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At this point, it's not outside the realm of possibility that some or many of the hidden services are being run by three letter agencies themselves.
by ingler 12y ago
At this point, it's not outside the realm of possibility that some or many of the hidden services are being run by three letter agencies themselves.
- mturmon 12y agoThese agencies used fronts to donate money to cold war cultural institutions. I think your speculation is entirely possible, even though it sounds tinfoil-hattish now. The Cold War example that comes to mind is Partisan Review, a broadly left-oriented journal that published Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp" and Clement Greenberg's highly influential art essays (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partisan_Review#Funding_by_the_C.I.A. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partisan_Review#Funding_by_the_...), which (it was later found) accepted multiple donations from CIA fronts. As time went on, some viewed these donations as a tool these agencies found to bolster the intellectual stature of the "New York School" of heroic AbEx painters versus their Soviet counterparts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_expressionism#Abstract_expressionism_and_the_Cold_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_expressionism#Abstract...).