Posted on 04/04/2017 7:52:33 AM PDT by TruthWarriors
n this week’s episode of “Scheer Intelligence” Robert Scheer interviews Joel Whitney, author and co-founder of Guernica magazine.
Whitney’s new book, “Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers,” explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold War to produce subtly anti-communist material. During the interview, Scheer and Whitney discuss these manipulations and how the CIA controlled major news agencies and respected literary publications (such as the Paris Review).
Their talk comes at a particularly tense time in American politics, as accusations of fake news and Russian propaganda fly from both sides of the aisle. But the history detailed in Whitney’s book presents a valuable lesson for writers hoping to avoid similar manipulations today.
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I guess the CIA assumed Americans were too stupid to figure out that communism - with it starving millions and iron curtain to stop people from escaping - was “too attractive” and could trick us.
Well, it did trick the John Kerry, Bill Clinton, Obama, Bernie Sanders etc types - but it didn’t trick many everyday Americans.
How frigging insulting.
The simple fact is, that the last 6 decades have been worse because of the CIA. They were supposed to protect us from a new pearl harbor.
Instead they have become an un-American force. Their sole has always been to advance the globalist moneyed class agenda.
They were dead wrong about the bomber gap. Then they were wrong about the missile gap. Our whole posture of the 60s was based on their wrong ideas.
They have been involved in all the main dope waves to hit America from the French Connection, the Golden Triangle in Vietnam, the contra-cocaine ring out of Mena Arkansas, Afghan heroin, and the Mexican cartels of today. This allows them to curry favor with useful nefarious people, or to finance their enormous black budget.
At best they turned a blind eye to the JFK murder. They missed the fall on the USSR and Iron curtain. They missed 9/11, the shoe bomber, Major Hassan, and all the others.
They supported ISIS and now openly support Al Qeida. They did LSD experiments on unwitting US soldiers and people people.
Now they have become a domestic spying operation and have a legal right to push propaganda on the US people.
I want to hear a sane argument that we are better off with the CIA, rather than traditional military strategic reconnaissance and intelligence.
Truman though they were operating in a way that was un-American. JFK wanted them disbanded.
The name Bush is inter-twined throughout that history as well as the history of its predecessor.
this same book interview captured assage’s attention with wikileaks twitter tweet dated march 29th.
Over those 60 years the CIA is guilty of many objectionable acts.
This is not one of them.
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