Committee for the Free World
The Committee for the Free World was a
Overview
It was founded in February 1981 with US$125,000 from the
Mobil Oil (now known as ExxonMobil).[4]
Seymour M. Lipset, Donald Rumsfeld, Tom Stoppard, and George Will.[2][3] Eugene V. Rostow, then serving as Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency under President Ronald Reagan, was a speaker at a CFW event on Poland in 1982.[8]
Given the number of members who were formerly involved with the
CIA front organization, John S. Friedman has argued in The Nation that there are strong reasons to believe that the CFW continued the work of the CCF and still had ties to the CIA.[9]
It was headquartered in
Daniel P. Moynihan denied donating US$1 million to Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi through the organization.[10]
It was discontinued shortly after the collapse of the Berlin Wall signaled the collapse of the Soviet Union.[3][5][7]
References
- ISSN 1520-3972.
- ^ a b c "Committee for the Free World". NNDB.
- ^ a b c d "Midge Decter biography". The Philadelphia Society. Archived from the original on 17 June 2013.
- ^ a b c d e John Ehrman, The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994, Yale University Press, 1996, pp. 139-141 [1]
- ^ a b "Midge Decter". The Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
- ^ National Endowment for the Humanities, Midge Decter
- ^ a b AN OLD WIFE'S TALE: My Seven Decades in Love and War, Publishers Weekly, 07/30/2001
- ^ Judith Miller, Arms control chief asserts Reagan is uncertain how to use power, The New York Times, January 23, 1982
- ^ "Culture War II" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on January 23, 2017.
- ^ a b Moynihan assails India-C.I.A. charge, The New York Times, November 21, 1989