Streaming Media Trail

Streaming Media Trail is part One of Revelations of Secret Surveillance, a three part hyper epic about the impact of intelligence agency stalking of artists, writers, and musicians.

Beginning with FBI surveillance of German artists and writers who came to this country to escape the Nazis in the World War II era, Streaming Media Trail uses a combination of fictional juxtapositions and extensive documentation to examine how a climate of Government persecution of the arts has been created. It also brings questions of reality interference into the present by presenting both fictional interpretation and background documentation of the existence and impact of Total Information Awareness and brain fingerprinting technologies.

When I began to write Streaming Media Trail, the first part of this work, I started with the idea of using a fictional approach to examine the climate for artists and the arts in this country that has been created by such Government interference as the House of Un-American Activities role in blacklisting writers and the role of the extreme right in curtailing funding for individual artists.

But as I researched the background, a much more harrowing history of the persecution of creative people and activists unfolded. At every step in the creation of this work, some new revelation changed a shapeless paranoia into a cruel reality that included how the FBI deliberately derailed University of California educator Clark Kerr's career, concrete evidence of FBI persecution of rock musicians, Senate testimony about the CIA role in fostering a drug culture, and the role of British Intelligence in subverting democracy in this country during World War II.