Just the other day I was wondering if the CIA ever did one good thing. Motivations aside, distributing banned books seems to fit the bill.
@onekade They didn't just distribute to Russians. Much of Eastern European lit reliant on US propaganda for distribution.
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@emptywheel@onekade Quite a few African writers in the 60's got into print because of CIA money. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, for one. -
@zunguzungu But not in Latin America. Cuba had to do that for us, I guess.@onekade -
@emptywheel@onekade Pretty sure a lot of Latin American lit was funded by CIA ducats as well -
@zunguzungu If only spooks today had the literary cachet of JJ Angleton! (Joking.)@onekade
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