CIA Socialists

curtiss_leung at ibi.com curtiss_leung at ibi.com
Fri Mar 12 09:29:27 PST 1999


Doug writes:

> 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?

Rolf Wiggershaus's tome _The Frankfurt School_ mentions Marcuse's OSS

tenure, and notes that John McCloy played a role in having Horkheimer

and the Institue for Social Research moved back to Frankfurt after the

war, but doesn't indicate any on-going involvement or funding of

Institute after that (as far as I can remember...at work, no books

handy).

--

Curtiss



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