Congress for Cultural Freedom
{{Short description|CIA-funded anti-communist cultural organization}}
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| founded_date = 26 June 1950
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| location = Paris, France
| origins = Central Intelligence Agency
| key_people = Melvin J. Lasky, Nikolai Nabokov, Michael Josselson
| area_served = Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, Latin America, Australia
| method = conferences, journals, seminars
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| endowment = CIA to 1966; Ford Foundation to 1979
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| dissolved = 1979 (as International Association for Cultural Freedom)
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The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was an anti-communist cultural organization founded on 26 June 1950 in West Berlin. At its height, the CCF was active in thirty-five countries. In 1966 it was revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency was instrumental in the establishment and funding of the group.Frances Stonor Saunders, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html "Modern Art was CIA 'weapon'"], The Independent, October 22, 1995.{{Cite journal|last=Scionti|first=Andrea|date=2020-02-01|title="I Am Afraid Americans Cannot Understand": The Congress for Cultural Freedom in France and Italy, 1950–1957|journal=Journal of Cold War Studies|volume=22|issue=1|pages=89–124|doi=10.1162/jcws_a_00927|s2cid=211147094|issn=1520-3972|doi-access=free}} The congress aimed to enlist intellectuals and opinion makers in a war of ideas against communism.
Historian Frances Stonor Saunders writes (1999): "Whether they liked it or not, whether they knew it or not, there were few writers, poets, artists, historians, scientists, or critics in postwar Europe whose names were not in some way linked to this covert enterprise." Peter Coleman argues that the CCF was a participant in a struggle for the mind "of Postwar Europe" and the world at large.Peter Coleman, The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle for Mind of Postwar Europe, The Free Press: New York, 1989.
Origins, 1948–1950
The CCF was founded on 26 June 1950 in West Berlin, which had just endured months of Soviet blockade. Formation of the CCF came in response to a series of events orchestrated by the Soviet Union: the World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace in Wrocław (Poland) in August 1948; a similar event in April the following year in Paris, the World Congress of Peace Partisans;Milorad Popov, "The World Council of Peace," in Witold S. Sworakowski (ed.), World Communism: A Handbook, 1918–1965. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1973, p. 488. and their culmination in the creation of the World Peace Council, which in March 1950 issued the Stockholm Appeal.Suslov, M., [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?view=1up;size=75;id=mdp.39015069764093;page=root;seq=10;num=6;orient=0#page/n0/mode/1up The Defence of Peace and the Struggle Against the Warmongers], Cominform, 1950. As part of this campaign there had also been an event in New York City in March 1949: the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was attended by many prominent U.S. liberals, leftists and pacifists who called for peace with the Soviet Union. Prominent participants included Dmitri Shostakovich and Aaron Copland. Anti-communist opponents to the conference took up residence in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in an attempt to discredit the peace conference. The anti-communists attempted to enlist a range of international supporters for their cause, including Benedetto Croce, T. S. Eliot, Karl Jaspers, André Malraux, Bertrand Russell and Igor Stravinsky.Stonor Saunders, p. 48.
The founding conference of the Congress for Cultural Freedom was attended by leading intellectuals from the U.S. and Western Europe. Among those who came to Berlin in June 1950 were writers, philosophers, critics and historians: Franz Borkenau, Karl Jaspers, John Dewey, Ignazio Silone, Jacques Maritain, James Burnham, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Bertrand Russell, Ernst Reuter, Raymond Aron, A. J. Ayer, Benedetto Croce, Arthur Koestler, Richard Löwenthal, Melvin J. Lasky, Tennessee Williams, Irving Brown and Sidney Hook. There were conservatives among the participants, but non-Communist (or former Communist) left-wingers were more numerous.K. A. Jelenski, [https://archive.org/details/historyandhopetr012673mbp History And Hope: Tradition, Ideology And Change In Modern Society], (1962); reprinted 1970, Praeger Press. Irving Kristol, who would become known as the "godfather of neoconservatism," was also present.Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, The New Press, 1999.Jacob Heilbrunn, They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, Random House LLC, 2009. {{ISBN|0307472485}} During the Berlin conference, Nicolas Nabokov proclaimed: "With this Congress we must build a war organization".{{Cite book |last=Winock |first=Michel |title=Le Siècle des intellectuels |year=1999 |location=Paris |pages=603 |language=French}} The Manifesto of the Congress was drafted by Arthur Koestler, with amendments added on a motion proposed by historian Hugh Trevor-Roper and philosopher A. J. Ayer.See The Liberal Conspiracy, Appendix A, pp. 249–251, for the text of this Manifesto.
