![]() Working with Alsop was Finis Farr, a writer living in Los Angeles. His contact in Hollywood was Carleton Alsop, brother of writer Joseph Alsop, who was working undercover at Paramount. Howard Hunt, who became infamous as a member of the Watergate break-in team, is identified as head of the operation. To use Animal Farm for its purpose, as Stonor Saunders reveals, the CIA's Office of Policy Coordination, which directed covert government operations, had two members of their Psychological Warfare Workshop staff obtain the screen rights to the novel. ![]() Almost, but not quite, because the book's ending shows both the pigs and humans joined together as corrupt and evil powers. The CIA's choice of George Orwell's Animal Farm to produce as an animated film almost makes sense. When Frances Stonor Saunders published Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, she mentioned a single animated film, John Halas and Joy Batchelor's Animal Farm, which was made in 1954. ![]() By the late 1940s, the CIA was spending tax dollars creating culture as a secret weapon to combat communism around the world. A merica's use of animated propaganda during the second world war is fairly well known, but propaganda made after the iron curtain went up is rarely seen or discussed. ![]()
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