Hot Books in the Cold War : The CIA-Funded Secret Western Book Distribution Program Behind the Iron Curtain

Subject Index

A Accademia Cristiana Cecoslovacca, 142–3, 263, 265, 364–5 AFL-CIO, 510, 512 Albania, 87, 106, 312, 505, 518 Alpbach Forum, 108, 110, 265, 300 AMCOMLIB, 505–6 American and English literature, 324–6, 356–8, 404–13, 443–8, 486–7 Amerikai Népszava, 8 Aneks, 127 anti-Semitism, 176 architecture books, 337–8, 429–30, 469, 497–8, art books, 336–7, 369–70, 426–8, 466–9, 495–7 Arts and Crafts Arcade, London, 222, 264–5, 268, 271, 277, 279, 285, 288 Association Internationale de Planning , 303, 508 Associazione Letteraria Italiana (ALI), 508, 518 Aurora Verlag, Munich, 97 Austria, 15, 65, 104, 91, 240–1, 270, 299, 301, 358, 508 Austrian College Society, 108, 110 Austrian Literary Society, 107, 109, 265, 267, 298–9 Austrian Socialist Party (SPÖ), 261, 296, 299, 301 AVO, 128 B balloon campaign, xiv, 9–10, 15, Baltic republics, x, 26, 28, 31, 35, 59, 67, 87, 106, 113–14, 119, 131–2, 134–5, 139, 143–4, 173, 279–80, 507, 511, 516 Baltic Review, 95 Baltic visitors, 257–8, 280, 514 Bedford Publishing Company, x, xii, xviii, xxii, 507–8, 512 Belgium, 235–6, 242–3, 265, 270, 275 black market, 131, 140, 193–5 Board for International Broadcasting , xv book confiscation, 80 Book Distribution Program addresses, 81–2 aims, 10, 15–19, 45, 52–3 book categories, 47, 51 book smuggling, 515 budget, 50, 113, 115, 118, 120, 122–3, 269, 303, 511, 513 Subject Index i5 Cold War.indb 537 2013.03.04. 13:38 538 Subject Index effectiveness, xv, xvii–xxiv, 219, 228–9, 230–1, 305, 402–3 control, 274–5, 304 covert character, xiii, xv, 20 empirical evidence, xviii–xxii, 309, 514, 522–3 influence and impact, xx–xxii, 51–3, 521–5 Minden European trip reports, 304, 514–18 objectives, xiii–xv, 9, 19, 45, 52 see also person-to-person distribution , personalized mailings book distributors, 517 book exhibits and fairs Bratislava, 299–300, 305–7 Bucharest, 300, 307–8 Sofia, 307 Varna, 300 Leningrad, 300 Moscow, 300 book publishing, 96–8 book titles mailed, 25, 27–8, 31, 34–6, 47 books on politics and international affairs Poland, 311–20 Braumüller bookshop, Vienna, 296, 299 C Canary Islands, 514–15 Carol I Foundation, 69, 95, 26, 265, 268, 271, 278, 284–5, 288, 293 Carter administration, 509–10, 512 censorship general, 125–8, 199, 208 complaints, 131, 134–5, 142–4, 146–8, 158, 190–1, 311 confiscation, 136–7, 150, 162, 165, 173, 186, 192–3 customs, 245 postal, 128, 188, 208, 228 returned books, 131, 172, 189, 203, 247 thefts, 140, 160, 188, 193–4, 200–1, 203 tricks, 187, 244 Baltic republics, 114–15, 131–2, 134–5, 143–4, 158, 171, 173, 217 Bulgarian, 130, 132, 146, 150–2, 165, 173, 178, 182, 184, 193, 198, 200, 202, 204, 482 Czechoslovak, 129–30, 135–6, 139, 142, 145, 148, 150, 152, 156–7, 159, 161–2, 165–6, 168– 71, 176, 183–5, 193, 195, 203 Hungarian, 128, 133–5, 138, 140, 151–2, 156, 164, 166–8, 172, 175–8, 185, 187–8, 190–2, 194, 203–4 Polish, 127, 136–9, 145–9, 151, 153–6, 158, 161–6, 174–5, 181, 183, 186–8, 189–92, 195 Romanian, 132–3, 138–9, 155, 159–61, 165, 171, 182–6, 188–9, 198–9, 202, 205–6 Central European Federalist, 61, 141, 319, 471 Česke slovo, 9, 95, 119,130, 143, 277, 391 China, 306, 311, 318, 381, 471, 499 China pilot project, 79 CIA Central Intelligence Agency) x–xii, xxvi–xxvii, 7, 35, 40, 42–3, 212, 301, 305, 524–5 censorship, 128, 179–80 Covert Action Staff, 14, 521 covert activities, 510 covert funding, xv, 12, 57, 71, 79–80, 110, 116, 254, 299, 508, 510, 512–3 interest in book project, 84–6 USSR, 505–8 cinema, 338, 370, 430 Columbia University, 8, 56, 64, 257, 270, 293, 402, 475 Communist attacks, criticisms Bulgarian, 217, 222 Czechoslovak, 46, 212, 215–16, 217–19, 221, 225–6, i5 Cold War.indb 538 2013.03.04. 13:38 539 Subject Index Hungarian, 209–12, 213, 216, 218, 220, 227–8 Polish, 208–9, 212–14, 219–20, 222, 229–31 Romanian, 216 Soviet, 217, 225 Warsaw Pact symposium, 226–7 Communist secret services, 517 conferences, support for, 104–110 controversial books, 311...