Cold War Rivers: Remembering The CIA’s Elaborate World War II Book Smuggling Operation

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Remembering The CIA’s Elaborate World War II Book Smuggling Operation

What some in the east suspected, but very few knew for sure, was that the uncensored literature flooding the country wasn’t reaching Poles by chance. It was sent as part of a decades-long US intelligence operation, known in Washington as the “CIA book program.” - The Guardian

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