Gloria Steinem, CIA Asset?

Was Gloria Steinem, the face of the Women’s Liberation movement and founder of Ms. magazine, in league with the CIA to neutralize second-wave feminism? That’s what a small group of feminists (and Betty Friedan) alleged in 1975—but why? Cristen unravels the kernels of truth and valid suspicions regarding her CIA connection and path to becoming a feminist celebrity and activist icon from the infighting and state surveillance-induced paranoia that made the plot seem so plausible.

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Conspiracy, She Wrote is an Unladylike Media production written and produced by Cristen Conger. Music is from Blue Dot Sessions.

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