Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy

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Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign PolicyIt is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance, and moves to exploit the Olympic Games as a vehicle for promoting international communism. In response, the United States conceives a subtle, far reaching psychological warfare campaign to blunt the Soviet advance. Drawing on newly declassified materials and archives, Toby C. Rider chronicles how the US government used the Olympics to promote democracy and its own

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