Cold war deceptions : the Asia Foundation and the CIA / David H. Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, David H., 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Espionage, American--Asia.

Espionage, American.

Anti-communist movements--United States.

Anti-communist movements.

Anti-communist movements--Asia.

Propaganda, American--Asia.

Propaganda, American.

Cold War.

United States--Foreign relations--Asia.

United States.

Asia--Foreign relations--United States.

Asia.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Asia Foundation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2024]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780295752259

0295752254

OCLC:

1427498133