- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st Edition. edition (Nov 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060171170
- ISBN-13: 978-0060171179
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.5 x 4.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,623,568 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Offers an inside look at the Cold War and the role of espionage and intellige gathering.
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A free-market fight against socialist tyranny, 11 Oct 2001
By Andrew S. Rogers - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Free Agent: the Unseen War 1941-1991: The Autobiography of an International Activist (Hardcover)
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.
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