Moles, stool pidgeons, catspaws, spooks etc

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Elvis was a stool pidgeon, and free jazz was the West's trojan horse for individualistic values during the Cold War propaganda battle. (VOA - eclectic, avant-garde, non-commercial and presented by 'experts' - would seem to have been everyone here's dream radio station.) So it's not too much of a leap to imagine the fringes of the 'music industry' being riddled with agents and informers! Were Sly and George Clinton planted by COINTELPRO like seemingly everybody else? (James Brown = contributor to Republican party) Derek Bailey = Kim Philby? Maybe those cranks who go on about the faked moon landing would be more productive by sifting through the details of Sun Ra's career - CO my ass, that's a cover story for a top-secret mission he was on during the war years - maybe something to do with space travel in a military/imperialist context, who knows? (Michael Karoli was into planetary convergences, and Germans + occultism ='interesting' results). Is 'trance' an overt testing ground for the 'sound-weapon' experiments that were originally supervised by John Cale and Lamonte Young, with a certain L. Reed drafted in to propagandize the literary end of academia by turning them all onto amphetamine (see liner notes to MMM - no wonder the guy was paranoid of the disbanded sTe while 'interviewing' Havel).

Also, if you found out that somebody you respected was actually working for an intelligence organization would it alter your views of artist and work?

― dave q, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, of course 'Ben Watson' is a cover name used by the British Secret Service as part of a plan to kill off any remaining interest that people might have in the UK 'hard' left.

― Andrew L, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Oh dear: if BW evah Tashes, Farren-wise, Im in SUCH TROUBLE for hanging out with all you snidey reprobates. Can I just say he is a genuinely kind-hearted if thin-skinned man in person, and — since that def.sounds like damning w.faint praise — I really am v.keenly waiting for his D.Bailey/Free Improv book? And that yes of course it will make me angry, but in a good way????)

If I found out someone at MY office was working for the Secret Service, my opinion of my work wd skyrocket: but no such luck. My best friend at school was I am fairly certain a spy of some kind when he worked for the FO in Moscow in the 80s. But no James Bond- ish type fellow.

― mark s, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It would depend on the organization.

― Lyra, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is the accustion put across by a book that says the AbExers were CIA shills. It is a complex argyment but it runs along the lines of America is the land of the free, look at the freakish art we produce. Great Book about it . Cannot rifle right now.

― anthony, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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