Wild! I ‘knew’ about it but never actually thought much about it. I mean, they had their fingers in anything in the Cold War – Soviet Union was hard to beat in the ideals dept for a while – as both sides had their propaganda machines operating at full blast for a long time – still of course but it’s expected.
Clever using Abstract Expressionism like that; keeping the artists completely oblivious was crucial to it as well. And it did the trick