Do you know that the CIA and even the Pentagon used Hollywood to propagate their line of thinking and influence public attitudes to various issues, domestic and international?

“The ultimate goal was control and dominance ,” said Vikram Sood, former chief of R&AW, India’s external intelligence agency, who was a guest on The Gist speaking about his latest book Great Power Games: From Western Decline To Eastern Ascent.

Control and dominance was built through individuals, groups and cartels coming together to build a narrative and using their phenomenal money power to change the facts on the ground. It’s no secret, he notes, that the US Federal Reserve (counterpart to India’s government-owned Reserve Bank) is a private entity which manages the country’s monetary system.

Sood believes t

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