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Peeling Back the Curtain on the CIA

August 24, 2025
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“In the late 1950s, CIA agent and Romanian émigré George Minden realized that a book smuggling program could have the potential to destabilize the Soviet regime and fuel the resistance in satellite states,” Johannes Lichtman wrote this month. “Over the coming decades, this ‘Marshall Plan for the Mind’ would smuggle nearly 10 million items, along with printing presses and materials, into the Eastern Bloc.”

That books program, in the words of journalist Tim Weiner, was “among the most important CIA operations of the Cold War”—and it’s also one that relatively few people have heard of.

Lichtman’s review of a new book on that operation is just one of the CIA deep dives we’ve published that offer insight into the secret history of the agency. Below, you’ll find his piece and some of our other favorites on this subject, including an essay by ex-spy Valerie Plame on the plight of women in the agency and historian Hugh Wilford’s take on why CIA conspiracy theories just won’t go away.


Two people are silhouetted in a shaft of light as they sit in chairs in a cafe.

Two people are silhouetted in a shaft of light as they sit in chairs in a cafe.

The Most Successful CIA Operation You’ve Never Heard of

Johannes Lichtman reviews a new book on how the agency’s program to circulate banned books helped take down the Iron Curtain.


Background is inside a building entrance lobby. In the foreground two women in dress coats and skirts walk either side of the circular Central Intelligence Agency crest placed in the marble floor.

Background is inside a building entrance lobby. In the foreground two women in dress coats and skirts walk either side of the circular Central Intelligence Agency crest placed in the marble floor.

What It’s Actually Like Being a Woman in the CIA

Ex-spy Valerie Plame on the “secret history” of women in the agency.


Ratcliffe in a suit walks in profile past a semi-circle window in a white wall.

Ratcliffe in a suit walks in profile past a semi-circle window in a white wall.

When the Threat Is Inside the White House

What CIA insiders make of the MAGA moles and toadies now in charge of U.S. national security, according to Tim Weiner.

 


A man holds up photos to illustrate his conspiracy theory around the assassination of JFK.

A man holds up photos to illustrate his conspiracy theory around the assassination of JFK.

Why CIA Conspiracy Theories Won’t Go Away

As long as the agency carries out needlessly covert operations, the public will suspect the worst, Hugh Wilford writes.



A crowd of people hold signs that read “Down With U.S. Imperialism.”

How the Cold War Forged India’s Intelligence Setup

A new book depicts a period of spy history—and U.S.-India cooperation—that bears some resemblance to our own, Sushant Singh writes.

The post Peeling Back the Curtain on the CIA appeared first on Foreign Policy.

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