Gloria Steinem: How the CIA Used Feminism to Destabilize Society

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Gloria Steinem: How the CIA Used Feminism to Destabilize Society

By Henry Makow Ph.D.
March 18, 2002

"In the 1960's, the elite media invented second-wave feminism as part of the elite agenda to dismantle civilization and create a New World Order."

Since writing these words last week, I have discovered that before she became a feminist leader, Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA spying on Marxist students in Europe and disrupting their meetings. She became a media darling due to her CIA connections. MS Magazine, which she edited for many years was indirectly funded by the CIA.

Steinem has tried to suppress this information, unearthed in the 1970's by a radical feminist group called "Red Stockings." In 1979, Steinem and her powerful CIA-connected friends, Katharine Graham of the Washington Post and Ford Foundation President Franklin Thomas prevented Random House from publishing it in "Feminist Revolution." Nevertheless the story appeared in the "Village Voice" on May 21, 1979.

Steinem has always pretended that she had been a student radical. "When I was in college, it was the McCarthy era," she told Susan Mitchell in 1997, "and that made me a Marxist." (Icons, Saints and Divas: Intimate Conversations with Women who Changed the World 1997. p 130) Her bio-blurb in June 1973 MS. Magazine states: "Gloria Steinem has been a freelance writer all her professional life. Ms magazine is her first full-time salaried job."

Not true. Raised in an impoverished, dysfunctional family in Toledo Ohio, Steinem somehow managed to attend elite Smith College, Betty Friedan's alma mater. After graduating in 1955, Steinem received a "Chester Bowles Student Fellowship" to study in India. Curiously, an Internet search reveals that this fellowship has no existence apart from Gloria Steinem. No one else has received it.

In 1958, Steinem was recruited by CIA's Cord Meyers to direct an "informal group of activists" called the "Independent Research Service." This was part of Meyer's "Congress for Cultural Freedom," which created magazines like "Encounter" and "Partisan Review" to promote a left-liberal chic to oppose Marxism. Steinem, attended Communist-sponsored youth festivals in Europe, published a newspaper, reported on other participants, and helped to provoke riots.

One of Steinem's CIA colleagues was Clay Felker. In the early 1960's, he became an editor at Esquire and published articles by Steinem which established her as a leading voice for women's lib. In 1968, as publisher of New York Magazine, he hired her as a contributing editor, and then editor of Ms. Magazine in 1971. Warner Communications put up almost all the money although it only took 25% of the stock. Ms. Magazine's first publisher was Elizabeth Forsling Harris, a CIA-connected PR executive who planned John Kennedy's Dallas motorcade route. Despite its anti establishment image, MS magazine attracted advertising from the cream of corporate America. It published ads for ITT at the same time as women political prisoners in Chile were being tortured by Pinochet, after a coup inspired by the US conglomerate and the CIA.

Steinem's personal relationships also belie her anti establishment pretensions. She had a nine-year relationship with Stanley Pottinger, a Nixon-Ford assistant attorney general, credited with stalling FBI investigations into the assassinations of Martin Luther King, and the ex-Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Latelier. In the 1980's, she dated Henry Kissinger. For more details, see San Francisco researcher Dave Emory.

Our main misconception about the CIA is that it serves US interests. In fact, it has always been the instrument of a dynastic international banking and oil elite (Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan) coordinated by the Royal Institute for Internal Affairs in London and their US branch, the Council for Foreign Relations. It was established and peopled by blue bloods from the New York banking establishment and graduates of Yale University's secret pagan "Skull and Bones" society. Our current President, his father and grandfather fit this profile.

The agenda of this international cabal is to degrade the institutions and values of the United States in order to integrate it into a global state that it will direct through the United Nations. In its 1947 Founding Charter, the CIA is prohibited from engaging in domestic activities. However this has never stopped it from waging a psychological war on the American people. The domestic counterpart of the "Congress for Cultural Freedom" was the "American Committee for Cultural Freedom." Using foundations as conduits, the CIA controlled intellectual discourse in the 1950's and 1960's, and I believe continues to do so today. In "The Cultural Cold War," Francis Stonor Saunders estimates that a thousand books were produced under the imprint of a variety of commercial and university presses, with covert subsidies.

