as spy agencies go, the OPC had a pretty discerning eye; as historian Hugh Wilford notes, “the CIA’s tastes in literature were predominantly highbrow and modernist. Much the same could be said, it seems, of the visual arts.” All the while, the OPC was also funneling money to Western European think tanks and labor unions and youth leagues, vying for influence at the leftward end of society wherever they might make inroads.
