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The CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the Early Cold War The Limits of Making Common Cause

By Sarah Miller Harris Copyright 2016
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Preface

Introduction

1. Berlin: The Early Years

2. Intellectuals: From Communism to Anti-Communism

3. The Outbreak of Ideological Hostilities

4. From the Waldorf to Paris

5. Josselson Joins the Agency

6. A Congress for Cultural Freedom: Berlin, 1950

7. From Berlin to Paris: Josselson and the Congress in Transition

8. James Burnham’s Rival

9. The CIA and the Non-Communist Left

10. The 1952 Paris Festival

11. Encounter Magazine: The Congress's 'Greatest Asset' 12. New Management at the Agency

13. The 1955 Milan Congress and the End of Ideology

14. A Revolution of Intellectuals: Hungary, 1956

15. The Most Famous Article that Encounter Never Ran

16. The 1967 Scandal

Conclusion

Biography

Sarah Miller Harris is a lawyer and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, UK.