Melvin Lasky

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Person.png Melvin Lasky   NNDBRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(journalist)
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Born20 January 1920
New York, NY, USA
DiedMay 19, 2004 (Age 84)
Berlin, Germany
NationalityPolish, American
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
ReligionJew
Parents • Samuel Lasky
• Esther Kantrowitz
Children • Vivienne Lasky
• Oliver Lasky
SpouseBrigitte
Member ofCommittee for the Free World, Freedom House
US journalist, intellectual, with suspected CIA ties

Melvin Jonah Lasky was an American journalist, intellectual, and member of the anti-Communist left.

Activities

Lasky founded the German journal Der Monat in 1948 and, from 1958 to 1991, edited Encounter Magazine, one of many journals revealed to have been secretly funded by the CIA through the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF).

Lasky was an acquaintance of Monique Garnier-Lançon.

 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndDescription
Congress for Cultural Freedom/Founding Conference26 June 195029 June 1950Founded the Congress for Cultural Freedom. The participants had a "a culpable incuriosity about funding" of the luxurious conference, which was later exposed as CIA money.
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