Alan MacLeod - From Fight the Power to Work for It: Chuck D, Public Enemy and How the CIA Neutralized Rap
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Just like the CIA was behind the hippy movement in the 60's to try and delegitimize the anti-war effort. Also behind the 60's rock revolution.
Peter Coyote, narrating the documentary “Hippies” on The History Channel, said that “Some on the left even theorized that the hippies were the end result of a plot by the CIA to neutralize the anti-war movement with LSD, turning potential protestors into self-absorbed naval-gazers.”
An exasperated Abbie Hoffman once described the scene as he remembered it thusly: “There were all these activists, you know, Berkeley radicals, White Panthers … all trying to stop the war and change things for the better. Then we got flooded with all these ‘flower children’ who were into drugs and sex. Where the hell did the hippies come from?!”
Read this, it will amaze you that almost all the top groups were formed by people with CIA, Military, State Department connections.
Remember the Gulf of Tokin incident that got us involved in Vietnam, and event that never happens?
The Admiral of the ship, Admiral George Stephen Morrison was none other than Jim Morrison's dad.
David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Frank and Gail Zappa, John Phillips, Jackson Browne
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