CIA agents in flim, publishing, travel-writing,…etc

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  • May 16, 2015 at 8:34 am #24641
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    Modern Art Was CIA Weapon
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

    For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art…

    …The next key step came in 1950, when the International Organisations Division (IOD) was set up under Tom Braden. It was this office which subsidised the animated version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, which sponsored American jazz artists, opera recitals, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s international touring programme. Its agents were placed in the film industry, in publishing houses, even as travel writers for the celebrated Fodor guides. And, we now know, it promoted America’s anarchic avant-garde movement, Abstract Expressionism.
    Initially, more open attempts were made to support the new American art. In 1947 the State Depart… see link…

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