The CIA tried to recruit Churchill for anti-communist broadcasts to the USSR.
The CIA aimed to enlist Winston Churchill to disseminate anti-communist messages.
Declassified CIA records, as reported by The Telegraph, reveal that in the latter part of the 1950s, the CIA made efforts to engage the former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, to participate in Radio Liberty and deliver anti-communist broadcasts targeting the Soviet Union.
In 1958, the radio outlet devised a set of shows commemorating the 75th year since Karl Marx’s passing.
As highlighted by The Telegraph, American intelligence aspired to capitalize on the burgeoning of revisionist concepts within the USSR during that period – a divergence from the original Marxism-Leninism embraced by the early Soviet state.
A released memorandum indicates that the broadcast sequence was designed to “foster unorthodox thought” and “weaken trust in every variant of Marxism.” Churchill is cited as a possible speaker.
