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 […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] the Tom Mahl thesis Ken Weller for trusting me with one of his cuttings files Anthony Carew and Ken Fleet for their comments on the text Brian Crozier for being so (relatively) candid in his memoir and providing so many clues Richard Fletcher for his pioneering research in the 1970s, without which none of […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] before and during the life of the SDP, itself largely formulated along a US model.1 Haseler formed the SDA in 1975 with the distanced help of Brian Crozier, with the intention of drawing votes from the Labour Party up to the 1983 election. In a letter to The Times, Crozier alluded to his previous […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue

[…] that point only 18 months from its formal registration as a charity (sic). (11) ISC’s inclusion in this grouping is less surprising than it might look. Brian Crozier, ISC’s founder, had established links with the British domestic antiunion, anti-left organisations in the 1960s. He edited the 1970 anthology We Will Bury You which included […]

Lobster 11

Lobster Issue

[…] that point only 18 months from its formal registration as a charity (sic). (11) ISC’s inclusion in this grouping is less surprising than it might look. Brian Crozier, ISC’s founder, had established links with the British domestic antiunion, anti-left organisations in the 1960s. He edited the 1970 anthology We Will Bury You which included […]

Appendices

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] way to a position of prestige in the journalism world.” A hand-written note on the report added: “Run with the knowledge and cooperation of British intelligence.” Brian Crozier became President of FWF in February 1966. (He had known Whitney when Whitney was Ambassador to the UK.) FWF’s managing editor was Iain Hamilton, previously editor […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] “the driving motivation behind ISC is the defence of free industrial societies against totalitarian encroachments.” This, mark you, when charities are legally incapable of being “political”. 10 Crozier (1970). Other pieces were by W. F. K. Thompson (on ISC’s council), the Rev. Michael Bordeaux, now head of Keston College (see below), and C. H. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] AI Looking for my review of Brian Crozier’s memoir in Lobster, I asked Google (generally better and faster than Lobster’s search engine) for ‘Lobster magazine + Brian Crozier + Free Agent’ and got this from Google AI. Lobster magazine, a British publication focused on intelligence and parapolitics, has frequently covered the career of journalist, […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] AI Looking for my review of Brian Crozier’s memoir in Lobster, I asked Google (generally better and faster than Lobster’s search engine) for ‘Lobster magazine + Brian Crozier + Free Agent’ and got this from Google AI. Lobster magazine, a British publication focused on intelligence and parapolitics, has frequently covered the career of journalist, […]

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