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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <47rfnqFh4rc6U1@individual.net>, oO  writes   
      
   >Animated Version of 'Animal Farm' With Altered Ending Among Films Produced   
   >by the CIA   
   >The Memory Hole has acquired a list of films that were produced or used by   
   >the Central Intelligence Agency.   
   >   
   >Among the films on the list is a 1955 animated version of George Orwell's   
   >"Animal Farm," with its "chilling finale in which the farm animals looked   
   >back and forth at the tyrannical pigs and the exploitative human farmers but   
   >found it 'impossible to say which was which.'"   
   >   
   >  [The original] ending was altered in the 1955 animated version, which   
   >removed the humans, leaving only the nasty pigs. . The C.I.A., it seems, was   
   >worried that the public might be too influenced by Orwell's   
   >pox-on-both-their-houses critique of the capitalist humans and Communist   
   >pigs. So after his death in 1950, agents were dispatched (by none other than   
   >E. Howard Hunt, later of Watergate fame) to buy the film rights to "Animal   
   >Farm" from his widow to make its message more overtly anti-Communist.   
      
   Meanwhile in the UK, at Faber and Faber publishing house, T S Eliot   
   rejected 'Animal Farm' on the grounds that he hated its message. In his   
   view, the pigs should rule because 'they're more intelligent'. Other   
   publishers also rejected it. In the case of Jonathan Cape, the 'Ministry   
   of Information' was said to have been involved directly. But this is a   
   bit misleading, given that the major publishing houses in the UK have   
   long had a close relationship with MI6...   
      
   >Some other notable films in the CIA's library:   
   >   
   >  Brainwashing   
   >  Spying for Uncle Sam, Part I   
   >  Why Man Creates   
   >  How Free Should the Press Be?   
   >  CBS Reports: UFO: Friend, Foe or Fancy?   
   >  Mickey Mouse Cartoon-Squatter's Rights   
   >  I Am a Soldier   
   >  Holograms - The First True 3-D Picture   
   >  Man and the Sea   
   >  Unidentified Flying Objects   
   >  Eye in the Sky   
   >  It Works, and That's the Key   
   >  Operation Underground Network   
   >  He is a Mad Man   
   >  Rise of Labor Unions/Employee/Management   
   >  Hovercraft   
   >  Our Election Day Illusion/The Best Majority   
   >  Kidnap Executive Style   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)