Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

Discussed (a bit) at the time (of the article):

Was Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23525366 - June 2020 (7 comments)

Pretty sure there have been other threads, including on the Peter Matthiessen (Paris Review) connection - anybody want to find them?

Edit: there's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10963429 - and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10964477 linking to https://www.salon.com/2012/05/27/exclusive_the_paris_review_....

Edit 2 - found some more:

During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7991903 - July 2014 (30 comments)

Abstract Expressionism was (in part) a covert CIA operation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891222 - Nov 2010 (1 comment)

Others?

Some people have reported CIA involvement in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, which had a great deal of influence on the direction that literary fiction took in post-WWII America. I'm inclined to believe that such projects were likely the playthings of a few dilettantes in high places--spymasters with subscriptions to Commentary and Partisan Review--rather than a serious attempt at stifling dissent, or discrediting socialism, or cultivating soft power, or whatever.

https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/cia-helped-shaped-americ...

Did you read the JSTOR piece? The Partisan Review was funded by the CIA. They weren't reading it. They were writing it.

Well with the kind money that agency has, they can buy the whole world several times over. Amazon is good example. Just give them a gov contract, and all the sudden company don't have to be so profitable in their daily business anymore. And guess who will Amazon beholden to? their day to day customers whoever is giving the big contract?

^ this guy moderates

Did you ever posted how exactly do you find a similar posts despite them having a very different URIs?

Yup - lots of links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35668525

HN search is actually very good. You can even use Google for that:

https://www.google.com/search?q=cia+%22modern+art%22+site%3A...

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