The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature by Charlie English

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The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
Charlie English
Page: 384
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2, azw3, kfx
ISBN: 9780593447901
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

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“An intriguing and little-known Cold War moment” (The Observer): the astonishing true story of the CIA’s secret program to smuggle millions of books through the Iron Curtain “A fascinating account of a world-changing covert operation and a first-rate contribution to the history of the CIA.”—Tim Weiner, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Legacy of Ashes For nearly five decades after the Second World War, the Iron Curtain divided Europe, forming the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. No physical combat would take place along this frontier: the risk of nuclear annihilation was too high for that. Instead, the war was fought psychologically. It was a battle for hearts, minds, and intellects. Few understood this more clearly than George Minden, head of a covert intelligence operation known as the “CIA book program,” which aimed to undermine Soviet censorship and inspire revolt by offering different visions of thought and culture. From its Manhattan headquarters, Minden’s “book club” secretly sent ten million banned titles into the East. Volumes were smuggled aboard trucks and yachts, dropped from balloons, hidden aboard trains, and stowed in travelers’ luggage. Nowhere were the books welcomed more warmly than in Poland, where the texts would circulate covertly among circles of like-minded readers, quietly making the case against Soviet communism. Such was the demand for Minden’s books that dissidents began to reproduce these works in the underground. By the late 1980s, illicit literature was so pervasive in Poland that censorship broke down: the Iron Curtain soon followed. Charlie English narrates this tale of Cold War spycraft, smuggling, and secret printing operations for the first time, highlighting the work of a handful of extraordinary people who fought for intellectual freedom—people like Mirosław Chojecki, who suffered beatings, imprisonment, and exile in pursuit of his clandestine mission. The CIA Book Club is a story about the power of the printed word as a means of resistance and liberation. Books, it shows, can set you free.

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review - The Guardian
       A gripping study of the CIA smuggling operation to get banned books behind the iron curtain.
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       The CIA Book Club is a story about the power of the printed word as a means of resistance and liberation. Books, it shows, can set you free.