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The CIA Fine Arts Commission? Is there an FBI Jazz and Bebop Directorate?

• leoc 11y ago
  It seems they've been busy: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-w... .
• daturkel 11y ago
  Was curious about this so I googled, but the results are less interesting than I'd hoped. "CIA’s fine arts program—administered by its Fine Arts Commission since the 1960s—has benefited over the years from donations of sculptures and paintings that celebrate historical accomplishments in intelligence. The commission reviews donation proposals and, when it finds them appropriate, officially recommends works for acceptance." via: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol52no2/cias-intelligence-art-collection.html https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
• dang 11y ago
  There have been a number of good HN threads (sorry I don't have links) on the CIA's history of promoting arts and letters—often by artists and writers who became distinguished later, indicating rather good taste at the CIA.
  • DrStalker 11y ago
    Or perhaps indicating that the CIA knows how to make an artist famous without it being traced back to them.