The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was a CIA program designed to create an an anti-Soviet "left" in the United States of America to serve interests of imperialism. [1][2]
When Stalin purged the left and right factions from the party during the late 1920s, the exiles often became vehement and energetic enemies of Communism. The right faction led by Jay Lovestone joined the American Federation of Labor's Trade Union committee and worked with the CIA to break up trade unions favorable to communism and cement support for the Marshal plan in Europe. The left faction, the Trotskyists, principal among them James Burnham, joined the Congress for Cultural Freedom. With a steering Committee at the top and national branches, it was structured like the Comintern.
CIA involvement was revealed in 1966.
In 1967, the organization was renamed the International Association for Cultural Freedom (IACF) and continued to exist with funding from the Ford Foundation.
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- ↑ Congress for Cultural Freedom by Spartacus Educational
- ↑ Pullin, E. (2013). The Culture of Funding Culture: The CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom. In C. Moran & C. Murphy (Eds.), Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945 (pp. 47-64). Edinburgh University Press.
- ↑ Congress for Cultural Freedom by Spartacus Educational
- ↑ Pullin, E. (2013). The Culture of Funding Culture: The CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom. In C. Moran & C. Murphy (Eds.), Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945 (pp. 47-64). Edinburgh University Press.