We had better be careful who we associate with but then we don’t have to worry about these cretins stealing our language, right? The selling of snow to eskimos is a deep PsyOp. I always suspected those damn radical poets and French poseurs, lol. Thanks for the Monday afternoon tour of more CIA highjinks. Nothing if not entertaining.
The way to carry out good propaganda is never to appear to be carrying it out at
all.
Richard Crossman
During the height of the Cold War, the US government committed vast resources to a
secret programme of cultural propaganda in western Europe. A central feature of this programme was to advance the claim that it did not exist. It was managed, in great secrecy, by
America’s espionage arm, the Central Intelligence Agency. The centrepiece of this covert campaign was the Congress for Cultural Freedom, run by CIA agent Michael Josselson from 1950
till 1967. Its achievements – not least its duration – were considerable. At its peak, the Congress for Cultural Freedom had offices in thirty-five countries, employed dozens of personnel,
published over twenty prestige magazines, held art exhibitions, owned a news and features
service, organized high-profile international conferences, and rewarded musicians and artists
with prizes and public performances. Its mission was to nudge the intelligentsia of western
Europe away from its lingering fascination with Marxism and Communism towards a view
more accommodating of ‘the American way’.
Drawing on an extensive, highly influential network of intelligence personnel, political
strategists, the corporate establishment, and the old school ties of the Ivy League universities,
the incipient CIA started, from 1947, to build a ‘consortium’ whose double task it was to inoculate the world against the contagion of Communism, and to ease the passage of American foreign policy interests abroad. The result was a remarkably tight network of people who worked
alongside the Agency to promote an idea: that the world needed a pax Americana, a new age of
enlightenment, and it would be called The American Century.
We had better be careful who we associate with but then we don’t have to worry about these cretins stealing our language, right? The selling of snow to eskimos is a deep PsyOp. I always suspected those damn radical poets and French poseurs, lol. Thanks for the Monday afternoon tour of more CIA highjinks. Nothing if not entertaining.
https://www.redstarpublishers.org/CulturalColdWar.pdf
The way to carry out good propaganda is never to appear to be carrying it out at
all.
Richard Crossman
During the height of the Cold War, the US government committed vast resources to a
secret programme of cultural propaganda in western Europe. A central feature of this programme was to advance the claim that it did not exist. It was managed, in great secrecy, by
America’s espionage arm, the Central Intelligence Agency. The centrepiece of this covert campaign was the Congress for Cultural Freedom, run by CIA agent Michael Josselson from 1950
till 1967. Its achievements – not least its duration – were considerable. At its peak, the Congress for Cultural Freedom had offices in thirty-five countries, employed dozens of personnel,
published over twenty prestige magazines, held art exhibitions, owned a news and features
service, organized high-profile international conferences, and rewarded musicians and artists
with prizes and public performances. Its mission was to nudge the intelligentsia of western
Europe away from its lingering fascination with Marxism and Communism towards a view
more accommodating of ‘the American way’.
Drawing on an extensive, highly influential network of intelligence personnel, political
strategists, the corporate establishment, and the old school ties of the Ivy League universities,
the incipient CIA started, from 1947, to build a ‘consortium’ whose double task it was to inoculate the world against the contagion of Communism, and to ease the passage of American foreign policy interests abroad. The result was a remarkably tight network of people who worked
alongside the Agency to promote an idea: that the world needed a pax Americana, a new age of
enlightenment, and it would be called The American Century.
See the readability index for what grade level of literacy is required to dine on the New York Times or for real fun, a NATO training manual for atomic weapons. https://copywritely.com/readability-checker/#:~:text=The%20Flesch%20index%20indicates%20how%20difficult%20a%20reading,make%20sure%20you%20have%20enough%20count%20of%20words.