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DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
When the leftist magazine Ramparts revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had underwritten the National Student Association (NSA), Herblock used the literary metaphor of Alice in Wonderland, comparing the undercover activities to Alice’s falling down the rabbit hole. The NSA, a progressive coalition of university students founded in 1947, became a front for the CIA until 1967. When former Director of Development Michael Wood revealed the relationship, he said, “The specter of CIA infiltration of domestic institutions—and the covert creation of them—must horrify those who regard unfettered debate as vital to representative democracy.”
Down the Rabbit Hole, 1966. Published in the Washington Post, February 16, 1967. |