Cold Warriors

The Geneva Accords divided Vietnam in two along the Seventeenth Parallel, with the promise of elections that would unify the country in 1956. The hard-liners in the Viet Minh wanted greater concessions, but China warned their allies of the possibility of American intervention if they pushed harder. Ho Chi Minh was persuaded to play the long game; he would doubtless win any nationwide election if it were held. Realizing this, the Americans refused to sign the agreement, fearing that it simply delayed the fall of the country to Communism.

- Duncan White, 2019, Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War / amazon

see also Ed Lansdale’s Black Warfare in 1950s Vietnam

Sinyavsky was insistent both during and after the trial that he had told Peltier to find him a publisher that was not "anti-Soviet. Yet if his goal had been to keep his books out of the literal Cold War, he categorically failed — almost every word he smuggled abroad had appeared in journals funded by the Congress for Cultural Freedom. There is no reason to doubt Sinyavsky's good faith, but he was naive to believe he could send his work out into the West and avoid it being exploited War propaganda. What many better-informed writers in the West did not realize was just quite how deeply the CIA had infiltrated the cultural field with their front organizations, secret funding operations, and covert agents. The prosecution got a lot wrong, but there was no question that Sinyavsky's and. Daniels work had been exploited by the propaganda fronts established by American intelligence. The "propaganda machine of international reaction" might not have had tentacles, but it certainly existed. And amid the fallout from Sinyavsky-Daniel trial, the rest of the world was about to find out. - pg 523-524

no reason to doubt, really?

еще познавательная глава Spender, pg 425. про Stephen Spender. в Wiki упоминается Encounter и Congress for Cultural Freedom, но мельком. в книге все гораздо подробнее и интереснее, в частности - про Melvin J. Lasky очень даже познавательно.

В главе Havel, pg 632: To preserve the family idyll, the families retreated to a country house during the Nazi occupation... как мило.