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In this revelatory book, Karen M. Paget shows how the CIA turned the National Student Association into an intelligence asset during the Cold War, with students used - often wittingly and sometimes unwittingly - as undercover agents inside America and abroad. In 1967, Ramparts magazine exposed the story, prompting the Agency into engineering a successful cover-up. Now Paget, drawing on archival sources, declassified documents, and more than 150 interviews, shows that the Ramparts story revealed only a small part of the plot. A cautionary tale, throwing sharp light on the persistent argument, heard even now, about whether America's national-security interests can be advanced by skullduggery and deception, Patriotic Betrayal, says Karl E. Meyer, a former editorial board member of the New York Times and The Washington Post, evokes "the aura of a John le Carre novel with its self-serving rationalizations, its layers of duplicity, and its bureaucratic doubletalk". And Hugh Wilford, author of The Mighty Wulitzer: How the CIA Played America, calls Patriotic Betrayal "extremely valuable as a case study of relations between the CIA and one of its front groups, greatly extending and enriching our knowledge and understanding of the complex dynamics involved in such covert, state-private relationships; it offers a fascinating portrayal of post-World War II U.S. political culture in microcosm".

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• Plný název: Patriotic Betrayal
• Podnázev: The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism
• Autor: Karen M Paget
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 552
• EAN: 9780300205084
• ISBN: 0300205082
• ID: 04574883
• Nakladatelství: Yale University Press
• Hmotnost: 914 g
• Rozměry: 168 × 243 × 38 mm
• Datum vydání: 26. February 2015

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