March 31, 2000

Tinker, Writer, Artist, Spy: Intellectuals During the Cold War

By JEFF SHARLET

A book charges that, in an effort to thwart Communism, the CIA financed prominent American cultural figures

The most exciting pages of Frances Stonor Saunders's new book may well be those of its index. Unlike Joe McCarthy's infamous secret list, they actually name names. But in the case of The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (The New Press, April), the accused are not Communists taking orders from Moscow, but anti-Communists on the

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