The CIA's "Project Mockingbird" involved the direct infiltration of the corporate media, a process that often included direct takeover of major news outlets. "By the early 1950's," writes Deborah Davis, in her book "Katherine the Great," the CIA owned respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communication vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all." In 1982 the CIA admitted that reporters on the CIA payroll have acted as case officers to agents in the field. Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, who ran the operation until his "suicide" in 1963, boasted that "you could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple of hundred dollars a month."

I was born in 1949. Idealists in my parent's generation were disillusioned when the Communist dream of universal brotherhood turned out to be a shill for a brutal despotism. My own generation may discover that our best instincts have also been manipulated and exploited. There is evidence that the 60's drug counter culture, the civil rights movement, and anti-war movement, like feminism, were CIA directed. For example, the CIA has admitted setting up the (National Student Association as a front in 1947 http://www.cia-on-campus.org/nsa/nsa2.html). In the early 1950's the NSA opposed the attempts of the House Un American Activities Committee to root out Communist spies. According to Phil Agee Jr., NSA officers participated in the activities of SNCC, the militant civil rights group, and Students for a Democratic Society, a radical peace group.

According to Mark Riebling, the CIA also may have used Timothy Leary. Certainly the agency distributed LSD to Leary and other opinion makers in the 1960s. Leary made a generation of Americans turn away from active participation in society and seek fulfillment "within." In another example of the CIA's use of drugs to interfere in domestic politics, Gary Webb describes how in the 1980's, the CIA flooded Black ghettos with cocaine.

I won't attempt to analyze the CIA's motivation except to suggest what they have in common: They demoralized, alienated and divided Americans. The elite operates by fostering division and conflict in the world. Thus, we don't realize who the real enemy is. For the same reason, the CIA and elite foundations also fund the diversity and multicultural movements.

Feminism has done the most damage. There is no more fundamental yet delicate relationship in society than male and female. On it depends the family, the red blood cell of society. Nobody with the interests of society at heart would try to divide men and women. Yet the lie that men have exploited women has become the official orthodoxy.

Man loves woman. His first instinct is to nurture ("husband") and see her thrive. When a woman is happy, she is beautiful. Sure, some men are abusive. But the vast majority have supported and guided their families for millennium.

Feminists relentlessly advance the idea that our inherent male and female characteristics, crucial to our development as human beings, are mere "stereotypes." This is a vicious calumny on all heterosexuals, 95% of the population. Talk about hate! Yet it is taught to children in elementary schools! It is echoed in the media. Lesbians like Rosie O'Donnell are advanced as role models.

All of this is calculated to create personal confusion and sow chaos among heterosexuals. As a result, millions of American males are emasculated and divorced from their relationship to family (the world and the future.) The American woman has been hoodwinked into investing herself in a mundane career instead of the timeless love of her husband and children. Many women have become temperamentally unfit to be wives and mothers. People, who are isolated and alone, stunted and love-starved, are easy to fool and manipulate. Without the healthy influence of two loving parents, so are their children.

Feminism is a grotesque fraud perpetrated on society by its governing elite. It is designed to weaken the American social and cultural fabric in order to introduce a friendly fascist New World Order. Its advocates are sanctimonious charlatans who have grown rich and powerful from it. They include a whole class of liars and moral cripples who work for the elite in various capacities: government, education and the media. These imposters ought to be exposed and ridiculed.

Women's oppression is a lie. Sex roles were never as rigid as feminists would have us believe. My mother had a successful business in the 1950's importing watchstraps from Switzerland. When my father's income increased, she was content to quit and concentrate on the children. Women were free to pursue careers if they wanted to. The difference was that their role as wife and mother was understood, and socially validated, as it should be.

Until Gloria Steinem and the CIA came along.




Henry Makow, is the inventor of the board game Scruples, and the author of A Long Way to go for a Date. He received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto. He welcomes your feedback and ideas at henry@savethemales.ca.

 

must........resist...........making comments..................

 

Even assuming that Gloria Steinem was a CIA plant (which she may well have been) it is a fairly big and unsupported leap from that to vast conspiracy on the part of the entire feminist movement.

Fairly nutty article, made me smile, really good Weekly World News material. Overall fun stuff if not taken seriously.

