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The January 15 post on the CIA's Twitter feed quotes Pasternak as saying "I wrote this novel in order for it to be published and read, and that remains my only desire. - Я писал роман для того, чтобы он был издан и прочитан и это остаётся единственным моим желанием - Пастернак"

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Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty CIA Tweets Doctor Zhivago Author's Quote In Russian   noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) 2:52pm Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty CIA Tweets Doctor Zhivago Author's Quote In Russian Today, January 15th 2:52pm ·   noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) · russia Shared by  1  person The CIA has tweeted a Russian-language quote from author Boris Pasternak about his acclaimed novel Doctor Zhivago, which the agency published and helped smuggle into the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The January 15 post on the CIA's Twitter feed quotes Pasternak as saying "I wrote this novel in order for it to be published and read, and that remains my only desire." The post was one of several from the CIA ahead of a Washington event later on January 15 dedicated to the CIA’s covert program to distribute banned books to Soviet bloc intellectuals during the Cold War. The CIA last year declassified 99 documen