"Every typewriter had to be registered, access to photocopiers was restricted", and even a book about growing carrots was banned "because it implied that individuals as well as collectives could ...

But the newly unredacted files reveal details about CIA agents and operations that the agency kept secret for decades. Those details previously had been kept secret by national security officials ...

It was first published in book form in Paris, from where readers, including Anthony Burgess, sourced their secret copies ... one of the many books that the CIA smuggled into the USSR as part ...