Cold War Deceptions
Description
Investigates how the CIA tried to influence scholars and governments
During the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and research to liberal anticommunist programs. While investigative journalists and congressional inquiries exposed many of these fronts, little is known about their daily internal workings.
With a specific focus on the 1950s and 1960s Asia Foundation, Cold War Deceptions provides a rare view into the bureaucratic functioning of a covert operation in which most employees did not know they were working for the CIA. Drawing on the foundation's extensive surviving archival records and thousands of pages of declassified CIA documents, David H. Price examines how the foundation, secretly created and funded by the CIA, tried to shape Asian political, economic, intellectual, and cultural developments during the early years of the Cold War. Uncovering how unwitting scholars were used to support pro-American and anticommunist positions, Price considers how political forces shaped disciplinary knowledge and how these past events connect to the present.
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David H. Price is professor of anthropology and sociology at Saint Martin's University. His previous books include Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. Funding Fronts and the Roots of the Committee for Free Asia
- 2. The Birth of the Asia Foundation
- 3. Sponsored Exchanges, Cultural Programs, Conferences, and Scholarships
- 4. How the CIA Tried to Make Friends and Influence People
- 5. Collecting Intelligence
- 6. Foundation Anticommunism and Counterinsurgency Programs
- 7. Interactions with Other Organizations and Foundations
- 8. Books and Movies as CIA-Funded Propaganda
- 9. Asia Foundation Reports as Active and Passive Intelligence
- 10. Suspicions
- 11. Exposed CIA Fronts and the Fate of CIA Orphans
- 12. The CIA's 1967 Termination and Liquidation of DTPILLAR
- 13. Conclusions, Implications, and Continuities during the Remaining Cold War Years
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Back Cover