 

Well, the feminist movement -- like most movements -- is controlled at the very top by just a few select people with their own agenda. Ultimately it's the elite-owned/elite-controlled media who pushes these agendas. The feminists and the leaders of the movement are little more than pawns. I can see how it sounds nutty to people who don't fully understand how the systems of control work and how media works to influence the masses by design, however. I would have thought this sounds crazy at one time, too.

I am sure some people will take this as being anti-woman or chauvinist, which could not be further from the truth. I love women and I hate to see people so easily into manipulated.

I am sure groupthink and political correctness will prevail, though, and I will be labeled a hater for posting this. I don't care. Nor do I care if I am laughed at.

 

Theorizing Conspiracies is a lot like alcoholism... you don't quit, no matter how ridiculous you look and sound.

 

The world is steeped in conspiracy. That's just the way it is, whether people choose to believe it or not. Many people won't, and that's them. People are entitled to believe what they want, though you won't see me mocking people who choose to live their lives wrapped in materialism, while believing everything they see and interpret in the media and society is the way it appears to them. People can call me a nutjob or a conspiracy theorist, just like I can call them ignorant, mind-controlled sheep. But I won't. Name calling doesn't lead anywhere.

 

Pressed Rat makes some valid points....

think about it... get the women (who were formerly moms/housewifes) and get them into the work force. away from the home. away from their families.

what happens to the kids. someone else is rearing them. Whether it is daycare centers or private homes. Mom is not there. The child learns that early. Therefor he learns early too, that mom is not dependable because she (the most important person in his life) is not there when he falls to kiss his bumps, not there to see him walk for the first time.

this takes the parental control and nurturing away from the family. therefor destabling it. rendering it useless and devalues the mom as her family role.

but before feminism was getting the men away from their families by installing factories. Men used to stay at home too. on farms. family farms. The family lived and worked as a unit, a whole.

that is no longer.

 

Thanks to the two above posters for actually thinking, instead of immediately rushing to criticise me. You both seem to be pretty much on the same page I am.

Of course some people are content believing what they want to believe, and no matter what you tell them they are going to think what is most comfortable for them and most conforms to how they want others to view them.

 

OK Rat, if the Illuminati Bogeyman used feminism to keep the pawns under their control, what is the alternative you propose? Abandon womens' rights?

Or if you're just posting tabloid stuff and don't have any insights or suggestions, maybe you should simply stop running your mouth.

 

No, I don't propose that. I propose equal rights for everyone, regardless of their race or gender.

It's an illusion that women's rights are under seige, when the truth is everyone's rights are under seige. Women are no more under seige than anyone else.

The solution is to wake people up to the hidden agenda behind these various groups and movements.

 

Rat,

Your posts are sweeping yet always poignant.
I admire the courage of your suspicions that 'things are not always what they appear'.
Your instincts are true, because they are not as they appear.

Henry Makow, however, is trapped in a sentimental PollyAnnish phantasy about the nuclear family.

It's not uncommon, from time to time, I think I detect a little of it in you.

The nuclear family is an expression of alienation, and was always doomed to self-detonate in an orgy of separation.

Femminism is simply the early fallout.
Femminism is the result, not the cause of this meltdown.

That Femminism has joined the establishment, and doubled the power of the military-industrial complex, is evidence that it is perfectly in step with the death-drive funeral-march of civilization. -The next step-

A step that started long before there was a CIA.
And where Gloria Steinem and Ms magazine are insignificant compared to 8,000yrs of self-hating homo-eroticism.

Rockefeller, Rothchild, the CIA, You, Me and all the rest of us, have already castrated ourselves by our effeminate death-fear.

Henry Makow need not worry about his manhood.
He never had one!

What you see as a conspiracy is simply our slavish response to our sado-masochistic homo-erotic impulses.

The spiteful effeminate impulses of every fearful 'man' who ever desired like a woman the security and authority of a Hierarchical Civilization.

8,000yrs of closeted latent homosexuality; that's the patriarchal conspiracy.

 

Snort. That article was hysterically funny. Thanks for the laughs, dude.

 

Yeah, it's funny because it's true.

 

it's not very hard for the CIA to create or take over big groups and movements like Feminism, all they need to do is become the figurehead, and slowly, gradually change the policies of that movement.

