The covert-action arm of the early post-war U.S. intelligence
establishment was called the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), which
was later absorbed into the CIA. The program of U.S. aid to Europe following
the war was broadly called the Marshall Plan, one aspect of which was the
appropriation under the Economic Cooperation Administration. ECA included
secret funding for OPC activities in Europe. This book is a behind-the-
scenes look at policymaking during the early Cold War years. Ex-OSS elites,
such as those interviewed by Pisani, played an active role in making sure
that U.S. aid came with political strings attached, often in the form of
secretly-funded propaganda fronts that pushed the correct line. We beat the
Communists at their own game. But victory came at a price: covert action in
peacetime is now institutionalized, and it won't go away.
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