American Friends of the Middle East (AFME)

BY SULTAN SOOUD AL-QASSEMI NEWSWEEK Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, details began to emerge about the CIA’s covert role in using art as a tool for political ends during the Cold War. The policy—known as “long leash”—was initiated to showcase the creativity of American artists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell … Continued