Peace and Love,
Dan

 

So the same CIA that got us mired in Vietnam also orchestrated the antiwar movement? Has it occurred to the author that they might have "participated" in leftist groups in order to infiltrate them? Of course, conspiracy theorists always reject the simplest, most logical, and obvious explanations.

 

But the thing is, the most obvious and logical explanations do not always hold the answers. Not everything you see and interpret is the way you believe it is, which is something most people cannot grasp.

The ruling elite have manufactured (or at least hijacked) both the Republican and Democratic parties -- two opposing sides (or so we are lead to believe). So why wouldn't they manufacture other opposing fronts to stir up chaos and distract the masses?

If you look at politics today, there are really only two sides. At least this is what is presented to the people via the mass media, and most people either take one side or the other. It was designed that way. A polarized population is so much easier to manipulate and control. I mean, just open your eyes and look around you.

The sad fact is that many of these groups and organizations, which come off as anti-establishment are, in fact, products of the establishment. This is why I laugh at socialists, who are playing right into the hands of the elite, since socialism is the tool they use to further their fascistic agenda. Just look at history if you don't believe me. It's all about power and control in the hands of big government.

 

Okay Rat, Socialists are trying to promote fascism you say? Do you understand that socialism and fascism are about as different as two political systems can get?

There is a concept referred to as "Occam's razor" (here is a good link http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/OCCAMRAZ.html) which says "one should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything". Read the link as Me explaining it here would be redundant.

There is an interesting contradition involved in this particular conspiracy theory. The claiments, as it were, hold that the conspiracy is highly secretive, extensive, and known only to the highest up on the food chain, the head honchos, the top dogs, etc. . Us little people are completely unaware. Well how do you Pressed_Rat have such intimate knowledge of this conspiracy? Have you spent years spying on the richest and most powerful people in the world without being caught? Perhaps you found a briefcase lying on the street with all sorts of important info in it? Maybe one of the big shot head honchos told you all about it? Or maybe you are in on it yourself? To have the knowledge that you claim one of these must be the case. Of course there is the posibility that there is no conspiracy and that it is all a fiction.

 

Socialism in itself isn't akin to fascism -- I never said it was.

Socialism, when practiced at a tribal level, has proven to work quite well at one point, long ago in history.

The fact is, socialism is often used as a tool by fascists. Hitler was just one among many.

I have studied history, and frankly, I am not very trusting of the government. I believe in the preservation of our constitutional republic and what our founding fathers proposed for the nation many many years ago, to ensure that corrupt individuals couldn't gain too much power and get too far into the system without being spotted and immediately shitcanned.

I certainly do not believe big government represents freedom, and this is the popular concensus amongst socialists. Socialists believe that more government is the answer to everything. They see a utopia within big government.

This is an incredibly naive and uninformed way of thinking. (Or rather NOT thinking.)

Yes, yes... Occam's Razor. I've only heard it mentioned a million times. This is the phrase that is often used by people anytime anybody presents something that goes against one's conditioned reality, especially when these people never have any insight of their own to add to the table.

Because I am well-read on my history. Throughout my years of public schooling/indoctrination, I haven't ever received anything less than an A on a history-related assignment. I see what is happening in the world geopolitically and where this country is heading. I have read published insider testimonial from high-ranking government officials. I have read quotes from various elites, discussing their plans for us all. I have read the Patriot Act. I see how the mainstream, controlled media has almost full-control over people's opinions. I know that 9/11 was an inside job. I have examined declassified government documents, such as Operation Northwoods. I am aware that the government (and certainly Bush) are not really the ones pulling the strings -- rather the ones controlling the government, who happen to be the world's biggest multinational corporations (ie: General Electric, Haliburton) and international banks/bankers (ie: David Rockefeller, Lord Rothschild), many of whom operate through various facets within, above and beyond the government(S) that they own and control. Ultimately it's the world bankers who own (hence control) everything from the very top of the pyramid structure.

These people are so rich and so powerful, you rarely hear their names.

And let me just say that Bill Gates IS NOT the richest man in the world. Far from it, as a matter of fact. But don't expect to read this in the publications that these elites own, which is pretty much all of the big-name ones that people are most familiar with (Time, Newsweek, etc.).

 

No, it's funny because it's the ravings of a lunatic. That's why it's funny.

 

Better to be a lunatic than a sheep.