Executive Committee and Secretariat
An Executive Committee was elected in 1950 at the founding conference in Berlin, with seven members and six alternate members: Irving Brown (Haakon Lie), Arthur Koestler (Raymond Aron), Eugen Kogon (Carlo Schmid), David Rousset (Georges Altman), Ignazio Silone (Nicola Chiaromonte), Stephen Spender (Tosco Fyvel) and Denis de Rougemont who became President of the committee.Coleman, pp. 37–40.
The management of the CCF was entrusted to its secretariat, headed by Michael Josselson. By the time Josselson joined the Congress of Cultural Freedom in 1950 he was "undoubtedly a CIA officer".Coleman, p. 41. A polyglot able to converse fluently in four languages (English, Russian, German and French), Josselson was heavily involved in the CCF's growing range of activities – its periodicals, worldwide conferences and international seminars – until his resignation in 1967, following the exposure of funding by the CIA.Coleman, p. 232.
Activities, 1950–1966
At its height, the CCF had offices in 35 countries, employed dozens of personnel, and published over twenty prestigious magazines. It held art exhibitions, owned a news and features service, organized high-profile international conferences, and rewarded musicians and artists with prizes and public performances.
Between 1950 and 1966 the Congress sponsored numerous conferences. A selective list describes 16 conferences in the 1950s held principally in Western Europe, but also in Rangoon, Mexico City, Tokyo, Ibadan (Nigeria) and South Vietnam: the Founding Conference in Berlin was followed in 1951 by the First Asian Conference on Cultural Freedom, held in Bombay. A further 21 conferences over an even wider geographical area are listed for the first half of the 1960s.Coleman, The Liberal Conspiracy, pp. 253–257.
In the early 1960s, the CCF mounted a campaign against the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, an ardent communist. The campaign intensified when it appeared that Neruda was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964 but he was also published in Mundo Nuevo, a CCF-sponsored periodical.Coleman, p. 194. Other prominent intellectuals targeted by the CCF were Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Thomas Mann who was becoming increasingly pro-Soviet.{{Cite journal |last=TWERASER |first=FELIX W. |date=2005 |title=Paris Calling Vienna: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and Friedrich Torberg's Editorship of "Forum" |journal=Austrian Studies |volume=13 |pages= 158–172|doi=10.1353/aus.2005.0002 |jstor=27944766 |s2cid=245850463 |issn=1350-7532}} From 1950 to 1969, the CCF financed German writers such as Heinrich Böll and Siegfried Lenz.{{Cite web |title=Frances Stonor Saunders: Wer die Zeche zahlt .... Der CIA und die Kultur im Kalten Krieg |url=https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/frances-stonor-saunders/wer-die-zeche-zahlt.html |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=www.perlentaucher.de |language=de}}
CIA involvement revealed, 1966
In April 1966, The New York Times ran a series of five articles on the purposes and methods of the CIA.[http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/Item03.pdf "The C.I.A.: Maker of Policy, or Tool? Agency Raises Questions Around World; Survey Discloses Strict Controls But Reputation of Agency Is Found to Make It a Burden on U.S. Action"], The New York Times, April 25, 1966, p. 1."How C.I.A Put an 'Instant Air Force' Into Congo to Carry Out United States Policy", The New York Times, April 26, 1966, p. 30.[https://www.nytimes.com/1966/04/28/archives/cia-operations-a-plot-scuttled-plan-to-doctor-cuban-sugar-depicts.html "C.I.A. Operations: A Plot Scuttled, or, How Kennedy in '62 Undid Sugar Sabotage"], The New York Times, April 28, 1966, p. 28.[http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/Item03.pdf "C.I.A Operations: Man at Helm, Not the System, Viewed as Key to Control of Agency"], The New York Times, April 29, 1966, p. 18.Hugh Wilford, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Tc-1AQAAQBAJ The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?] Studies in Intelligence; Routledge, 2013. {{ISBN|1135294704}}. The third of these 1966 articles began to detail false-front organizations and the secret transfer of CIA funds to, for example, the US State Department or to the United States Information Agency (USIA) which "may help finance a scholarly inquiry and publication, or the agency may channel research money through foundations – legitimate ones or dummy fronts."