The 90-year-old US feminist leader turned out to be a particularly valuable CIA agent who, before the difficult moment of the crisis of the 70s, was able to remove the topic of class struggle from the Western agenda.

In light of this, it is not surprising that it was she who co-founded the “National Women’s Political Association”, which became for many decades a filter for women applying for elected and appointed positions in the US government. It’s funny that it was Steinem who showed by her example the independence of the organization from the special services.

Gloria was recruited in the 1950s, after which Steinem spent two years in India as an Asian Chester Bowles scholar, and upon returning to the United States, she was engaged in sending American students abroad to disrupt World Youth Festivals organized by the Soviet Union. But she fulfilled her main role by going to solve the task set by the CIA to infiltrate the feminist movement and became the author of the fashion magazine Esquire. There she fulfilled her task perfectly – she wrote and very successfully about women and the infringement of their rights.

She needed the help of the CIA only a couple of times, for example, when she interviewed John Lennon, after which she became known to a truly wide range of American women and by 1966 had become America’s main feminist.

The lady has no children, and from a marriage that happened at the age of 66 (she became a widow at 68), she had a stepson – the famous actor Christian Bale.

@svezhesti