British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] 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 […]

Shorts (KAL 007 & JFK)

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] 10 August 1984), really has done a Sidney Carton number. No greater sacrifice can a man make than he lay down his brain for a cause. Brian Crozier (see review of his novel in this issue) was also at that Jonathan Institute conference. In Lobster 2 the Ramsay half of the team half-seriously speculated […]

Agca: true confessions

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] to an ‘intentional disinformation campaign by the Italian authorities’ “.(Guardian 5 January 1983). On one level it was to publicise the ‘all terrorism is KGB-inspired’ line of Crozier and his friends in the Jonathan Institute, but on another it coincided with many scandals, including Calvi and the beginnings of the P2 affair. Unless someone […]

The View From The Bridge

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] College is the Centre for the Study of Religion and Communism. It was mentioned occasionally, for example in Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters, and the anthology Brian Crozier edited, We Will Bury You, and its publications were prominently listed in the material available through Geoffrey Stewart-Smith’s group in the 1970s. Perhaps Mr G did […]

Parapolitical bits and pieces

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] destabilising ring to it. And is no surprise. In Lobster 3 we reported a piece in the Times (7 July 1983) by the well-known CIA flak Brian Crozier, describing the Seychelles as one of 4 countries which ‘stand out as qualifying for low risk or no risk intervention: Angola, Seychelles, Grenada and Surinam.” We […]

American Friends: the Anti-CND Groups

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] to the Wall Street Journal (26th July 1979) participants at that conference included former CIA Director Bush, former CIA Deputy Director Ray Cline, Robert Moss and Brian Crozier – the latter two being paid propagandists for the CIA, French and British Intelligence. The Jerusalem Foundation that sponsored the ’79 conference is an Israeli Intelligence […]

The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] 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 […]

Marching to the fault line: The 1984 miners’ strike and the death of industrial Britain

Book cover
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] 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 […]

People

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] 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 […]

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