Book

The CIA Book Club

The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature

Charlie English

2025

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Book Review

Idea Smugglers

When the CIA distributed banned books behind the Iron Curtain.

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Spooking the Censors

In the 1950s, the CIA funded efforts to smuggle great works of literature into the Eastern Bloc.

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