CIA secretly purchased film rights to several novels written by which author to alter the endings?
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secretly purchased the film rights to several novels written by George Orwell.
The most famous example of this is the 1954 animated film adaptation of Orwell’s classic novella, Animal Farm. The CIA’s Office of Policy Coordination secretly financed the film and, unbeknownst to the animators, altered its ending. In the original book, the farm animals look at the tyrannical pigs and the human farmers and find it “impossible to say which was which,” a powerful critique of both communism and capitalism. The CIA, however, changed the ending of the film to show the animals successfully revolting against the pigs, creating a more overtly anti-communist message to be used as a propaganda tool during the Cold War. The agency also funded a live-action film adaptation of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and reportedly influenced its ending as well.
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