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The Inauguration of "Organized Political Warfare" The Cold War Organizations Sponsored by the National Committee for a Free Europe / Free Europe Committee

Katalin Kádár Lynn

The essays in this book discuss the Bulgarian, Czechoslovak, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian and Baltic States national committees, which were formed to lead the propaganda battle against the growth of world-wide communism, and which represented the U.S.-based exile leadership of those satellite nations...

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The Tucker Carlson Show

A memo written by George Kennan twelve days after the CIA rigged the Italian election in 1948, it details the effectiveness of manipulating elections and advocates for a department dedicated to such covert operations.

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listen, it's a mean old world out there. We at the CIA just rigged the Italian election. We had to do it because if the communists won, maybe there'd never be another election in Italy again. But it's...

— Episode: Mike Benz

Episode: Mike Benz

A memo written by George Kennan twelve days after the CIA rigged the Italian election in 1948, it details the effectiveness of manipulating elections and advocates for a department dedicated to such covert operations.

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listen, it's a mean old world out there. We at the CIA just rigged the Italian election. We had to do it because if the communists won, maybe there'd never be another election in Italy again. But it's really effective, guys. We need a department of dirty tricks to be able to do this around the world.

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