American Committee on United Europe
 American Committee on United Europe    | |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1948 |
| Founder | • Bill Donovan • Allen Dulles |
| Sponsored by | Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation |
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]
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.[4]
Known members
11 of the 23 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| John W. Davis | |
| 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 | Five time early Bilderberger, UNDP administrator |
| Herbert Hoover | US President 1929-1933 |
| Clare Boothe Luce | |
| George Marshall | |
| Walter Bedell Smith |
Sponsors
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Ford Foundation | In addition to its own billionaire agenda, also known to have been $$$ middleman for covert CIA funding. |
| Rockefeller Foundation |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:How CIA Money Took the Teeth Out of Socialism | book extract | May 1988 | Richard Fletcher |
References
- ↑ a b
{{URL|example.com|optional display text}} - ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
