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CIA BOUGHT RIGHTS TO ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM TO MIS-REPRESENT HIS VIEWS

David Icke | 25.11.2003 15:50

JUST ONE WAY THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
MANIPULATE THE "ARTS", SAYS NEW BOOK

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The C.I.A., worried that the public might be too influenced by Orwell's pox-on-both-their-houses critique of the capitalist humans and Communist pigs, dispatched agents to buy the film rights to "Animal Farm" from his widow to make its message more overtly anti-Communist.

Rewriting the end of "Animal Farm" is just one example of the often absurd lengths to which the C.I.A. went, as recounted in a new book, "The Cultural Cold War: The C.I.A. and the World of Arts and Letters" (The New Press) by Frances Stonor Saunders, a British journalist. Published in Britain last summer, the book will appear here next month.

Traveling first class all the way, the C.I.A. and its counterparts in other Western European nations sponsored art exhibitions, intellectual conferences, concerts and magazines to press their larger anti-Soviet agenda.

She also shows how the C.I.A. bankrolled some of the The C.I.A., worried that the public might be too influenced by Orwell's pox-on-both-their-houses critique of the capitalist humans and Communist pigs, dispatched agents to buy the film rights to "Animal Farm" from his widow to make its message more overtly anti-Communist.

Rewriting the end of Animal Farm is just one example of the often absurd lengths to which the C.I.A. went, as recounted in a new book, The Cultural Cold War: The C.I.A. and the World of Arts and Letters" (The New Press) by Frances Stonor Saunders, a British journalist.

Published in Britain last summer, the book will appear in North America next month. Traveling first class all the way, the C.I.A., and its counterparts in other Western European nations, sponsored art exhibitions, intellectual conferences, concerts and magazines to press their larger anti-Soviet agenda.

She also shows how the C.I.A. bankrolled some of the earliest exhibitions of Abstract Expressionist painting outside of the United States to counter the Socialist Realism being advanced by Moscow.

The Cultural Cold War:
The C.I.A. and the
World of Arts and Letters
(The New Press)
by Frances Stonor Saunders
a British journalist.





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see amazon.com for more reviews

25.11.2003 16:27

In addition to being short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award upon publication in 2000, Frances Stonor Saunders's The Cultural Cold War was met with the kind of attention reserved for books that directly hit a cultural nerve. Impassioned reviews and features in major publications such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have consistently praised Saunders's detailed knowledge of the CIA's covert operations. The Cultural Cold War presents for the first time shocking evidence of cultural manipulation during the Cold War. This "impressively detailed" (Kirkus Reviews) book draws together newly declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA's astonishing campaign wherein some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom became instruments of the American government. Those involved included George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Gloria Steinem. The result is "a tale of intrigue and betrayal, with scene after scene as thrilling as any in a John Le Carré novel" (The Chronicle of Higher Education).8 pages of black-and-white photographs.

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If Animal Farm, what else?

26.11.2003 22:16

Around 1954, I was given a book by Karl Popper to read. I read it, the picture it brought in my head was in a publishers office, and an Agent saying that is all very well, but we need something much shorter and snappier demolishing Communism somehere early where it will be read before the reader has got fed up with the book. Because such an item was in the preface or the introduction.

Next time someone recommended that book it was as the Philosophical foundation to replace Marxism in the Labour Party. Not impressed as I had had an indirect communication with Popper through the son of one of his dining hosts, I had said the book was very cleverly written, to withstand direct criticism, but would be seen to be fase if a reverse negative test was applied. Word came back that Popper was working on such an idea.

Everyone thought him very clever, but he was daft enough to join the Communist party when grown - something I had decided not to do when I was three and a half. Later, he seemed totally unaware of the alternatives offered by Bakunin.

It is very interesting to learn that my idea on the source funding of the book was probably correct.

Ilyan