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. Lobster magazine, a British publication focused on intelligence and parapolitics, has frequently covered the career of journalist, […]

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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Lobster Issue

[…] – or pretended to believe, it’s difficult to be sure which – that Britain was in danger of becoming Herb Meyer worked with David Hart and Brian Crozier in the 1980s peddling the ‘enemy within’ story. See and . 5 7 8 a Soviet satellite. Mrs Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, certainly believed […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] ‘hot’ Cold War of previous decades was over. (Arguably it had been over since the Cuba missile crisis.) In this context IRD was a Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace was less visible, it just meant it was better hidden. (This may […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] as leader of the party. Andrew has adopted the fallback position of the British secret state circa 1990: ignore Wallace, Gordon Winter, the private armies episode, the Crozier operations, the forgeries and the psy-ops, and focus on the John Ware interview with Wright in which he implied that the ‘plot’ consisted only of himself. […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] bagman, or the possibility that the exposure of the Werrity connection has been done by those within Whitehall opposed to the coming attack on Iran. Pinay and Crozier At the ISGP site1 9 are a number of documents pertaining to, and membership lists of, the clandestine organisation called Le Cercle – a sort Bilderberg […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] ‘hot’ Cold War of previous decades was over. (Arguably it had been over since the Cuba missile crisis.) In this context IRD was a Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace was less visible, it just meant it was better hidden. (This may […]

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