CIA's Alleged Role in Hip Hop History

John Holmsten,

a retired CIA agent,

has admitted on national Russian television that the CIA was behind the creation

of the 1980s hip hop scene and financed major hip hop acts including N W A.,

Afrika Boombada, and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

The government at the time spent,

quote, big money, serious money,

on this covert operation destined to further division and corrupt the

American youth to nihilist,

anti establishment, and anti American ideologies,

he explained in a half hour interview broadcast on national television.

Famous hip hop songs of the legendary hip hop outfit N W A.

were even scripted by a team of psychologists and war propagandists of the CIA.

F the police,

and when I'm called off, I gotta saw it off, squeeze the trigger,

and bodies are hauled off,

and other nihilist and anti establishment lyrics were intended to unleash

a wave of cynicism towards authorities,

promote the use of heavy drugs,

and entice the youth with revolutionary counter establishment ideas.

The retired CIA agent claims

the social engineering maneuver was extremely successful,

quote, we understood at

the time that music was a powerful means of propaganda to reach the youth,

explained the 77 year old man.

Our mission was to use teenage angst to our advantage and turn Generation X into

a decadent,

pro drug, and anti establishment culture that would create uprisings

and further division within society.

We even infiltrated mainstream radio

to promote their music and reach millions of people every day, he admitted,

visibly proud of the accomplishment.

For many of us in the CIA,

infiltrating the 1980s hip hop scene was one of the CIA's

most successful experiments of propaganda to date,

he acknowledged during the interview.

The retired CIA agent, who was granted a

Russian residence permit in 2011, also claimed Lyer Cohen,

commonly known as the tall Israeli who runs hip hop, is a CIA asset.

When it comes to engineering culture,

no one touches Lyer Cohen, Homestead admitted.

He ended up promoting rappers such as Jay Z and Kanye West,

and more recently brought

Migos and Young Thug to prominence.

Some experts openly admit hip hop nihilism,

which was expressed in the use of harder,

more self destructive drugs like heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine,

pushed United States President Richard Nixon into the War on Drugs,

a campaign of

prohibition of drugs and foreign military intervention,

with the stated aim being to define and reduce the illegal drug

trade within America and around the world, quote, the chaos we cause

in America helped the

government justify overseas wars of plunder to middle America.

The country wouldn't be where it is today without hip hop.

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