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2025-11-14 16:26:48

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What Really Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?: A Conversation with Lance Richardson

As Matthiessen tells it, he had finished Yale in 1950 and wanted to be a writer, but how do you just become a writer? His English professor Norman Holmes Pearson tapped him on the shoulder and asked if he wanted to do something for his country. This was happening quite a lot at Yale at the time. One of Matthiessen’s contemporaries estimated that two dozen of their classmates were recruited for the CIA through various professors. The agency called them the “P source,” for “professor.” Matthiessen wrote that Pearson opened him “like an oyster.” Not because he was ideologically driven—his politics at that point were unformed and chaotic—but because he wanted a stipend and an excuse to go to Paris, which was a city that he and his first wife, Patsy Southgate, really loved. The CIA then was reputationally much more benign, at least domestically. It hadn’t yet become known by most Americans for its involvement in coups and things like that.

#USA #US #american #CIA #propaganda #deepstate #narrative #mindmanipulation #anticommunism

Yogthos wrote the following post Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:17:58 +0100

The CIA systematically influenced popular culture by secretly funding and promoting art, literature, and intellectual magazines that aligned with anti-communist ideals.

This included supporting abstract expressionism, literary journals like The Paris Review, and films like Animal Farm, often without the artists' knowledge, to wage a covert propaganda war.

Turns out that much of the modern Western culture has been hand crafted by the CIA.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-review-a-conversation-with-lance-richardson

#history #art #culture

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