TIL the Iowa Writer’s Workshop was used to fight communism abroad and domestically from the 1940s through the 1970s, and received substantial funding from the CIA to do so. vice.com Submitted by big_papa_geek t3_10gh7r4 on January 19, 2023 at 11:48 PM in todayilearned 23 comments 98
Gemmabeta t1_j53h7p8 wrote on January 20, 2023 at 3:13 AM The CIA and the State Department funded a lot of modern American artists like Jackson Pollock to counter Soviet's Socialist Realism art. Permalink 15 God_in_my_Bed t1_j54a4hx wrote on January 20, 2023 at 7:54 AM Sounds like a page from the Edward Bernays play book. Permalink Parent 2
God_in_my_Bed t1_j54a4hx wrote on January 20, 2023 at 7:54 AM Sounds like a page from the Edward Bernays play book. Permalink Parent 2
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