so without further ado, i'd like peter finn to come up and tell you about his book himself. [applause] >> thank you for inviting me. i really appreciate the opportunity to speak to you. and in early september 1958, copies of a russian-language edition of dr. zhivago >> the cia, working with dutch intelligence, was behind this publication which was printed by a distinguished house in the hague. the agency saw brussels as an ideal place to distribute the book because an unusually large number of soviet citizens -- some 16,000 -- had on obtained visa to visit the worlds fair at a r5 00-acre site just northwest of central brussels. 42 nations including the u.s. and the soviet union, and for the first time the vatican, participated. the agency assumed that the dutch publishing house, which specialized in slavic-language books, was about to get the rights to the russian language version of dr. zhivago and that this edition would be passed off as a nearly run. there was good reason for this. the publishing house itself also thought it would get the rights from milan for the executi