The CIA Book Club Quotes

“Poland was the most crucial of Eastern Bloc nations: when communism collapsed in 1989, this was the first domino to fall, and it was literature that won the war here, as the Polish dissident Adam Michnik maintained.”
― Charlie English, The CIA Book Club: The Best Kept Secret of the Cold War

“Intellectual freedom is essential to human society—freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate, and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such a trinity of freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.”
― Charlie English, The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature

“reservoir”
― Charlie English, The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature

“maintained. ‘We should build a monument to books,”
― Charlie English, The CIA Book Club: The Best Kept Secret of the Cold War