
Abstract Art and the CIA
The Blindboy Podcast
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The Art of a Cold War Warfare
This is 19 forty six, only a couple of years after war war two. Both russia and america have nuclear bombs. They were both worried about who would make the first strike. And what they were terrified of was russian spy planes. This house of unamerican activities decided that jackson pallock's paintings were actually visual, incrypted codes that had maps of strategic american basis. The average american parson said, what the folk? Why you fonding these camies who were painting maps to show the russians how to bamos? So they shot it down immediately. One of the great ironies, the us. Government was left now with fol
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