And beyond a few mentions of Russia, renowned now as during the Cold War for its supposed propagandistic prowess, the enemies are no longer foreign governments but fellow American citizens.

Joseph Finder, who writes frequently about Russia, is the author of 17 novels including, most recently, “The Oligarch’s ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...

A secret American programme put 10m Western books and magazines in the hands of intellectuals and professionals in Eastern ...

As if the propaganda machine itself had an unexpected attack of mauvaise foi and blurts out, tourette’s-like, self-critiques and self-censure. This happened in the late Cold War too with, say, Le ...

Putin’s Russia has a different style than the Cold War-era Soviet Union, but it remains the same in most of the ways that matter most: totalitarian, brutal, aggressive, expansionist, habitually ...

During the Cold War, the dominant Red Army hockey team was a symbol of the supposed superiority of the Soviet system (which was why the underdog U.S. win in the Miracle on Ice at the 1980 Winter ...

As head of the shadowy Office of Policy Coordination (OPC, later the Directorate of Plans), Wisner invented and perfected many of the techniques, objectives and protocols of Cold War propaganda ...

Frank Wisner’s career in espionage began in World War II, but his legacy was the creation of a CIA department that aimed to remake nations around the world.