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This is false. The CIA didn't exist when the book was written, but its suppression activities of the author and its book by the CIA and its front started after the CIA was funded, and the article gives dates.
The CIA did not exist prior to its establishment in 1947, to use your nomenclature. So what is false? Everything it says the CIA did from 1947 to the 1960s is true.
The claim specifically made in the article that the delay in publication from 1936 to 1946 was due to CIA action through a front group.
It doesn't say that anywhere in the article. You've created a conditional in your head that is found nowhere in the article.
> But its 1946 debut reflected a delay of more than a decade by the country’s real dictators, who disrupted the novel’s genesis and sent its author into exile. And in this act of suppression, Asturias’s censors and exilers were aided by the US, specifically the CIA.
I think it's clumsily worded. There was suppression of the novel and the author was exiled (the novel was self-published in Mexico in 1946, out of the author's own pockets). Guatemala's dictatorship was behind this and the US helped them. But the international discrediting of the author was orchestrated by the CIA through a front, and this took place many years after.
So "this" suppression that the CIA aided is not just 1946 -- that's poorly worded -- but in the ensuing years, after the CIA was already formed.
It would have been easy to say that those actions were part of a broader suppression, or even just aiding in suppression with no qualifier, but specifying "this" makes it unambiguous that they are still talking about the same thing.
I see claims there is an inaccuracy there.
I see people doing paraphrases and inventing conditionals and saying they are inaccurate. Which they are. But they're not the original text.
It's pretty simple, quote some text and say why it is inaccurate.
As there are no inaccuracies of the type mentioned, this does not happen because it cannot happen.
It's in the first paragraph. Emphasis mine. How could the CIA have aided foreign dictators prior to its existence?
The text never days the CIA delayed the novel, it says the CIA aided in suppressing the novel. The CCF didn't even exist until the 1950s.
It's not clear that you mean by "the group" but CCF, Cuaderno, PEN and Mondo Nuevo were all founded after the CIA.
> Since the CIA did not, in fact, exist, any claims of what the CIA tried to do are self-evidently false, and need no more rebuttal than the date the CIA came into being.
This is a farcical argument. You seem to struggle with the concept that an organization can work to suppress something that already existed when the organization was formed.
There are specific claims that are made about the steps that groups led by CIA operatives took to suppress the book and author. All of these events happened AFTER the CIA was founded.
You either lack basic reading comprehension / logic or are trolling.