The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America

375 Pages·2008·1.02 MB·English

by  Hugh Wilford

The Mighty Wurlitzer

The Mighty Wurlitzer
HOW THE CIA PLAYED AMERICA
Hugh Wilford
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge,Massachusetts
London,England
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FirstHarvardUniversityPresspaperbackedition,2009.
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Themightywurlitzer:howtheCIAplayedAmerica/HughWilford.
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Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
ISBN978-0-674-02681-0(cloth :alk.paper)
ISBN978-0-674-03256-9(pbk.)
1. UnitedStates.CentralIntelligenceAgency. 2. Intelligence
service—UnitedStates. 3. ColdWar. 4. Political culture—United
States—History—20thcentury. 5. Public-privatesector
cooperation—UnitedStates—History—20thcentury.
6. UnitedStates—Politicsandgovernment—1945–1989. I.Title.
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Contents
ListofIllustrations ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
1 Innocents’Clubs:TheOriginsoftheCIAFront 11
2 SecretArmy:Émigrés 29
3 AFL-CIA:Labor 51
4 ADeepSicknessinNewYork:Intellectuals 70
5 TheCulturalColdWar:Writers,Artists,
Musicians,Filmmakers 99
6 TheCIAonCampus:Students 123
7 TheTruthShallMakeYouFree:Women 149
8 SavingtheWorld:Catholics 167
9 IntoAfrica:AfricanAmericans 197
10 ThingsFallApart:Journalists 225
Conclusion 249
Notes 257
Acknowledgments 319
Index 321

Illustrations
Illustrationsfollowpage148.
AllenDulles
FrankWisner,1934
ApropagandaballoonreleasebytheNationalCommitteeforaFree
Europe
GeorgeMeanyandJayLovestone
SidneyHook,1960
ArthurKoestler,IrvingBrown,andJamesBurnham,1950
StillfromfilmadaptationofOrwell’sAnimalFarm
HenryKissinger,1957
U.S.NationalStudentAssociationdelegatesattheThirdInternational
StudentConference,Copenhagen,1953
GloriaSteinem,1967
CordMeyer
DorothyBauman
WomenoftheCommitteeofCorrespondenceandThirdWorldguestson
thestepsoftheLincolnMemorial
TomDooley