Re: The role of U.S. capitalists in cold war policy

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

weren't both of the Dulles brothers (secretary of state and CIA chief
under Eisenhower) financiers? isn't the role of finance capitalist
overrepresented among post-WW2 secretaries of state?

On 9/27/06, Walt Byars <wbyars@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any good sources discussing (even ones mentioning it
> as an aside work) the role of capitalists in supporting, facilitating, and
> formulating U.S. cold war foreign policy, particularly when it comes to
> military intervention and other sorts of opposition to leftist movements
> in other countries. Also interested in direct, not merely circumstantial,
> evidence of U.S. foreign policy in this era being used to support U.S.
> business interests. A teacher of mine I was discussing this with conceded
> that these policies did help U.S. capital, but claimed that for the most
> part there wasn't evidence that this was their intent. I believe I've seen
> quite a deal of such evidence, I just odn't remember the specific sources.


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