Margaret Thatcher: Vol 1: The Grocer’s Daughter

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] an orthodox biography doesn’t make it. None of the paramilitary and psy-ops events of the 1974-79 period which led to her 1979 election victory are mentioned. Brian Crozier is referred to twice, once as a ‘disillusioned socialist intellectual’ (p. 372) – an absurd description for a man who, by his own admission, spent virtually […]

The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

[…] Senate Report No. 94-755, Foreign and Military Intelligence, p. 192. CIA-sponsored channels also disseminated the Chinese arms story at this time inside the United States: e.g. Brian Crozier, ‘Indonesia’s Civil War,’ New Leader, November 1965, p. 4. Mortimer, p. 386. The Evans and Novak column coincided with the surfacing of the so called ‘Gilchrist […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] the Tom Mahl thesis Ken Weller for trusting me with one of his cuttings files Anthony Carew and Ken Fleet for their comments on the text Brian Crozier for being so (relatively) candid in his memoir and providing so many clues Richard Fletcher for his pioneering research in the 1970s, without which none of […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] before and during the life of the SDP, itself largely formulated along a US model.1 Haseler formed the SDA in 1975 with the distanced help of Brian Crozier, with the intention of drawing votes from the Labour Party up to the 1983 election. In a letter to The Times, Crozier alluded to his previous […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] that point only 18 months from its formal registration as a charity (sic). (11) ISC’s inclusion in this grouping is less surprising than it might look. Brian Crozier, ISC’s founder, had established links with the British domestic antiunion, anti-left organisations in the 1960s. He edited the 1970 anthology We Will Bury You which included […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] AI Looking for my review of Brian Crozier’s memoir in Lobster, I asked Google (generally better and faster than Lobster’s search engine) for ‘Lobster magazine + Brian Crozier + Free Agent’ and got this from Google AI. 16 17 See note 5 above. See, for example, . McCoy had been CIA station chief in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Kindle edition, available from Amazon.co.uk for £1.98 Well, How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of the British Economy, Minus the Wishful Thinking RIP Whitney and Crozier Two of the the subversion-hunters of the 1970s died since the last edition of Lobster. Ray Whitney, whom my brain still records as ‘head of the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] by any means. But no doubt the US Air Force’s bureaucratic rivals for the shrinking US defence budget will come up with more evidence. RIP Whitney and Crozier Two of the the subversion-hunters of the 1970s died since the last edition of Lobster. Ray Whitney, whom my brain still records as ‘head of the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] and secrecy entered his soul.’110 St Antony’s College, Oxford again.111 It was presumably during Lewis’ attempt to take control of Newham Labour Party that he met Brian Crozier. Crozier was a founder member of the Freedom Association and in his memoir, Free Agent (London: HarperCollins, 1993)112 he writes of that period: ‘To avoid the […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] the CIA (see Lobster 69) was the fact that in 1984 Mr Murdoch had funded a European ‘fact finding’ mission by that noted spook-cum-hack the late Brian Crozier. Consortium’s piece did not explore what Crozier did to earn his keep, but a little niggle at the back of my head told me that this […]

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