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Why was Gloria on the CIA payroll?

https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/feminist-was-spy

What is often missed, or mischaracterized, however, is the work she did as a CIA agent: Steinem was a spook. CIA agents are tight-lipped, but Steinem spoke openly about her relationship to The Agency in the 1950s and ’60s after a magazine revealed her employment by a CIA front organization, the Independent Research Service.

While popularly pilloried because of her paymaster, Steinem defended the CIA relationship, saying: “In my experience The Agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable.” ... Long before the formalized concept of soft power, Steinem personified and promoted abroad the vigor and progressive nature of the U.S. youth movement.

Men are so weak when it comes to sex lol

For sure, I'm actually convinced that the best way to influence weak leaders is to not send mean tweets to them, but to send mean tweets to their wives. A wife, who is publicly belittled and criticized, would do more to shape her weak husbands beliefs than what another man could. (note: I'm not actually promoting this and I don't even have social media accounts, nor do I read them....just pointing out that influencing wives is the key to social change).