Could the CIA Have Planted Hair-Metal Propaganda During the Cold War?

was about the National Security Agency, also covers the gradual infiltration of Western music into the Soviet Union, and the roles both superpowers’ governments played: In the 1970s, Moscow officials chose SoCal country rockers the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to introduce rock & roll to the U.S.S.R., after rejecting the Doobie Brothers’ “loud, passionate,” “hard rock” and nixing the Beach Boys because of their lyrics about cars and girls.

The first bonus episode, released last week, tells the story of a California musician who smuggled punk rock in and out of the Soviet Union, and a new one, out now, covers the U.S. government funding anti-Hugo Chávez, racist songwriting in Venezuela.about reporting on classified information, feeling like a conspiracy theorist, and what it would mean if the American government wrote one of history’s bestselling rock songs.

I’ve written about the world of intelligence before, so I was familiar with the hazards of writing about secret worlds. What was really tricky was reporting for audio. In the past I’ve had sources who will talk to me, and we meet up, and I take notes, and I’m not recording — and they trust in that situation. It’s another thing altogether when you’re asking someone to speak into the microphone.

How much did you know before you started reporting about CIA cultural-influence operations? How do you feel about them now?

A lot of bad music in the 80s so it’s possible.

CIA is in on everything; music industry, Entertainment industry/Hollywood, Media/Communications, Politics etc. 😪

Great podcast.

My personal theory is that the government planted Country music singers as propaganda following 9/11. There were just way too many songs in that era that talked about everyone in America “having an equal chance”.

There's a podcast about this called Winds of Change......pretty good!

Insane theory

Makes sense

Scorpions were not “hair metal.” Or propagandists.

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The CIA operate in the hippy and Grateful Dead scene

“I follow the Moskva Down to Gorky Park...” Seems like a legit argument 😉

I call bullshit

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