CIA and the Cultural Cold War (Anti-Communism)

“Totalitarian” Anti-Communism: Loaded Language Straight Out of CIA, Neo-Con

Revealed: How journalism and awards work together to promote genocide and regime change

“Democratic Socialism” in the Service of U.S. Imperialism (archived)

US-funded VoAThe CIA’s Cultural War Against Soviet Russia

During the heyday of the Cold War in the late 1940s, the CIA began to realize that the Russian revolution’s promises of social equality had won over many Western European artists, writers, scientists.

In 1950, the CIA set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom with a goal of undermining the Soviet government and winning over the hearts and minds of Europe’s left-leaning intellectuals.

[2003] When the CIA financed European Intellectuals

The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited by James Petras

Origins of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1949-50 (CIA)

The CIA & the Frankfurt School’s Anti-Communism

The CIA, Universities, and Anti-Communist Marxism

Don’t Blame Karl Marx for ‘Cultural Marxism’

The CIA Book Publishing Operations

The cartoon that came in from the cold

Animal Farm: How the CIA Turned Orwell’s Literary Classic Into a PsyOps Mission

Orwell and the CIA

George Orwell, an anti-communist traitor

Six books you didn’t know were propaganda

11 Things to Know About the CIA Book Program

The CIA smuggled the Guardian into the Eastern bloc during the Cold War

Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the U.S. Information Agency

USIA – Public and Covert Roles

Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism

2001: This Ain’t Your Momma’s CIA

CIA Reading Room:

Government Book Control

Increased Intelligence Support of USIA by CIA

Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’

Recommend reading:

The CIA Book Club

Hot Books in the Cold War

Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy

The Mighty Wurlitzer

The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (PDF)

Khrushchev Lied (PDF)

Internet Archive / Anna’s Archive

Related pages:

5GW: 2012 NDAA – Propaganda – MISO – InfoOps – PsyOps

Embedded Journalism, Media Manipulation, CIA Operation Mockingbird, & Apathy

Front Organizations

Lies about the Holodomor, Joseph Stalin, & the U.S.S.R.

Soviet-Afghan War

Trotskyism

Zionist Secret Service & White Russian Army (Polar Bear Expedition)

How Henry R. Luce and Clare Boothe Luce helped turn America on to LSD + Some Notes