Mighty Wurlitzer How the CIA Played America

Name: Mighty Wurlitzer How the CIA Played America
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ISBN: 9780674032569

ISBN-10: 067403256X

ISBN-13: 9780674032569

Edition: 2008

Authors: Hugh Wilford

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In 1967 the magazine Ramparts ran an exposeacute; revealing that the Central Intelligence Agency had been secretly funding and managing a wide range of citizen front groups intended to counter communist influence around the world. In addition to embarrassing prominent individuals caught up, wittingly or unwittingly, in the secret superpower struggle for hearts and minds, the revelations of 1967 were one of the worst operational disasters in the history of American intelligence and presaged a series of public scandals from which the CIA's reputation has arguably never recovered.CIA official Frank Wisner called the operation his "mighty Wurlitzer," on which he could play any propaganda tune.…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.97" wide x 8.98" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Abbreviations


Introduction



Innocents' Clubs: The Origins of the CIA Front



Secret Army: ï¿½migrï¿½s



AFL-CIA: Labor



A Deep Sickness in New York: Intellectuals



The Cultural Cold War: Writers, Artists, Musicians, Filmmakers



The CIA on Campus: Students



The Truth Shall Make You Free: Women



Saving the World: Catholics



Into Africa: African Americans



Things Fall Apart: Journalists


Conclusion


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index