Melvin Lasky

Founder and editor of Der Monat, which was funded by the Marshall Plan, then the CIA, then the Ford Foundation, then the CIA again. Always denied being a CIA agent. Worked as a correspondent for New Leader, and as a combat historian for the military. Called for a cultural cold war to military governor Clay. Interrupted an 1947 East Berlin writers conference to spew anti-communist propaganda, comparing the communists to the Nazis.