Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991

by Brian Crozier

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060171170
• ISBN13: 9780060171179
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A free-market fight against socialist tyranny

Brian Crozier asks a fascinating question. The covert 'war in the shadows' between freedom and slavery is generally presented as a clash between governments: during the Cold War, it was NATO and the West versus the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact; CIA versus KGB; MI6 versus GRU. But why? Why couldn't there also be a private-sector organization, a collection of free agents, doing what the Free World's governments couldn't or wouldn't do?That forms the basis of this fascinating book, part history, part autobiography, about Crozier's efforts, and those of his allies, to undermine and destroy international socialism on a private-sector basis.Crozier is a journalist and political scientist, but also an experience intelligence hand and long-time advisor to governments. Motivated in part by Western spy agencies' bureaucratic incompetence, their penetration by Soviet moles, and their governments' 'own goals' and shortsighted legislative restrictions, Crozier struck out on his own. This book is chock-full of stories of disinformation campaigns, subversive tricks, and spy-versus-spy maneuvers that rank, in my mind, with some of the best of Ludlum or Le Carré. Conservatives will also enjoy the eyewitness portraits of Reagan and Thatcher in action.Very highly recommended to any student of espionage or the Cold War, or any fan of spy fiction.