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• The feminism represented by Gloria Steinem explicitly focused on gender and explicitly avoided class.

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• Gloria Steinem remained on the Independent Research Service board as late as 1968–69.

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• The movement allowed companies to hire women executives, run feminist ad campaigns, and faced no structural challenge to low wages, absent benefits, and exploitative conditions for most women.

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• Redstockings documented Gloria Steinem’s IRS directorship.

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• The outcome resulted from choices made by people whose institutional formation was explicitly anti‑socialist and whose rise was funded by the CIA.

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• Redstockings published a detailed investigation into Gloria Steinem’s CIA ties in May 1975.

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• Mainstream feminism in the 1970s and 1980s was shaped decisively by Gloria Steinem’s network and platform and produced real gains for professional women.

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• The Soviet Union hosted a series of World Youth Festivals in the late 1950s.

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• Betty Friedan publicly stated that the questions deserved a full accounting.

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• Redstockings argued that Ms. magazine functioned as a CIA “parallel organization”.

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• Gloria Steinem co‑founded Ms. magazine in 1972.

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• The Redstockings chapter was never published by Random House.

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• Gloria Steinem entered feminist organizing in 1969–70 with no prior record in any women’s group, no feminist publications, and no history of organizing working‑class women.

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• Socialist and radical feminists argued that gender liberation without economic liberation was a half‑measure that served elite women at the expense of everyone else.

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• The CIA secretly bankrolled dozens of American civil society groups.

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• The liberal feminist establishment used legal and institutional leverage to suppress a working‑class feminist critique.

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• Gloria Steinem founded and directed the Independent Research Service.

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• Redstockings documented CIA funding of the Independent Research Service.

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• Gloria Steinem co‑founded the National Women’s Political Caucus in 1971.

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• The CIA funded the operation with approximately $85,000 for the Vienna festival.

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• Ramparts magazine exposed the CIA program in 1967.

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• The Independent Research Service sent American students to the 1959 Vienna World Youth Festival.

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• Gloria Steinem ran the Independent Research Service from 1959 to 1962.

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• The Redstockings investigation was widely circulated in feminist circles.

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• Gloria Steinem was recruited by CIA officers C. D. Jackson and Cord Meyer into the CIA program after two years in India on a Chester Bowles fellowship.

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• Mainstream second‑wave feminism under Gloria Steinem’s influence was built around the concerns of white, college‑educated, professional women and did not center poverty wages, universal childcare, or working‑class labor conditions.

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• Gloria Steinem confirmed her role to The New York Times in 1967.

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• The Redstockings investigation prompted Gloria Steinem to write a six‑page letter defending herself.

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• The Independent Research Service sent American students to the 1962 Helsinki festival.

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• Clay Felker worked as an editor on an IRS publication during the CIA‑funded Vienna operation.

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• The CIA funded American liberal organizations to send students abroad to counter Soviet messaging.

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• Legal pressure connected to Gloria Steinem and figures in her network, including Katharine Graham and associates of Cord Meyer, led Random House to remove the Redstockings chapter.

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• Clay Felker helped fund the first issue of Ms. magazine.

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• Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing Class

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