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The [[Coalition for Peace through Security]] (CPS) was active in opposing the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]] in the 1980s.<ref>Richard Norton-Taylor, Think tank 'funding UK organizations', The Guardian, 29 May 1987.</ref>

According to [[Brian Crozier]], the CPS was set up in imitation of the [[Coalition for Peace through Strength]], active in the US during the Carter Administration:
::In Britain, a small group of young men, one of them an American, set up a matching 'Coalition for Peace through Security'. They included [[Edward Leigh]], a young barrister who went on to become an enthusiastically Thatherite MP, and a gifted young man named [[Julian Lewis]]. Introduced to me by [[Norris McWhirter]], Dr Lewis became the 61's leading activist in Britain, notably as the scourge of Monsignor [[Bruce Kent]] and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.243.</ref>

The CPS and the [[Committee for the Free World]] jointly published ''The Peace Movement and the Soviet Union'' by [[Vladimir Bukovsky]], with a foreword by Winston Churchill MP.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.246.</ref>

Duuring the 1983 general election, CPS activist [[Tony Kerpel]] designed a poster attacking Labour leader [[Michael Foot]] of appeasement. it was entitled "The Guilty Men" playing on Foot's 1940 book, attacking pre-World War Two appeasement.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.250.</ref>

Crozier briefed Mrs Thatcher on the work of the CPS at a meeting in February 1985.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.255.</ref>

The CPS briefed MPs and members of the House of Lords ahead of debates on defence and foreign affairs. After one such briefing on 23 April 1985, Lord Orr-Ewing named a number of Labour MPs and trade unionists linked to the [[World Peace Council]] under parliamentary privilege.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.257.</ref>

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 Crozier briefed Mrs Thatcher on the work of the CPS at a meeting on 28 February 1985.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.255.</ref>
-The CPS briefed MPs and members of the House of Lords ahead of debates on defence and foreign affairs. After one such briefing on 23 April 1985, Lord Orr-Ewing named a number of Labour MPs and trade unionists linked to the [[World Peace Council]] under parliamentary privilege.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.257.</ref>Andrew Rawnsley, Tory link with media monitors is revealed / Media Monitoring Unit's connection with the Conservative Party, The Guardian, 20 November 1986.</ref>
+The CPS briefed MPs and members of the House of Lords ahead of debates on defence and foreign affairs. After one such briefing on 23 April 1985, Lord Orr-Ewing named a number of Labour MPs and trade unionists linked to the [[World Peace Council]] under parliamentary privilege.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.257.</ref>
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 ::How many actually marched? University papers, reporting the event, produced quite different sums. Sussex University's Speakeasy claimed 500,000. The Sun, of Aston University, put it at 250,000; C.N.D. itself claimed 400,000. The police estimated the figure at rather less than 200,000. The Coalition for Peace Through Security hired an aerial photography outfit, and expert photographic analysis showed a head count at 4 P.M. of 58,200 people at the Hyde Park rally, with a further 30,700 still marching toward it. So total attendance, this organization claims, seems to have been less than 90,000.<ref>Paul Johnson, New York Times, 25 March 1984.</ref>
-In February 1985, the CPS attacked suggestions that MI5 had fed information to [[Michael Heseltine]] about MI5:
+In February 1985, the CPS attacked suggestions that MI5 had fed information to [[Michael Heseltine]] about CND:
 ::Why, they complain, it was THEY who infiltrated CND back in early 1983 and prepared a dossier on the leading lights which went to Defence Ministers. About 90 per cent of the information given out by defence spokesmen came from THIS dossier, they claim.
 ::Dr Julian Lewis, research director of the CPS, has a dim view of MI5's efficiency. 'It's a bit of a cheek to try and steal our thunder. Given the number of Communists in CND it would be disgraceful if their phones weren't being tapped.'<ref>Alan Rusbridger, Guardian Diary / Tap dancing, The Guardian, 22 February 1985.</ref>

