Would you believe the CIA used modern art to fight the Russkies?

@Simone_De_Beauvoir, no offense intended

Interesting article on how the CIA elevated American Abstract Expressionism in the U.S. and abroad as part of its propaganda war against the left’s romance with Communism and Marxism and against sympathy for the Soviet Union in general. Seemingly, this ruse had to be hidden from America’s conservative faction since they, like any good conservative, despised taxpayer-funded, amoral trash.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html