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Finks : How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers by Joel Whitney is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Joel Whitney
Publisher
OR Books
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9781682190241
Category
history
Subjects
Science, Political Science, True Crime
Rating
4.16 / 5 (45 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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