CIA

Connections

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Characters Kamila Shamsie
Burnt Shadows begins at Guantanamo detention camp, as an unnamed prisoner is ushered to his cell, asking himself How did it come to this? To answer this question, the novel takes the reader back to...
Performance of text George Orwell
The world premiere of an animated film of GO 's Animal Farm, funded by the CIA and in course of production since 1951, was held at the Paris Theatre in New York.
Hoberman, James. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, p. 23.
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politics Bernice Rubens
BR 's politics were left-leaning, if not as optimistic as those of her staunchly Socialist father. She had the distinction of having been thrown out of two countries with diametrically opposed oppressive regimes, South Africa...

Timeline

October 1953: The influential literary and cultural magazine...

Writing climate item

October 1953

The influential literary and cultural magazineEncounter was launched in London; the editors were Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol .

27 July 1954: The elected President of Guatemala, Jacobo...

National or international item

27 July 1954

The elected President of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzmàn , resigned, following an invasion by a Liberation Army under the direction of the CIA .

October 1998: Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet,...

National or international item

October 1998

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet , visiting London for private medical treatment, was arrested on grounds of crimes against humanity.

10 June 2013: The Guardian newspaper revealed the identity...

National or international item

10 June 2013

The Guardian newspaper revealed the identity of Edward Snowden , former CIA and National Security Agency employee and computer programmer, who had leaked or made publicly available a huge number of NSA confidential documents about...

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