In 1967 the magazine 'Ramparts' reveled that the CIA had been secretly funding and managing a wide range of citizen front groups intended to counter communist influence. Covering the intelligence officers who masterminded these fronts as well as the involved citizen groups, this book provides an analysis of Cold War society.
[A] brisk yet thorough narrative...No one has written a more comprehensive or sophisticated account of the pro-American fronts from their creation in the late 1940s to the investigative report 20 years later in Ramparts magazine that first exposed the CIA's cultural offensive and left people such as [Gloria] Steinem with a bit of explaining to do.
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In 1967 the magazine 'Ramparts' reveled that the CIA had been secretly funding and managing a wide range of citizen front groups intended to counter communist influence. Covering the intelligence officers who masterminded these fronts as well as the involved citizen groups, this book provides an analysis of Cold War society.
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Hardcover
English
Harvard University Press
Jan. 15th, 2008
342
9780674026810
6.13 x 9.25 x 1.25 inches
0674026810
1.63 lbs
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[A] brisk yet thorough narrative...No one has written a more comprehensive or sophisticated account of the pro-American fronts from their creation in the late 1940s to the investigative report 20 years later in Ramparts magazine that first exposed the CIA's cultural offensive and left people such as [Gloria] Steinem with a bit of explaining to do.
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