Reddit reviews The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

There was another reason that the CIA supported these artistic movements. They almost are completely devoid of any emotional or political message. You can rarely use them to enlighten people or stir them up to political action. At best they are intellectually interesting. Artistically they are trash compared to, say, [Soviet War Paintings](http://www.allworldwars.com/Soviet War Paintings.html) with their ability to stir the soul.

Read Frances Stonor Saunder's The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters which reveals just how much of American post war culture was controlled, shaped and directed by the CIA, ie, the wealthy and powerful.

And it wasn't just the art they controlled, and not just in the US.

>The CIA also entered the world of the cinema, leaving their mark on film scripts and blocking films which they thought problematic, and helping others which favored their cause. http://www.terra.es/personal2/gmv00000/truthfiction.htm

No offense, but his name is spelled Stonor.

Here's his book at Amazon

Just want to make sure that this book is linked to though it is far too late and no one will see it.

Edit: Really? A down vote for the book that us literally an intensive study covering the subject of the link. Howsabout go fuck yourself then? You know what, hey everyone, you read that Asimov short story that's linked to every week? Fuck it, just read that instead.

Another edit: Yes! Your down votes are oxygen! Let's inhale them and feed the trees around us! You guys ever heard of Sufjan Stevens? His songs are so sad right?

I don't have any proof in terms of linking producers or production companies, but I've long felt that the early wave of flying saucer invasion B films of the 1950s were made under the influence of the CIA and the conclusions of the Robertson Panel in early 1953. [It's a well-known fact that CIA looked to use the media and Hollywood for propaganda](http://www.amazon.com/The-Cultural-Cold-War-Letters/dp/1565846648, and the Robertson Pannel explicitly recommended such a campaign to dillute interest in UFO reports. The extreme distortion of Donald Keyhoe's Flying Saucers from Outer Space that became Earth vs. the Flying Saucers seems like the clearest example of taking actual reports and turning them into sensationalistic nonsense that is thinly vieled Cold War propaganda (invading ETs as invading Commies).

Honestly I imagine that there's a traceable paper trail that exists. But again, I've never seen a thorough demonstration of CIA's involvement.

The CIA funding modern artists is also substantiated...
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/1565846648/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_66BUBbZ0BMEA8

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1944869131/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_M7BUBbCMGEF5J

You essentially described a modern take on the CIA's Cultural warfare against the USSR - which incidentally is responsible for everything Putin does.

This is a good start, but a red flag.

Focus on the Saudi / Qatari funding - we're talking domestic terrorism and sleeper agents.

> sheeple downvotes?

credibility waning

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Ok now you proved you work for the US government. j/k

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>For international affairs graduates, challenging such consensus views puts access to senior government jobs at risk. An academic at a prominent university whom I interviewed in preparation for this essay quickly grasped where I was heading and confided that “it is impossible to make a career in this field with an alternative view; it is not by chance that alternative views come from people educated in other disciplines, like linguistics for Noam Chomsky or law for Richard Falk

>Take Iran, for instance. Although the debate over the nuclear deal is heated, it revolves around technicalities such as verification protocol or the feasibility of air strikes. Very few people in the establishment challenge the threat to use force if Iran reneges on the deal. No one questions whether Iran should be considered an enemy in the first place."

Historically, the sort of think tanks and donors who fund the likes of Jeffrey Lewis were just PR fronts for the CIA to promote propaganda. This is very well documented:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Cultural-Cold-War-Letters/dp/1565846648

Needless to say people who challenge the conventional wisdom don't get a Ford Foundation-type grant and the NY Times doesn't come knocking on their door regularly. They're the "internet trolls" that Jeffrey dismisses, even though they may be better qualified than he is to opine on nuclear weapons -- people like Robert Kelley.

These "experts" are just there to sell the govt policy

> I think a more fruitful rabbit hole can be found regarding the CIA installation of Jackson Pollock into the art world

Correct. For all those interested. This is the book you need to read. The Cultural Cold War. The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters.

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You might only not be able to connect with these works because the CIA waged a cultural war on social realist art to try to render art with political or emotional themes unacceptable to society.