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Modern Art Was CIA 'Weapon' →

For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War.

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   Why did the CIA support them? Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be...

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    I miss studying art history.

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    I didn’t even read this but, yeah.

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