International Conspiracy of Abstraction The Central Intelligence Agency of the USA used abstract expressionism as a cultural weapon against the Soviet Unions Social realist art because in its vigour and freedom of gesture it would appeal to Soviet youth.  The Soviet bureaucracy tended to see rock-and-roll, beat poetry and modern art in general as bourgeois decadance which could undermine commitment to socialism.  We on the other hand do not recognise the use of abstraction as either a bourgeois cultural weapon or as decadent.  Abstract art as frottage, decollage, expressionism, psychedic, or rave or hallucinogenic and visionary material is a key factor in cultural liberation.  The hypocritical use by the C.I.A of the U.S.A of abstraction as a cultural weapon and its devaluation in the Soviet Union as decadent are not part of our agenda.  As agents of international abstraction we offer liberation from the representative, Freedom for the mind to wander.