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When I read Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago a few years ago, I couldn’t understand the fuss. At the time it was published (in 1957), the novel was a huge success, and Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature a year later.

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Listening to journalist Patrick Radden Keefe’s engrossing podcast Wind of Change, I learnt that the CIA was involved in the novel’s distribution as part of its Cold War propaganda. Both the Soviets and Americans saw the book as being critical of communism; the CIA printed thousands of copies in Russian and smuggled them into the USSR.

It wasn’t the only covert action the CIA took: the agency funded literary magazines and promoted artists and musicians, including Nina Simone, who unwittingly travelled to Nigeria on a trip orchestrated by the spy agency.

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