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Cold War to dominate thinking

The New York Intellectuals and the invention of neoconservatism

by Denis Boneau

20 January 2005

Since 1945, American and British propaganda services have been recruiting intellectuals, usually from Trotskyite media, to invent and promote an “ideology capable of competing with communism”. The New York Intellectuals, headed by Sidney Hook, efficiently and zealously complied with several (…)

Study on the American influence networks

When the CIA financed European Intellectuals

by Denis Boneau

27 November 2003

To counteract the Soviet influence in Europe, at the end of WWII the United States created a network of pro-American elites. Thus, the CIA financed the Congress for Cultural Freedom in which many European intellectuals participated. Among the most distinguished ones were Raymond Aron and Michel (…)