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The Mighty Wurlitzer : How the CIA Played America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (375 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674045170
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Mighty WurlitzerDDC classification:
  • 327.1273009/045
LOC classification:
  • JK468
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Innocents' Clubs: The Origins of the CIA Front -- 2 Secret Army: Émigrés -- 3 AFL-CIA: Labor -- 4 A Deep Sickness in New York: Intellectuals -- 5 The Cultural Cold War: Writers, Artists, Musicians, Filmmakers -- 6 The CIA on Campus: Students -- 7 The Truth Shall Make You Free: Women -- 8 Saving the World: Catholics -- 9 Into Africa: African Americans -- 10 Things Fall Apart: Journalists -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Wilford provides the first comprehensive account of the clandestine relationship between the CIA and its front organizations. Using an unprecedented wealth of sources, he traces the rise and fall of America's Cold War front network from its origins in the 1940s to its Third World expansion during the 1950s and ultimate collapse in the 1960s.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Innocents' Clubs: The Origins of the CIA Front -- 2 Secret Army: Émigrés -- 3 AFL-CIA: Labor -- 4 A Deep Sickness in New York: Intellectuals -- 5 The Cultural Cold War: Writers, Artists, Musicians, Filmmakers -- 6 The CIA on Campus: Students -- 7 The Truth Shall Make You Free: Women -- 8 Saving the World: Catholics -- 9 Into Africa: African Americans -- 10 Things Fall Apart: Journalists -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Wilford provides the first comprehensive account of the clandestine relationship between the CIA and its front organizations. Using an unprecedented wealth of sources, he traces the rise and fall of America's Cold War front network from its origins in the 1940s to its Third World expansion during the 1950s and ultimate collapse in the 1960s.

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