[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] indirect and circumstantial. What can be said with certainty is that almost all of the leading promoters of the ‘Soviet terror network’ thesis – for example Brian Crozier, Arnaud de Borchegrave, Ray Cline, Paul Henze, Michael Ledeen, Robert Moss, John Rees, Claire Sterling, Pierre de Villemarest and a number of Israelis – have a […]
[…] was the best known (and had the silliest title). David Floyd (obit Guardian 3 September 1997). Journalist, Soviet specialist, chiefly with the Daily Telegraph, later with Brian Crozier at Goldsmith’s Now!; IRD asset or employee – I don’t know which. Brigadier Michael Harbottle (obit Guardian 8 May 1997). Founder member of Generals for Peace […]
[…] Field of the Telegraph, Wing Commander Paul Richey at the Daily Express. At the Observer, David Astor, Mark Arnold-Foster, Wayland Young (Lord Kennet) and Edward Crankshaw. Brian Crozier at the Economist, Stuart McLean, vice-chairman of Associated Newspapers; John S. Whitlock, managing editor of Butterworth Publications; P. Morgan, editor British Plastic; G. Paulton of Arbeiter […]
[…] first volume of her memoirs; and when she became leader of the Tory Party she was given tutorials by a group of retired spooks, which included Brian Crozier. Little wonder that she once told an interviewer that she’d read Frederick Forsyth’s execrable The Fourth Protocol twice. Forsyth’s novel, you may recall, describes a Kinnock-led […]
[…] 1969 HEAD OF IRD 1971 GOVERNOR CAYMAN ISLANDS 1974 CANADIAN NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE 1975 HEAD OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPT FCO 1976 AMBASSADOR TO AFGHANISTAN 1979 RETIRED CROZIER, BRIAN ROSSITER B 4.8.18 TRINITY COLL CAMBRIDGE MI6/CIA ASSET 1936 JOURNALIST 1940 STOKE-ON-TRENT, STOCKPORT, LONDON 1941 AERONAUTICAL INSPECTION 1943 REUTERS 1944 NEWS CHRONICLE 1945 SYDNEY MORNING […]
[…] for the SDP presidency in 1981. Now it may be true that Haseler is not the important figure in starting the SDP ball rolling CIA asset Brian Crozier claims in his 1993 book Free Agent, but there can be little doubt that he had a considerable transatlantic role before and during the life of […]
