The development of what was originally called by the CIA as the Non-Communist Left (NCL) and what has emerged gradually as neoconservatism has been a work-in-progress since the origins of the CIA in 1947. Agency created front organizations and publications networks such as the Congress for Cultural Freedom were vital in this subversion process. These spooks believed it absolutely crucial to mold the cultural milieu of intellectuals, both in the United States as well as Europe. But covertly influencing the mass of the general public was not neglected via publications such as the Reader’s Digest, Time, Life, Look, Newsweek, and other popular magazines. Key figures in this propaganda apparat were Frank Wisner, Tom Braden, Cord Meyer, James Jesus Angleton, Phillip Graham, Joseph Alsop, Stewart Alsop, and C. D. Jackson. This first video on neocons below only focuses on the past 30 years or so since the final days of the George H W Bush administration. There is much crucial missing prehistory to place this whole subject in context. Watch the second 1997 PBS documentary, Arguing the World, about the early Trotskyist communist roots of the neocons at City College of New York.
“This documentary tells the story of a hotbed of Jewish intellectualism, New York’s City College c. 1930, and in particular follows the careers of four of the greatest minds to emerge from that environment. In following the divergent paths of Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, Irving Howe, and Irving Kristol, the film serves as a powerful record both of American intellectual history and of the peculiar role of a generation of Jewish thinkers in riding and shaping that history “
The CIA consciously worked at transforming and reconstituting these marginal leftists into neocons over the next several decades. Other former Trotskyists James Burnham and Wilmoore Kendall (both former OSS and CIA consultants) joined and closely worked with former CIA agent William F. Buckley Jr. in launching National Review magazine in 1955 to subvert, disrupt and transform America’s “right wing” from the populist Old Right composed of persons opposed to the foreign and domestic policies of FDR’s New Deal and Harry Truman’s Fair Deal into a New Right “fusionist” movement for an aggressive interventionist program for projection of American power in the name of “anti-communism.”Neoconservatism, as a political movement began in the United States during the late 1960s among liberal/social democratic hawks who became disenchanted with the increasingly “pacifist” foreign policy of the Democratic Party and with the growing New Left and counterculture of the 1960s, particularly the Vietnam protests. Some also began to question their previous beliefs regarding domestic policies such as the Great Society. Neoconservatives typically advocate the unilateral promotion of “democracy” and interventionism in international affairs, grounded in a militaristic philosophy of “American Exceptionalism” and”peace through strength.” Neocons began becoming influential in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations. Later upon Buckley’s retirement and death NR has been solely captured as a neocon entity. Neoconservatism, particularly in relation to foreign policy, has become the ubiquitous and dominant mainstream stance of both political parties.
How the CIA Bamboozled The Public For 70 Years
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/how-the-cia-bamboozled-the-public-for-70-years/
Old Right, New Right
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/old-right-new-right/
Political Ideologies and the Intelligence Community
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/americas-synthetic-political-ideologies-at-home-and-covert-intervention-abroad/
THE CIA AND THE MEDIA, by Carl Bernstein
How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up
Part 1: CIA’s Extraordinary Role Influencing Liberal Media Outlets Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, by Dick Russell
Part 2: The Belly of The Daily Beast and Its Perceptible Ties to the CIA, by Dick Russell
This hilarious Murray Rothbard article originally appeared as “Bill & Irving & Ken & Patrick” in Inquiry, Vol. 2, No. 4 (February 5, 1979), pp. 21–23.]
“Onward Armchair Soldiers” — Neocon War Against the World (Amazon book/DVD list)
https://www.amazon.com/ideas/amzn1.account.AEBTJREFBXVDZILEQGA7RXD32C2Q/YP51F5DZBXKK?ref=idea_cp_vl_vv_d/lewrockwell
