The economic background to appeasement and the search for Anglo-German detente before and during World War 2

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

[…] creation of the Anglo-American alliance. P.R.O. T188/288, memorandum by Leith-Ross, 2 Feb 1937; MacDonald, ‘Economic Appeasement’, pp119-20. Statistical abstract for the United Kingdom, table 127, p. 143. Crozier, Germany’s last bid for colonies; P.R.O. T160/856/14545/3, 1936-9. P.R.O. FO371/22951, C4102/8/18, 6 Apr 1939. P.R.O. ECG1/19, October 1939. Documents on German Foreign Policy (hereafter DGFP), Series […]

Miscellaneous: James Angleton. British democracy. Nazis

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] (if minor) questions in the post-Gorbachev era is, ‘How have Golitsyn’s enthusiasts adjusted to the new reality?’. The answer appears to be, ‘not a lot’, if Brian Crozier is anything to go by. In the Independent (7 February 1990) Crozier presents a Golitsyn-esque view of the Gorbachev counter-revolution which concludes: ‘The evidence is very […]

Britain’s Secret Propaganda War

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] include the fact a largish chunk of their subject matter has, in effect, been covertly controlled by the British state. Which is more or less what Brian Crozier was telling us in his memoir, Free Agent, wasn’t it? Notes See Tom Easton’s piece in Lobster 36. Dodds-Parker was also busy in the 1960s peddling […]

A War of Words: a Cold War Witness

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] Report” drew an average of 50% of its material from the IRD’. (p. 27) Presumably this refers to the Economist’s Foreign Report, among whose editors were Brian Crozier and Robert Moss. ‘Crucial to the IRD’s success was its relationship with the BBC.’ (p. 29) What is wrong with Mayhew’s account is his ignorance of […]

Obituaries

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] was the best known (and had the silliest title). David Floyd (obit Guardian 3 September 1997). Journalist, Soviet specialist, chiefly with the Daily Telegraph, later with Brian Crozier at Goldsmith’s Now!; IRD asset or employee – I don’t know which. Brigadier Michael Harbottle (obit Guardian 8 May 1997). Founder member of Generals for Peace […]

UK Eyes Alpha: the Inside Story of British Intelligence

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] first volume of her memoirs; and when she became leader of the Tory Party she was given tutorials by a group of retired spooks, which included Brian Crozier. Little wonder that she once told an interviewer that she’d read Frederick Forsyth’s execrable The Fourth Protocol twice. Forsyth’s novel, you may recall, describes a Kinnock-led […]

Inside ‘Inside Intelligence’

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] Field of the Telegraph, Wing Commander Paul Richey at the Daily Express. At the Observer, David Astor, Mark Arnold-Foster, Wayland Young (Lord Kennet) and Edward Crankshaw. Brian Crozier at the Economist, Stuart McLean, vice-chairman of Associated Newspapers; John S. Whitlock, managing editor of Butterworth Publications; P. Morgan, editor British Plastic; G. Paulton of Arbeiter […]

British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986)

[…] 1969 HEAD OF IRD 1971 GOVERNOR CAYMAN ISLANDS 1974 CANADIAN NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE 1975 HEAD OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPT FCO 1976 AMBASSADOR TO AFGHANISTAN 1979 RETIRED CROZIER, BRIAN ROSSITER B 4.8.18 TRINITY COLL CAMBRIDGE MI6/CIA ASSET 1936 JOURNALIST 1940 STOKE-ON-TRENT, STOCKPORT, LONDON 1941 AERONAUTICAL INSPECTION 1943 REUTERS 1944 NEWS CHRONICLE 1945 SYDNEY MORNING […]

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