The View from the Bridge

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[…] writing for other CIA officers – refers to the ‘Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service (MI5) agent’. Not according to Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent, he wasn’t; and Crozier wasn’t shy about boasting of his […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] writing for other CIA officers – refers to the ‘Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service (MI5) agent’. Not according to Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent, he wasn’t; and Crozier wasn’t shy about boasting of his […]

View from the bridge

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[…] her the truth? If they did – and this is not a given – did she chose to ignore MI5’s briefings and believe those, such as Brian Crozier and David Hart, who had been telling her about ‘the threat from the left’?26 She would not be unique in being unable or unwilling to give […]

View from the bridge

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[…] her the truth? If they did – and this is not a given – did she chose to ignore MI5’s briefings and believe those, such as Brian Crozier and David Hart, who had been telling her about ‘the State Research, no. 2 November 1977. Chapman Pincher makes no reference to this story in his […]

View from the bridge

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[…] her the truth? If they did – and this is not a given – did she chose to ignore MI5’s briefings and believe those, such as Brian Crozier and David Hart, who had been telling her about ‘the threat from the left ’?3 She would not be unique in being unable or unwilling to […]

View from the bridge

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[…] her the truth? If they did – and this is not a given – did she chose to ignore MI5’s briefings and believe those, such as Brian Crozier and David Hart, who had been telling her about ‘the threat’?3 She would not be unique in being unable or unwilling State Research, no. 2 November […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] new mouthpiece.14 Mr Murdoch snapped up 20th Century Fox and six US TV stations in 1984 (the same year that he apparently supplied cash to fund Brian Crozier on a supposed fact-finding mission in Europe). In 1985, Mr Murdoch became a naturalised US citizen in order to meet a regulatory requirement that TV stations […]

View from the bridge

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[…] her the truth? If they did – and this is not a given – did she chose to ignore MI5’s briefings and believe those, such as Brian Crozier and David Hart, who had been telling her about ‘the threat’?3 She would not be unique in being unable or unwilling State Research, no. 2 November […]

That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 by John Medhurst

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[PDF file]: That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 John Medhurst Winchester: Zero Books, 2014, £11.99, p/b www.zero-books.net Rexamaining the mid-1970s from a Labour left perspective, as the author does, is an interesting idea. Once again we can read about: * the Communist Party’s Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, which resulted in the CP […]

Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

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[PDF file]: […] the Coalition. One of McKnight’s achievements is to uncover some of Murdoch’s connections with what he describes as the ‘ultraThatcherites’, the likes of David Hart and Brian Crozier. Murdoch was right behind Hart during the miners’ strike when Hart was instrumental in establishing the scab Union of Democratic Mineworkers. Indeed, there is a suspicion […]

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