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Article: America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe.(Review)
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe By Volker R. Berghahn Princeton. 373 pp. $39.50.
WHEN I joined the program staff of the Ford Foundation in 1968, the crisis that had developed over its support of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was still in the air. The press had blown the international organization's cover. Now everyone knew that it was financed by the CIA, and that top Ford Foundation personnel, including its president, McGeorge Bundy, were fully aware of the connection. For the foundation to be in league with the CIA was a sin Bundy might have taken calmly, even benevolently, when he was National Security Adviser under Presidents John ...