Re: [CTRL] Gloria Steinem: How The CIA
-Caveat Lector- Since writing these words last week, I have discovered that before she became a feminist leader, Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA spying on Marxist students in Europe and disrupting their meetings. That Steinem was a CIA asset has been known for decades; the fact that the writer only found out about it 'last week' after initiating his diatribe suggests much about the writer's lack of scholarship and research... She became a media darling due to her CIA connections. Actually she became a 'media darling' more because she had once been a Playboy Bunny, a fact the writer doesn't seem to know since he never mentions it in writing about Steinem's history... Steinem has tried to suppress this information, unearthed in the 1970´s by a radical feminist group called Red Stockings. Golly, gee! The writer maligns feminism, especially radical feminism, yet admits it was a radical feminist group who first uncovered and published the fact that Steinem was associated with the CIA There is evidence that the 60´s drug counter culture, the civil rights movement, and anti-war movement, like feminism, were CIA directed. Probably not at the beginning; but the spooks have a way of infiltrating and subverting any popular movement to suit their own purposes... They exploited the 'leftist' popular movements of the 50s thru the 70s, they are now exploiting the 'rightist' movements of today... According to Mark Riebling, the CIA also may have used Timothy Leary. Certainly the agency distributed LSD to Leary and other opinion makers in the 1960s. Of course the CIA 'used' Leary...it was the CIA that footed the bill into LSD research up until LSD's use was outlawed in 1967... The thing was, the spooks had certain ideas as to what uses LSD could be put to, and causing a general psychic enlightenment amongst the massess was NOT what they had in mind... Leary made a generation of Americans turn away from active participation in society and seek fulfillment within. And the problem with that is? Actually, Leary never 'made' anyone do anything...he just presented LSD in a beneficial aspect (and there WERE plenty of scientific studies showing that it DID work well when used therapeutically in a controlled situation), and up until LSD was outlawed it was perfectly legal to use... And quite a few people used it, many of whom only used it once and went on to live productive lives...in fact, it was the very same Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out generation that overwhelmingly voted Ronald Reagan into office in 1980... I won´t attempt to analyze the CIA´s motivation except to suggest what these acts have in common: They demoralized, alienated and divided Americans. One could argue that it is not necessarily the USE of such substances with cause demoralization, alienation, and division, but rather the OUTLAWING of the use of such substances, which then creates a criminal society of users and a criminal society of suppliers... The elite operates by fostering division and conflict in the world. All accounts of LSD users who did not have 'bad trips' (and most 'bad trips' occured AFTER it was outlawed in 1967, which suggests that the CIA itself was flooding the market with 'bad acid') state that one of the benefits of using acid was to fully experience the total connection with all creation, both animate and inanimate...which is probably why the CIA had it outlawed, since the fostering of commonality and brotherhood has NEVER been high on it's agenda... Yet the lie that men have exploited women has become the official orthodoxy. Oh, so the writer would have us to believe that woman have ALWAYS had full civil rights? That even today, women aren't paid only 58 cents for every dollar paid to a man? Man loves woman. SOME men love SOME women. How that 'love' is manifested varies from man to man and is never uniform; some men are secure enough not to sweat the fact that the woman they love wishes to have an independent life. Other men are insecure, and keep the women they love in virtual slavery... His first instinct is to nurture (husband) and see her thrive. Bull. A good many men just want a servant and bed partner, someone who will provide a beer or sex upon demand... When a woman is happy, she is beautiful. When ANYONE is happy, they are beautiful; that not only applies to women but to men, children, and pets for that matter... Sure, some men are abusive. But the vast majority have supported and guided their families for millennium. If 'support and guidance' means that no one else in the family is allowed an opinion, let alone the autonomy to put their opinions into action, then that very 'support and guidance' is in itself abusive... Feminists relentlessly advance the idea that our inherent male and female characteristics, crucial to our development as human beings, are mere stereotypes. They are. Studies done on babies that have been dressed in clothes of the opposite sex
[CTRL] Gloria Steinem: How The CIA
