Steinem on CIA

Richard Gibson rgibson at pipeline.com
Tue Mar 9 20:32:10 PST 1999


Ooops I tried to attach the Redstocking statement that I scanned--and I fell flat...sorry...will try again tomorrow...

At 10:52 PM 3/9/99 -0500, you wrote:
>The folks in the former Redstockings collective, which was formative early
>in the feminist/socialist movement have written at length about Steinem's
>ties to the CIA...
>
>
>At 06:49 PM 3/9/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>
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>>> Steinem was reported in Fortune in 1975? that she accepted CIA money to
>attend
>>> left/radical conferences worldwide in the 60s to monitor for the CIA.
>>
>>Yep, she worked for the CIA reporting on socialist youth conference in
>Europe. She
>>was also married to J. Stanley Pottinger former Attorney Genral who
>stonewalled
>>the investigation into the Letelier assassination. Pottinger was also
>named as a
>>figure in the Iran-Contra affair. Its rumored that Ms. magazine is a
>product of
>>the CIA as well. The allegations about Pottinger can be fund in the
>excellent book
>>_Death in Washington_ by Fred Landis and Donald Freed.
>>
>>Sam
>>
>>
>>
>Rich Gibson
>Program Coordinator of Social Studies
>Wayne State University
>College of Education
>Detroit MI 48202
>
>http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/index.html
>http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/meap.html
>
> Life travels upward in spirals.
> Those who take pains to search the shadows
> of the past below us, then, can better judge the
> tiny arc up which they climb,
> more surely guess the dim
> curves of the future above them.
>
>
>
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Rich Gibson Program Coordinator of Social Studies Wayne State University College of Education Detroit MI 48202

http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/index.html http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/meap.html

Life travels upward in spirals.

Those who take pains to search the shadows

of the past below us, then, can better judge the

tiny arc up which they climb,

more surely guess the dim

curves of the future above them.



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