'Pasternak's novel is a malicious libel'
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CIA may have helped Boris Pasternak, author of 'Doctor Zhivago,' win the Nobel Prize. ... Pasternak would have won it anyway. But the Cold War intrigue makes it more fun. The dolts at the Swedish Academy wouldn't give out the award due to a technicality. And so ... presto! Problem solved. ... Ah, for the days when the CIA could actually get things right now and then. ...