Congress for Cultural Freedom/Founding Conference

 Congress for Cultural Freedom/Founding Conference 

Date	26 June 1950 - 29 June 1950
Participants	Georges Altman, Julian Amery, German Arciniegas, Raymond Aron, A. J. Ayer, François Bondy, G. A. Borgese, Franz Borkenau, Irving Brown, Hendryk Brugmans, Rudolph Brunngraber, Margaret Buber-Neumann, James Burnham, Mintauts Cakste, Benedetto Croce, Josef Czapsk, Josef Czapski, Harold Davis, Peter de Mendelsohn, Lawrence de Neufville, Alberto de Onaindi, Denis de Rougemont, John Dewey, Fritz Eberhard, and James T. Farrel, James T. Farrell, Henri Frenay, Jerzy Giedroyc, Adolf Grimme, Christopher Hollis, Sidney Hook, Frode Jakobsen, Karl Jaspers, Panayotis Kanellopoulous, Hermann Kesten, Arthur Koestler, Eugen Kogon, Hans Kohn, Frantisek Kovarna, Karel Kupka, Melvin Lasky, Sol Levitas, Haakon Lie, David Lilienthal, Elinor Lipper, Franc Lombardi, Richard Löwenthal, Keshev Malik, André Malraux, Golo Mann, Jacques Maritain, Claude Mauriac, Muzzio Mazzochi, Carson McCullers, Walter Mehring, Fritz Molden, Per Monsen, Robert Montgomery, Malcolm Muggeridge, Herman Muller, Nicolas Nabokov, Ture Nerman, Boris Nicolaevsky, Rudolf Pechel, André Philip, Guido Piovene, Theodor Plievier, Charles Plisnier, Herber Read, Ernst Reuter, Luise Rinser, Jules Romain, Jules Romains, Wilhelm Röpke, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Rémy Roure, David Rousset, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Carlo Schmid, Franz Josef Schoeningh, George Schuyler, Salomon Schwartz, Anna Siemsen, Ignazio Silone, Altiero Spinelli, Sheba Strunsky, Bonaventura Tecchi, Hans Thirrin, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sergei Utechin, Tennessee Williams, Max Yergan
Perpetrators	Michael Josselson, CIA
Description	Founded the Congress for Cultural Freedom

Particpants

Participants. Raymond Aron intended to attend, but may not have made it</ref>In Peter Coleman THE LIBERAL CONSPIRACY The Congress for Cultural Free&m and the Struggle for the Mind of Postwar Europe, page 21-22</ref>

 

Known Participants

17 of the 93 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Julian Amery	MI6, deep politician who chaired Le Cercle for several years.
Raymond Aron	French sociologist who attended 3 Bilderbergs from 1957 to 1966
Irving Brown	US Trade unionist and and consigliere for the CIA who attended the 1956 Bilderberg
James Burnham	"The first neoconservative", spooky propagandist philosopher
Sidney Hook	American philosopher and anti-communist activist.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Melvin Lasky	US journalist, intellectual, with suspected CIA ties
Haakon Lie	powerful party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party from 1945 to 1969. A CIA collaborator, he was the most prominent organizer of McCarthyism in the 1950s, and set up an extensive surveillance apparatus in the Labour movement and unions.
Richard Löwenthal	A Jewish exile from Nazi Germany, he soon was attached to US and UK intelligence services. After the war became a major intellectual in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and often consulted by the SPD’s leaders, especially Willy Brandt and Ernst Reuter. He attended the 1968 Bilderberg conference.
Fritz Molden	Austrian journalist, publisher, diplomat who attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Malcolm Muggeridge
Lawrence de Neufville	OSS agent, recruited by John Baker into the CIA
Denis de Rougement	Attended the first 4 Bilderbergs. Promoted European federalism
Bertrand Russell	UK philosopher and pacifist
Carlo Schmid	Founder member of the Bilderberg Steering committee
Altiero Spinelli	Italian politician, referred to as one of the founding fathers of the European Union.
Hugh Trevor-Roper

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