Intelligence scholar Hugh Wilford's excellent new book grapples with the paradox at the heart of America’s covert intelligence agency. Many of the CIA’s founding fathers were staunch anti-imperialists, but during the Cold War, the US took up the mantle of Europe’s colonial projects.Hugh Wilford's book The CIA: an Imperial History is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/CIA-Imperial-History-Hugh-Wilford/dp/154164591X">out now</a>.  Hugh Wilford has written numerous books about the CIA and Cold War intelligence history, he made two appearances in our recent Not All Propaganda is Art mini-series. Also the mini-series got a really nice write up in the <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/when-the-cia-turned-writers-into-operatives">New Yorker</a> last month!

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