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<h2>Finks</h2>
<p><strong>HOW THE C.I.A. TRICKED THE WORLD'S BEST WRITERS</strong></p>
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<p><a style="text-decoration: none"
href="http://www.orbooks.com/joel-whitney/">JOEL WHITNEY</a></p>
<p><strong>"Listen to this book, because it talks in a very clear
way about what has been silenced."<br>
<span style="float:right;">—John Berger, author of <em>Ways
of Seeing</em> and winner of the Man Booker Prize</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong>"It may be difficult today to believe that the American
intellectual elite was once deeply embedded with the CIA. But
with <em>Finks</em>, Joel Whitney vividly brings to life the
early days of the Cold War, when the CIA's Ivy League ties
were strong, and key American literary figures were willing to
secretly do the bidding of the nation's spymasters." —James
Risen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>Pay Any Price:
Greed, Power and Endless War</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>“A deep look at that scoundrel time when America's most
sophisticated and enlightened literati eagerly collaborated
with our growing national security state. <em>Finks</em> is a
timely moral reckoning—one that compels all those who work in
the academic, media and literary boiler rooms to ask some
troubling questions of themselves...” —David Talbot, founder
of Salon and author of <em>The Devil's Chessboard: Allen
Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government</em></strong></p>
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<p>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 figures—including Peter Matthiessen, George
Plimpton, and Richard Wright—tarnished as their work for the
intelligence agency has come to light.</p>
<p><em>Finks</em> 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.</p>
<p><em>Finks</em> 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.</p>
<p>325 pages • Paperback ISBN 978-1-682190-24-1 • E-book
978-1-682190-25-8</p>
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