[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]
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Cold War Deceptions:
The Asia Foundation and the CIA
by David H. Price
University of Washington Press
2024. 358 pp.
(paper), ISBN 978-0-295-75224-2
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Reviewed by Hao Chen (Dartmouth College)
In his most recent book, Cold War Deceptions: The Asia Foundation and the CIA, anthropologist and historian David H. Price offers one of the most comprehensive accounts that examines the covert operation and financial maneuvering of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to influence postcolonial trajectories of Asian countries on behalf of US Cold War objectives, including the expansion of transnational liberal anticommunism, manipulation of knowledge production that catered to Washington
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