International dimension of CDU funding scandal

[Michael Pugliese]

Reminded of the exchanges by David Noble and Ron Radosh (when Radosh was
still in DSA, he quit and moved over to SDUSA, partly over the reaction to
his book on the Rosenberg's) in the pages of The Nation over the SPD
connected, Friedrich Ebert Foundation grant dollars to a DSOC conference on,
Eurosocialism and America, "held around 1980. Participants included Willy
Brandt, Felipe Gonzalez, Mitterrand, if memory serves. Later papers were
published edited by either Bogdan Denitch or Nancy Lieber published by
Westview Press, I think.

  All that CIA money that the AIFLD ex-Lovestoneites, and ex-Shactmanites
distributed
to the more right wing parties of the SI, has been written about by many
writers (Radosh, in American Labor & Foreign Policy, circa late 60's, Jay
Lovestone would give that book away, Eric Chester book on Freedom House,
NED, AIFLD, a book on Cold War Liberal/Tragic figure, "Dump LBJ" organizer
Allard Lowenstein, by Eric Cummins [read William Chafe book instead on
Lowenstein]. And of course the
scandal exposed in 1967 over CIA funding
of the National Student Association and Cold War funding of magazines like
the Congress for Cultural Freedom rag, Encounter, are relevent, in light of
this spreading scandal. Given the
past events which exposed the rampant corruption in the Italian Christian
Democrats and Craxi's Socialists (and the previous P2-Masonic Lodge and
Operation Gladio) this stuff about the CDU isn't surprising, and if say
Helmut Schmidt comes up in the papers to share the spotlight with Helmut
Kohl, that wouldn't surprise me either. Any German readers on the list
besides Johannes, that read
Die Tagizutung(sic.) (Die Taz) or the SPD'ish Der Spiegel?

    Finally for more on the CCCF, see James Petras review in a recent
Monthly Review of a new book on that crowd. Also, Christopher Lasch in ,
"The Agony Of The American Left, " had a chapter on the CCCF.

                                Michael Pugliese