Generally, about the funds, see Stonor Saunders 1999, p. 133-145.

‘Bona fide’ foundations such as Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie were considered ‘the best and most plausible kind of funding cover’. A CIA study of 1966 argued that this technique was ‘particularly effective for democratically run membership organizations, which need to assure their own unwitting members and collaborators, as well as their hostile critics, that they have genuine, respectable, private source of income’. Certainly, it allowed the CIA to fund a ‘seemingly limitless range of covert action programs affecting youth groups, labor unions, universities, publishing houses, and other private institutions’ from the early 1950s.

STONOR SAUNDERS Frances, [1999] Who Paid the Piper?, Granta Books, 135

[The] Farfield [Foundation] was by no means exceptional in its incestuous character [with CIA]. This was the nature of power in America at this time. The system of private patronage was the preeminent model of how small, homogenous groups came to defend America’s—and, by definition, their own—interests. Serving at the top of the pile was every self-respecting WASP’s ambition.

The prize was a trusteeship on either the Ford Foundation or the Rockefeller Foundation, both of which were conscious instruments of covert U.S. foreign policy, with directors and officers who were closely connected to, or even themselves, members of American intelligence.

STONOR SAUNDERS Frances, [1999] Who Paid the Piper?, Granta Books, 138

Ford Foundation

Ford Foundation.

The Ford Foundation and Polányi

The material basis for his research was provided by Columbia University together with funding from a variety of institutions, principally the Ford Foundation. It paid his salary until his retirement and thereafter provided for his travel and other costs associated with his seminar series on economic institutions (also known as the Columbia Interdisciplinary Project)—including a monthly stipend for Ilona, who, in spite of the anthropologist Conrad Arensberg’s advice that hiring close relatives would be frowned on, acted for a time as research assistant. It was a major disappointment when Ford cut the flow of funds in 1958 and the Rockefeller Foundation turned down a grant bid, but Polanyi was able to keep the seminar alive with assistance from other bodies.

Gareth Dale, [2016] Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left, 205.

It was a major disappointment when Ford cut the flow of funds in 1958 and the Rockefeller Foundation turned down a grant bid, but Polanyi was able to keep the seminar alive with assistance from other bodies.

DALE Gareth, [2016] Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left, 205.

The Ford Foundation and CIA

With this arrangement in place, the Ford Foundation became officially engaged as one of those organizations the CIA was able to mobilize for political warfare against Communism. The foundation’s archives reveal a raft of joint projects. The East-European Fund, a CIA front in which George Kennan played a prominent role, got most of its money from the Ford Foundation.

STONOR SAUNDERS Frances, [1999] Who Paid the Piper?, Granta Books, 142

Rockefeller Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation.

See. Dr Rath Foundation, ”The History of the Pharma Cartel”.

The Rockefeller Foundation and Polányi

In spring 1941 [Polanyi] had secured a Rockefeller Fellowship that would enable him to be employed at Bennington for two years, formally as a resident lecturer but without teaching responsibilities.

DALE Gareth, [2016] Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left, 156.

It was a major disappointment when Ford cut the flow of funds in 1958 and the Rockefeller Foundation turned down a grant bid, but Polanyi was able to keep the seminar alive with assistance from other bodies.

DALE Gareth, [2016] Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left, 205.

The Rockefeller Foundation and US propaganda

The Rockefeller Foundation, no less than the Ford, was an integral component of America’s Cold War machinery. Incorporated in 1913, its principal donor was the legendary John D. Rockefeller III. It had assets exceeding $500 million, not including an additional $150 million in the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc., a major think tank which was incorporated in new York in 1940. In 1957 the fund brought together the most influential minds of the period under a Special Studies Project whose task was to attempt a definition of American foreign policy. Subpanel II was designated to the study of International Security Objectives and Strategy, and its members included Henry and Clare Boothe Luce, Laurence Rockefeller, Townsend Hoopes (representing Jock Whitney’s company), Nelson Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Frank Lindsay, and William Bundy of the CIA.

STONOR SAUNDERS Frances, [1999] Who Paid the Piper?, Granta Books, 142

Rothschild

(Carnegie)

(I don’t think that Polanyi used this.)