The Congress for Cultural Freedom

An anti-communist cultural organisation running magazines, concerts and exhibitions in thirty-five countries. In 1966 the New York Times reported that it had been funded, through foundations, by the CIA.

The documented part, and it is not in dispute: the funding was covert and it was real. What is in dispute is what it MEANT for the paintings — whether the artists were instruments, beneficiaries, or simply unaware people whose work suited somebody's argument.