CIA as Arts Patron

Here's an interesting lede from the Washington Post:

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"What do Richard Wright, Gloria Steinem, Henry Kissinger, George Meany, Nina Simone and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. have in common?

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Answer: Directly or indirectly, they all took money from the Central Intelligence Agency during the early years of the Cold War."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/24/AR2008012402369_pf.html

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Click the link for the article "Dancing to the CIA's Tune - The secret funding of American artists and intellectuals in the '50s and '60s" which is a book review of The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America" by Hugh Wilford.

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The book explains the many front organizations the CIA set up such as the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Independent Research Service in an effort to get artists to fight communist efforts in the realm of culture.

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