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Patriotic betrayal, the inside story of the CIA's secret campaign to enroll American students in the crusade against communism, Karen M. Paget

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-504) and index

index present

non fiction

Patriotic betrayal

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Karen M. Paget

the inside story of the CIA's secret campaign to enroll American students in the crusade against communism

Overview: 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

Part I. Cooperation or combat -- A fighting faith -- Apostolic catholics -- Behind the scenes -- Enter the CIA -- Allard Lowenstein and the International Student Conference -- Part II. Denial operations -- The counteroffensive -- The battle for members -- Opening the spigot -- The spirit of Bandung -- Shifting battlefields -- Part III. Competitive coexistence -- Hungary and the struggle against nonalignment -- Debating democracy in Red Square -- Courting revolutionaries -- Gloria Steinem and the Vienna operation -- Social upheavals -- Part IV. Losing control -- Showdown in Madison -- Pro-west moderate militants -- A pyrrhic victory -- The persistent questioner -- Lifting the veil -- Part V. The flap -- Philip Sherburne takes on the CIA -- The game within the game -- Hide-and-seek -- Do you want blood on your hands? -- The firestorm -- The enemy at home