The covert “selling” of anticommunism The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played ... - World Socialist Web Site
The covert “selling” of anticommunism The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America By Nancy Hanover. 17 August 2015 The history of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)—its coups, assassinations, “extraordinary rendition” kidnappings, use of torture, “black sites,” drone executions, dirty wars and sponsorship of dictatorial regimes... Accelerating anticolonial struggles, revolutionary struggles in Greece and across Europe, mass struggles and strikes across the world (not the least of which was the great strike wave of 1945-46 in the US [2]) were all deeply influenced by... The detailed and engrossing 2008 book, The Mighty Wurlit zer: How the CIA Played America , by Hugh Wilford, investigates the CIA’s ideological struggle from 1947 to 1967 to win “hearts and minds” for US capitalism and prosecute the Cold War. The CIA devised schemes to create or utilize existing social organizations, phony pass-through entities, universities, various media, artist groups, foundations and charities to service its propaganda wars—attempting to place a “progressive” and... Source: www.wsws.org
