[…] attend JIC meetings. See ‘Death for sale’, Guardian Weekend, 12 November, 1994. Robinson interview with Seumas Milne in The Enemy Within, (Verso, London, 1994), p. 282. Brian Crozier in his Free Agent, (HarperCollins, London, 1993), claims that Mrs Thatcher was regularly briefed by a secret advisory intelligence committee called ‘Shield’. To my knowledge, Green […]
[…] but the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB); and behind them, their Soviet masters. Mrs Thatcher had bought the communist subversion theories of the likes of Brian Crozier. Why did the authors decide to omit this? This is much more interesting than their version here. The 1984 miners’ strike was the climax of the […]
[…] that she wrote for the newsletters Africa Analysis, Africa Confidential and the Economist’s Foreign Report. The last two are frequently talked of as intelligence operations — Brian Crozier and Robert Moss, for example, have edited the latter — but is there any evidence about the former? Seth Kantor died in August (Obituary in’ Rocky […]
[…] in Lobster 17 and 18, had said he was going to write a book but it never appeared. (Teacher’s version of Pinay was accurate enough for Brian Crozier to cite it in his memoir Free Agent .) Well it has now appeared, all 110,000 words of it, Teacher tells me, and is available as […]
[…] 1980s the Second Cold War was fought partly by disinformation. The U.S. ran the ‘KGB terror network’ story, through Clare Sterling, with help from the Israelis, messers Crozier and Moss and others, and then the KGB-shot-the-Pope story. Against that the Soviet Union ran the story (with several variants) that AIDS was a U.S. biological […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the border with Mexico…… 46 Participants included Richard Pipes from ‘Team B’, Norman Podhoretz and his wife Midge Decter from the neo-con Israeli lobby, Claire Sterling, Brian Crozier, George Bush and Ray Cline. 47 In the 1980s I was corresponding with the late Ace Hayes, the erstwhile editor of the Portland Free Press. Hayes […]
[…] Gladio network story — which is a chapter in this book.(1) What do we know of NATO intelligence-gathering and covert operations? Is there “NATO Intelligence’ somewhere? (Brian Crozier — writing as “John Rossiter’ — has NATO intelligence in his novel The Andropov Deception.) If so, where? How organised? How managed? Second, if James Angleton’s […]
