Ford Foundation is an US-American donation, their official goals the spreading of the democracy, the reduction of the poverty and the promotion of the international communication are. It was created 1936 with allowances by Henry Ford and its son Edsel Ford of Ford engine company and led from 1966 to 1979 of McGeorge Bundy.

Some radical critics like the earlier Binghamton University professor James Petras criticized the donation for their connections to the CIA. Petras accuses the donation of as front for the CIA to function. It appoints itself thereby to relations of the former donation president Richard Bissell with the director at that time of the CIA of all Dulles and the participation to Mars-resounds plan during the 1950er. Petras denunziert Ford Foundation for the financing of what he "anti-left groups of human rights,""… not at the anti-globalization movement and anti- neoliberalen himself mass actions take part " calls.

Ford Foundation by conservative ones for its support of Planned Parenthood and other groups, which use themselves for the right to abortion, one criticized.

Ford Foundation is one of the most important givers of the organization Fairness and Accuracy in reporting, a left group for the observation of the media.

Literature

• James Petras (2001), The Ford Foundation and the CIA. Claims that the Ford Foundation is A front organization for the CIA.
• Frances Stonor Saunders (2001), The Cultural Cold was: The CIA and the World OF kind and Letters, new one press, ISBN 1565846648.
• David Ransom, The Trojan Horse: A Radical Look RK Foreign Aid, pub. 1975, pp. 93-116 "1970 Ford Foundation: Building at elite for Indonesia".
• Bob Feldman, "alternative Media Censorship sponsored by CIA's Ford

Related links

• The Ford Foundation
• Official objectives of the donation

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