“5. Agency of Rogues”: Attempting to influence the attitudes of students and intellectuals, the CIA sponsored literary magazines in Germany ( Der Monat ) and Britain ( Encounter ), promoted abstract expressionism in art as a radical alternative to the Soviet Union’s socialist realism, and secretly funded the publication and distribution of more than two and a half million books and periodicals. Weiner treats these activities rather cursorily. He should have consulted Frances Stonor Saunders’s indispensable The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters .
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