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I don't have a source, so take this with a grain of salt. But I had heard a story on a podcast once (not sure which one, sorry...) that the CIA was actually ver
by jacurtis 4y ago
I don't have a source, so take this with a grain of salt. But I had heard a story on a podcast once (not sure which one, sorry...) that the CIA was actually very involved within Hollywood in the 40-70s and used it exactly in this manner. This was coming from an interview with someone who worked in CIA intelligence during these years.
According to the interviewer, the CIA funded and pushed the entertainment medium to distribute a vision of how good America was for the average person in order to improve the reputation of America around the world.
- woodruffw 4y agoI don't know about film, but the CIA was (somewhat) famously involved in defining and propagating the style of midcentury creative writing[1]. "More Hemingway and less Dos Passos" as this article puts it[2]. [1]: https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/cia-helped-shaped-american-creative-writing-famous-iowa-writers-workshop.html https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/cia-helped-shaped-americ... [2]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x3vg3/how-the-cia-turned-american-literature-into-a-content-farm https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x3vg3/how-the-cia-turned-am...
- pessimizer 4y agoAnd art (esp. abstract expressionism): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Paid_the_Piper%253F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Paid_the_Piper%253F