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

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

By JEFF SHARLET

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...