CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the Early Cold War

CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the Early Cold War

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Harris, Sarah Miller
Taylor & Francis
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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.
EAN 9781317365327
ISBN 1317365321
Binding Ebook
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Publication date August 5, 2016
Pages 208
Language English
Country United Kingdom
Authors Harris, Sarah Miller
Series Studies in Intelligence
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