Was the Scorpians’ Song “Wind of Change" Written by the C.I.A.? - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/arts/virus-winds-of-change-podcast.html
In his new, eight-part podcast — duly titled “Wind of Change” — the journalist Patrick Radden Keefe doggedly pursues a rumor he heard nearly a decade ago: that American intelligence officers wrote the power ballad as a tool to help end the Cold War. “On the one hand, this is an investigative story about Cold War espionage, but on the other hand, it’s about these ’80s hair-metal guys who are inescapably absurd,” Mr. Keefe explained in an interview. “That’s the reason I hadn’t been able to cut this idea loose — the contrast between the serious aspect of it and the ridiculousness lurking at the edges.”