Patriotic betrayal
Subtitle: the inside story of the CIA's secret campaign to enroll American students in the crusade against communism
By: Karen M. Paget
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9780300205084
Subjects: United States; United States National Student Association; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Anti-communist movements; History
Description: Overview:  In this revelatory book, Karen M. Paget shows how the CIA turned the National Student Association into an intelligence asset during the Cold War, with students used-often wittingly and sometimes unwittingly-as undercover agents inside America and abroad.  In 1967, Ramparts magazine exposed the story, prompting the Agency into engineering a successful cover-up.  Now Paget, drawing on archival sources, declassified documents, and more than 150 interviews, shows that the Ramparts story revealed only a small part of the plot.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Prologue; title: Part 1:; title: Cooperation Or Combat:; title: Fighting faith; title: Apostolic Catholics; title: Behind the scenes; title: Enter the CIA; title: Allard Lowenstein and the International Student Conference; title: Part 2:  Denial Operations:; title: Counteroffensive; title: Battle for members; title: Opening the spigot; title: Spirit of Bandung; title: Shifting battlefields; title: Part 3:  Competitive Coexistence:; title: Hungary and the struggle against nonalignment; title: Debating democracy in Red Square; title: Courting revolutionaries; title: Gloria Steinem and the Vienna operation; title: Social upheavals; title: Part 4:  Losing Control:; title: Showdown in Madison; title: Pro-west moderate militants; title: Pyrrhic victory; title: Persistent questioner; title: Lifting the veil; title: Part 5:  Flap:; title: Philip Sherburne takes on the CIA; title: Game within the game; title: Hide-and-seek; title: Do you want blood on your hands?; title: Firestorm; title: Enemy at home; title: Cast of characters; title: Chronology; title: Notes; title: List of abbreviations and acronyms; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index; title: Illustrations follow page 240.