Ford Foundation

Richard Bissell Ford Foundation -> CIA

In 1952 the Ford Foundation launched Intercultural Publications under James Laughlin, the founder of New Directions publishing. They launched the NCL magazine Perspectives, which was mostly a failure. In 1954 they took over funding for Der Monat.

Early 1953, the new head of the foundation was John McCloy. "By the time he came to the Ford Foundation, he had been assistant secretary of war, president of the World Bank, and high commissioner of Germany. In 1953 he also became chairman of the Rockefellers’ Chase Manhattan Bank and Chairman of the Council on Foreign relations. After John F. Kennedy’s assassination, he was a Warren Commission appointee. Throughout he maintained his career as a Wall Street attorney for the seven big oil companies and as director of numerous corporations."

"one of the earliest CIA supporters of the Congress for Cultural Freedom was Frank Lindsay, to whom de neufville was reporting in the buildup to the 1950 Berlin conclave. Lindsay was an oSS veteran who in 1947 had written one of the first memos recommending that the united States create a covert action force to fight the Cold War. The paper attracted the attention of Frank Wisner, who asked him to come on board and run his european operations at oPC. As deputy chief of oPC (1949–51), Lindsay was responsible for setting up the “stay-behind” groups in Western europe. In 1953, he joined the Ford Foundation, and from there he maintained close contact with his confreres in the intelligence community."