Not Pynchon just paranoia

[Becky Lindroos]

I don’t know if anyone has posted these yet -   I know the ones below are from WWII but it goes on even today: 
http://www.newsweek.com/how-cia-funded-arab-art-help-win-cold-war-587218

WWII: 

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161004-was-modern-art-a-weapon-of-the-cia  (1940s onward) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_for_Cultural_Freedom  (1950s and early ‘60s) \

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Research_Department  (Britain and Orwell,  etc.) 
http://www.lehman.edu/deanhum/philosophy/BRSQ/05feb/bone.htm  (Bertrand Russell) 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_J._Lasky  -  1960s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounter_(magazine)  -  1950s ad ‘60s 

I came across this idea a few years ago when I read Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan.    

Becky 
https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com

> On May 10, 2017, at 7:21 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
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> However, if it were in a novel, I would read it.  
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> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:18 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> This theory is completely ridiculous.  The CIA ain't God, and only she could have brought forth the 60's.
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> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:05 AM Bruno <bruno.laze at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would you say that human agency can be that coordinated? For CIA to engineer such an elaborate cultural strategy, it would require dozens of submissive individuals who wouldn't spoil the plans not even once along the way.
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> For instance Abstract Expressionism was funded by CIA. That's it. Funded. It doesn't mean Pollock was a spy. Even so, this was a soft power tool for the Cold War.
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> http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161004-was-modern-art-a-weapon-of-the-cia
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> 2017-05-09 7:11 GMT-05:00 Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>:
> I truly wish I could believe that all the old CIA documentation was made public but, of course, that's a foolish wish. What's bothering me most right now is a podcast I heard this weekend from THE LIMINALIST http://auticulture.com/liminalist-111-tool-tyrants-jan-irvin/
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> This gist of which was that the entire Youth Culture of the 60's was socially engineered by the CIA and their worldwide cohorts. It goes on to say that not only the Beats (who is it that could actually believe that Burroughs was NOT a double agent?) but the very Beatles themselves were witting tools of a CIA masterminded social program. To believe for one moment that the music and poetry of my youth was actually funded and created by think tanks created by my grandfather's generation is really too much to bear. (It's gets worse, he asserts that the whole 'ethneogen' movement, past and present, has been manufactured and spun to the benefit of THEM.)
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> Podcast description from the home page:
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> Conversation with Jan Irvin on what’s in a name and suggestogens, the John Allegro attacks, Wasson & CIA, overturning the entire field of ethnobotany, Peter Levenda & Trine Day as disinformation peddlers, being surrounded by dissemblers, a circle jerk of citations, from psychedelics to entheogens, mind-manifestations, recreating the fall of man, gnosis as ego inflation, the Trivium, Terence McKenna & MKULTRA, sixty years of CIA rock music, Aztec hippies, psychedelics and blood sacrifice, Jan’s Empowerment rule # 6, the CIA’s road to hell, a conversation between Aldous Huxley & Timothy Leary, reverse-engineered society, the Internal Affairs of Alt Media, the classical Trivium, the tool of tyrants, Daniel Pinchbeck’s connections, spiritual gurus for the CIA, channeling Uranus, how Jan weeds out the witting agents from the willful dupes.
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> It is stated in the show notes that it has been long known that 'students of the music hall movement' (there should be special punctuation for indicating that you are copying from your own possibly faulty memory) "opened doors,' etc, for the Beatles to become the success that they did. 
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> No doubt.
> ain't 
> -Allan in WV  where we don't care if it's brainwashing, just put Revolver on one more time
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> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 5/9/17, 2:37 AM
> 12 Million Declassified CIA Documents Now Free Online: Secret Tunnels, UFOs, Psychic Experiments & More bit.ly/2k9byPP pic.twitter.com/IyNKxieYhp
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