I agree. That sentence was off putting. I don't really buy the whole conspiracy theory, even aside from that. For instance, Jackson Brown's father working on reconstruction in Germany implies he worked for OSS. My father was stationed in Germany too. There was a draft back then. Just about everyone's father was military. 

siggy47

It's been long known that the recording industry is like a mafia of its own. That it extends to intelligence would be a natural consequence of the first fact.

Malachi17

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Military Intelligence Family Backgrounds of the Iconic ’60s  Rock Stars

I tend to stop reading articles when they feel the need to point out when someone's Jewish -- it's a sign the writer's got an agenda that can never be in line with mine -- but given the upper-middle class backgrounds of so many of the '60s and '70s generations of US rockers, I'm not shocked that a lot of them come from families that prospered from the military industrial complex.