The CIA, Culture, and the Art That Quietly Paid the Bills: How U.S. Intelligence Shaped Midcentury ArtsH1: The CIA, Culture, and the Art That Quietly Paid the Bills: How Covert Funding Shaped Midcentury ArtsIntroduction (150–200 words) During the mid-20th century, museums, exhibitions, jazz stages, and literary journals across the Western world pulsed with a newly elevated American cultural voice. Many viewers and readers assumed that this surge of creativity and international exposure came from independent…