[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0B17FA345D1A7493C5AB178FD85F428685F9 "C.I.A Is Spying From 100 Miles Up; Satellites Probe Secrets of the Soviet Union"], New York Times, April 27, 1966, p. 28. The New York Times cited, among others, the CIA's funding of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, Encounter magazine, "several American book publishers", the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies,[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0B17FA345D1A7493C5AB178FD85F428685F9 "M.I.T. Cuts Agency Ties"], New York Times, April 26, 1966. and a foreign-aid project in South Vietnam run by Michigan State University.{{cite journal |last1=Frascina |first1=F. |title=Institutions, Culture, and America's 'Cold War Years': The Making of Greenberg's 'Modernist Painting' |journal=Oxford Art Journal |date=January 2003 |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=69–97 |doi=10.1093/oxartj/26.1.69 }}
In 1967, the US magazines Ramparts and The Saturday Evening Post reported on the CIA's funding of a number of anti-communist cultural organizations aimed at winning the support of supposedly Soviet-sympathizing liberals worldwide.Hilton Kramer, [http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/What-was-the-Congress-for-Cultural-Freedom--5597 "What was the Congress for Cultural Freedom?"] The New Criterion, Volume 8, January 1990, p. 7. These reports were lent credence by a statement made by a former CIA covert operations director admitting to CIA financing and operation of the CCF.Peter Coleman, The Liberal Conspiracy, Free Press, Collier Macmillan, 1989. The CIA website states that "the Congress for Cultural Freedom is widely considered one of the CIA's more daring and effective Cold War covert operations."[https://web.archive.org/web/20060616213245/http://cia.gov/csi/studies/95unclass/Warner.html Origins of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1949-50]
That same year in May, Thomas Braden, head of the CCF's parent body the International Organizations Division, responded to the Ramparts report in an article entitled [http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cuttings/braden_20may1967.html "I'm Glad the CIA is 'Immoral'"], in the Saturday Evening Post, defending the activities of his unit within the CIA. For more than ten years, Braden admitted, the CIA had subsidized Encounter through the CCF, which it also funded; one of the magazine's staff, he added, was a CIA agent.[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbraden.htm Thomas Braden] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903135645/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbraden.htm |date=September 3, 2009 }}
Legacy
In 1967, the organization was renamed the International Association for Cultural Freedom (IACF) and continued to exist with funding from the Ford Foundation. It inherited "the remaining magazines and national committees, the practice of international seminars, the regional programs, and the ideal of a worldwide community of intellectuals." There was also, until 1970, "some continuity of personnel".Coleman, pp. 235–240.
Under Shepard Stone and Pierre Emmanuel the dominant policy of the new Association shifted from positions held by its predecessor. No "public anti-Soviet protests" were issued, "not even in support of the harassed Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov". The culmination of this approach was a vast seminar at Princeton on "The United States: Its Problems, Impact, and Image in the World" (December 1968) where unsuccessful attempts were made to engage with the New Left. From 1968 onwards national committees and magazines (see CCF/IACF Publications below) shut down one after another. In 1977 the Paris office closed and two years later the Association voted to dissolve itself.Coleman, p. 240.
