Dresuar: "The Congress was being secretly funded by the CIA": The Congress was being secretly funded by the CIA John Dewey, who had headed the Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, represented pragmatic American liberalism. Karl Jaspers, the German existentialist, had been an unrelenting critic of the Third Reich. A Christian, he had once publicly challenged Jean-Paul Sartre to state whether or not he accepted the Ten Commandments. Jacques Maritain, a liberal Catholic humanist, was a French resistance hero. He was also a close friend of Nicolas Nabokov. Isaiah Berlin was approached to join this rosary of philosopher-patrons, but refused on the grounds that such public support for an anti-Communist movement would place his relatives in the East in danger. He did, however, promise to support the Congress in any modest way he could. It was Lawrence de Neufville’s recollection that Berlin did so in the knowledge that the Congress was being secretly funded by the CIA. ‘He knew about our involvement,’ said de Neufville. ‘I don’t know who told him, but I imagine it was one of his friends in Washington.’

John Dewey, who had headed the Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, represented pragmatic American liberalism. Karl Jaspers, the German existentialist, had been an unrelenting critic of the Third Reich. A Christian, he had once publicly challenged Jean-Paul Sartre to state whether or not he accepted the Ten Commandments. Jacques Maritain, a liberal Catholic humanist, was a French resistance hero. He was also a close friend of Nicolas Nabokov. Isaiah Berlin was approached to join this rosary of philosopher-patrons, but refused on the grounds that such public support for an anti-Communist movement would place his relatives in the East in danger. He did, however, promise to support the Congress in any modest way he could. It was Lawrence de Neufville’s recollection that Berlin did so in the knowledge that the Congress was being secretly funded by the CIA. ‘He knew about our involvement,’ said de Neufville. ‘I don’t know who told him, but I imagine it was one of his friends in Washington.’

The New Press - 2000

Parayı Verdi Düdüğü Çaldı Frances Stonor Saunders

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