Tom Braden

This week on the New World Next Week: NBC hires the CIA...officially; deep fakes take the internet by storm; and one town gets their red light camera tickets refunded.

This week on the New World Next Week: NBC hires the CIA...officially; deep fakes take the internet by storm; and one town gets their red light camera tickets refunded.

Today I discuss the history between the CIA and modern art, specifically focusing on the abstract expressionist movement. I discuss how the CIA used abstract expressionism as a propaganda tool against the Soviet Union. I begin at the end of WWII and explore how the CIA viewed painters like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and others as vehicles to promote liberty and free enterprise. I explain how the CIA began a concerted effort to promote and fund this movement to combat Soviet Realism and portray America as a bastion of freedom.