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12151457 No.12151457 [Reply] [Original]

The CIA funded artists and musicians during the Cold War era to assert US superiority in culture over the Soviet Union, do you think any authors were secretly funded as well? If so, who?

source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

>> No.12151513

>>12151457
They absolutely did. I mentioned this in an earlier thread: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Iowa+writers+workshop+cia

>> No.12151622

>>12151457
All postwar culture is more or less curated by the CIA.

>> No.12151644

>>12151457
I don’t know about funding but Pynchon was probably CIA at one point.

>> No.12151670

>>12151457
Peter Matthiessen admitted The Paris Review was funded by the CIA

>> No.12151695

>>12151513
really interesting article, thanks for linking anon

>> No.12151713

The hunt for Red October is literally propaganda.

>> No.12151718

>>12151695
see this one too
https://www.infowars.com/

>> No.12153380

>>12151457
lol if you think they ever stopped

>> No.12153391

Most mid to late 20th century art, film and literature was pretty much a proxy war between the CIA and KGB