Today's NYTimes reports a connection between the C.I.A. and The Paris Review. One of its founding editors has been revealed as a C.I.A. agent.
No word yet on how many of the other names which have appeared on its masthead over the years were also "undercover."
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How many other of our most prestigious litmags were founded and funded by the C.I.A.?
Do their editorial decisions and directions come direct from Langley?
(I think this explains the rise of Elliptical poetry, don't you?)
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Which literary journals are currently receiving support from the secret intelligence agencies of the the U.S. government?
I always suspected Rat Vomit Review had a hidden agenda.
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Makes me wonder about one of our local mags here in Boston. Maybe that's why they named it The Nixon-Agnew Review.
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If you've read anything at all about the U.S. Intelligence community, you know how heated their inter-agency rivalries have always been.
—So if the C.I.A. has its own private litmag, each of the others is going to want one too,
the NSA, the FBI, the DIA, the DEA et al,
and that's not even including Area 51.
They're all going to want a piece of the pie.
So who's running what? Any guesses?
Which acronymic clump of spies is behind that magazine that publishes all those "spiritual" poems?
Whose Black Budget is supporting that overspend journal of avantgarde non-absorptions?
Which evil group of faceless killers is sponsoring YOUR brilliant breakthrough verse?
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