The terms "agent of influence" and "confidential contacts" were much in the news in early 1995. They were among the least understood "in-house" terms of the Soviet KGB, which had a specialized department known as Service A. The "A" stood for "Active Measures" (Aktivnye Meroprtyatiya in Russian), a euphemism for "dirty tricks." Active Measures included disinformation (the deliberate spreading of false information), either to propagate opinions favourable to Soviet policies or to discredit hostile views and those expressing them. Forgeries played an important role, and so did the fostering of lawsuits, with the aim of immobilising opponents and, in due course, ruining their reputations. Those involved in such activities in the West were not necessarily aware that they were being used. Such people were known in the intelligence world as "unconscious" or "unwitting" agents. This book is a blow-by-blow account of lawsuits in which there was evidence of KGB involvement. In all of them, Brian Crozier was involved, either as a defendant or indirectly. Other defendants included the billionaire financier Sir James Goldsmith, The Economist and the Greek journalist Paul Anastasi. The author summarized these cases in his autobiography, Free Agent (Harper Collins). Here is the full story.

The KGB Lawsuits

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Peter Simple's Century

Wharton, Michael

Some to Mecca Turn to Pray: Islamic Values and the Modern World

Hiskett, Mervyn

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In a series of moving portraits of the monarchs and their advisors, Charles Douglas-Home and Saul Kelly examine the tasks with which recent crowned heads have been troubled, and the virtues that enabled them, by and large, to act for the common good. Incisive, evocative, and informed by a magisterial vision of the scope of political power, this work offers a persuasive answer to the critics of monarchy, and an account of a unique form of government that will give confidence and inspiration to the British people, as they enter a new century of shifting powers and uncertain prospects.

Dignified and Efficient: The British Monarchy in the Twentieth Century

DOUGLAS-HOME, Charles

Kelly, Saul

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Natkin, Robert

History

"The editor of the series, Roger Scruton, writes: "The sixties and the seventies saw a burgeoning of interest in left-wing thinkers, and an attempt to re-draw the intellectual map of modern European and American civilisation, so as to give prominence to the revolutionaries. Writers as shallow as Fanon or as mendacious as Marcuse were elevated into cultural heroes; ruthless men of action like Mao Zedong and Che Guevara were canonised as enlightened intellectuals; charlatans like Le Corbusier jostled with obscurantists like Foucault and Habermas for the cultural eminence which the believing mass of revolutionary students was all too willing to bestow on them. Thinkers judged to be 'conservative', 'anti-revolutionary' or 'reactionary' were undervalued or dismissed. The modern history of our culture was distorted by the entirely false assumption that its principal representatives have been revolutionaries and modernists. The time has come to put the record straight and to show that the greatest thinkers of our century have been, almost without exception, anti-modernist, hostile to revolution and anxious to secure continuity and order in the midst of incipient chaos. Even when modernist in their art - like Pound, Joyce or Eliot - they have been anti-modernist in their ideology, and have justified their practice in the name of tradition and continuity rather than in the name of radical freedom and revolutionary change.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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