By Henry Makow, Ph.D.
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“In the 1960\u00b4s, the elite media invented second-wave feminism as part of the elite agenda to dismantle civilization and create a New World Order.”<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
S<\/span>ince writing these words last week<\/a>, 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.<\/span><\/p>\n
Steinem has tried to suppress this information, unearthed in the 1970\u00b4s by a radical feminist group called \u201cRed Stockings.\u201d 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 \u201cFeminist Revolution.\u201d Nevertheless the story appeared in the \u201cVillage Voice\u201d on May 21, 1979.<\/span><\/p>\n
Steinem has always pretended that she had been a student radical. \u201cWhen I was in college, it was the McCarthy era,\u201d she told Susan Mitchell in 1997, \u201cand that made me a Marxist.\u201d (Icons, Saints and Divas: Intimate Conversations with Women who Changed the World<\/a><\/cite> 1997. p 130) Her bio-blurb in June 1973 MS. Magazine states: \u201cGloria Steinem has been a freelance writer all her professional life. Ms magazine is her first full-time salaried job.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Not true. Raised in an impoverished, dysfunctional family in Toledo Ohio, Steinem somehow managed to attend elite Smith College, Betty Friedan\u00b4s alma mater. After graduating in 1955, Steinem received a \u201cChester Bowles Student Fellowship\u201d 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.<\/span><\/p>\n
In 1958, Steinem was recruited by CIA\u00b4s Cord Meyers<\/a> to direct an \u201cinformal group of activists\u201d called the \u201cIndependent Research Service.\u201d This was part of Meyer\u00b4s \u201cCongress for Cultural Freedom,\u201d which created magazines like \u201cEncounter\u201d and \u201cPartisan Review\u201d 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.<\/span><\/p>\n
One of Steinem\u00b4s CIA colleagues was Clay Felker. In the early 1960\u00b4s, he became an editor at Esquire and published articles by Steinem which established her as a leading voice for women\u00b4s 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\u00b4s first publisher was Elizabeth Forsling Harris, a CIA-connected PR executive who planned John Kennedy\u00b4s Dallas motorcade route. Despite its anti establishment image, MS magazine attracted advertising from the cr\u00e8me 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.<\/span><\/p>\n
Steinem\u00b4s 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\u00b4s, she dated Henry Kissinger. For more details, see San Francisco researcher Dave Emory<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\u00b4s secret pagan \u201cSkull and Bones\u201d society. Our current President, his father and grandfather fit this profile.<\/span><\/p>\n
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 \u201cCongress for Cultural Freedom\u201d was the \u201cAmerican Committee for Cultural Freedom.\u201d Using foundations as conduits, the CIA controlled intellectual discourse in the 1950\u00b4s and 1960\u00b4s, and I believe continues to do so today. In The The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters<\/a><\/cite>, Francis Stonor Saunders estimates that a thousand books were produced under the imprint of a variety of commercial and university presses, with covert subsidies.<\/span><\/p>\n
The CIA\u00b4s \u201cProject Mockingbird\u201d involved the direct infiltration of the corporate media, a process that often included direct takeover of major news outlets. \u201cBy the early 1950\u00b4s,\u201d writes Deborah Davis, in her book Katharine the Great : Katharine Graham and Her Washington Post Empire<\/a><\/cite>, the CIA owned respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communication vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all.\u201d In 1982 the CIA admitted that reporters on the CIA payroll have acted as case officers to agents in the field. Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, who ran the operation until his \u201csuicide\u201d in 1963, boasted that \u201cyou could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple of hundred dollars a month.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
I was born in 1949. Idealists in my parent\u00b4s generation were disillusioned when the Communist dream of universal brotherhood turned out to be a shill for a brutal despotism. My own generation may discover that our best instincts have also been manipulated and exploited. There is evidence that the 60\u00b4s drug counter culture, the civil rights movement, and anti-war movement, like feminism, were CIA directed. For example, the CIA has admitted setting up the National Student Association as a front in 1947<\/a>. In the early 1950\u00b4s the NSA opposed the attempts of the House Un American Activities Committee to root out Communist spies. According to Phil Agee Jr., NSA officers participated in the activities of SNCC, the militant civil rights group, and Students for a Democratic Society, a radical peace group.<\/span><\/p>\n
According to Mark Riebling<\/a>, the CIA also may have used Timothy Leary. Certainly the agency distributed LSD to Leary and other opinion makers in the 1960s. Leary made a generation of Americans turn away from active participation in society and seek fulfillment \u201cwithin.\u201d In another example of the CIA\u00b4s use of drugs to interfere in domestic politics, Gary Webb describes how in the 1980\u00b4s, the CIA flooded Black ghettos with cocaine<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
I won\u00b4t attempt to analyze the CIA\u00b4s motivation except to suggest what these acts have in common: They demoralized, alienated and divided Americans. The elite operates by fostering division and conflict in the world. Thus, we don\u00b4t realize who the real enemy is. For the same reason, the CIA and elite foundations also fund the diversity and multi cultural movements<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
Feminism has done the most damage. There is no more fundamental yet delicate relationship in society than male and female. On it depends the family, the red blood cell of society. Nobody with the interests of society at heart would try to divide men and women. Yet the lie that men have exploited women has become the official orthodoxy.<\/span><\/p>\n
Man loves woman. His first instinct is to nurture (\u201chusband\u201d) and see her thrive. When a woman is happy, she is beautiful. Sure, some men are abusive. But the vast majority have supported and guided their families for millennium.<\/span><\/p>\n
Feminists relentlessly advance the idea that our inherent male and female characteristics, crucial to our development as human beings, are mere \u201cstereotypes.\u201d This is a vicious calumny on all heterosexuals, 95% of the population. Talk about hate! Yet it is taught to children in elementary schools! It is echoed in the media. Lesbians like Rosie O\u00b4Donnell are advanced as role models.<\/span><\/p>\n
All of this is calculated to create personal confusion and sow chaos among heterosexuals. As a result, millions of American males are emasculated and divorced from their relationship to family (the world and the future.) The American woman has been hoodwinked into investing herself in a mundane career instead of the timeless love of her husband and children. Many women have become temperamentally unfit to be wives and mothers. People, who are isolated and alone, stunted and love-starved, are easy to fool and manipulate. Without the healthy influence of two loving parents, so are their children.<\/span><\/p>\n
Feminism is a grotesque fraud perpetrated on society by its governing elite. It is designed to weaken the American social and cultural fabric in order to introduce a friendly fascist New World Order. Its advocates are sanctimonious charlatans who have grown rich and powerful from it. They include a whole class of liars and moral cripples who work for the elite in various capacities: government, education and the media. These imposters ought to be exposed and ridiculed.<\/span><\/p>\n
Women\u00b4s oppression is a lie. Sex roles were never as rigid as feminists would have us believe. My mother had a successful business in the 1950\u00b4s importing watch straps from Switzerland. When my father\u00b4s income increased, she was content to quit and concentrate on the children. Women were free to pursue careers if they wanted to. The difference was that their role as wife and mother was understood, and socially validated, as it should be.
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\nUntil Gloria Steinem and the CIA came along.<\/span><\/p>\n