Podcasts Culture Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything Not All Propaganda is Art 1: Operation Younger Brother

Not All Propaganda is Art 1: Operation Younger Brother

Published: Jan. 23, 2024, 11:46 a.m.

In the 1950s the CIA weaponized culture to capture hearts and minds in Europe and Africa. We meet three writers (Richard Wright, Kenneth Tynan, and Dwight Macdonald) who got caught up in this battle both as collaborators and targets between the years of 1956 - 1960. We also meet a propagandist responsible for the CIA\u2019s cinematic version of 1984 (Operation Big Brother) and \u201cbooks that don\u2019t smack of propaganda\u201d aimed at European Intellectuals - including James Baldwin\u2019s Notes of a Native Son.

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