zagonostra: I believed the CIA invented the phrase “conspiracy theory” to discredit other folks that puzzled the legitimate JFK Warren Commission findings.
Linebarger himself could furthermore then hang invented the phrase “conspiracy theory” as phase of his work for CIA.
Linebarger was once within the OSS all the blueprint thru the 1940s, and successfully within the CIA under conceal all the blueprint thru the 1950s, and completely taught many main CIA operatives (explore under) at that time, moreover having written PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE, the US Navy’s predominant textbook on the matter. So if he didn’t advance up with the phrase, it was once likely one among his pupils.
zagonostra: Being a SciFi aficionado, I'll must examine out Paul Linebarger to sight if his writings are on par with Heinlein, Asimov, Sturgeon, Robinson, Spinrad, and plenty others…that I grew up on as a young person.
He’s arguably vital higher, but far stranger.
With regards to all his stuff — and there’s finest a dozen-unfamiliar core quick stories and novelettes, plus a strange are attempting at a unusual — is determined in an invented future history 10,000-15,000 years due to this truth, when the folks aren’t undoubtedly human beings any longer, and that’s in phase because, as an illustration, many aren’t as they’re uplifted animals.
Furthermore, the stories’ forms aren’t esteem most Western fiction, extra equivalent to the Chinese language history and literature Linebarger/Smith was once acquainted from his childhood. So, as an illustration, the stories’ narrators are ostensibly even further within the extinguish, explaining these historical events and other folks-legends of their previous — C’Mell, D’Joan, the politics of the Instrumentality, the insurrection of the Underpeople, the detention heart design of Shayol — to contemporaries of their have time. It’s if fact be told strange stuff; other topflight SF writers hang mostly deeply admired it, but stumbled on it a corrupt impact to incorporate in their have work since it’s no longer doable to accept as true with as in a different blueprint as Linebarger/Smith could take into consideration.
As for THE ATLANTIC article, it’s shamefully corrupt and factually unsuitable. As griffen feedback, “esteem paint by colours plot to painting CT nonetheless the Atlantic deems to be well-known.”
For starters, Linebarger wasn’t upright any counterintelligence officer and PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE wasn’t any oldschool manual on the matter, however the the US Navy’s predominant bible on the matter for decades. Within the 1950s, Linebarger taught lessons in psychological battle for CIA agents at his home in Washington under conceal of his field on the College of Superior World Studies, and his pupils integrated, amongst others, G. Gordon Liddy and Miles Copeland, who described Linebarger as “perchance the main practitioner of ‘sunless’ and ‘gray’ propaganda within the Western world.”
Striking the corpulent image together — in case you’ve read PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE –‘sunless propaganda’ design , in phase, false flag operations, and a few of Linebarger’s CIA pupils utilized in Vietnam exactly the roughly ‘sunless ops’ that in Graham Green’s 1955 unusual THE QUIET AMERICAN the character Fowler is responsible for.
Linebarger also could drink a glass of prussic acid because his metabolism was once so unfamiliar, had a glass sight, and had long gone to a psychiatrist for treatment because he had delusions that he was once from one more planet. A if fact be told strange particular person.
Right here’s an essay by Ted Goia from 2013, called ‘Remembering Cordwainer Smith: Rotund-Time Sci-Fi Writer, Fragment-Time Earthling,’ which affords a rather higher image of Smith/Linebarger (and which was once, no longer incidentally, printed in THE ATLANTIC then, showing how far that publication has fallen).