Certain of the publications that began as CCF-supported vehicles secured a readership and ongoing relevance that, with other sources of funding, enabled them to long outlast the parent organisation. Encounter continued publishing until 1991, as did Survey, while the Australian Quadrant and the China Quarterly survive to this day. While the revelation of CIA funding led to some resignations, notably that of Stephen Spender from Encounter, outside Europe the impact was more dramatic: in Uganda, President Milton Obote had Rajat Neogy, the editor of the flourishing Transition magazine, arrested and imprisoned. After Neogy left Uganda in 1968 the magazine ceased to exist.
The European Intellectual Mutual Aid Fund (Fondation pour une Entraide Intellectuelle Européenne) set up to support intellectuals in Central Europe, began life as an affiliate of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. In 1991 it merged with the Open Society Foundations, set up and supported by financier and philanthropist George Soros.{{cite journal |last1=Guilhot |first1=Nicolas |title=A Network of Influential Friendships: The Fondation Pour Une Entraide Intellectuelle Européenne and East–West Cultural Dialogue, 1957–1991 |journal=Minerva |date=5 December 2006 |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=379–409 |doi=10.1007/s11024-006-9014-y |jstor=41821373 }} The records of the International Association for Cultural Freedom and its predecessor the Congress for Cultural Freedom are today stored at the Library of the University of Chicago in its Special Collections Research Center.
Publications
The Congress founded, sponsored or encouraged a number of publications to disseminate its ideas.{{cite journal |last1=Zecchini |first1=Laetitia |title=What Filters Through the Curtain: Reconsidering Indian Modernisms, Travelling Literatures, and Little Magazines in a Cold War Context |journal=Interventions |date=17 February 2020 |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=172–194 |doi=10.1080/1369801X.2019.1649183 |doi-access=free }} Some of them are the following:
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|Aportes
|Latin America
|closed 1972
|Produced by the Latin American Institute for International Relations (ILARI), established in 1966, which was closed by IACF in 1972.
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|Nigeria
|1957–1975
|Founded by German expatriate editor and scholar Ulli Beier, Black Orpheus has been described as a powerful catalyst for artistic awakening throughout West Africa.
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|Cadernos Brasileiros
|1959–1971
| A quarterly (until 1963), later bi-monthly, literary magazine.Kristine Vanden Berghe: Intelectuales y anticomunismo: la revista "Cuadernos brasileiros" (1959–1970), Leuven University Press, 1997. {{ISBN|90-6186-803-3}}. ICAF subsidy ceased in 1971.
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|Censorship
|United Kingdom
|1964–1967
|Edited by Murray Mindlin the six issues dealt with censorship around the world. (In 1972 Index on Censorship, a publication covering the same themes, was founded by Stephen Spender.)Coleman, p. 193.
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|China Report
|1964–1970s
|Established at the New Delhi bureau of the Congress, China Report became a bimonthly journalistic enterprise.Coleman, p. 196. After its IACF subsidy ended in 1971 it found other sources of funding.
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|1960 to present
|Became a leading journal on Communist China (and also Taiwan) by reason of its lack of rivals in the field and the scholarly standard of its articles.Coleman, p. 195. When its IACF subsidy ceased in 1968 it found other sources of funding.
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|Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura
|Paris, intended for distribution in Latin America
|1953–1965
|Edited by Julián Gorkin, assisted by Ignacio Iglesias and Luis Mercier Verga – a cultural quarterly magazine that reached 100 issues.[http://argonauta.imageson.org/document75.html Ruiz Galvete, Marta: Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura: anticomunismo y guerra fría en América Latina] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060214060252/http://argonauta.imageson.org/document75.html |date=2006-02-14 }} en "El Argonauta español ", Numéro 3, 2006 – retrieved October 19, 2009.
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|1953–1991
| A literary-political magazine founded by Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol. By 1963 its circulation had risen to 34,000Coleman, p. 185. and that year the magazine secured independent funding.Coleman, p. 221. Edited from 1958 onwards by Melvin J. Lasky.
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|Examen
|1958–1962
| A cultural magazine.Ocampo, Aurora M. (ed.), Diccionario de escritores mexicanos, Siglo XX, UNAM, Mexico, 2000 (Volume V, p. xviii).
