Brian Crozier - Revision history

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 ==Affiliations==
-*[[Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation]]
+*[[Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation]] | [[Foreign Affairs Research Institute]]
 ===Conferences===
 *1979 [[Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism]]

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 [[Image:Brian Crozier.JPG|thumb|200px|right|Brian Crozier, aged 21, in August 1939]]
-'''Brian Rossiter Crozier''' (b. 4 August 1918 - d. 4 August 2012) was an historian, strategist, and journalist.  He founded the [[Institute for the Study of Conflict]], a right-wing propaganda group, reported to have been set up by the CIA and British intelligence in 1970. He is a veteran of the cold war and has provided advice to the British Secret Intelligence Service, the [[Information Research Department]], and the [[CIA]]. He wrote for [[Reuters]] and ''[[The Economist]]'', was an editor for ''The Sunday Times'' and a commentator for the [[BBC]]. He wrote a column for ''[[National Review]]''. Crozier was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow on War, Revolution, and Peace of [[Stanford University]]'s [[Hoover Institution]].
+'''Brian Rossiter Crozier''' (b. 4 August 1918 - d. 4 August 2012) was an historian, strategist, and journalist.  He founded the [[Institute for the Study of Conflict]], a right-wing propaganda group, reported to have been set up by the CIA and British intelligence in 1970. He is a veteran of the cold war and has provided advice to the British Secret Intelligence Service, the [[Information Research Department]], and the [[CIA]]. He wrote for [[Reuters]] and ''[[The Economist]]'', was an editor for ''The Sunday Times'' and a commentator for the [[BBC]]. He wrote a column for ''[[National Review]]''. Crozier was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow on War, Revolution, and Peace of [[Stanford University]]'s [[Hoover Institution]]. He died on his birthday in 2012 at the age of 94.<ref>Richard Norton-Taylor, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/aug/09/brian-crozier Brian Crozier obituary], Guardian, accessed 9 August 2012</ref>
 ==Early life==

