On Sunday, July 13, there appeared in the “New York Times Book Review” a quick look at Charlie English’s new non-fiction book entitled “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with ...

Charlie English begins “The CIA Book Club” by describing a 1970s technical manual: a dull cover, as uninviting as anything. A book that practically begs you to put it back on the shelf and move on.

‘Winds of Freedom’, as this operation was codenamed, was the brainchild of the Free Europe Committee, a psychological warfare arm of the CIA set up in 1949 to combat what Washington saw as the ...

In this episode of TOI Bookmark, non-fiction author and journalist Charlie English talks about his latest book The CIA Book Club, which explores the clandestine efforts of the CIA to distribute banned ...