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| Subject: CIA, entertainment and culture Thu Jan 03, 2013 3:10 am | |
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- The CIA has been historically involved in a diverse array of clandestine covert action. Among the “sexiest” was the CIA’s foray into the world of entertainment and culture post-World War II, in which vast resources were diverted to a secret program of cultural propaganda in western Europe. In the wake of the War, western and much of central Europe were “Americanized,” as is detailed in an excellent book on the topic by Reinhold Wagnleiter called Coca-Colonization and the Cold War. In her book, The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Sanders points out that, at its peak, the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom had offices in 35 countries, published 20 prestige magazines, held art exhibitions, owned news and features services, organized high profile international conferences, and rewarded musicians and artists with prizes and public performances. As Sanders writes:
“Drawing on an extensive, highly influential network of intelligence, personnel, political strategists, the corporate establishment, and the old school ties of the Ivy League universities, the incipient CIA started, from 1947, to build a 'consortium' whose double task it was to inoculate the world against the contagion of Communism, and to ease the passage of American foreign policy interests abroad. The result was a remarkably tight network of people who worked alongside the Agency to promote an idea: that the world needed a pax Americana, a new age of enlightenment, and it would be called The American Century.”
(Dollar Vigilante editor-in-chief Jeff Berwick got his own special taste of this “American Century” when the CIA sent a blond to rendezvous with and court him on an island excursion.) http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article37883.html |
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