Brian Cozier person
also: Brian Cozier, C-R-O-Z-I-E-R, Crozier, Brian Coziers, Brian Kosiers, Cozier, Posier, Hosier
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Brian Cozier headed
Forum World Features documented
“The ISC was a brainchild of Cozier and grew out of his earlier work as a quote-unquote journalist and head of a thing called the Forum World Features, FWF, which in and of itself was another CIA front company responsible for disassembling a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 8:58
Brian Cozier headed
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“the author says, almost became a foursome because there was a new one that showed up called the Institute for the Study of Conflict. It was headed by a highly controversial Cold War activist by the name of Brian Cozier, C-R-O-Z-I-E-R. The I…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 4:37
Brian Cozier member_of
Le Cercle documented
“foremost expert on international terrorism, unquote. Now, why would that be? Because he's the guy behind it. He's writing reports telling you where it's going to happen next. Another important ISC association was Le Circle, of which Cozier …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 34:00
Brian Cozier exposed
1975 U.S. Senate Hearings on International Terrorism documented
“In May 1975, Cozier did gain some attention in D.C. as the first witness to testify at the U.S. Senate hearings on international terrorism in 1975. Think they're generating what's going to happen? Yes. Senator Strom Thurmond introduced Cozi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 33:29
Brian Cozier ran
Institute for the Study of Conflict host_asserted
“world features. He also ran the Institute for the Study of Conflict, we've talked about it before, ISD, which he set up in London in 1970. Posier, who had been recruited to Le Circle by Jean Vallée in 1971, would stop organizing and partici…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 16:47
Brian Cozier handed_memo_to
William Clark host_asserted
“In September 82, Cozier handed a memorandum entitled The Case for a Rollback in the 1980s to National Security Advisor William Clark, who would himself attend LeCircle meetings throughout the 80s. Clark and President Reagan studied the memo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 36:54
Brian Cozier founded
Institute for the Study of Conflict documented
“For the study of conflict. Because they create it. So they're going to study it. So they can create more. The ISC. The Institute for the Study of Conflict. Such an oxy fucking moron. Sorry. Was founded by. Brian Cozier. And we keep coming a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 1:02:51
Brian Cozier headed
Le Cercle documented
“For the study of conflict. Because they create it. So they're going to study it. So they can create more. The ISC. The Institute for the Study of Conflict. Such an oxy fucking moron. Sorry. Was founded by. Brian Cozier. And we keep coming a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 1:02:51
Brian Cozier headed
Le Cercle host_asserted
“And all of the others basically being involved, meeting in Brian Coziers, who was the La Circle chairman at the time in Europe's residence in Madrid, Spain, which I mentioned is during the same time that Otto Skorzeny is there. So it makes …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 0:56
Brian Cozier brought_veterans_to
Le Cercle host_asserted
“brought aboard some interesting partners. In the early years, the circle was largely dominated by reactionary Catholic orders like the Knights of Malta and Opus Dei. Beginning in the mid to late 1960s, they began to forge crucial alliances …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 34:19
Brian Cozier removed_from_power
National Strategy Information Center documented
“in Winchester in November 1976 as a result of this. Cozier used the event to call for more effective coordination against anti-communist organizations and demanded a realignment that placed Interdoc beyond the pale. This seems to have trigg…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 47:46
Yves Guérin-Sérac recruited
Brian Cozier host_asserted
“world features. He also ran the Institute for the Study of Conflict, we've talked about it before, ISD, which he set up in London in 1970. Posier, who had been recruited to Le Circle by Jean Vallée in 1971, would stop organizing and partici…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 16:47
Brian Cozier ran
Forum World Features host_asserted
“We've come across him multiple times. C-R-O-Z-I-E-R. He was a militant anti-communist. Cozier was one of the most influential Cold War propagandists working with and for Western intelligence services, especially American and British. He ran…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 16:18
Brian Cozier founded
Institute for the Study of Conflict host_asserted
“all goes to the World Commerce Corporation. So Donovan can make a quick buck off of it. So as part of this entire operation, you have three UK organizations that are set up to assist Brian Cozier in his mission of doing the British piece of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 32:31
Brian Cozier headed
Institute for the Study of Conflict book_quoted
“So the UK set up a group called the Institute for the Study of Conflict while also sponsoring the Strategy of Tension, which uses conflict to create the tension. Y'all following along? Okay. So not long after Viollet became involved in the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 26:05
Brian Cozier member_of
Le Cercle book_quoted
“So the UK set up a group called the Institute for the Study of Conflict while also sponsoring the Strategy of Tension, which uses conflict to create the tension. Y'all following along? Okay. So not long after Viollet became involved in the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 26:05
Brian Cozier member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“Probably the most infamous one that I came across repeatedly is Brian Cozier. And you spell his last name C-R-O-Z-I-E-R. Cozier was not a previous intelligence asset, but he was linked to many of the organizations that had been used as fron…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 28:27
Brian Cozier appointed
Peter Carrington documented
“There was considerable evidence that the ISC didn't generate a lot of contributions. And it does look, based on their travel schedule and stuff like that, that they were getting covert funding, not just what they were admitting to. In 1972,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9 @ 15:04
Brian Cozier founded
Safari Club host_asserted
