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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 47
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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GLORIA IN EXCELSIS
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[CN transcript of remarks by west coast researcher Dave Emory.]
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[...continued...]
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In a miscellaneous archive show entitled "Gloria in Excelsis"
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(subtitled "The CIA, the Women's Movement, and the News Media"),
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Gloria Steinem's many intelligence contacts were described in
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considerable depth. The main intersection between Steinem and
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the CIA is Steinem's role as co-founder, and at one point
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director, of an organization called the Independent Research
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Service: this is a CIA-financed student organization which has
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been used in a number of different capacities. We also noted
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that Ms. magazine itself, which had Steinem as editor, has as a
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principal stockholder Katherine Graham of the Washington Post.
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The Graham publishing empire, and the Washington Post in
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particular, [are] inextricably linked with the Central
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Intelligence Agency, as we looked at in the book *Katherine the
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Great* by Debra Davis. It should also be noted that the first
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publisher of Ms. magazine was a woman named Elizabeth Forsling
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Harris, who arranged many of the key Dallas details for President
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Kennedy's motorcade route.
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By way of further exploring Gloria Steinem's CIA background --
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specifically, her role with the Independent Research Service --
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we're gonna take a look at some information now which comes from
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a book entitled *The Pied Piper* (subtitled "Allard K. Lowenstein
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and the Liberal Dream.") This was authored by Richard Cummings.
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The book was published in hardcover by Grove Press, Inc., in New
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York. And it's copyright 1985.
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Of Gloria Steinem and her involvement with the Independent
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Research Service, and in turn the Independent Research Service's
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involvement with disrupting the Vienna Youth Festival (which had
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very strong Socialist and Communist participation), author
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Cummings writes as follows:
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The Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Youth
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Festival, which was technically founded by Gloria Steinem
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and Paul Sigmund, and which came to be known as the
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Independent Research Service, was funded by the
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Independence Foundation, one of the conduits of CIA funds
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into the National Students Association [NSA]. In 1965, it
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was the Independence Foundation which leased its posh
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offices in Washington to the NSA [National Students
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Association], signing a 15-year rent-free agreement.
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The Independent Service diligently recruited hundreds of
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American students to attend the 1959 Vienna festival and
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later, the 1962 Communist-backed Helsinki festival, to
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oppose the Communists as vigorously as possible. According
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to Eugene Theroux, who served as chairman of the
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metropolitan New York region chapter of NSA in 1958, the
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Americans went "to cause trouble."
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I would note here also, more about the activities of the
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Independent Research Service, the CIA-financed student
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organization, co-founded by Gloria Steinem. And we're gonna look
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at, in addition to the glance we just took at the Independent
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Research Service's work in disrupting not only the 1959 Vienna
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festival but also the 1962 Helsinki festival, we're gonna look
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at plans of some of these same elements and individuals to
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disrupt a conference that had been scheduled for Algeria in 1965.
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This conference was cancelled. But had it not been cancelled it
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might very well have been disrupted by the aforementioned Eugene
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Theroux. And one of the people who is aiding Theroux was the
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aforementioned Allard Lowenstein, a former Dean of Students for
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Stanford University, and Gloria Steinem presiding over the same
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mileau once again.
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Turning again to Richard Cummings, *The Pied Piper* (Allard
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Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream), we find,
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Another Communist-backed youth festival was planned by the
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IUS for the summer of 1965 in Algiers, and Lowenstein made
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preparations to go there in order to disrupt it. Planning
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to join him this time was Paul Theroux's brother, Eugene,
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who as a NSA leader in 1958 had met Lowenstein and been
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inspired by him to work on behalf of southwest Africa and
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black students in the south. Eugene Theroux had been
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recruited in 1965 by Gloria Steinem to work for the CIA
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front, Independent Research Service. They were to be part
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of a delegation to "cause trouble," as Theroux puts it, or
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to "engage people in debate," as he corrects himself.
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And again, as noted, the 1965 conference never came off. But we
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find some of the same elements: Lowenstein, Steinem, Theroux, et
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al., planning to disrupt this conference as they had the 1962
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Helsinki conference and the 1959 conference in Vienna as well.
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It should be noted that a number of other prominent liberals have
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intersected with this same mileau, this CIA mileau which involves
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Gloria Steinem. Among those are William Sloan Coffin(sp?), one
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of the leaders of the anti-war movement, himself a chaplain from
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Yale University, himself also, for several years, a CIA agent.
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We took a look at William Sloan Coffin and his intersection with
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the CIA in discussions from the book, *The Man Who Kept the
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Secrets* (about Richard Helms.) That's authored by Thomas
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Powers. William Sloan Coffin's CIA background described there.
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As we shall see, William Sloan Coffin intersecting with the
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mileau involving people like Allard Lowenstein and Gloria
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Steinem and, as we shall see, current Massachusetts congressman
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Barney Frank, who also worked with Gloria Steinem and the
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CIA-sponsored Independent Research Service.
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Returning once again to *The Pied Piper*, by Richard Cummings.
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It is known that the CIA had established centers on the
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campuses of many American universities. In his recruiting
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efforts at some of these universities, Lowenstein was
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working with people who had been affiliated with the CIA or
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had participaated in CIA-sponsored projects. William Sloan
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Coffin at Yale, whom Lowenstein wanted to head the summer
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project, had worked for the CIA. Barney Frank at Harvard
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had been with the Independent Research Service delegation
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to Helsinki, an operation which, by Frank's own admission,
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he clearly understood was CIA-backed. Frank jokes about
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the role of fellow delegate Gloria Steinem, whom he
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describes as running around at nightclubs set up by the CIA
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in Helsinki, helping to win over Africans from the
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Communists.
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And again, this little section here is going to go into the
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aforementioned miscellaneous archive show, "Gloria in Excelsis:
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CIA, the Women's Movement, and the News Media." That is already
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on file with Archives on Audio [PO Box 170023, San Francisco, CA
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94117-0023; phone: 415-346-1840]. And this particular section
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of the program is going to go in as an addendum to that
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particular broadcast.
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