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|1954–1995
| A political and cultural magazine in founded by Friederich Torberg and others. In 1965 it was taken over by Gunter Nenning and became Neues Forum, a publication devoted to Christian-Communist dialogue.Coleman, p. 186
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|1962–1967
|A bi-monthly literary and cultural magazine published in Beirut, and focusing on the Arab world.Scott Lucas, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ssrmAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Science+and+Freedom%22+%22Preuves%22&pg=PA111 Freedom's War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union, 1945–56.]
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|Informes de China
|1960s
|Set up to provide Latin America with information about China.Coleman, p. 196
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|Jiyu (Freedom)
|1960 to present
|One of the most heavily subsidized of all the CFF magazines. Edited by Hoki Ishihara.[https://books.google.com/books?id=YVkTAQAAMAAJ&q=Jiyu+ishihara Solidarity], Volume 9 The chief editor Isihara found other sources of funding when subsidies from Paris and the national committee ceased to exist.Coleman, p. 188.
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|Kulturkontakt
|1954–1960
|Bimonthly political and cultural magazine, published by Svenska kommittén för kulturens frihet (Swedish Committee for Cultural Freedom).{{cite news|title=USA paid for propaganda in Sweden in the 1950s?|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=5459493|newspaper=Sveriges Radio|date = 4 March 2013|access-date=22 November 2016}} Publishers were Ture Nerman (1954–57) and Ingemar Hedenius (1957–60). Edited by Birgitta Stenberg, Kurt Salomonson and Bengt Alexanderson.{{cite web|title=Kulturkontakt|url=http://libris.kb.se/bib/8224791|website=Libris|access-date=22 November 2016}}
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|1962 to present
|A quarterly started by sociologist Edward Shils to address issues relating the "worldwide intellectual community", and particularly the growth in universities.Coleman, p. 197.
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|1948–1987
| A German-language journal airlifted into Berlin during the 1948 Soviet blockade and edited by Melvin J. Lasky until 1978, when it was purchased by Die Zeit. ICAF subsidy ceased in 1968. It continued as a quarterly until 1987.
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|1966–1971
|Successor to Cuadernos (see above). It published established and political writers, holding a variety of views such as Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges, ceasing to exit when IACF funding ended in 1971.
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|Perspektiv
|Described itself as "a magazine for politics, science and culture". Published by Hans Reitzel, edited by Henning Fonsmark{{cite book|last1=Scott-Smith|first1=Giles|last2=Krabbendam|first2=Hans|title=The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945–60|date=2003|publisher=Frank Cass Publishers|location=London|page=245}} and H.C. Branner. Entered a partnership with Selskabet for Frihet og Kultur (Association for Freedom and Culture), the CCF's Danish counterpart, in 1956. Directly funded by the CCF from at least 1960, when the organization established an office in Copenhagen.{{cite web|title=Kold kulturkamp|url=https://www.information.dk/1999/08/kold-kulturkamp|website=Dagbladet Information|date=25 August 1999|access-date=22 November 2016}}
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|1951–1975
|A cultural, intellectual and literary monthly magazine. CCF's first magazine. Preuves means "proof" or "evidence" in French. Edited by François Bondy, a Swiss writer.
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|1956 to present
| A literary journal published by the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom, edited by Catholic poet James McAuley, had an "anticommunist thrust".[http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00064.xml The Michael Josselson Papers] at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.Pybus, Cassandra, [http://jacketmagazine.com/12/pybus-quad.html "CIA as Culture Vultures"], Jacket, July 12, 2000. ICAF subsidy of the Association and of Quadrant ceased in 1972.
