Still it sounds funny that they would need to employ the CIA in order to finance the Museum of Modern art in... New York, doesn't it?

The USA had the "Congress for Cultural Freedom", the Soviet Union had it's "World Peace Council", funny kind of influence peddling.

wikipedia has a list of "Communist front organizations" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Communist_front_organ...

and one for "CIA front organizations" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Central_Intelligence_...

And nowadays the spooks are all busy with trolling on twitter (the taxpayers money is doing some real work :-) )