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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paget, Karen M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Central Intelligence Agency--History--20th century.

United States.

United States National Student Association.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Anti-communist movements--United States--History--20th century.

Anti-communist movements.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 527 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preface

Prologue

Part 1:

Cooperation Or Combat:

Fighting faith

Apostolic Catholics

Behind the scenes

Enter the CIA

Allard Lowenstein and the International Student Conference

Part 2: Denial Operations:

Counteroffensive

Battle for members

Opening the spigot

Spirit of Bandung

Shifting battlefields

Part 3: Competitive Coexistence:

Hungary and the struggle against nonalignment

Debating democracy in Red Square

Courting revolutionaries

Gloria Steinem and the Vienna operation

Social upheavals

Part 4: Losing Control:

Showdown in Madison

Pro-west moderate militants

Pyrrhic victory

Persistent questioner

Lifting the veil

Part 5: Flap:

Philip Sherburne takes on the CIA

Game within the game

Hide-and-seek

Do you want blood on your hands?

Firestorm

Enemy at home

Cast of characters

Chronology

Notes

List of abbreviations and acronyms

Acknowledgments

Index

Illustrations follow page 240.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300205084

0300205082

OCLC:

887450741

Publisher Number:

99961711655