For many years, Brian Crozier led a double life, on contract with the CIA, the British Secret Intelligence Service (commonly known as MI6) and the Information Research Department of Britain’s Foreign Office.

The author of more than twenty books and the controller of his own ‘private sector’ international action service Crozier is famed for having been one of the most influential enemies of Soviet Communism. For years he unofficially advised Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and on occasion President Ronald Reagan.

He later told his story in his autobiography: "Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941 – 1991." Now in his mid-80s, he recently released The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire, available here from Amazon.