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	Podcast:		Witness: Witness Archive 2015
	Episode:		The CIA's Cultural War: how the CIA secretly funded the magazine Encounter
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:08:52
	Publish Date:		2015-11-19 03:58:00
	Description:		In autumn 1953, a new literary magazine was launched in London that would become the magazine of choice of the English-speaking liberal intelligentsia. The magazine was called Encounter. And fourteen years later, it would emerge, it had been funded by the CIA as part of a cultural Cold War. Photograph: British poet Sir Stephen Spender, co-editor of Encounter, a year after he resigned when it became clear the magazine had received CIA funding (credit: Evening Standard/Getty Images)
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