The European Union was a [[CIA]] project from its beginning and not an indigenous, European democratic movement.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/27/the-european-union-always-was-a-cia-project-as-brexiteers-discov/</ref> Following [[World War II]] and in the early stages of the [[Cold War]], the American Committee on United Europe (ACUE), which was founded one year after the CIA was created, was a private American organization that sought to counter communism in Europe by promoting European [[federalism]]. Its first chairman was former head of America's wartime intelligence agency the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS), [[Bill Donovan]], who had Its vice-chairman was [[Allen Dulles]]. Other board members were [[Walter Bedell Smith]], the CIA's first director. Dullas became CIA director in 1953. ACUE received funding from the Rockefeller and Ford foundations. | The European Union was a [[CIA]] project from its beginning and not an indigenous, European democratic movement.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/27/the-european-union-always-was-a-cia-project-as-brexiteers-discov/</ref> Following [[World War II]] and in the early stages of the [[Cold War]], the American Committee on United Europe (ACUE), which was founded one year after the CIA was created, was a private American organization that sought to counter communism in Europe by promoting European [[federalism]]. Its first chairman was former head of America's wartime intelligence agency the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS), [[Bill Donovan]], who had Its vice-chairman was [[Allen Dulles]]. Other board members were [[Walter Bedell Smith]], the CIA's first director. Dullas became CIA director in 1953. ACUE received funding from the Rockefeller and Ford foundations. |