-Caveat Lector- http://toogoodreports.com/column/general/makow/20020318.htm Gloria Steinem: How The CIA Used Feminism To Destabilize Society By Henry Makow, Ph.D. Toogood Reports [Monday, March 18, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST] URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ In the 1960´s, the elite media invented second-wave feminism as part of the elite agenda to dismantle civilization and create a New World Order. Since writing these words last week, I have discovered that before she became a feminist leader, Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA spying on Marxist students in Europe and disrupting their meetings. She became a media darling due to her CIA connections. MS Magazine, which she edited for many years was indirectly funded by the CIA. Steinem has tried to suppress this information, unearthed in the 1970´s by a radical feminist group called Red Stockings. In 1979, Steinem and her powerful CIA- connected friends, Katharine Graham of the Washington Post and Ford Foundation President Franklin Thomas prevented Random House from publishing it in Feminist Revolution. Nevertheless the story appeared in the Village Voice on May 21, 1979. Steinem has always pretended that she had been a student radical. When I was in college, it was the McCarthy era, she told Susan Mitchell in 1997, and that made me a Marxist. (Icons, Saints and Divas: Intimate Conversations with Women who Changed the World 1997. p 130) Her bio-blurb in June 1973 MS. Magazine states: Gloria Steinem has been a freelance writer all her professional life. Ms magazine is her first full-time salaried job. Not true. Raised in an impoverished, dysfunctional family in Toledo Ohio, Steinem somehow managed to attend elite Smith College, Betty Friedan´s alma mater. After graduating in 1955, Steinem received a Chester Bowles Student Fellowship to study in India. Curiously, an Internet search reveals that this fellowship has no existence apart from Gloria Steinem. No one else has received it. In 1958, Steinem was recruited by CIA´s Cord Meyers to direct an informal group of activists called the Independent Research Service. This was part of Meyer´s Congress for Cultural Freedom, which created magazines like Encounter and Partisan Review to promote a left-liberal chic to oppose Marxism. Steinem, attended Communist-sponsored youth festivals in Europe, published a newspaper, reported on other participants, and helped to provoke riots. One of Steinem´s CIA colleagues was Clay Felker. In the early 1960´ s, he became an editor at Esquire and published articles by Steinem which established her as a leading voice for women´s lib. In 1968, as publisher of New York Magazine, he hired her as a contributing editor, and then editor of Ms. Magazine in 1971. Warner Communications put up almost all the money although it only took 25% of the stock. Ms. Magazine´s first publisher was Elizabeth Forsling Harris, a CIA-connected PR executive who planned John Kennedy´s Dallas motorcade route. Despite its anti establishment image, MS magazine attracted advertising from the crème of corporate America. It published ads for ITT at the same time as women political prisoners in Chile were being tortured by Pinochet, after a coup inspired by the US conglomerate and the CIA. Steinem´s personal relationships also belie her anti establishment pretensions. She had a nine-year relationship with Stanley Pottinger, a Nixon-Ford assistant attorney general, credited with stalling FBI investigations into the assassinations of Martin Luther King, and the ex-Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Latelier. In the 1980´s, she dated Henry Kissinger. For more details, see San Francisco researcher Dave Emory. Our main misconception about the CIA is that it serves US interests. In fact, it has always been the instrument of a dynastic international banking and oil elite (Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan) coordinated by the Royal Institute for Internal Affairs in London and their US branch, the Council for Foreign Relations. It was established and peopled by blue bloods from the New York banking establishment and graduates of Yale University´s secret pagan Skull and Bones society. Our current President, his father and grandfather fit this profile. The agenda of this international cabal is to degrade the institutions and values of the United States in order to integrate it into a global state that it will direct through the United Nations. In its 1947 Founding Charter, the CIA is prohibited from engaging in domestic activities. However this has never stopped it from waging a psychological war on the American people. The domestic counterpart of the Congress for Cultural Freedom was the American Committee for Cultural Freedom. Using foundations as conduits, the CIA controlled intellectual discourse in the 1950´s and 1960´s, and I believe continues to do so today. In The The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, Francis Stonor Saunders estimates that a thousand
