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A 2014/7576

Transnational
Anti-Communism
and the Cold War
Agents, Activities, and Networks
Edited by

Luc van Dongen

Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, University ofFribourg, Switzerland

Stephanie Roulin
Postdoctoral Researcher, University ofFribourg, Switzerland

and

Giles Scott-Smith
Professor of Diplomatic History, Leiden University, the Netherlands

palgrave
macmillan
Contents

Acknowledgements viii

Notes on Contributors ix

List of Abbreviations xiii

Introduction 1
Luc van Dongen, Stephanie Roulin and Giles Scott-Smith

Part I The Wurlitzer Revisited

1 The American Society of African Culture:
The CIA and Transnational Networks of
African Diaspora Intellectuals in the Cold War 23
Hugh Wilford

2 The Nordic Trade Union Movement and Transnational

Anti-Communist Networks in the Early Cold War 35
Dino Knudsen

3 "Brother Tronchet": A Swiss Trade Union Leader

within the US Sphere of Influence 50
Luc van Dongen

4 Not an "Ugly American": Sal Tas, a Dutch Reporter as

Agent of the West in Africa 64
Tity de Vries

Part II Transnational Networks

5 Paix et liberte: A Transnational Anti-Communist Network 81
Bernard Ludwig

6 The Assembly of Captive European Nations:

A Transnational Organization and
Tool of Anti-Communist Propaganda 96
Martin Nekola

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7 The World Anti-Communist League:

Origins, Structures and Activities
Pierre Abramovici

8 Interdoc, Western Anti-Communism and

the Transnational Imperative
Giles Scott-Smith

9 The Heyday of Britain's Cold War Think Tank:

Brian Crozier and the Institute for the
Study of Conflict, 1970-79
Jeffrey H. Michaels

10 A Global Crusade against Communism:

The Cercle in the "Second Cold War"
Adrian Hanni

Part III Intellectual Networks and

Anti-Totalitarianism
11 The Sovietology of Jozef M. Bocheriski:
Transnational Activism in Catholic Switzerland, 1955-65
Matthieu Gillabert

12 Suzanne Labin: Fifty Years of Anti-Communist Agitation

Olivier Dard

13 The Mont Pelerin Society and the Rise of

a Postwar Classical Liberal Counter-Establishment
Niels Bjerre-Poulsen

14 Better Dead Than Red: Wilhelm Ropke,

a Neoliberal Anti-Communist on All Fronts
jean Solchany

Part IV Christian Networks

15 Transnational Fundamentalist Anti-Communism:
The International Council of Christian Churches
Markku Ruotsila

16 The Comite international de defense de la civilisation

chretienne and the Transnationalization of
Anti-Communist Propaganda in Western Europe after
the Second World War
Johannes Grossmann
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17 Bible Smuggling and Human Rights in the Cold War 263

Bent Boel

Select Bibliography 276

Index 288