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TIL about the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an anti-communist organization created by the CIA to sway Intellectual opinion against communism (en.wikipedia.org)
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In the early 1960s, the CCF mounted a campaign against the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, an ardent communist.

At its height, the CCF had offices in 35 countries, employed dozens of personnel, and published over 20 prestigious magazines. It held art exhibitions, owned a news and features service, organized high-profile international conferences, and rewarded musicians and artists with prizes and public performances.[1][3]

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[–] 4 points 11 months ago

The US has spent a lot of time and effort trying to stamp out left-wing governments around the world. Here's a decent summary of their involvement in South and Central America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America

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    Can’t have any communism but we love communism for the rich -CIA

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    [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    there are SO MANY outlets for american propaganda and i suspect that's the reason why trump killed off as many as he can so that he can unify them.

    the problem with that is that the state department, cia & fbi diversified intentionally a few decades ago to make it harder to keep track of all of them so this isn't going to go well for the united states for a while.

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