Shortly after it was founded in 1947, the CIA launched a secret effort to win the Cold War allegiance of the British left. Hugh Wilford traces the story of this campaign from its origins in Washington DC to its impact on Labour Party politicians, trade unionists, and Bloomsbury intellectuals
This guy went this place, than some other guy exchanged him for two other guys. Why? How did it happen? What was the end result? What was talked there? Who else supported the exchange? No answer.
A shallow, boring text with some chronological data.