[silence] (OT) BBC Radio - The CIA and the Avant Garde

[John Whiting]

Guy De Bievre wrote:

> another of their channels: voice of america, recorded (and co 
> sponsored) great jazz performances....And the concerts were of course not 
> broadcast in the US (too much freedom I guess)

There were no willing commercial sponsors, which has always been America's most 
effective form of censorship.

John Whiting

STRANGE FRUIT  The oil was from Marjeyoun, in the ancient olive growing region of 
southern Lebanon; the wine, from the legendary Chateau Musar east of Beirut. Olives 
and grapes, the fruits of peace and conviviality, paradoxically exported from a 
war-ravaged country. http://www.whitings-writings.com/diatribes/strange_fruit.htm