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The Best Kept Secret: An Untold Story of a Cold War Operation

Alfred Reisch’s Hot Books in the Cold War, published shortly before his death in 2013, is the first comprehensive account of a still classified covert operation funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in mid-1956 to publish and distribute books and periodicals destined for readers in six “target countries”—the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria. Reisch refers to it as “the book distribution program”; inside the Agency it was called simply “the book program.” For many years it remained a secret of sorts, even though several people who were involved in, or benefited from, it knew or suspected that it was a CIA operation. The book program escaped the exposés of other covert operations that surfaced in the radical left-wing and even mainstream press in the 1960s and during the revelations from congressional investigations in 1970s.