Shortly after it was founded in 1947, the CIA launched a secret effort to win the Cold War allegiance of the British left. Hugh Wilford traces the story of this campaign from its origins in Washington DC to its impact on Labour Party politicians, trade unionists, and Bloomsbury intellectuals
Postwar possibilities; the third force revisited - the British Left and IRD; CIA and NCL; a case study The new leader and the cultural Cold War; labor diplomacy; unwitting assets? British intellectuals and the congress for cultural freedom; the CIA, the European movement and Bilderberg; the uses of Encounter.
