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Independent
March 15, 2018
COMMENT | WILLIAM M. LEOGRANDE | “They have no damn right,” former Vice President Joe Biden said on Feb. 16, denouncing Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. “It's our sovereign right to be able to conduct our elections unfettered. Period.” Biden spoke for many AmericansÃâà...
HuffPost Canada
March 12, 2018
The agency used it as proof of concept for a model of political manipulation that the CIA continued to employ in Italy for the next several decades, and replicated around the world. Wisner built a network of foreign journalists, newspapers and magazines known officially as the Propaganda Assets Inventory.
Quartz
February 28, 2018
The agency used it as proof of concept for a model of political manipulation that the CIA continued to employ in Italy for the next several decades and replicated around the world. Wisner built a network of foreign journalists, newspapers and magazines known officially as the Propaganda Assets Inventory.
The Conversation US
February 26, 2018
The agency used it as proof of concept for a model of political manipulation that the CIA continued to employ in Italy for the next several decades and replicated around the world. Wisner built a network of foreign journalists, newspapers and magazines known officially as the Propaganda Assets Inventory.
The Wild Hunt
January 14, 2017
In a 1995 article for the Independent, journalist and historian Frances Stonor Saunders explains, “Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800Ãâà...
MarketWatch
November 22, 2016
Wisner maintained the top secret “Propaganda Assets Inventory,” better known as “Wisner's Wurlitzer”—a virtual rolodex of over 800 news and information entities prepared to play whatever tune Wisner chose. “The network included journalists, columnists, book publishers, editors, entire organizations suchÃâà...
New Hampshire Public Radio
October 18, 2016
During the 1950s and 60s, the CIA's "Propaganda Assets Inventory" division paraded America's creative and intellectual freedom in front of the world - especially Russia, where artists were bound by the government's ideological straightjacket. At its peak, employees joked that the assets division was like aÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
August 28, 2015
Wisner maintained the top secret “Propaganda Assets Inventory,” better known as “Wisner's Wurlitzer”—a virtual rolodex of over 800 news and information entities prepared to play whatever tune Wisner chose. “The network included journalists, columnists, book publishers, editors, entire organizations suchÃâà...
Hyperallergic
February 25, 2015
Though the article remains vague on this point — despite being impressively long-winded on so much else — the CIA did set up a division in 1947 called the Propaganda Assets Inventory that, at its height, influenced more than 800 newspapers, magazines, and public organizations. Throughout the warÃâà...
The Independent
April 25, 2013
The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947. Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak couldÃâà...
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