Joel Whitney

author, essayist and editor

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Joel Whitney is a co-founder and editor at large of Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics and the author of Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers.

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The author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers discusses how the spy agency used its own form of propaganda through highly respected magazines to counter the rise in…

Joel Whitney: The CIA's Cold War literary influence

The author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers discusses how the spy agency used its own form of propaganda through highly respected magazines to counter the rise in…

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