Free Agent: The Unseen War, 1941-91

by Brian Crozier (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $6.18

  In contact with MI6, and consultant to the Foreign Office's semi-secret anti-subversion department and the CIA, Brian Crozier not only witnessed the unseen war from the inside, but played an active role in it. In 1977, alarmed at the ripples of Watergate and other Western own goals , he created an international secret service in the private sector, known as The 61 . Over the next ten years, this gave informal and confidential information on the Cold War to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. This account of the unseen war throws light on the events of five troubled decades and shows how, in the last analysis, the West did not win the Cold War: the Soviet side lost it. This book includes details on: the story of SHIELD, a committee to advise Margaret Thatcher on security problems; the planting of a mole in de Gaulle's inner circle; Crozier's secret dealings with CIA chief William Casey; and combating a KGB dirty tricks campaign.

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $38.54

  Behind the Cold War an unseen war was waged for half a century, between the secret services of East and West. By definition, this other war was invisible to the public, although at times aspects of it would burst into public view. In regular contact with Britain's SIS (MI6) and consultant to the Foreign Office's semi-secret, anti-subversion department, IRD, and to the CIA, Brian Crozier not only witnessed the unseen war from the inside, but also played an active role in it. At all times, however, he retained his freedom of action: hence the title, Free Agent . This account of the unseen war is part autobiography, part informal history. It throws a light on the events of five troubled decades and shows how, in the last analysis, the West did not win the Cold War: the Soviet side lost it.