<p>The author of <em>Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers</em> discusses how the spy agency used its own form of propaganda through highly respected magazines to counter the rise in communism around the world.</p>

The author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers discusses how the spy agency used its own form of propaganda through highly respected magazines to counter the rise in communism around the world.

Joel Whitney: The CIA's Cold War literary influence

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