Marchetti and Marks’ 1974 landmark The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. No wonder the likes of Brian Crozier and the other conspiracy theorists within the NATO intelligence services think that this must all be the work of a KGB plot. (And how frustrating it […]
[…] time. Among those taking part were former CIA Director William Colby and former KGB General Oleg Kalugin. Also participating were former CIA officer Donald Jameson, Uncle Brian Crozier and Hans Graf Huyn from Germany. Colby, Jameson, Crozier and Huyn are all present or former members of the Pinay Circle. It’s almost enough to make […]
[…] creation of the Anglo-American alliance. P.R.O. T188/288, memorandum by Leith-Ross, 2 Feb 1937; MacDonald, ‘Economic Appeasement’, pp119-20. Statistical abstract for the United Kingdom, table 127, p. 143. Crozier, Germany’s last bid for colonies; P.R.O. T160/856/14545/3, 1936-9. P.R.O. FO371/22951, C4102/8/18, 6 Apr 1939. P.R.O. ECG1/19, October 1939. Documents on German Foreign Policy (hereafter DGFP), Series […]
[…] (if minor) questions in the post-Gorbachev era is, ‘How have Golitsyn’s enthusiasts adjusted to the new reality?’. The answer appears to be, ‘not a lot’, if Brian Crozier is anything to go by. In the Independent (7 February 1990) Crozier presents a Golitsyn-esque view of the Gorbachev counter-revolution which concludes: ‘The evidence is very […]
[…] Austria! See, e.g. Herman and Brodhead pp.135- 6, 237-8. Note also that the ISC, publisher of the Clissold piece, is a ‘think tank’ once headed by Brian Crozier, a specialist on insurgency, who has long been an asset of various Western intelligence agencies. To give only one example, he formerly played a leading role […]
[…] and edited the Common Cause Bulletin in the sixties and seventies. (‘David Williams’ contributed an essay to the 1970 anthology We Will Bury You edited by Brian Crozier.) Conclusions The material above is incomplete, under researched and does not sustain the following conclusions. Nevertheless, this is what we believe, this is how it feels. […]
