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Finks : how the CIA tricked the world's best writers / Joel Whitney.
Author
Whitney, Joel
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : OR Books, [2016]
©2016
Description
329 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
JK468.I6 W445 2016
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United States Central Intelligence Agency
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History
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20th century
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United States Central Intelligence Agency
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Influence
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Propaganda
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Politics and culture
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United States
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Freedom and art
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Political aspects
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Cultural policy
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Summary note
"When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of America's best-loved literary figures--including Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, and Richard Wright--tarnished as their work for the intelligence agency has come to light. Finks is a tale of two CIAs, and how they blurred the line between propaganda and literature. One CIA created literary magazines that promoted American and European writers and cultural freedom, while the other toppled governments, using assassination and censorship as political tools. Defenders of the 'cultural' CIA argue that it should have been lauded for boosting interest in the arts and freedom of thought, but the two CIAs had the same undercover goals, and shared many of the same methods: deception, subterfuge and intimidation. Finks demonstrates how the good-versus-bad CIA is a false divide, and that the cultural Cold Warriors again and again used anti-Communism as a lever to spy relentlessly on leftists, and indeed writers of all political inclinations, and thereby pushed U.S. democracy a little closer to the Soviet model of the surveillance state."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-321) and index.
Contents
Introduction: A lit'r'y coup
Graduates
The responsibility of editors
Pasternak, the CIA, and Feltrinelli
The Paris Review goes to Moscow
Did the CIA censor its magazines?
James Baldwin's protest
Into India
The US coup in Guatemala
Cuba: a portrait by Figueres, Plimpton, Hemingway, García Márquez, part 1
Cuba: a portrait by Plimpton, Hemingway and García Márquez, part 2
Tools rush in: Pablo Neruda, Mundo Nuevo and Keith Botsford
The vital center cannot hold
Blowback
Coda: Afghanistan.
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How the CIA tricked the world's best writers
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9781944869137
1944869131
OCLC
952389413
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