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The CIA Book Club: 'entertaining and vivid' book explores a huge Cold War secret
In March 1984, customs officials at the port of Swinoujscie, in northwestern Poland, spotted something suspicious about a truck that had "arrived on an overnight ferry from Copenhagen", said Luke ...
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How the CIA smuggled Orwell and Le Carré into the eastern bloc
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War. By Charlie English. William Collins; 384 pages; £25. To be published in America by Random House in July; $35 George Minden, the leader of ...
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The CIA Book Club by Charlie English: Defeat Communism with a good book
During the Cold War, millions of banned literary classics were smuggled through the Iron Curtain. Animal Farm arrived by balloon. The Gulag Archipelago went through checkpoints in nappies.
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Book review: How the CIA smuggled banned literature behind the Iron Curtain
As Polish dissident Adam Michnik tells journalist Charlie English in his fine new book, The CIA Book Club: The Best Kept Secret of the Cold War (HarperCollins India), “We should build a monument ...
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CIA officer rates 9 counterterrorism scenes in movies
He has written various books and teaches and speaks around the country, focusing on the CIA, terrorism, torture, and ethics in intelligence operations. You can follow Kiriakou on LinkedIn ...