“Bush took all of the people that were leaving the CIA covert operations and set up an independent, as well as Brian Cozier over in Europe set up that 6i, 6.1, depending on what format you're reading about him, their own private intelligence…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 1:02:46
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Bush took all of the people that were leaving the CIA covert operations and set up an independent, as well as Brian Cozier over in Europe set up that 6i, 6.1, depending on what format you're reading about him, their own private intelligence…
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And all of the others basically being involved, meeting in Brian Coziers, who was the La Circle chairman at the time in Europe's residence in Madrid, Spain, which I mentioned is during the same time that Otto Skorzeny is there. So it makes …
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Probably the most infamous one that I came across repeatedly is Brian Cozier. And you spell his last name C-R-O-Z-I-E-R. Cozier was not a previous intelligence asset, but he was linked to many of the organizations that had been used as fron…
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all goes to the World Commerce Corporation. So Donovan can make a quick buck off of it. So as part of this entire operation, you have three UK organizations that are set up to assist Brian Cozier in his mission of doing the British piece of…
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So the UK set up a group called the Institute for the Study of Conflict while also sponsoring the Strategy of Tension, which uses conflict to create the tension. Y'all following along? Okay. So not long after Viollet became involved in the …
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I guess, and who's in and who's out. I'll post an article too that talks about how I think it was specifically, was it Jean Monnet or, sorry, Jean Violet, who was key to recruiting members of British and American as both MI6.…
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brought aboard some interesting partners. In the early years, the circle was largely dominated by reactionary Catholic orders like the Knights of Malta and Opus Dei. Beginning in the mid to late 1960s, they began to forge crucial alliances …
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For the study of conflict. Because they create it. So they're going to study it. So they can create more. The ISC. The Institute for the Study of Conflict. Such an oxy fucking moron. Sorry. Was founded by. Brian Cozier. And we keep coming a…
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Amari took over the chairmanship from Panay in 1980, Franz Joseph Bach remained the secretary. The most important organizer of LeCircle's activities from 80 to 85 held no official post at all. In 1980, Jean Vallée, who had health problems, …
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We've come across him multiple times. C-R-O-Z-I-E-R. He was a militant anti-communist. Cozier was one of the most influential Cold War propagandists working with and for Western intelligence services, especially American and British. He ran…
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world features. He also ran the Institute for the Study of Conflict, we've talked about it before, ISD, which he set up in London in 1970. Posier, who had been recruited to Le Circle by Jean Vallée in 1971, would stop organizing and partici…
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was a member of the World Anti-Communist League. He was the author of several anti-Soviet books. Hans Graf Heun, Brian Cozier, Franz Josef Bach, and Julian Amari formed the ruling group of Le Cercle well into the 1980s. An executive staff i…
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was a small command staff to discuss and develop action plans for political issues. The inner circle met occasionally throughout the 80s, for example, in Zurich in 1980. Vallée led this meeting, which included Hans Graf Hohen, Brian Cozier,…
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to their meetings. At LeCircle meetings, its leaders, particularly Cozier, Amari, and Huynh, repeatedly emphasized that the Soviet Union was unilaterally waging a World War III against the free world and that they had to be confronted, whic…
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The members should do nothing less than provoke the disintegration of the Soviet system and the Soviet empire. The counteroffensive that the Le Cercle advocated had two main components, a rolling back of Soviet and communist influence and t…
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In September 82, Cozier handed a memorandum entitled The Case for a Rollback in the 1980s to National Security Advisor William Clark, who would himself attend LeCircle meetings throughout the 80s. Clark and President Reagan studied the memo…
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they figured out the ways to counter what they were calling a communist threat. Even Shell, the mainstay of the Interdoc operation in the Netherlands, yes, the company Shell, and a vital channel for building contacts in Belgium, France, and…
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Instead, a new constellation of forces arose that seemed to place Interdoc at a disadvantage. From 67 to 68, Barnett linked up with Brian Cozier, C-R-O-Z-I-E-R, and laid the path for Cozier's Institute for the Study of Conflict, I-S-C, to b…
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took many by surprise, not the least of which was Frank Barnett and the NSIC. Brian Kosiers, always dubious of detente as a cover for nefarious Soviet designs, publicly broke off relations with the ISC-organized multinational conference on …
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looked to strengthen ties with the U.S. through veterans of the OSS in New York and also Ray Klein. The Center for Strategic and International Studies became a player as well. There was another organization called the Foundation for Solidar…
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comms coming in over on Rumble. All right, we're ready. This chapter, as I said, is called The Heyday of Britain's Cold War. Think Tank, Brian Cozier, and the Institute for the Study of Conflict from 70 to 79. And again, these are individua…
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the author says, almost became a foursome because there was a new one that showed up called the Institute for the Study of Conflict. It was headed by a highly controversial Cold War activist by the name of Brian Cozier, C-R-O-Z-I-E-R. The I…
