Coalition for Peace through Security
The Coalition for Peace Through Security (CPS) was a campaigning group founded in September 1981 and active in the
Its main activists were Julian Lewis, Edward Leigh, Tony Kerpel and, for its first year only, Francis Holihan.[4] It was said to have close relations with the Institute for the Study of Conflict, the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Centre for Policy Studies.[4]
The CPS was said to have close links with
Amongst its activities were commissioning a series of
The CPS attracted criticism for not revealing its sources of funding while alleging that parts of the anti-nuclear movement were funded by the Soviet Union.[7] The CPS was not a membership organisation and was financed by The 61,[1] "a private sector operational intelligence agency"[8] said by its founder, Brian Crozier, to be funded by "rich individuals and a few private companies".[9] The CPS was said[10] to have also received funding from The Heritage Foundation in 1982.[11]
Bruce Kent, CND's general secretary, said in his autobiography that Francis Holihan spied on CND. It was said that Holihan sent senior clerics in the Catholic Church material about Kent,[4] that he organised the aerial propaganda against CND, that he entered CND offices under false pretences and that CPS workers joined CND in order to gain access to the Campaign's 1982 Annual Conference.[4] A draft CPS leaflet, but not its printed version, also linked Bruce Kent, then General Secretary of CND, to IRA hunger-strikers.[citation needed] When Kent went on a speaking tour of America, Holihan was said to have followed him, critical material on Kent was sent to newspapers and radio stations and demonstrations were organised against him.[4] The CPS and Holihan parted company before the end of 1982.[citation needed]
With the decline in anti-nuclear agitation from 1985, and the Zero Option agreement in the 1987
Though unconnected with them, the CPS may have inspired the emergence of similar overseas organisations like the
Notes
- ^ a b c d Wittner, L., The Struggle Against the Bomb, Volume 3, Stanford University Press, 2003
- ISBN 0951143603) 1986.
- ^ "Home - Rt Hon Dr Julian Lewis MP". www.julianlewis.net.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "The Lobster, No.3, 1984" (PDF).
- ^ "Tom Mills, Tom Griffin and David Miller, The Cold War on British Muslims, Spinwatch, 2011". Archived from the original on June 13, 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
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- ^ Joseph C. Goulden, "Crozier, covert acts, CIA and Cold War", The Washington Times, 15 May 1994
- ^ Brian Crozier, Letters: Churchill, the CIA and Clinton, The Guardian, 3 August 1998
- ^ "The "Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies", Pinkindustry blog".
- ^ Says, In Profile : The Heritage Foundation (April 16, 2009). "Heritage Foundation's influence on domestic political affairs".
- ^ Denis Small,"The Rise of the Pro-Nuclear Right," New Zealand Monthly Review, November–December:5–8, 1986