JEFFREY BROWN:
When Boris Pasternak finished his novel "Dr. Zhivago" in 1956, Soviet authorities read the tale of an individual struggle amid the Russian revolution and refused to publish it. Western intelligence agencies, though, quickly realized its potential as a tool of propaganda.
The story of how the novel became came to be published and smuggled back into the Soviet Union with help from the CIA is told in the new book "The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book."
It's co-authored by Petra Couvee.
And joining me now, Peter Finn, national security editor and former Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post.
And welcome to you.
PETER FINN, Co-Author, "The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book": Great to be here.
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