Author Ivan Tolstoi claims that the CIA lent a hand to ensure that Doctor Zhivago was submitted to the Nobel Committee in its original language, in order for Pasternak to win the Nobel prize and further harm the international credibility of the Soviet Union.

The Nobel prize is a CIA propaganda device? People knew even back then I guess.

Ivan Tolstoi is obscure. 1 book, doesn't look like it was translated into English. Book is about Doctor Zhivago and the KGB and the CIA.

https://www.librarything.com/author/tolstoiivan

Movie adaptation in 1965(?) Here's a trailer: https://youtu.be/CGGr21PilKY

Possibly commsy if this is something the CIA played with. The author sharing a name with a modern day Jewish MKULTRA golem handler is interesting as fuck.