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From pumping unsuspecting prisoners full of LSD as a means of torture to seemingly endless meddling in South American politics, the CIA<\/a> has an extensive and incredibly distressing history of controversy and covert dealings, but perhaps its most bizarre operations have involved amassing extensive files on pop culture figures like Eartha Kitt.<\/p>\n On the face of it, Kitt was among the most iconic figures to ever grace Broadway stages, with her distinctive vocal prowess and affable, flirtatious public persona. In the eyes of the Central Intelligence Agency, though, the South Carolina-born performer was a dangerous would-be communist beset on the total destruction of the American way of life. <\/p>\n This was, after all, the peak of Cold War paranoia during which anybody \u2013 particularly prominent Black celebrities \u2013 who did not bend over backwards to support the state in every way possible could be accused of being a covert communist at the drop of a hat. Kitt certainly wasn\u2019t the only performer that the Agency had on its watchlist, having compiled files of pseudo-evidence against everybody from Jean Seberg to Aretha Franklin<\/a>.<\/p>\n Seemingly, the root cause of the investigation into the Catwoman actress arrived in 1968, when she was invited to a White House luncheon with then-president Lyndon B Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird. At one point, the First Lady asked Kitt her view on the Vietnam War, to which the vocalist responded, \u201cYou send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThey rebel in the street. They will take pot, and they will get high,\u201d she continued. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to go to school because they\u2019re going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam.\u201d <\/p>\n Kitt was often noted for her support of social causes<\/a> and was an outspoken critic of the war in Vietnam, so it is not clear what Lady Bird Johnson expected her to say, but her utterly undeniable comments caused the First Lady to burst into tears.\u00a0<\/p>\n