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To: Zoltan! who wrote (1881)11/19/1999 3:19:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 3246
 
E is right about Brian Crozier's "intelligence activites," as you no doubt know, Zoltan. A quick search turned up all sorts of exposes, including the following:

copi.com

And, whether he was a spook or not, the fact is that Crozier has been associated with right-wing (meant descriptively, not pejoratively) causes for years.

And it is not surprising that Richard Pipes praises his book (and his interpretation), since Pipes was Director of East European and Soviet Affairs in the National Security Council during the first two years of the Reagan administration. More than that: he was, as I recall, even more gung-ho than Reagan himself to bring down the Evil Empire.

None of this means that Crozier's explanation is necessarily wrong. Even partisans can be right. But the above does suggest that Crozier was a partisan of Reagan's (and of the Pipes-Reagan Soviet policy long before he decided to write a book about the latter. So I don't know about his ability to be objective on this one...
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