EU ER i bund og grund en CIA-skabelse, så mind os lige igen om, hvad problemet egentlig er?
Dokumenterne bekræfter de på det tidspunkt udtrykte mistanker om, at USA arbejdede aggressivt bag kulisserne for at skubbe Storbritannien ind i en europæisk stat. Et memorandum, dateret den 26. juli 1950, giver instruktioner til en kampagne for at fremme et fuldt udbygget Europa-parlament. Den er underskrevet af Gen William J Donovan, leder af det amerikanske krigskontor for strategiske tjenester, forløber for CIA.
Dokumenterne blev fundet af Joshua Paul, en forsker ved Georgetown University i Washington. De omfatter filer udgivet af US National Archives. Washingtons vigtigste redskab til at forme den europæiske dagsorden var den American Committee for a United Europe, der blev oprettet i 1948. Formanden var Donovan, angiveligt en privat advokat på det tidspunkt.
The vice-chairman was Allen Dulles, the CIA director in the Fifties. The board included Walter Bedell Smith, the CIA's first director, and a roster of ex-OSS figures and officials who moved in and out 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.
The head of the Ford Foundation, ex-OSS officer Paul Hoffman, doubled as head of ACUE in the late Fifties. The State Department also played a role. A memo from the European section, dated June 11, 1965, advises the vice-president of the European Economic Community, Robert Marjolin, to pursue monetary union by stealth.
It recommends suppressing debate until the point at which "adoption of such proposals would become virtually inescapable".
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