Weissman, Steve (with members of the Pacific Studies Center and the North American Congress on Latin America). The Trojan Horse: A Radical Look at Foreign Aid. Palo Alto CA: Ramparts Press, 1975 (revised edition). 249 pages.

This collection of essays researching U.S. foreign policy is another example of excellent work that emerged out of the sixties, and stopped dead in its tracks as the student movement collapsed in the seventies. Some of the highlights: directors and contributors to the Overseas Development Council (pages 32-34); the World Bank by Bruce Nissen (pages 35-60); the IMF by Cheryl Payer (pages 61-72); the Alliance for Progress by Steve Weissman (pages 73-91); and essays on food policy (pages 151-200).

Two additional essays deserve special mention. "AFL-CIA" by Lenny Siegel (pages 117-135) recounts the alphabet soup of labor organizations that receive AID and CIA funding, particularly the AFL-CIO's American Institute for Free Labor Development. And an essay by David Ransom ("Ford Country: Building an Elite for Indonesia," pages 93-116), slightly revised from its appearance in the October, 1970 issue of Ramparts, describes the Ford Foundation programs that sent consulting professors to modernize Indonesia from 1954-1962. MIT and Cornell did the groundwork, while the "Berkeley Mafia" from the University of California actually trained most of the key Indonesians who finally took over -- by seizing power in a 1965 coup that resulted in the slaughter of up to a million people.
ISBN 0-87867-061-0

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