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Their own work. You just can't make that shit up. Unofficially, the Institute's research and activities were very much shaped by its politically active director, Cozier. He admitted in his autobiography that throughout my period as director…
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policy illusion. In other words, it was non-stop warmongering and there was going to be no peace. He was going to make sure of it. So they weren't actually studying conflict. They were preventing peace. They were promoting conflict, not stu…
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Cozier's anti-Soviet and anti-detente views, as well as his reputation as a front man for the CIA, the ISC as a whole became a target of the proverbial left. For instance, in the book, The Terrorism Industry, Edward Herman and Jerry O'Sulli…
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On the other hand, both Cozier and the ISC were portrayed as important British representatives for the larger transnational anti-communist network, i.e. Gladio. He basically has five sections that he goes over in his essay. The background o…
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mixed relationship with Whitehall and Westminster. He talks about the relationships it had with the anti-communist groups, i.e. Gladio, criticisms of it, and the final section is his defense of the, Cozier's defense of the organization and …
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The ISC was a brainchild of Cozier and grew out of his earlier work as a quote-unquote journalist and head of a thing called the Forum World Features, FWF, which in and of itself was another CIA front company responsible for disassembling a…
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and by the late 1960s, his work with the FWF, Cozier came up with the idea of starting a research center that would focus on topics such as subversion, terrorism, insurgency, and revolutionary moments, which is ironic because that's what th…
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No one ever gave it a chance. They have no idea if that was true or not, because you weren't even allowed to talk to the Soviet Union. According to Cozier, the mainstream British think tanks did not cover these issues. There was emphasis on…
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at none other than the London School of Economics. It was suggested that a research center was the wrong model, and maybe you needed an institute. A result of that, in June 1970, the ISC emerged out of CARSC. So it just morphed into a diffe…
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There was considerable evidence that the ISC didn't generate a lot of contributions. And it does look, based on their travel schedule and stuff like that, that they were getting covert funding, not just what they were admitting to. In 1972,…
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like the conflict studies, which the Institute published. An additional discrepancy arises, again from Cozier's own account, when he noted that from 77 to 79, he and a colleague had raised 73% of their budget had gone to the ISC. Without ac…
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the whole missile disconnect thing that happened during Kennedy, the space race during Reagan. That's what they do. They create the propaganda that they're going to use to steal all of our tax dollars to put it into the military-industrial …
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And again, this is all of the people that have been involved in all of this Operation Gladio stuff. So they're the guys that went around and was doing all of the briefings relating to this. ISC's most sympathetic point of contact seems to h…
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this entity that's supplying them with all this material, lobbied behind the scenes to get Cozier to speak at a meeting at NATO, specifically their information area, which is their propaganda arm. The most important IRD assistance came in t…
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the rights to it were eventually purchased by the minister of defense in the UK and it became their official policy. Just, it's crazy. And these guys have no, like Cozier had no military whatsoever. So this is basically kind of the CIA feed…
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being a political hot potato, ISC was also welcomed by others. In his biography, Cozier recalled that he was invited several times by different military establishments to lecture on the subject material in the counterinsurgency manual, and …
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It goes on to say that after Margaret Thatcher replaced Heath as party leader in 75, she maintained a relationship with Cozier, as well as many other hierarchy that was at the ISC. Then he moves into the ISC and transnational anti-communist…
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Jeffrey Stuart Smith set up from the NSIC a thing called Foreign Affairs Research Institute. So many of them. But it's important to know the names of all of these things in case you come across them in reading so you know how they fit into …
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maintained a close relationship with the guy that replaced him called Michael Goodwin. The ISC attempted to launch an American branch of itself. The committee for the American branch in March 1975 was Barnett himself, George Ball, Brzezinsk…
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In May 1975, Cozier did gain some attention in D.C. as the first witness to testify at the U.S. Senate hearings on international terrorism in 1975. Think they're generating what's going to happen? Yes. Senator Strom Thurmond introduced Cozi…
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foremost expert on international terrorism, unquote. Now, why would that be? Because he's the guy behind it. He's writing reports telling you where it's going to happen next. Another important ISC association was Le Circle, of which Cozier …
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more in a covert manner. He was mostly known for his ISC, but he definitely was a member of Le Cercle, which, because of that, brought him in very close contact with French intelligence and Jean Vallée, or Violet. And that's how he got some…
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But it was funded through Volet's connections, and it was the 1975 report called The New Dimensions of Security in Europe that basically, unlike it says peacetime strategy of the Soviet Union, it actually, the entire thing was addressing ho…