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 signaled the collapse of the Soviet Union.[2][4][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 nndb
  2. 1 2 3 4 The Philadelphia Society, Midge Decter biography
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 John Ehrman, The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994, Yale University Press, 1996, pp. 139-141
  4. 1 2 Heritage Foundation Board members
  5. ↑ National Endowment for the Humanities, Midge Decter
  6. 1 2 AN OLD WIFE'S TALE: My Seven Decades in Love and War, Publishers Weekly, 07/30/2001
  7. ↑ Judith Miller, Arms control chief asserts Reagan is uncertain how to use power, The New York Times, January 23, 1982
  8. 1 2 Moynihan assails India-C.I.A. charge, The New York Times, November 21, 1989
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