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The '''International Press Institute''' was strongly suspected of being a CIA front.<ref>http://cd.textfiles.com/thegreatunsorted/texts/txtfiles_misc/cia500.txt</ref> <ref>The CIA and the Media: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First and Second Sessions, p 263 </ref>
 
The '''International Press Institute''' was strongly suspected of being a CIA front.<ref>http://cd.textfiles.com/thegreatunsorted/texts/txtfiles_misc/cia500.txt</ref> <ref>The CIA and the Media: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First and Second Sessions, p 263 </ref>
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The foundation of the Institute was financed by a $150,000 grant from the [[Ford Foundation]] and a $120,000 grant for the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] that helped keep the organization afloat for the first three years. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Markel</ref> Both the Ford Foundation and the the Rockefeller Foundation are known CIA cutouts, especially during the early Cold War.
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==Presidents==
 
==Presidents==
 
{{FA|International Press Institute/President}}
 
{{FA|International Press Institute/President}}

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FormationOctober 1950
Sponsored byAdessium Foundation, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation
SubpageInternational Press Institute/President

The International Press Institute was strongly suspected of being a CIA front.[1] [2]

The foundation of the Institute was financed by a $150,000 grant from the Ford Foundation and a $120,000 grant for the Rockefeller Foundation that helped keep the organization afloat for the first three years. [3] Both the Ford Foundation and the the Rockefeller Foundation are known CIA cutouts, especially during the early Cold War.

Presidents

Full article: Stub class article International Press Institute/President

Former presidents includes many with ties to the US intelligence system, including Barry Bingham[4] (1964-1966); Cushrow R. Irani (1980-1982) director of the US National Endowment for Democracy-funded International Institute for War and Peace Reporting and Juan Luis Cebrián (1986-1988)[5]


 

Sponsors

EventDescription
Adessium FoundationA secretive Dutch foundation that donates to projects backed by Western governments.
Ford FoundationIn addition to its own billionaire agenda, also known to have been $$$ middleman for covert CIA funding.
Rockefeller FoundationDeep state funding body started by John D. Rockefeller ("Senior"), his son John D. Rockefeller Jr ("Junior"), and Frederick Taylor Gates in New York on May 14, 1913
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References

  1. http://cd.textfiles.com/thegreatunsorted/texts/txtfiles_misc/cia500.txt
  2. The CIA and the Media: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First and Second Sessions, p 263
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Markel
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20061003025649/https://www.wcml.org.uk/internat/euromove.htm/
  5. https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Press_Institute


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