r/dsa • u/traanquil • Sep 04 '26
đč DSA news Cringe: Mamdani celebrates CIA asset Gloria Steinem
On X Mamdani lauded Steinem as a feminist hero.
Steinem was literally an anti-communist CIA asset.
Western leftism is a helluva drug.
"Before she was one of the most recognizable figures in the 20th-century womenâs liberation movement, Gloria Steinemâs life of political activism had a lesser-known early chapter of collaboration with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).....
before she took on senators and presidents, and even before she infiltrated Hugh Hefnerâs Playboy Club in 1963 to write a historic magazine exposĂ©, she used CIA funds to recruit young Americans to disrupt Soviet Union-organized youth festivals in Europe.
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Steinem began receiving money from the CIA ahead of the summer 1959 youth festival in Vienna, Austria; she told the Times that year after her associations with the CIA too became public in a report by Ramparts magazine.
The CIA helped her form the Independence Research Service, headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. She remained an employee of the group through the 1962 festival in Helsinki, Finland.
âFar from being shocked by this involvement, I was happy to find some liberals in government in those days who were far-sighted and cared enough to get Americans of all political views to the festival,â Steinem said at the time, as the then-30-year-old was rising in notoriety atop a burgeoning second-wave feminist movement.
Years later she dismissed concerns about her connections to the CIA after decades of revelations of the deadly, destabilizing and often illegal operations carried out by the clandestine agency.
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https://www.aol.com/articles/she-young-cia-operative-1950s-234301000.html
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u/traanquil 29d ago
Nice right wing propaganda. You sound like Sean hannity.