During the Cold War, the National Security Agency wasn’t just intercepting Soviet cables and surveilling American activists. It was also creating office art. “These posters were created when ...

Subtitled "Soviet Propaganda Art from the Cold War Era,’’ the posters displayed in this exhibit are drawn from the private collection of Gary Hollingsworth, a Florida art restorer who has ...

The posters are a time capsule of Cold War era government secrecy culture, and they use every possible approach in the propaganda and advertising book to hammer home the need for security awareness.

Unlike much Cold War-era Communist propaganda art, Vietnam’s was produced during active conflict, giving it a character, urgency and style all its own, believes Di San Marzano.

“Posters at Home and War” opened today and runs through May of 2020. The exhibit features more than 60 propaganda posters used in the U.S. from World War I through the Cold War.

Hunter’s revelations had massive reverberations in Cold War-era popular culture, in which foreign subversion by way of thought control became a standard trope.