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title: "When secret services operate with art"
date: 2020-11-24
last_modified: 2024-11-16T15:30:14+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-22T02:34:30Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/when-secret-services-operate-with-art-we-never-sleep-2020-context-en/"
description: "The cultural secret operations of the CIA sometimes sound like bizarre conspiracy myths. But what if it was really pop music that brought down the Soviet Union?"
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/header_SCHIRN-WNS-0243.jpg"
language: "en-US"
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# When secret services operate with art