The novelist who co-founded the Paris Review was a CIA spy

The novelist who co-founded the Paris Review was a CIA spy

The Paris Review was partly a CIA front, and one of its founders led a double life to match. In the London Review of Books, Christian Lorentzen reviews a new biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, nature writer, and CIA operative who helped start the magazine as cover. — Read the rest The post The novelist who co-founded the Paris Review was a CIA spy appeared first on Boing Boing.