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When 'Fake News' Was a Force for Good

“Agents of Influence” sets the record straight on the man called Intrepid

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Peter Eisner
Jun 20, 2022
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Agents of Influence is Henry Hemming’s engagingly reported story about an audacious British clandestine propaganda campaign to draw the United States into World WarTwo.

On one level, it’s a story of the life and times of William Stephenson, a Canadian with no espionage training who becomes Britain’s unlikely key operative in the United States as well as …

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