{"id":7708,"date":"2015-01-05T09:31:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T09:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2019-04-06T17:05:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T09:05:58","slug":"cia-involvement-the-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/cia-involvement-the-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Feasibility of CIA Involvement in The Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7710\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/interview-405x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Interview\" width=\"300\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/interview-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/interview-405x600.jpg 405w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/interview.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>When I was in the states a week ago I caught up with an old friend who made an interesting offhand comment about The Interview: <em>what if the CIA were involved?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as far fetched as it may seem when you consider a few facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since the CIA was founded in 1947, it has included culture and art as\u00a0instruments in its toolkit for\u00a0conducting covert operations. It has a history of\u00a0employing\u00a0popular media.<\/li>\n<li>The Interview is the most widely-known work which purports to describe conditions inside North Korea, even if in an absurd context. It will inform millions around the world on\u00a0North Korea and will influence popular opinion.<\/li>\n<li>The film has led to renewed worldwide discussion\u00a0and widespread ridicule of the North Korean state and its leader. If the CIA says Kim Jong-un is a maniac, no one cares. If Seth Rogan makes a movie which says the same thing, which\u00a0is then\u00a0claimed to be\u00a0an act of war by North Korea itself, worldwide media\u00a0catapults the film to relevance\u00a0everywhere, immediately.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the movie, Seth Rogan asks: <em>If we kill Kim, won&#8217;t he just be replaced by another chubby dude\u00a0with a goofy hairdo?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, he will. <em>&#8220;Killing Kim won\u2019t change anything. He will be replaced. He has brothers and generals\u2026 the people need to be shown that he is not a God; that he is a man. Then they will be ready for change.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What happens when\u00a0North Koreans learn of The Interview, the context surrounding it, and\u00a0begin to watch it?<\/p>\n<p>The CIA having a hand\u00a0in The Interview would be\u00a0hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n<h2>Modern Art as a\u00a0Coercive Force<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7709\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pollack-476x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jackson Pollack\" width=\"300\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pollack-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pollack-476x600.jpg 476w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pollack.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In the 1950&#8217;s, the CIA funded the Abstract Expressionist art movement\u00a0in order to use it as a weapon against the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Moscow was vehemently opposed to non-conformity and was relentlessly committed to rigid systems of control. The American modern art movement\u00a0was the opposite: it discarded artistic principles that came before it in favor of chaos and randomness.<\/p>\n<p>Artists like Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning created art which was funded and promoted by the CIA. Art was\u00a0promoted within a policy called &#8220;long leash&#8221;, which described the distance required between these two parties to avoid detection.<\/p>\n<p>During this period, exhibitions with titles like &#8220;The New American Painting&#8221; were featured in every major European city all across the continent. Who would suspect, especially in the 1950&#8217;s, that the CIA was funding art exhibitions in Europe? It&#8217;s brilliantly\u00a0cunning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This article published by The Independent<\/a>\u00a0goes deeper into this fascinating\u00a0subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if The Interview were funded by the CIA? It certainly wouldn&#8217;t be the first time something like that has happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[39,148],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Feasibility of CIA Involvement in The Interview<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What if The Interview were funded by the CIA? 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