thegildedcentury: Fantastic Adventures, May, 1943
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douglashaddow: Just ordered “A Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA played America” by Hugh Wilford. NY Times review: “A youthful Gloria Steinem had just spent a year and half in India, where, we are told, she befriended Indira Gandhi and the widow of the “revolutionary humanist” M. N. Roy, and had met a researcher who seems to have been a C.I.A. agent or contact. Attractive and progressive, Steinem was hired to run the I.S.I. and to recruit knowledgeable young Americans who could debate effectively with the Communist organizers of the festival, defending the United States against Communist criticism of segregation and other American failings.” Guardian: “It was a small, West Coast magazine and a very big scoop. Much of American public life, Ramparts reported some 41 years ago, had become a front for the Central Intelligence Agency. The United States and the world beyond it were littered with subsidised, sham organisations that all played the same mighty anthem when Frank Wisner and his successors at the Office for Policy Co-Ordination pressed a button. Trade unions, campuses, artists, Catholics, women, Hollywood tycoons, journalists … they all danced to a spymaster’s tune. Whereupon the New York Times and other mainstream papers joined in the exposé and the Wurlitzer short-circuited. Within a few months, the entire apparatus of propaganda deception had imploded.” From the CIA’s Studies in Intelligence journal: “Covert political action always requires willing partners, and they almost always work two agendas at once: that of the intelligence agency that subsidizes them, and that of their own faction within the private organization or movement they represent. “Who co-opted whom?” was a little joke whispered by former officers of the National Student Association once they joined CIA to run Covert Action Staff’s Branch 5, and thus tookover the youth and student field in the Agency’s larger campaign.” 1999 Article in the New Statesmen “How the CIA plotted against us” “The New Statesman and Nation was flourishing, its weekly circulation of 85,000 showing an impressive resilience to attempts to sap its “ideological hegemony”. In these pre-Encounter days the CIA was dishing out secret subsidies to Michael Goodwin’s journal Twentieth Century, on the specific understanding that it should address itself to rebutting the New Statesman’s positions. “I fully agree the New Statesman is an important target, and must be dealt with systematically,” Goodwin told his backers in January 1952.” It’s pretty wild to think about how prolific the CIA was in publishing back in the ’60s. Starting liberal front publications, funding left-wing marxist and feminist mags, paying off any journo they could get their hands on and planting moles anywhere they could. I’m surprised no one capitalized on to this last year when all the Mad Men-ripoffs were launched. Ramparts’ takedown of IACF would make for a brilliant HBO series.
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oldhollywood:

Poster art: Czech edition (click on individual posters for artist/film info) (via)

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artsandsciencesprojects: Wall Papers - our new compilation photocopied zine is ready! Wall Papers features original photographs posted on social media sites by friends and friends of friends. Release Date: March 20, 2012, 7-9pm, at St. Mark’s Bookshop, New York. Contributors: Mark Daniel AmuraMahieddine BachtarziChristine CallahanLaurent ChampoussinRyan ComptonChrista Joo Hyun D’AngeloGina DawsonSam FrazierEdwin GiglioCarl GunhouseScott HugFederico KrampackCalvin LeeMartin MasettoBilly MillerDaavid MörtlTrevor PowersAaron TilfordPhilip Tomaru Charlie Welch artsandsciencesprojects.com
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christopherschreck:

Evergreen Review - Covers Archive

“The Evergreen Review was a literary journal published from 1957-1973.  It’s pages were filled will content from contributing authors, poets, philosophers, and political figures that included Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Malcolm X, Hubert Selby Jr., William Burroughs, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Frank O’Hara, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer and Charles Bukowski. The magazine was ressurected in 1998 in an online-only format and can be found here.”

Reality Studio (cool resource, check them out if you’re not familiar) has an online archive of the magazine’s first 99 covers, split into two sections: HERE and HERE. the first section is a bit more interesting to me (the 60s covers sort of descend into goofy naked hippie territory), but even those later issues always seem to contain some unpublished work by somebody like Samuel Beckett or Allen Ginsberg.

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