Hot books in the Cold War : the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain /
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Budapest :
Central European University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Origins, objectives, and launching of the book project under Sam Walker
- Titles, contents, numbers, targets, and aims of the mailings
- The man in the grey suit : George C. Minden and his concept of cultural and ideological competition
- The New York Book Center : books, books, and more books
- The book project reaches new heights : the golden age of the 1960s
- Western and émigré books and periodicals published with covert support
- New opportunities through East-West contacts
- The early 1970s : the international advisory council
- A lasting enemy
- The communist regimes on the defensive : criticisms, warnings, and attacks
- The person-to-person distribution program : a direct way to reach East Europeans, the early Polish program 1958-1959
- Another vehicle for reaching the people of eastern Europe : the person-to-person distribution program and personalized mailings
- The most important book distribution point : Vienna
- Letters from Poland, the crucial country
- Letters from Czechoslovakia before and after 1968
- Letters from Hungary under goulash communism
- Letters from Romania under the Ceausescu regime
- Letters from Bulgaria despite very strict censorship
- The last seventeen years : International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR.