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The CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the Early Cold War - The Limits of Making Common Cause (Hardcover)
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The CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the Early Cold War - The Limits of Making Common Cause (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Intelligence
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This book questions the conventional wisdom about one of the most
controversial episodes in the Cold War, and tells the story of the
CIA's backing of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. For nearly two
decades during the early Cold War, the CIA secretly sponsored some
of the world's most feted writers, philosophers, and scientists as
part of a campaign to prevent Communism from regaining a foothold
in Western Europe and from spreading to Asia. By backing the
Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA subsidized dozens of
prominent magazines, global congresses, annual seminars, and
artistic festivals. When this operation (QKOPERA) became public in
1967, it ignited one of the most damaging scandals in CIA history.
Ever since then, many accounts have argued that the CIA manipulated
a generation of intellectuals into lending their names to
pro-American, anti-Communist ideas. Others have suggested a more
nuanced picture of the relationship between the Congress and the
CIA, with intellectuals sometimes resisting the CIA's bidding. Very
few accounts, however, have examined the man who held the Congress
together: Michael Josselson, the Congress's indispensable
manager-and, secretly, a long time CIA agent. This book fills that
gap. Using a wealth of archival research and interviews with many
of the figures associated with the Congress, this book sheds new
light on how the Congress came into existence and functioned, both
as a magnet for prominent intellectuals and as a CIA operation.
This book will be of much interest to students of the CIA, Cold War
History, intelligence studies, US foreign policy and International
Relations in general.
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