May 12, 2000

CIA Funds for Intellectuals

To the Editor:

Jeff Sharlet's article on the C.I.A.'s secret funding of intellectual and cultural endeavors is faulty in its essential concepts and facts, reducing his sardonic piece to the unseemly ("Tinker, Writer, Artist, Spy: Intellectuals During the Cold War," March 31). All of the recent books by historians John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Richard Gid Powers -- some of them based on formerly closed archives in the United States and Russia --

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