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The Acoustic Kitty and Other Crazy CIA Plots

2025/1/27
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@主持人 :本期节目探讨了中情局在冷战时期的一些鲜为人知的秘密计划,这些计划有的充满创意,有的则显得古怪离奇。其中,中情局秘密资助抽象表现主义艺术运动,这被认为是他们最奇怪的计划之一。他们通过文化自由大会等组织,以及与洛克菲勒家族等私人基金会的合作,将抽象表现主义推向国际舞台,以此对抗苏联的社会主义现实主义,展现美国的艺术自由和个人主义。虽然艺术家们并不知情,但这无疑是一种有效的文化渗透手段。 另一个引人注目的计划是“星门计划”,该计划旨在研究超心理现象,特别是远程遥视在情报收集中的应用。虽然该计划耗资巨大,但其结果并不可靠,最终被认为是伪科学。 此外,中情局还尝试过一些看似荒诞的计划,例如“杰克在盒子里计划”,利用充气假人帮助间谍躲避监视;以及利用装备微型摄像机的鸽子进行空中侦察。鸽子间谍计划虽然取得了一定的成功,但由于难以控制鸽子的飞行路线,最终被更先进的技术所取代。 最后,也是本期节目标题中提到的“声波猫计划”,试图将猫训练成秘密窃听设备。这个计划的初衷是利用猫的隐蔽性进行情报收集,但由于猫的独立性和不可预测性,计划最终以失败告终,一只实验猫在测试中被出租车撞死。 这些计划的失败与成功,都反映了中情局在冷战时期为获取情报所付出的努力,以及他们探索各种非常规手段的决心。尽管有些计划显得荒诞可笑,但它们也从侧面展现了冷战时期紧张的国际局势和情报战的残酷性。

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The CIA secretly funded abstract expressionism to counter Soviet art and promote American cultural influence during the Cold War. This unexpected patronage helped elevate the movement and its artists to international prominence.
  • CIA secretly funded abstract expressionism.
  • Used Congress for Cultural Freedom (CFF) and private foundations.
  • Counterpoint to Soviet socialist realism.
  • Elevated American art internationally.

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Since its creation, the Central Intelligence Agency has been tasked with gathering intelligence on foreign adversarial governments. 

Exactly how they were to go about doing this was not exactly spelled out in advance. 

This gave them an enormous amount of leeway and creativity in how to go about their mission. Some of their ideas were truly inspired, and others were, how shall we say, odd. 

Learn more about the Acoustic Kitty and other crazy CIA plots on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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