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seems like a genius way to legitimately funnel dark funding. you can literally invent million dollar excuses for value transfers to arbitrary individuals.
by elif 3y ago
seems like a genius way to legitimately funnel dark funding.
you can literally invent million dollar excuses for value transfers to arbitrary individuals.
- luxuryballs 3y agoYep there’s a whole industry around this too, you can watch these high end art auctions live where all the people in the room “bidding” are just representing the real bidders by proxy. It can get dark pretty quickly though if you start imagining what may actually be buying.
- secondcoming 3y agoThis is the case for pretty much all auctions though. Not everyone has the ability to be physically present in the auction room.
- boppo1 3y ago> you can watch these Where?
- luxuryballs 3y agoexample of a previous stream https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LzwZow7U5KE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LzwZow7U5KE
- DANmode 3y agoSee also: art in embassies program
- whateveracct 3y agoExcept most of this art was legitimate capital A Art. Existing in the Art World. Let's not dismiss all modern art as fake. As popular of a philistine take that is amongst engineer types.
- torginus 3y agoConsidering the story of the Glomar Explorer, its astonishing just how much can the CIA hide in plain sight. Compared to that, astroturfing the works of a few modern artists seems trivial (and does not require the CIA or any bogeyman organization, just someone with sufficient clout in the art critic world).
- torginus 3y agoSince spying requires inordinate amounts of untraceable funds, I wonder just how many CIA personnel have amassed huge private fortunes this way.