The CIA went into the cultural propaganda business in a big way in the 1950s. After George Orwell died in 1950, the CIA acquired the rights to produce “Animal Farm.” But, “for the CIA to finance and distribute Animal Farm, however, something had to be done about the ending. In Orwell’s anti-Stalinist original, the pigs who overthrow the farmer ruling class end up mingling with their former oppressors. As pigs and farmers toast one another in the farm house, ‘the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’ The CIA solved this problem of the symbiotic relationship between capitalism and Communism by eliminating the farmers from the final scene.” – The Nation