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 An ''Economist'' report of February 1983 highlighted the CPS's links with the Conservative Government:
-::For its part, Downing Street has mobilised a backbench group under the chairmanship of Mr [[Winston Churchill]], called the [[Committee for Peace with Freedom]]. It includes under its umbrella a group known as the Coalition for Peace Through Security, which has among its leaders a Conservative candidate, Mr [[Edward Leigh]]. The group has been accused by CND of conducting ''dirty tricks'' operations against it--mostly alleging links with the Communist party. The group meets with Mr [[Peter Blaker|Blaker]].<ref>The Subtle Art of Leak Management, 5 February 1983.</ref>
+::For its part, Downing Street has mobilised a backbench group under the chairmanship of Mr [[Winston Churchill]], called the [[Committee for Peace with Freedom]]. It includes under its umbrella a group known as the Coalition for Peace Through Security, which has among its leaders a Conservative candidate, Mr [[Edward Leigh]]. The group has been accused by CND of conducting ''dirty tricks'' operations against it--mostly alleging links with the Communist party. The group meets with Mr [[Peter Blaker|Blaker]].<ref>The Subtle Art of Leak Management, The Economist, 5 February 1983.</ref>
-Duuring the 1983 general election, CPS activist [[Tony Kerpel]] designed a poster attacking Labour leader [[Michael Foot]] of appeasement. it was entitled "The Guilty Men" playing on Foot's 1940 book, attacking pre-World War Two appeasement.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.250.</ref>
+During the 1983 general election, CPS activist [[Tony Kerpel]] designed a poster attacking Labour leader [[Michael Foot]] of appeasement. it was entitled "The Guilty Men" playing on Foot's 1940 book, attacking pre-World War Two appeasement.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.250.</ref>
 The CPS challenged the attendance figures at the CND rally in London 22 October 1983:

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 According to [[Brian Crozier]], the CPS was set up in imitation of the [[Coalition for Peace through Strength]], active in the US during the Carter Administration:
-::In Britain, a small group of young men, one of them an American, set up a matching 'Coalition for Peace through Security'. They included [[Edward Leigh]], a young barrister who went on to become an enthusiastically Thatherite MP, and a gifted young man named [[Julian Lewis]]. Introduced to me by [[Norris McWhirter]], Dr Lewis became the 61's leading activist in Britain, notably as the scourge of Monsignor [[Bruce Kent]] and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.243.</ref>
+::In Britain, a small group of young men, one of them an American, set up a matching 'Coalition for Peace through Security'. They included [[Edward Leigh]], a young barrister who went on to become an enthusiastically Thatcherite MP, and a gifted young man named [[Julian Lewis]]. Introduced to me by [[Norris McWhirter]], Dr Lewis became the 61's leading activist in Britain, notably as the scourge of Monsignor [[Bruce Kent]] and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.243.</ref>
 According to the ''Guardian'' the CPS admitted that some of its members had secretly joined CND in 1982 to attend its annual conference.<ref>James lewis, Cardinal puts CND chief on spot, Guardian, 8 May 1983.</ref>

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 ::In Britain, a small group of young men, one of them an American, set up a matching 'Coalition for Peace through Security'. They included [[Edward Leigh]], a young barrister who went on to become an enthusiastically Thatherite MP, and a gifted young man named [[Julian Lewis]]. Introduced to me by [[Norris McWhirter]], Dr Lewis became the 61's leading activist in Britain, notably as the scourge of Monsignor [[Bruce Kent]] and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.243.</ref>
-According to the ''Guardian'' the CPS admitted that some of its members had secretly joined CPS in 1982 to attend its annual conference.<ref>James lewis, Cardinal puts CND chief on spot, Guardian, 8 May 1983.</ref>
+According to the ''Guardian'' the CPS admitted that some of its members had secretly joined CND in 1982 to attend its annual conference.<ref>James lewis, Cardinal puts CND chief on spot, Guardian, 8 May 1983.</ref>
 The CPS and the [[Committee for the Free World]] jointly published ''The Peace Movement and the Soviet Union'' by [[Vladimir Bukovsky]], with a foreword by Winston Churchill MP.<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, 1994, HarperCollinsPublishers, p.246.</ref>