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 [[Image:Brian Crozier.JPG|thumb|200px|right|Brian Crozier, aged 21, in August 1939]]
-'''Brian Rossiter Crozier''' (born 4 August 1918) is an historian, strategist, and journalist.  He founded the [[Institute for the Study of Conflict]], a right-wing propaganda group, reported to have been set up by the CIA and British intelligence in 1970. He is a veteran of the cold war and has provided advice to the British Secret Intelligence Service, the [[Information Research Department]], and the [[CIA]]. He wrote for [[Reuters]] and ''[[The Economist]]'', was an editor for ''The Sunday Times'' and a commentator for the [[BBC]]. He wrote a column for ''[[National Review]]''. Crozier was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow on War, Revolution, and Peace of [[Stanford University]]'s [[Hoover Institution]].
+'''Brian Rossiter Crozier''' (b. 4 August 1918 - d. 4 August 2012) was an historian, strategist, and journalist.  He founded the [[Institute for the Study of Conflict]], a right-wing propaganda group, reported to have been set up by the CIA and British intelligence in 1970. He is a veteran of the cold war and has provided advice to the British Secret Intelligence Service, the [[Information Research Department]], and the [[CIA]]. He wrote for [[Reuters]] and ''[[The Economist]]'', was an editor for ''The Sunday Times'' and a commentator for the [[BBC]]. He wrote a column for ''[[National Review]]''. Crozier was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow on War, Revolution, and Peace of [[Stanford University]]'s [[Hoover Institution]].
 ==Early life==
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 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Crozier began his career as a member of the notorious [[Left Book Club]], organized by Communists and Marxists, and was deeply influenced by [[Arthur Koestler]]'s book ''Spanish Testament'', written during Koestler's time as a Communist. Later he learned from Koestler that the book virtually had been dictated by Willy Muenzerberg, the head of the Soviet NKVD (secret police) in Western Europe.<p>In the meantime, Crozier's views had been turned around by a book written in 1947 by Soviet defector Victor Kravchenko titled ''I Chose Freedom'', an early account of Josef Stalin's atrocities in the Ukraine. The second book which he says "taught me to think about politics" was [[James Burnham]]'s ''The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom''. Many years later he was to become Burnham's successor at ''National Review'', carrying on "The Protracted Conflict" column for 18 years.<ref>James P. Lucier, '[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_47_15/ai_58283310 Cold warrior Crozier Details Soviet Terror]', Insight on the News, 20 December 1999</ref></p></blockquote>
-Brian Crozier is a self-acknowledged disciple of [[James Burnham]], according to [[David Rees]], seeking political and strategic truth through a search for the "real" as distinct from the "formal" meaning of political utterances. Crozier himself explained his debt most thoroughly in a 1976 article in the Lugano Review, later condensed and updated for NR (April 15, 1983).
+Brian Crozier was a self-acknowledged disciple of [[James Burnham]], according to [[David Rees]], seeking political and strategic truth through a search for the "real" as distinct from the "formal" meaning of political utterances. Crozier himself explained his debt most thoroughly in a 1976 article in the Lugano Review, later condensed and updated for NR (April 15, 1983).
 David Rees devoted a long article in [[National Review]] in 1985 to Crozier's 'immense contribution to modern strategic thought':
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 ==Free Agent?==
-Crozier’s autobiography confirmed that, Time Out and other mid-1970s research published in the Leveller and State Research and more recently Lobster was accurate: Crozier was working for the British and American intelligence services, but he still paradoxically maintains that he worked “with” and not “for” the CIA, MI6 and IRD<ref> Brian Crozier (1993) Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991, p. xvi, HarperCollins</ref> The briefings he received from an MI6 officer secured the job as editor of the Economist's Foreign Report, he had a 'part-time consultancy for IRD'; and they 'put an office at [his] disposal.' As Robin Ramsay put it:
+Crozier’s autobiography confirmed that, Time Out and other mid-1970s research published in the Leveller and State Research and more recently Lobster was accurate: Crozier was working for the British and American intelligence services, but he still paradoxically maintained that he worked “with” and not “for” the CIA, MI6 and IRD<ref> Brian Crozier (1993) Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991, p. xvi, HarperCollins</ref> The briefings he received from an MI6 officer secured the job as editor of the Economist's Foreign Report, he had a 'part-time consultancy for IRD'; and they 'put an office at [his] disposal.' As Robin Ramsay put it:
 :”As early as p. 20 it is hard to avoid concluding that Crozier is describing how he was recruited by MI6; and his 'independence' is finally revealed as simply a cover story on p. 92 when he writes of contacting his main 'case officer' in the CIA. Independents or genuine free-lance journalists don't have case officers.”<ref> Robin Ramsay (1993) Crozier country. Lobster 26.</ref>
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 Ramsay observes that in the 1970s and 80s Crozier claims to have run: [[Peter Shipley]] (last seen at Conservative Party Central Office); [[Douglas Eden]] of the Social Democratic Alliance; Dr [[Julian Lewis]] (last seen at Conservative Party Central Office); [[Tony Kerpel]] and [[Edward Leigh]] (now an MP).
-Crozier also claims to have created the psy-ops outfits of the [[Coalition for Peace through Security]] (anti CND), the Campaign Against Council Corruption (anti Labour-controlled local authorities) and the Media Monitoring Unit (anti BBC).
+Crozier also claimed to have created the psy-ops outfits of the [[Coalition for Peace through Security]] (anti CND), the Campaign Against Council Corruption (anti Labour-controlled local authorities) and the Media Monitoring Unit (anti BBC).
 So who were the communist threat? Crozier tells us <ref>Free Agent, p. 115</ref> that MPs Stan Newens, Jo Richardson, Joan Lestor, Frank Allaun and Joan Maynard were identifed by a 'senior KGB defector in London' as 'confidential contacts' of the Soviet embassy.  As examples of 'extreme' left-wing (everyone from the CPGB to the WRP, are lumped together) Labour MPs he cites Sidney Bidwell, Ron Thomas and Eddie Loyden, Eric Heffer, Arthur Latham, James Lamond and Tony Benn. The other reds-under-the-bed organisations were the World Peace Council, and WPC's British off-shoot the British Peace Assembly.
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-Crozier has also written three biographies:
+Crozier also wrote three biographies:
 *''Franco: A Biographical History'' (1967)

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 ==Affiliations==
 *[[Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation]]
 ==Resources==
 *[[Institute for the Study of Conflict, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry|Institute for the Study of Conflict, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry]]

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 *Hoover Institution Archives, [http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf358002hf&doc.view=entire_text&brand=oac| Register of the Brian Crozier Papers, 1936-1993]
-==External Links==
+===External Resources===
 *  David Rees [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v37/ai_4074629  Student of subversion - Brian Crozier], ''National Review'',  31 Dec 1985.
 *  James P. Lucier [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_47_15/ai_58283310  Cold warrior Crozier Details Soviet Terror'], ''Insight on the News'',  20 Dec 1999.
 * Joël van der Reijden (2006) [http://www.pehi.eu/organisations/Le_Cercle.htm Le Cercle and the struggle for the European continent],

