In this month's Harper's, Lewis Lapham sez:
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George Kennan in 1949 advanced the "messianic concept" of the "necessary lie;" his doctrine of Cold War containment (cultural as well as military) embraced the virtues of plausible deniability, the vocabularies of misleading statemetns, the manufacture of ideologcial consent.
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I can't find those two quoted phrases associated with Kennan. They don't seem to be in the "long telegram" of 1947. Does anyone know what he's quoting from here? It could be have some connection with Frances Stonor Saunders' book, which occasioned his column, if anyone has a copy of that handy.
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com