Hugh Wilford
Auteur van America's Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
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Hugh Wilford is a professor of history at California State University Long Beach, and the author of four books, including The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America. He lives in Long Beach, California.
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- 1965-04-24
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- Hugh Wilford joined the CSULB History Department in 2006, having taught previously at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Trained in the U.K. as a U.S. intellectual historian, he has published widely on such topics as the New York Intellectuals, the history of the American left, Americanization and anti-Americanism in Europe, and the “Cultural Cold War.” His most recent works concern the role of the CIA in shaping Cold War American and western culture, and the role of culture in shaping the Cold War operations of the CIA. The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America (Harvard University Press, 2008) examines the relationship between the CIA and various apparently private U.S. citizen groups the Agency secretly funded in the Cold War “battle for hearts and minds.” America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East (Basic Books, 2013) tells the surprising story of a group of pro-Arab operatives in the early CIA, locating them in longer traditions of American missionary and British imperial engagement with the Arab world.
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he Central Intelligence Agency had been secretly funding and managing a wide range of citizen front groups intended to counter communist influence around the world. In addition to embarrassing prominent individuals caught up, wittingly or unwittingly, in the secret superpower struggle for hearts and minds, the revelations of 1967 were one of the worst operational disasters in the history of American intelligence and presaged a series of public scandals from which the CIA's reputation has arguably never recovered.
CIA official Frank Wisner called the operation his "mighty Wurlitzer," on which he could play any propaganda tune. In this illuminating book, Hugh Wilford provides the first comprehensive account of the clandestine relationship between the CIA and its front organizations. Using an unprecedented wealth of sources, he traces the rise and fall of America's Cold War front network from its origins in the 1940s to its Third World expansion during the 1950s and ultimate collapse in the 1960s.… (meer)
CIA official Frank Wisner called the operation his "mighty Wurlitzer," on which he could play any propaganda tune. In this illuminating book, Hugh Wilford provides the first comprehensive account of the clandestine relationship between the CIA and its front organizations. Using an unprecedented wealth of sources, he traces the rise and fall of America's Cold War front network from its origins in the 1940s to its Third World expansion during the 1950s and ultimate collapse in the 1960s.… (meer)
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Wilford shows that the CIA’s covert network began in the late 1940s, based on the Cold War, domestic anti-communism, and American love of associations. The book’s title comes from a remark by Frank Wisner, “the Agency’s first chief of political warfare.” Wilford describes three phases: 1) organizations providing cover for émigrés; 2) operations to shore up Western European civil society; 3) programs aimed at Third World nations. Earlier interpretations have exaggerated the CIA’s ability to call the tune.
This book aims to be comprehensive though not exhaustive, and to present as rounded a picture as possible. “U.S. citizens at first followed the Agency’s score, then began improvising their own tunes, eventually turning harmony into cacophony,” Wilford writes, forcing his metaphor.… (meer)