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U.S. National Student Association delegates at the Third International Student Conference, Copenhagen, 1953. (U.S. National Student Association Papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
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Gloria Steinem in 1967, around the time that the Independent Research Service was revealed as a CIA front. (Corbis)
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Wounded veteran and ardent advocate of world government Cord Meyer, shortly before he joined the CIA in 1951. (Cord Meyer Papers, Library of Congress)
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Dorothy Bauman, front-line fighter in the Cold War struggle for women’s hearts and minds. (Committee of Correspondence Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College)
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Women of the Committee of Correspondence and Third World guests on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. (Committee of Correspondence Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College)
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Jungle doctor Tom Dooley helping Americans locate Vietnam. (Thomas Dooley Papers, Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri, St. Louis)
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Quiet American and Office of Policy Coordination operative Edward Lansdale under cover as U.S. Air Force officer in Honolulu, late 1940s. (Edward Lansdale Papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
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Bing Crosby and rosary priest Patrick Peyton on a Hollywood TV set in 1956.
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J. Peter Grace, lay protector of Patrick Peyton’s Family Rosary Crusade and CIA go-between. (Corbis)
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Novelist Richard Wright, beneficiary and casualty of the covert Cold War.
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John Davis sits between Kenyan politician J. Gikonyo Kiano and Senator John F.
Kennedy at the Second Annual Conference of the American Society of African Culture, New York City, 1959. (American Society of African Culture Papers, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University)
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Nina Simone (third from left) and other African American jazz musicians arrive in Lagos, Nigeria, for the 1961 festival “Negro Culture in Africa and the Americas.” (American Society of African Culture Papers, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University)
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Civil rights leader James Farmer (right) takes questions from the press during his 1965 African tour as James Baker of the American Society of African Culture listens closely. (American Society of African Culture Papers, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University)
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Joseph (left) and Stewart Alsop, journalistic avatars of the Cold War foreign policy establishment. (Corbis)
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Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms (far left) and other members of the Katzenbach Commission in an apparently relaxed meeting with LBJ, March 22, 1967. (Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas)
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An unabashed Tom Braden, pictured just after implicating Victor Reuther and other leaders of the non-communist left in the CIA front scandal, May 1967.
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S E V E N
The Truth Shall Make You Free
W O M E N
One evening in 1952, soon after Dorothy Bauman had returned to New York from one of her frequent trips to Europe, a dinner party was given in her honor. There the patrician, silver-haired journalist told fellow guests of how Soviet propagandists were specifically targeting European women, promising them respect and equality if they converted to communism, and portraying their American counterparts as “superficial,” “just but-terflies.” At the end of the evening, one of the other guests, later described by Bauman as “a man from