[…] 10 August 1984), really has done a Sidney Carton number. No greater sacrifice can a man make than he lay down his brain for a cause. Brian Crozier (see review of his novel in this issue) was also at that Jonathan Institute conference. In Lobster 2 the Ramsay half of the team half-seriously speculated […]
[…] to an ‘intentional disinformation campaign by the Italian authorities’ “.(Guardian 5 January 1983). On one level it was to publicise the ‘all terrorism is KGB-inspired’ line of Crozier and his friends in the Jonathan Institute, but on another it coincided with many scandals, including Calvi and the beginnings of the P2 affair. Unless someone […]
[…] destabilising ring to it. And is no surprise. In Lobster 3 we reported a piece in the Times (7 July 1983) by the well-known CIA flak Brian Crozier, describing the Seychelles as one of 4 countries which ‘stand out as qualifying for low risk or no risk intervention: Angola, Seychelles, Grenada and Surinam.” We […]
[…] College is the Centre for the Study of Religion and Communism. It was mentioned occasionally, for example in Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters, and the anthology Brian Crozier edited, We Will Bury You, and its publications were prominently listed in the material available through Geoffrey Stewart-Smith’s group in the 1970s. Perhaps Mr G did […]
[…] to the Wall Street Journal (26th July 1979) participants at that conference included former CIA Director Bush, former CIA Deputy Director Ray Cline, Robert Moss and Brian Crozier – the latter two being paid propagandists for the CIA, French and British Intelligence. The Jerusalem Foundation that sponsored the ’79 conference is an Israeli Intelligence […]
[…] attend JIC meetings. See ‘Death for sale’, Guardian Weekend, 12 November, 1994. Robinson interview with Seumas Milne in The Enemy Within, (Verso, London, 1994), p. 282. Brian Crozier in his Free Agent, (HarperCollins, London, 1993), claims that Mrs Thatcher was regularly briefed by a secret advisory intelligence committee called ‘Shield’. To my knowledge, Green […]
[…] but the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB); and behind them, their Soviet masters. Mrs Thatcher had bought the communist subversion theories of the likes of Brian Crozier. Why did the authors decide to omit this? This is much more interesting than their version here. The 1984 miners’ strike was the climax of the […]
[…] that she wrote for the newsletters Africa Analysis, Africa Confidential and the Economist’s Foreign Report. The last two are frequently talked of as intelligence operations — Brian Crozier and Robert Moss, for example, have edited the latter — but is there any evidence about the former? Seth Kantor died in August (Obituary in’ Rocky […]
[…] in Lobster 17 and 18, had said he was going to write a book but it never appeared. (Teacher’s version of Pinay was accurate enough for Brian Crozier to cite it in his memoir Free Agent .) Well it has now appeared, all 110,000 words of it, Teacher tells me, and is available as […]
[…] 1980s the Second Cold War was fought partly by disinformation. The U.S. ran the ‘KGB terror network’ story, through Clare Sterling, with help from the Israelis, messers Crozier and Moss and others, and then the KGB-shot-the-Pope story. Against that the Soviet Union ran the story (with several variants) that AIDS was a U.S. biological […]
