This documentary shows how the U.S. Secret Service handled the artistic and intellectual circles during the European Cold War. Many writers and worked for the CIA In the years after the war, the U.S. secret services launched a large-scale infiltration of European culture. They devote several million dollars based on an organism, "Congress for Cultural Freedom", whose headquarters are in Paris. The French capital is a strategic place to post journals read as far as Africa, Latin America and Arab countries. The Congress for Cultural Freedom focuses on artists and intellectuals on the left, he tries to escape the influence of Marxist and winning the American cause. In France, the journal Evidence led by Raymond Aron is the spearhead of the anti-diffusion of ideas.
In Germany, the "Kongress für kulturelle Freiheit" is born June 1950 in Berlin, the American occupation zone. The magazine Der Monat received the first grants from the CIA in 1958. It counts among its staff of distinguished journalists and representatives of major publishing houses in West Germany. Congress has thus relay in Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt. He moved to Cologne, where he also develops relationships with editors of newspapers and television. Heinrich Böll, the future Nobel Prize for Literature (1972), is approached and work - several documents confirm - for over ten years for Congress and its various organizations. Without knowing it actually work for the CIA?
thinks so Günter Grass, another target of the U.S. agency. Beyond these figures, all the finest arts and letters has been approached by the U.S. Secret Service and has supported, often without knowing it .. . To go further ... When the CIA financed European intellectuals .
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