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Crowd with hands up at World Youth Festival

When the C.I.A. Duped College Students

Inside a famous Cold War deception.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on March 16, 2015

Typewriter with keys that have the letters "IA" on each of them.

How Iowa Flattened Literature

With help from the CIA, Paul Engle’s writing students battled Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing still lingers.

by Eric Bennett via The Chronicle of Higher Education on February 10, 2014

George W. Bush at a press conference on Iraq, March 3, 2003.

The First Casualty

The selling of the Iraq war.

by Spencer Ackerman, John B. Judis via The New Republic on June 30, 2003

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