American Committee on United Europe
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Formation | 1948 |
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Sponsor of | European Movement, European Youth Campaign |
Sponsored by | Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation |
Membership | • Walter Bedell Smith • ![]() • George Marshall • ![]() • ![]() • ![]() • William C. Bullitt • ![]() • ![]() • ![]() • James Farley • Robert Moses • Alice Roosevelt Longworth • Harry D. Gideonse • Norman Thomas • Burton K. Wheeler • Harry Woodburn Chase • ![]() • Robert Ignatius Gannon • Robert L. LaFollette • John W. Davis • George N. Schuster • Clayton Fritchey |
Proves European unity movement was a heavily US-driven project. |
The American Committee on United Europe (ACUE) was an American organization which sought to counter the "Communist threat" in Europe by promoting European political integration. Its first chairman was ex-wartime OSS head, William Joseph Donovan.[1]
The structure of the organisation was outlined in early summer of 1948 by Bill Donovan and Allen Dulles by then also reviewing the organization of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[2] in response to assistance requests by Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and Winston Churchill.
A memorandum, later declassified, bearing Donovan's signature and dated dated July 26, 1950 gives instructions for a campaign to promote a fully fledged European parliament. The vice chairman of ACUE was Allen Dulles and the board of ACUE included Walter Bedell Smith.[3] ACUE was an important early funder of both the European Movement and the European Youth Campaign. The ACUE itself received funding from the Rockefeller and Ford foundations.[1][4]
The U.S. policy was to promote a United States of Europe, and to this end the committee was used to discreetly funnel CIA funds - by the mid 50's ACUE was receiving roughly $1,000,000 USD per year - to European pro-federalists supporting such organizations as the Council of Europe, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the proposed European Defence Community.[5]
Known members
11 of the 23 of the members already have pages here:
Member | Description |
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Hale Boggs | A US House Majority Leader who strongly dissented from the official narrative of the JFK Assassination. His small plane disappeared without trace in Alaska, together with Nick Begich and two other men. |
Thomas W. Braden | OSS, Georgetown Set, CIA |
Lucius Clay | US general who orchestrated in the Berlin Airlift |
John Davis | US Deep state connected politician CFR President 1921-1933 |
J. William Fulbright | The longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. |
Christian Herter | United States Secretary of State. Double Bilderberger |
Paul Hoffman | led the implementation of the Marshall Plan from 1948–1950, and was then president of the Ford Foundation. Five time early Bilderberger. |
Herbert Hoover | US President 1929-1933 |
Clare Boothe Luce | The first US woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad, wife of publisher Henry Luce |
George Marshall | |
Walter Bedell Smith |
Sponsors
Event | Description |
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Ford Foundation | In addition to its own billionaire agenda, also known to have been $$$ middleman for covert CIA funding. |
Rockefeller Foundation | Deep 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 |
Related Document
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:How CIA Money Took the Teeth Out of Socialism | book extract | May 1988 | Richard Fletcher (Author) |
References
- ↑ Jump up to: a b http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1356047/Euro-federalists-financed-by-US-spy-chiefs.html
- ↑ Aldrich, Richard - OSS, CIA and European Unity: The American Committee on Untied Europe 1948-60. Diplomacy & Statecraft. 1st March 1997
- ↑ http://mtwsfh.blogspot.com/2010/03/1950-cias-european-union-torturing.html
- ↑ Original board members listed in New York Herald Tribune of April 24, 1948
- ↑ Giles Scott-Smith, Hans Krabbendam, The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945-1960 p.46, Roosevelt Study Center.
External links
- Archival sources on the American Committee for a United Europe can be consulted at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence