[…] left wing clichés and verbal gestures, but underneath all the agenda is very nearly identical to that of the Thatcherites.'(24 ) He co-authored Socialism Explained with Brian Crozier for Thatcher as part of their anti-left project. He also edited the Goldsmith-funded Radical Society’s Journal, founded by Stephen Haselerand Neville Sandelson who both took part […]
[…] question. Tinker, tailor, soldier, granny The Melita Norwood, ‘Stalin’s granny’, story opened the columns of The Times on 13 September 1999 to no less than Brian Crozier.(1) Crozier told us, inter alia: For decades, I was one of the very few (sic) who tried to alert public opinion and successive governments to the Soviet […]
[…] the STASI stuff, ‘Stalin’s granny’ and all the rest of the piffle – opened the columns of The Times on 13 September to no less than Brian Crozier. Crozier told us, inter alia: For decades, I was one of the very few (sic) who tried to alert public opinion and successive governments to the […]
[…] of the USSR and the subsequent ‘coming out’ of veteran anti-communists now prepared to open up some of their dubious accomplishments to outside scrutiny (Peter Coleman, Brian Crozier e.g.), more direct documentary evidence of the scope and intensity of covert US involvement in European politics in the post-war period is now available. The Marshall […]
[…] all became “heavy” and he was glad to get back to the “normality” of England. Unfortunately he didn’t keep his notes. “Cross” is the pseudonym of Ross Crozier. Crozier worked on covert activities in Guatemala and Cuba in the 1950s and in Mexico in the early 1960s. He worked in Dallas for the Public […]
[…] had said and this is a result: 24 A4 (glossy!) pages on the FA, Brian Crozier’s political opinions, and the relationship between the Economist’s Foreign Report and Crozier and Robert Moss; a long and essentially redundant account of what did happen in Chile when Pinochet took over (to rebut Crozier and Moss); and some […]
[…] won the election in February 1974, IRD abandoned its briefings on the domestic left for fear of political embarassment and that role was picked up by Brian Crozier, who had been working with IRD and the CIA, as he tells us in his memoirs, since the 1950s. In the 1970s Crozier created what were […]
[…] Scaife, who funded – or fronted for the funding of – much of the American right in the 1970s and 80s, as well as old Uncle Brian Crozier and his many projects. As Maldon they feed the traditional brand of baloney into the politically naive ears of American police forces warning them of ‘the […]
[…] The Herald Sun (24 August 1996) ran a front-page story headlined ‘Red Agent?’. The question mark disappeared in the columns which followed as Oleg Gordievsky and Brian Crozier commented on the ‘fact’ of the medal. Support for Murray’s claim came from remarks attributed to the now dead Geoffrey Fairbairn, erstwhile council member of Crozier’s […]
[…] he, that is Cavendish, was among the founders of the Democratic Party of Britain in the 1960s with disillusioned former Labour MP Desmond Donnelly — long before Crozier and others formed the Social Democratic Party in the 1970s. Cavendish notes in his letter that the Democratic Prty was set up ‘to attract Labour voters […]
