[PDF file]: […] as leader of the party. Andrew has adopted the fallback position of the British secret state circa 1990: ignore Wallace, Gordon Winter, the private armies episode, the Crozier operations, the forgeries and the psy-ops, and focus on the John Ware interview with Wright in which he implied that the ‘plot’ consisted only of himself. […]
[PDF file]: […] any sources, that Neave ‘helped’ Young found Tory Action. 7 5 about the Northern Ireland situation. Further into the ‘Wilson plot’ material the author gives us Brian Crozier and gets the Crozier chronology wrong, with Forum World Features in the 1970s and the Institute for the Study of Conflict in the 1960s, instead of […]
[PDF file]: […] was the work of the news agency, Forum World Features (FWF).27 FWF was no ordinary news agency. It had been established by the Anglo-American intelligence asset Brian Crozier in 1958, with CIA funding and, at the very least, the knowledge and support of SIS and John McEvoy, ‘Exclusive: Secret Cables Reveal Britain Interfered with […]
[…] fee from the Daily Telegraph for a piece Wallace wrote, anonymously, about the Northern Ireland situation. Further into the ‘Wilson plot’ material the author gives us Brian Crozier and gets the Crozier chronology wrong, with Forum World Features in the 1970s and the Institute for the Study of Conflict in the 1960s, instead of […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: Between The Waves The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 Tom McTague London: Picador, 2025, £25, h/b Robin Ramsay The ‘revolution’ in the subtitle is the UK’s relationship with the EEC/EU – a huge subject, covered in great detail, in a very big book. Including notes and index, this is 544 (decently-bound) pages. […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. […]
The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. […]
