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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A secretive LA mansion once doubled as a Cold War propaganda film studio, and is now owned by Jared Leto. Famously weird actor owns secret Cold War military compound in Calif.

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.