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|1955–1958
|English only. In 1971 IACF stopped supporting New Delhi and Calcutta offices. Originally edited by Nissim Ezekiel. {{Cite web |last=Bidoun |title=The Bequest of Quest |url=https://www.bidoun.org/articles/the-bequest-of-quest |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=Bidoun |language=en}}
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| 1953–1970
|Founded by Chang Chun-ha.{{Cite book |last1=Franke |first1=Anselm |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zMNNEAAAQBAJ |title=Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War |last2=Ghouse |first2=Nida |last3=Guevara |first3=Paz |last4=Majaca |first4=Antonia |date=2021-08-24 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-3-95679-508-4 |language=en}}
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|Science and Freedom
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|1954–1961
|Edited by Michael Polanyi. Biannual bulletin with "a tiny readership" of 3,000. In 1961 the Congress Executive replaced it with Minerva (see above).
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|Social Science Review
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|ICAF subsidy ceased in 1971; the Review found other sources of funding.
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|Solidarity
|1960s & 1970s
| A cultural, intellectual and literary monthly magazine.Andrew N. Rubin, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sDeE9r_6HdsC&dq=Jiyu+hiwar&pg=PT234 Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War] After its IACF subsidy ended in 1971 it found other sources of funding.
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|Soviet Survey (became Survey)
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|1955–1989
|At first a monthly newsletter edited by Walter Laqueur, the CCF's official representative in Israel. After 1964 became a quarterly journal, edited by Leopold Labedz, focused on Soviet bloc. IACF subsidy ceased in early 1970s; the magazine found other sources of funding.
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|Edited by Ignazio Silone and Nicola Chiaromonte.
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|Editor Rajat Neogy.[https://books.google.com/books?id=3i2FAAAAMAAJ&q=Jiyu+hiwar The Salisbury Review], Volumes 9–10. Sales reached 12,000 in early 1960s (a quarter of them in the US) but the arrest, detention and subsequent emigration of editor Neogy in 1968 marked the end of this controversial literary-political magazine.Coleman, p. 192.
|}
Although The Paris Review was co-founded by novelist and CIA operative Peter Matthiessen, who was affiliated with the CCF, the magazine was reportedly a cover for Matthiessen, and not part of the CCF's operations.{{cite news|author=Celia McGee|title=The Burgeoning Rebirth of a Bygone Literary Star |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/books/13hume.html |work=The New York Times |date=January 13, 2007|access-date= December 24, 2022}} However, The Paris Review often sold interviews it conducted to CCF-established magazines.{{cite news |last1=von Aue |first1=Mary |title=How the CIA Infiltrated the World's Literature |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/pgp53z/how-the-cia-infiltrated-the-worlds-literature |access-date= December 24, 2022 |work=Vice |date= January 4, 2017}}
Literature
- {{cite book |title=Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism|last=Bahr|first=Ehrhard|year=2008|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0520257955}}
- Berghahn, Volker R.: America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe. Shepard Stone between Philanthropy, Academy, and Diplomacy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001. Addresses links between Ford Foundation and CCF.
- Coleman, Peter, The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle for the Mind of Postwar Europe, New York: Free Press, Collier Macmillan, 1989.
- Michael Hochgeschwender, Freiheit in der Offensive? Der Kongreß für kulturelle Freiheit und die Deutschen, München, 1998 (comprising academic study on the origins, in German).
- {{cite book |last1=Rubin |first1=Andrew N. |title=Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War |date=2012 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-4217-9 }}
- Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, 2000, The New Press, ({{ISBN|1-56584-596-X}}). Originally published in the UK as Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War, 1999, Granta, {{ISBN|1862070296}}.
- Wellens, Ian (2002). Music on the Frontline: Nicolas Nabokov's Struggle against Communism and Middlebrow Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate. {{ISBN|0-7546-0635-X}}
See also
- CIA and the Cultural Cold War
- Who Paid the Piper?
- New African — initially part-funded by the CCF
- American Committee for Cultural Freedom
- Partisan Review - Received funding from the CCF in the early 1960's
References
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External links
- {{cite web |title=Guide to the International Association for Cultural Freedom Records 1941-1978 |url=https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.IACF |website=Library |publisher=University of Chicago }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20051020202857/http://www.libcom.org/history/articles/cultural-cold-war/ The Cultural Cold War]
- [http://www.dedefensa.org/article.php?art_id=950 The Ghostwriter et la CIA]
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