The CIA book club : the secret mission to win the Cold War with forbidden literature

English, Charlie, author.

First US edition.

Book

New York : Random House, [2025]

©2025

xxxi, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

illustration map

"Recounts a covert Cold War operation led by George Minden to smuggle banned literature into Eastern Europe, focusing on the cultural and psychological battle against Soviet censorship and the role underground reading networks played in weakening totalitarian control, especially in Poland"-- Provided by publisher.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- 20th century.

Books and reading -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.

Information warfare -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Information warfare -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.

Publishers and publishing -- Political aspects.

Cold War -- Propaganda.

Central Intelligence Agency book club

A snaggle-toothed thought machine -- Our friends down south -- The French connection -- An international spiderweb -- They will crush us like bugs -- The deal -- The night of the general -- This is big casino -- Citizens versus the secret police -- Raphael -- Ideas for getting out of a no-win situation -- Helpful -- Oh sh**! reactionary propaganda! -- This turbulent priest -- The network -- The regina affair -- A general, a lowly recruit, and all ranks in between -- Television free Europe -- High noon -- Bloody Feliks -- Epilogue: the best-kept secret.

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