CIA Socialists

[Richard Gibson]

Marcuse did stay with the Cia after it evolved--graduated--from OSS. I
Heard Kovel make the same assertion re the CIA and Frankfurt, but know of
no evidence. On the other side of the coin, it is interesting to note that
Soviet spy, Richard Sorge, was involved in the early days of the Frankfurt
school here....best r

At 12:04 AM 3/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>
Rich Gibson
Program Coordinator of Social Studies
Wayne State University
College of Education
Detroit MI 48202

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