{"product_id":"9780300210668","title":"Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism","description":"In this revelatory book, Karen M. Paget shows how the CIA turned the National Student Association into an intelligence asset during the Cold War, with students used—often wittingly and sometimes unwittingly—as undercover agents inside America and abroad. In 1967, \u003ci\u003eRamparts\u003c\/i\u003e magazine exposed the story, prompting the Agency into engineering a successful cover-up. Now Paget, drawing on archival sources, declassified documents, and more than 150 interviews, shows that the \u003ci\u003eRamparts\u003c\/i\u003e story revealed only a small part of the plot.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA cautionary tale, throwing sharp light on the persistent argument, heard even now, about whether America’s national-security interests can be advanced by skullduggery and deception, \u003ci\u003ePatriotic Betrayal,\u003c\/i\u003e says Karl E. Meyer, a former editorial board member of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, evokes “the aura of a John le Carré novel with its self-serving rationalizations, its layers of duplicity, and its bureaucratic doubletalk.” And Hugh Wilford, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America,\u003c\/i\u003e calls \u003ci\u003ePatriotic Betrayal\u003c\/i\u003e “extremely valuable as a case study of relations between the CIA and one of its front groups, greatly extending and enriching our knowledge and understanding of the complex dynamics involved in such covert, state-private relationships; it offers a fascinating portrayal of post-World War II U.S. political culture in microcosm.\"","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120526541040,"sku":"9780300210668","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780300210668_p0.jpg?v=1763670424","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780300210668","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}