CIA Socialists

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 11 21:04:02 PST 1999


Michael Pollak wrote:


>It was. My impression was that Marcuse worked for the OSS during the war,
>as many liberal and left intellectuals did, and left when the war ended;
>it was essentially his term of war duty against the Nazis. As for what he
>did, I'm pretty sure it had to do with analyzing German political
>documents, just like you'd expect. I'm just about positive he never
>worked for the FBI or the CIA.

In a talk at the Brecht Forum in NYC a year or two ago, Joel Kovel said that the CIA funded the re-establishment of the Frankfurt Institute after WW II and kept it going. He didn't say what his source was, but I've heard others say this too. Any cites?

Doug



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list