by Dreams End » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:03 pm
I don't know anything about Russo, but that whole thing sounds fake. "Remember when that women's lib was a big thing?" Whatever.<br><br>However, I do buy that Gloria Steinem had CIA connections...as is often the case with stuff like this, there's some element of truth. I doubt Russo is being recruited by anyone, though...if nothing else because he keeps publicizing their big "secrets."<br><br>What's up with Nebraska, though? <br><br>Back to Steinem..I think that in general, activists who received CIA funding were chosen in hopes of keeping them anti-Soviet and anti-Communist, so it's not a matter of saying everything someone who got sponsored by CIA was automatically bad. <br><br>Here's some info on Steinem and CIA:<br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.cia-on-campus.org/surveil/steinem.html">world youth festival</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.cia-on-campus.org/surveil/festival.html">Steinem's report</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>Here's a longer piece, a transcription of a Dave Emory show. It's important to note that the "outing" of Steinem was done by a feminist collective called "Red Stockings Collective." So, though the spin by some such as Makow has been that this shows all of feminism was created by the CIA, that is not what this shows. What it shows is that Steinem was part of that effort, via CIA fronts like the Congress for Cultural Freedom, to infiltrate and shape activist groups. I think the basic idea is that if groups were anti-socialist, they were not bothered. <br><br>Steinem was definitely promoted, though, not just used to infiltrate. There was big money behind Ms. Magazine and links to the CIA Washington Post. <br><br>And I keep reading she dated Kissinger? (oooooow...that's gross or does it suggest we are now getting into some MC elements here? ) <br><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/8425/ST-CIA.HTM">link</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>It also may be interesting to note that the first and really only sympathetic article I remember reading about SRA was in Ms. Magazine.<br><br>anyway, slightly OT, but this is a good example of what happens a lot.<br><br>1. CIA and the like do something underhanded.<br><br>2. Usually the purpose is to steer movements into acceptable channels...anti-revolutionary...anti-socialist.<br><br>3. Some part of the story gets out.<br><br>4. The part that does get out is picked up by rightwing whackos and/or disinfo artists and spun in ways that make the whole thing look ridiculous. <br><br>So we have the idea that Steinem was working within feminism and other social movements to report on them and then, regarding feminism, to channel it into more moderate directions get turned into the idea that the CIA (or CFR or whatever) created all of feminism.<br><br>Thus, no feminist of any sort is likely to pay much attention though when these accusations were published by the VIllage Voice (Red Stocking Collective was kept from publishing with threatened lawsuits) it was taken seriously. There was a time, believe it or not, when the left found an activists CIA connections to be problematic. Sadly, I'm using my entire blog to argue that the left should avoid working with the CIA. Times have changed.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>