Committee for the Free World
The Committee for the Free World was a neoconservative anti-Communist think tank in the United States.[1][2][3]
Overview
It was founded in February 1981 with US$125,000 from the Scaife Foundations, the John M. Olin Foundation and the Smith Richardson Foundation.[1][3] Later, donors included Sears and Mobil Oil (now known as ExxonMobil).[3]
Midge Decter served as Executive Director of its Committee.[2][4][5][6] Other members included Jeane Kirkpatrick, Leszek Kołakowski, Irving Kristol, Melvin J. Lasky, Seymour M. Lipset, Donald Rumsfeld, Tom Stoppard and George Will.[1][2] 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.[7]
It was headquartered in New York City.[8] It published a monthly newsletter, Contentions.[3] It also helped conservative newspapers on college campuses develop and the National Association of Scholars.[3] In 1989, both Decter and Democratic Senator Daniel P. Moynihan denied donating US$1 million to Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi through the organization.[8]
It was discontinued shortly after the collapse of the Berlin Wall.[2][6][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 nndb
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Philadelphia Society, Midge Decter biography
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 John Ehrman, The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994, Yale University Press, 1996, pp. 139-141[1]
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Heritage Foundation Board members
- ↑ National Endowment for the Humanities, Midge Decter
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 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
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Moynihan assails India-C.I.A. charge, The New York Times, November 21, 1989
