Plot twist, Marx and Lenin are men. And she really put together that sick outfit without a word??
Nice
God, what a voice.
That’s some big words for a CIA asset.
In the case of Nina Simone, the CIA had to use trickery. As Wilford uncovered, Simone was sent on a tour to Nigeria in 1961 by the American Society of African Culture, a CIA front organization. As Keefe notes, “It’s one thing for the government to pressure Louis Armstrong to go to Africa on a propaganda mission and have him grudgingly but knowingly go along. It’s a very different thing to covertly send an artist on false pretenses. And Nina Simone was no patriot. She ended up renouncing the United States and living abroad. She called it, ‘the United Snakes of America.’”
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/wind-of-change-cia/
Way to bury the lead. But anything to disparage a woman of color I suppose.
This is literally what I said in my follow up comment.
You are being extremely uncharitable to me.
You called her a CIA asset when she was tricked. There’s only one person being uncharitable and it certainly isn’t me.
There is a term of art for people that do the bidding of an intelligence service while unaware. They are called “useful idiots”, and are managed by intelligence officers as assets.
This is just the lingo in the business. You can take offense at that if you want. Think it’s uncharitable. Call Langley and see if they care.
One way or the other, Nina Simone was duped into working for the single largest, best funded and most ruthless counterrevolutary force in the history of the world, and here there are a bunch of so-called communists up in arms because I’m mean to the poor black woman?
Do I have to remind you what the CIA was up to in those days in Latin America and Africa?
Being a CIA asset is part of her legacy. I’m not going to tip toe around it because she said strong words about capitalism.
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Care to explain? Ive never heard this about her
The CIA set up a front organization that organized a tour of Nigeria in 1961 to promote American Values that included Nina Simone.