World Congress for Freedom and Democracy
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A global congress that publicly celebrated freedom was quietly used to change what the word 'freedom' meant.
Who they are
The World Congress for Freedom and Democracy, with material written by Durand and pushed by CIA official Robert Amory, Jr.
What they do
The engine calls it a way to redefine freedom in terms that fit a technocratic order, putting sovereignty under systems coordination.
How it works
It was publicly promoted as a celebration of liberal values. In practice, it served to redefine 'freedom' itself in terms compatible with a technocratic order, subordinating sovereignty to systems coordination. The material was penned by Durand and pushed by CIA DD/I Robert Amory, Jr. The Ford Foundation is linked to funding lines, but this does not establish that the foundations directed the initiative's political aims or its policy decisions.
Why it matters
It shows how a public event can be used to shift the meaning of a core idea while appearing to honor it.
The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "And that’s of interest, because it was Durand who penned the material on the ‘ World Congress for Freedom and Democracy ’ pushed by CIA DD/I, Robert Amory, Jr." It is presented publicly as: "The World Congress for Freedom and Democracy, publicly promoted as a celebration of liberal values, in practice served to redefine ‘ freedom ’ itself in terms compatible with a technocratic order, subordinating sovereignty to systems coordination." Documents named in the corpus: To Ourselves Be True; Walter Lippmann’s Public Philosophy. Cross-sourced to archive.org — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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documents
Ford Foundation (1936-)foundation funding — does not establish: that the foundations directed the initiative's political aims
documents
Allen Welsh Dulles (1893-1969)proposal submitted to him personally [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22727473-proposal-for-the-creation-of-a-world-congress-for-freedom-and-democracy/,
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