Cold War Exiles and the CIA - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cold War Exiles and the CIA write by Benjamin Tromly. This book was released on 2019. Cold War Exiles and the CIA available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the height of the Cold War, as part of an effort to weaken the Soviet Union, the United States government recruited Russian exiles in the hope that they would be a powerful weapon in the American secret war. The CIA directed these uprooted citizens to carry out propaganda, espionage, and subversion operations, but with unpredictable outcomes.
Cold War Exiles and the CIA
Cold War Exiles and the CIA - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cold War Exiles and the CIA write by Benjamin Tromly. This book was released on 2019-09-19. Cold War Exiles and the CIA available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the United States government unleashed covert operations intended to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of these efforts, the CIA committed to supporting Russian exiles, populations uprooted either during World War Two or by the Russian Revolution decades before. No one seemed better prepared to fight in the American secret war against communism than the uprooted Russians, whom the CIA directed to carry out propaganda, espionage, and subversion operations from their home base in West Germany. Yet the American engagement of Russian exiles had unpredictable outcomes. Drawing on recently declassified and previously untapped sources, Cold War Exiles and the CIA examines how the CIA's Russian operations became entangled with the internal struggles of Russia abroad and also the espionage wars of the superpowers in divided Germany. What resulted was a transnational political sphere involving different groups of Russian exiles, American and German anti-communists, and spies operating on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Inadvertently, CIA's patronage of Russian exiles forged a complex sub-front in the wider Cold War, demonstrating the ways in which the hostilities of the Cold War played out in ancillary conflicts involving proxies and non-state actors.
The Cultural Cold War
The Cultural Cold War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cultural Cold War write by Frances Stonor Saunders. This book was released on 2013-11-05. The Cultural Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
Hot Books in the Cold War
Hot Books in the Cold War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hot Books in the Cold War write by Alfread A. Reisch. This book was released on 2013-02-05. Hot Books in the Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study reveals the hidden story of the secret book distribution program to Eastern Europe financed by the CIA during the Cold War. At its height between 1957 and 1970, the book program was one of the least known but most effective methods of penetrating the Iron Curtain, reaching thousands of intellectuals and professionals in the Soviet Bloc. Reisch conducted thorough research on the key personalities involved in the book program, especially the two key figures: S. S. Walker, who initiated the idea of a ?mailing project,? and G. C. Minden, who developed it into one of the most effective political and psychological tools of the Cold War. The book includes excellent chapters on the vagaries of censorship and interception of books by communist authorities based on personal letters and accounts from recipients of Western material. It will stand as a testimony in honor of the handful of imaginative, determined, and hard-working individuals who helped to free half of Europe from mental bondage and planted many of the seeds that germinated when communism collapsed and the Soviet bloc disintegrated.
Battleground Berlin
Battleground Berlin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Battleground Berlin write by David E. Murphy. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Battleground Berlin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two veteran intelligence agents, one from the CIA and the other from the KGB, join together in an unprecedented collaboration to trace the activities of the two intelligence agencies at the start of the Cold War in postwar Berlin. UP.
