CIA and Cultural Cold War
David Sharpness
Cold War (London: Granta Books), £20.
This book provides a detailed account of the ways in which the CIA
penetrated and influenced a vast array of cultural organizations,
through its front groups and via friendly philanthropic organizations
like the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.
http://www.monthlyreview.org/1199petr.htm
Well, I was thinking about Cord Meyer and Mary Meyer again, and this
after contemplating Angleton and Philby and the "mole hunt". I hadn't
took much note of Angleton and Mary's diary, being new to the story!
But Meyer and Angleton had this cutural side, as did JFK and Jackie,
and...I dunno, I'd read review of this book in art magazine, or an
article like it, way back in September, and search meyer angleton
turned it up on web--actually quite a few reviews--and I thought to
post it here.
David
Rainbow, CA
Feb. 12, 2003
John McAdams
wrote:
You are aware that MONTHLY REVIEW is a Marxist publication, right?
.John
--
Kennedy Assassination Home Page
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
David Sharpness
Not specifically, but I thought the review a little pink, and I
mentioned other reviews as a hedge, but didn't elaborate.
quote
The CIA also published and translated well-known authors who toed the
Washington line, sponsored abstract art to counteract art with any
social content and, throughout the world, subsidized journals that
criticized Marxism, communism, and revolutionary politics and
apologized for, or ignored, violent and destructive imperialist U.S.
policies.
unquote
I doubt this review author would dwell much on Soviet imperialism.
I hopped about, looking up Monthly Review, thinking maybe to find how
one could identify a "marxist publication", or someone who is a
Marxist from their writing.
I like Charlie Rose, but one nite on his show he had an author, a red,
who I thought a lunatic, and I thought, "Charlie, how can you give
this idiot air time!"
The author's book is reviewed in Monthly Review too, amongst many
places...
quote
Empire. Published last year by Harvard University Press, this book has
received unstinting praise in such places as The New York Times, Time
magazine and the London Observer, and has led to a guest appearance by
Hardt on the Charlie Rose show and an Op-Ed piece in The New York
Times.
http://www.rosalux.de/Einzel/empire/fremdspr.htm
unquote
Powell got snagged by quoting from a British intelligence report that
was concocted from a student's thesis, and some article, 10 years old,
which is to say one should vet one's quotes when going before the UN.
I wonder if he was set up--Angleton did something like this as a
lark--cobbled together a super secret report out of newspaper and
magazine articles--about Iran I think.
You know, I'm limitied to published things, and I've come to regard it
as a good limit, as they can be gone to and looked at by anyone who
questions.
Using living sources, or documents in those boxes, is a little bit
perilous as the reader cant go to them and assess them themselves.
I try to regard the whole spectrum…;)
David
Rainbow, CA
Feb. 14, 2003