Eventually this... whatever it is, almost gets somewhere.
TL;DR: the CIA recruited people in the 1950s.
pkkim•23m ago
London Review of Books articles aren't allowed to discuss the book being reviewed for the first five paragraphs. It's an obscure British law or something.
irishcoffee•1m ago
Apparently it isn’t a rule as much as an implied norm. I didn’t know this, thank you for educating me. Explains a lot about the article.
I’ve always been fascinated with how governments operate their clandestine operations. This particular article felt more like an expositional adventure than informative.
irishcoffee•57m ago
TL;DR: the CIA recruited people in the 1950s.
pkkim•23m ago
irishcoffee•1m ago
I’ve always been fascinated with how governments operate their clandestine operations. This particular article felt more like an expositional adventure than informative.