In a book review of ``The Soviet Cultural Offensive", he says , "Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders , the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes , as when the enterprising promoters of 'Porgy and Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines .