Eclipse: the last days of the CIA

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] 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 […]

Shorts

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] 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 […]

The Terrorism Industry (Book review)

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 […]

Obituaries

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 […]

Confessions of a Crawler

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 […]

The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67

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 […]

Margaret Thatcher: Vol 1: The Grocer’s Daughter

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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 […]

Britain’s Secret Propaganda War

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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 […]

A War of Words: a Cold War Witness

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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 […]

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