Cold War Games - Rider Toby C.
Cold War Games - Rider Toby C. It is the early Cold War. In response, the United States conceives a subtle, far-reaching psychological warfare campaign to blunt the Soviet advance. The Soviet Union…
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Cold War Games - Rider Toby C.
It is the early Cold War. In response, the United States conceives a subtle, far-reaching psychological warfare campaign to blunt the Soviet advance. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance, and moves to exploit the Olympic Games as a vehicle for promoting international communism.
Rider chronicles how the US government used the Olympics to promote democracy and its own policy aims during the tense early phase of the Cold War. Drawing on newly declassified materials and archives, Toby C. Rider shows how the government, though constrained by traditions against interference in the Games, eluded detection by cooperating with private groups, including secretly funded A(c)migrA(c) organizations bent on liberating their home countries from Soviet control.
At the same time, the United States appropriated Olympic host cities to hype the American economic and political system