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People (2)

  • Melvin J. Lasky American journalist and editor who founded Der Monat in 1948, helped initiate the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and co-edited Encounter from December 1958 until the magazine closed.
  • Michael Josselson Michael Josselson was the Estonian-born CIA officer who ran the Congress for Cultural Freedom from Paris from 1950 until his resignation in 1967 and died in Geneva in 1978.

Organizations (2)

  • Congress for Cultural Freedom International association of intellectuals founded in West Berlin in 1950, financed by the CIA through covert conduits until 1966, and renamed the International Association for Cultural Freedom after its exposure.
  • Ford Foundation Michigan foundation chartered by Edsel Ford in 1936 that the CIA approached for cover funding from 1951 and that financed the Congress for Cultural Freedom both before and after its 1966 to 1967 exposure.