Bateson, “witting” or not, was surrounded by a web of agents, consultants, academics, and think-tankers directly or indirectly on CIA’s payroll — Harold Abramson, Frank Fremont-Smith, George Hunter White, James Mysbergh, James Alexander Ham…1963, the year of Duchamp’s Las Vegas trip facilitated by Monte Factor, was also the year that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. While the 1964 Warren Report found Lee Harvey Oswald solely responsible, a decade later The United States House…
Benjamin Breen
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I cannot locate Benjamin Breen as a significant figure in the excerpts provided. The passages reference Gregory Bateson's Cold War-era networks and connections to CIA-funded research, alongside details about Duchamp and the Kennedy assassination, but Benjamin Breen does not appear in either excerpt. If Breen appears elsewhere in the course readings, please provide those excerpts so I can accurately contextualize their relevance to Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0's concerns with intelligence apparatus, cybernetics networks, and institutional power.
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Gregory Bateson 2Marcel Duchamp 2Alexander Cockburn 1Arthur B. Darling 1Arturo Rosenblueth 1Betty Asher 1Betty Factor 1Carlos Vidales 1Jeffrey St. Clair 1John F. Kennedy 1Johnny Roselli 1Julian Bigelow 1Lee Harvey Oswald 1Margaret Mead 1Monte Factor 1Norbert Wiener 1Richard Hamilton 1Søren Brier 1Stewart Brand 1Teeny Duchamp 1Walter Hopps 1William Copley 1Ana Mendieta 1André Breton 1Frank Fremont-Smith 1George Hunter White 1Harold Abramson 1Irving Janis 1James Alexander Hamilton 1James Mysbergh 1