The European Movement Finance by US Spy Chiefs

Black Uhlan

The History of European Movement International

Is found here on their Pro-Lisbon Irish site: http://www.europeanmovement.ie/index.php?id=7746

What they wont tell you there is:

[/QUOTE]DECLASSIFIED American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe. It funded and directed the European federalist movement.


The documents confirm suspicions voiced at the time that America was working aggressively behind the scenes to push Britain into a European state. One memorandum, dated July 26, 1950, gives instructions for a campaign to promote a fully fledged European parliament.


It is signed by Gen William J Donovan, head of the American wartime Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the CIA.



The documents show that ACUE financed the European Movement, the most important federalist organisation in the post-war years. In 1958, for example, it provided 53.5 per cent of the movement's funds.


The European Youth Campaign, an arm of the European Movement, was wholly funded and controlled by Washington. The Belgian director, Baron Boel, received monthly payments into a special account. When the head of the European Movement, Polish-born Joseph Retinger, bridled at this degree of American control and tried to raise money in Europe, he was quickly reprimanded.


The leaders of the European Movement - Retinger, the visionary Robert Schuman and the former Belgian prime minister Paul-Henri Spaak - were all treated as hired hands by their American sponsors. The US role was handled as a covert operation. ACUE's funding came from the Ford and Rockefeller foundations as well as business groups with close ties to the US government

It recommends suppressing debate until the point at which "adoption of such proposals would become virtually inescapable".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1356047/Euro-federalists-financed-by-US-spy-chiefs.html [/QUOTE]



Sound Familiar? The above mentioned Retinger as well as working for US inteligence services was also an MI6 asset and a key player in the establishment of the secretive Bilderberg Group who held the same views as this Bildreberg report of 1955 shows

Section V - European Unity
http://file.sunshinepress.org:54445/bilderberg-meetings-report-1955.pdf

Euro_Kraut

That was 50 years ago. Is there any evidences that the funding is on going? The thinking now is generally that the US are wary of a powerful, united Europe.

Also the Telegraph do not give the source of there information. Any idea where they got this from?

Black Uhlan

Euro_Kraut wrote: »

That was 50 years ago. Is there any evidences that the funding is on going? The thinking now is generally that the US are wary of a powerful, united Europe.

Thats the problem really. It'll take another 50 years before evidence will come out, and by that stage people will say ah shure that was fifty years ago.

Black Uhlan

It was in the article. Is this what you are looking for?

The documents were found by Joshua Paul, a researcher at Georgetown University in Washington. They include files released by the US National Archives.

schween

A United Europe will fare much better when WWIII comes

Black Uhlan

schween wrote: »

A United Europe will fare much better when WWIII comes

Well according to these 5 retired Generals renewing transatlantic partnership is part of the "Grand Strategy". Where the EU must speak with "one voice".
http://csis.org/files/media/csis/events/080110_grand_strategy.pdf

Black Uhlan

Euro_Kraut wrote: »

That was 50 years ago. Is there any evidences that the funding is on going? The thinking now is generally that the US are wary of a powerful, united Europe.

Realistically if it came to an abrupt end wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that their would be an immediate and distinct change of policy and outlook from this group? or that they would simply fall themselves?

Euro_Kraut

Black Uhlan wrote: »

It was in the article. Is this what you are looking for?

The documents were found by Joshua Paul, a researcher at Georgetown University in Washington. They include files released by the US National Archives.

The problem is that their is no record for a Joshua Paul currently in Georgretown University.

You can do search here: Georgetown people search

The reference I can find for him and Georgetown and from the Telegraph article a similar on in the British Sun and this thread. Its not good enough to say the the document were found by someone. They really need to be published and be accessible by other before this can be taken seriously. Rigth now we have the word of a researcher who doesn't appear to exist.