Notes
1 After decades of silence, the CIA has posted documents related to this CIA operation as part of its Historical Review Program, claiming they ‘show how effective “soft power” can influence events and drive foreign policy’ < http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/doctor-zhivago> (accessed 7 July 2014).
2 Petra Couvée, ‘Een geslaagde stunt. Operatie Zjivago, de ontknoping’, De Parelduiker 1999/1 (1999) pp.63–70.
3 Peter Finn, ‘The Plot Thickens’, The Washington Post, 27 January 2007 < http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012601758.html> (accessed 7 July 2014).
4 Declassified CIA memo on Doctor Zhivago from 24 April 1958 < http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/the-cia-and-doctor-zhivago-memo-from-april-24-1958/922/> (accessed 11 July 2014).
5 Zinoviev, the one-time head of the Communist International, was executed in August 1936, heralding the initiation of the so-called ‘Great Terror’.
6 After Pasternak's death to cancer in 1960, Olga Ivinskaya was again arrested and jailed, serving four years for illegally importing currency earned by Doctor Zhivago's foreign sales.