[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 When the Lights Went Out Britain in the Seventies Andy Beckett London: Faber and Faber, 2009, £20.00 7 See Brian Crozier, Free Agent (London: HarperCollins,1993) pp. 131-133. 8 Andrew writes on p. 638 that MI5 was ‘becoming increasingly worried about…..Unison.’ Page 142 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen […]
[PDF file]: […] call Alzeimer’s disease and Wilson suspected he might get it and resigned before it developed. And he was exhausted. 12 One of the network’s leading figures, Brian Crozier, who worked for the CIA and IRD, describes briefing Mrs Thatcher in his memoir, Free Agent (London: HarperCollins, 1993) pp. 131-133. Page 74 Winter 2009/10 Lobster […]
[PDF file]: […] with CIA money, into IRIS with anticommunist trade unionists and information from IRD and MI5. IRIS runs through to the mid–1970s and ends up working with Brian Crozier (CIA, IRD) and Charles Elwell (MI5). All this state-funded anti-CPGB activity in the post-war era occurred because it was believed that the CPGB was or might […]
[PDF file]: […] of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and McDowell were serving members of the British army’s UDR seemed to confirm, without concrete evidence, the suspicions of many nationalists This year, 2023, is the […]
[…] of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and McDowell were serving members of the British army’s UDR seemed to confirm, without concrete evidence, the suspicions of many nationalists that collusion was involved in […]
[…] of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and McDowell were serving members of the British army’s UDR seemed to confirm, without concrete evidence, the suspicions of many nationalists that collusion was involved in […]
[PDF file]: […] The most comprehensive source for information about this remains Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: 4th Estate, 1991). See also Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 121-122; Gerald James, In the Public Interest (London: Little Brown, 1995); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain […]
[PDF file]: […] matter was in British domestic politics. Angleton’s delusions spread to MI5 and thence into the Conservative Party’s right-wing, parts of the military and professional subversive-hunters like Brian Crozier and IRD. This produced a network which believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent in a Labour Party which was controlled by the KGB through […]
[PDF file]: […] pages from telephone directories – the ‘full Monty’ of analogue, retro-journalism. It is also a big step back to a time peopled by the likes of Brian Crozier and Lyndon la Rouche – the Cold War and all its spookery during its final, critical, pre-Glasnost phase. In terms of a contemporary, rather than an […]
[PDF file]: […] which the intelligence agencies occasionally feel obliged to gob. Under Thatcher there was the dramatic rise of private intelligence agencies run by various of her admirers, Brian Crozier and the like, that operated alongside MI5. CND was apparently a particular target of these ‘privateers’. But what of the war her government waged against the […]
