Charles Wick, a former bandleader and Hollywood agent, waged Reagan's
cold war in his lead-lined overcoat and phalanx of bodyguards. Snyder is
less brash. He knows that both U.S. and "Evil Empire" propaganda relied
on outright disinformation, and the U.S. won because it spent more money.
Star Wars, Snyder says, was an outright bluff. The Reagan rhetoric on the
KAL 007 shoot-down was a lie; the portion of the cockpit transcript that
proved the Soviet pilot was following reasonable procedures was deliberately
deleted by Reagan's people. By now it's easy to see why the Soviets felt
that Reagan was trying to start World War III. The only comic relief in this
book concerns the gross incompetence at the Voice of America, and in Miami's
anti-Castro community, as they forced the TV Marti silliness on Congress.
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