Birnbaum (was Re: CIA Produced 1955 Animal Farm Film)

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Sat Mar 18 10:09:19 PST 2000


Nathan:
>Anyone who has ever been outraged by the 1955 Animal Farm film with its
>distorted ending, this nugget from today's NY TIMES explains why? The CIA
>literally bought the film rights and got it produced with their chosen
>pro-Western slant.

from the article: "She has made it very difficult now to deny that some of these things happened," said Norman Birnbaum, a professor at the Georgetown University Law School who was a university professor in Europe in the 1950's and early 1960's. "And she has placed a lot of people living and dead in embarrassing situations."

Does anyone know anything about Professor Birnbaum? Any good books?

Peter



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