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==Investigation and report==

==Investigation and report==

The Cox Committee's investigation focused on the following twelve points:<ref>''Final Report'', pp. 5–6.</ref>

The Cox Committee's investigation focused on the following twelve points:<ref>''Final Report'', pp. 5–6. Retrieved October 4, 2021.</ref>

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#Have foundation funds been diverted from the purposes established by the founders?

#Have foundation funds been diverted from the purposes established by the founders?

Extensive and incriminating testimonies were heard by the committee from ex-communists such as Manning Johnson, [[Louis Budenz]], and Maurice Malkin, who shared information of foundations who funded efforts plotted in [[Moscow]], Russia to subvert American society.<ref name=thenewamerican>Jasper, William F. (February 6, 2017). [https://thenewamerican.com/cutting-off-the-toxic-funding-flow/ Foundations: Cutting Off the Toxic Funding Flow]. ''The New American''. Retrieved September 21, 2021.</ref>

Extensive and incriminating testimonies were heard by the committee from ex-communists such as Manning Johnson, [[Louis Budenz]], and Maurice Malkin, who shared information of foundations who funded efforts plotted in [[Moscow]], Russia to subvert American society.<ref name=thenewamerican>Jasper, William F. (February 6, 2017). [https://thenewamerican.com/cutting-off-the-toxic-funding-flow/ Foundations: Cutting Off the Toxic Funding Flow]. ''The New American''. Retrieved September 21, 2021.</ref>

Cox died in December 1952 prior to the conclusion of the committee's work and report's release.<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/> The 15 page-long<ref name=thenewamerican/><ref group=note>The report length is technically fifteen pages long, although the main text only spans fourteen pages due to the last one being "Appendix A."</ref> final report contained little substance and did not declare major foundations to have been subversive. It asserted on the second and third points:<ref>''Final Report'', pp. 7–8.</ref>

Cox died in December 1952 prior to the conclusion of the committee's work and report's release.<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/> The 15 page-long<ref name=thenewamerican/><ref group=note>The report length is technically fifteen pages long, although the main text only spans fourteen pages due to the last one being "Appendix A."</ref> final report contained little substance and did not declare major foundations to have been subversive. It asserted on the second and third points:<ref>''Final Report'', pp. 7–8. Retrieved October 4, 2021.</ref>

{{quotebox|Our investigation, ''hurried by lack of time'', indicates that very few actual Communists or Communist sympathizers obtained positions of influence in the foundations. However, there are some unhappy instances where the committee is convinced infiltration occurred. There remains the ugly unalterable fact that [[Alger Hiss]] became the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. And this despite the fact that his nomination and election came about through the efforts of men of proven loyalty and broad experience in public affairs.

{{quotebox|Our investigation, ''hurried by lack of time'', indicates that very few actual Communists or Communist sympathizers obtained positions of influence in the foundations. However, there are some unhappy instances where the committee is convinced infiltration occurred. There remains the ugly unalterable fact that [[Alger Hiss]] became the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. And this despite the fact that his nomination and election came about through the efforts of men of proven loyalty and broad experience in public affairs.