Tuesday June 18, 2024; 1:05 PM EDT
- John le Carré recalled secret and not-so-secret government pressures on writers and film-makers early in his career:#
- “One shouldn’t underrate these networks of influence that flow out of enormous intelligence agencies like the CIA. There are guys sitting on certain floors of certain buildings whose sole job is to massage opinion. And in those days, the CIA was financing magazines, it was financing movies of its own . . . “#