Finks : how the CIA tricked the world's best writers
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Finks : how the CIA tricked the world's best writers
OR Books, c2016
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内容説明
When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of America’s best-loved literary figuresincluding Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, and Richard Wrighttarnished as their work for the intelligence agency has come to light.
Finks is a tale of two CIAs, and how they blurred the line between propaganda and literature. One CIA created literary magazines that promoted American and European writers and cultural freedom, while the other toppled governments, using assassination and censorship as political tools. Defenders of the cultural” CIA argue that it should have been lauded for boosting interest in the arts and freedom of thought, but the two CIAs had the same undercover goals, and shared many of the same methods: deception, subterfuge and intimidation.
Finks demonstrates how the good-versus-bad CIA is a false divide, and that the cultural Cold Warriors again and again used anti-Communism as a lever to spy relentlessly on leftists, and indeed writers of all political inclinations, and thereby pushed U.S. democracy a little closer to the Soviet model of the surveillance state.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: A Lit’r’y Coup
1: Graduates
2: The Responsibility of Editors
3: Pasternak, the CIA, and Feltrinelli
4: The Paris Review Goes to Moscow
5: Did the CIA Censor Its Magazines?
6: James Baldwin’s Protest
7: Into India
8: The US Coup in Guatemala
9: Cuba: A Portrait by Figueres, Plimpton, Hemingway, García Márquez, part 1
10: Cuba: A Portrait by Plimpton, Hemingway, and García Márquez, part 2
11: Tools Rush In: Pablo Neruda, Mundo Nuevo, and Keith Botsford
12: The Vital Center Cannot Hold
13: Blowback
Coda: Afghanistan
Endnotes
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Index
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