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

According to a review in the London Review of Books, Peter Matthiessen—the acclaimed novelist and nature writer who co-founded the prestigious literary magazine the Paris Review—led a secret double life as a CIA operative. Boing Boing reports that the Paris Review itself served partly as intelligence agency cover. A new biography explores Matthiessen's hidden role in the intelligence community alongside his celebrated literary career.

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