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 Crozier's other hypothesis was that the CIA "sought to destroy me," and then having gone round the houses he deduces that because Le Bailly's 'political boss' when he was Defense Secretary was [[Lord Carrington]] who had blocked funding for Crozier's '[[Shield]]' organisation and its plans for a 'Counter-Subversion Executive'.  A friend also informed him that the Foreign Office wanted him 'out of the way' and that the ISC was to become "an arm of the Foreign Office," adding:
-<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">There had been much low-key rejoicing over the callaghan government's decision to kill off the IRD.  With me at its head, however, the ISC was seen as a potential thorn in the Foreign Office's side, ever ready to expose and criticise appeasing words or gestures.  With me out of the way, the Institute for the Study of Conflict could be made into a pliable adjunct to HMG's policy: an unembarrassing junior partner to the [[Royal Institute of International Affairs]]."<ref>Brian Crozier, ''Free Agent'', (Harper Collins, 1993) pp. 176-177</ref></blockquote>
+<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">There had been much low-key rejoicing over the Callaghan government's decision to kill off the IRD.  With me at its head, however, the ISC was seen as a potential thorn in the Foreign Office's side, ever ready to expose and criticise appeasing words or gestures.  With me out of the way, the Institute for the Study of Conflict could be made into a pliable adjunct to HMG's policy: an unembarrassing junior partner to the [[Royal Institute of International Affairs]]."<ref>Brian Crozier, ''Free Agent'', (Harper Collins, 1993) pp. 176-177</ref></blockquote>
 Later in 1999 Crozier suggested in a letter to ''The Times'', that his involvement in his "private sector operational intelligence agency" [[The 61]] was the reason for his departure.  He wrote that: 'Rumours of this enterprise reached [[Leonard Schapiro|Schapiro]], who presented me with an ultimatum: stop running The 61 or resign as director of the ISC. I chose to step down.' <ref>Brian Crozier, 'Does Jack Straw still support communism to the extent of being blind to its sickening acculmulation of crimes against humanity?', ''The Times'', 13 September 1999</ref>

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-<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">"The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means." - Brian Crozier <ref>cited in Richard Norton-Taylor, 'With the right on his side', ''The Guardian'', 4 August 1993</ref></blockquote>
+<CENTER>''"The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means."'' - Brian Crozier <ref>cited in Richard Norton-Taylor, 'With the right on his side', ''The Guardian'', 4 August 1993</ref></CENTER>
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 [[Image:Brian Crozier.JPG|thumb|200px|right|Brian Crozier, aged 21, in August 1939]]

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 ==Journalism==
-In the summer of 1936, Crozier lost his scholarship at Trinity College but was urged to pursue a career in journalism. <ref>Brian Crozier, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ID1BIPnTKloC The Other Brian Croziers]'' (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002) p.12)</ref> This he did, and he subsequently held various journalistic and editorial positions during the 1940s including periods at Reuters, the ''News Chronicle'' and the ''Sydney Morning Herald''. <ref>‘CROZIER, Brian Rossiter’, ''Who's Who 2009'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008</ref>  In 1954 was appointed a leader writer, correspondent and foreign reports editor at ''The Economist''. Crozier worked at the ''The Ecnomist'' until 1964, whilst also working as a commentator for the BBC overseas services. <ref>‘CROZIER, Brian Rossiter’, ''Who's Who 2009'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008</ref>
+In the summer of 1936, Crozier lost his scholarship at Trinity College but was urged to pursue a career in journalism. <ref>Brian Crozier, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ID1BIPnTKloC The Other Brian Croziers]'' (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002) p.12)</ref> This he did, and he subsequently held various journalistic and editorial positions during the 1940s including periods at Reuters, the ''News Chronicle'' and the ''Sydney Morning Herald''. <ref>‘CROZIER, Brian Rossiter’, ''Who's Who 2009'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008</ref>  In 1954 was appointed a leader writer, correspondent and foreign reports editor at ''The Economist''. Crozier worked at the ''The Economist'' until 1964, whilst also working as a commentator for the BBC overseas services. <ref>‘CROZIER, Brian Rossiter’, ''Who's Who 2009'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008</ref>
 ==Intelligence and Propaganda==