The 'treason of the intellectuals': the shadowy presence of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Greece, 1950-1963

摘要

This paper seeks to reconstruct the Greek adventures of the Congress for Cultural Freedom from the early 1950s to the mid-1960s. It argues that the presence of the CCF in Greece was weak as can be inferred by the inability to form an official committee, but also by the absence of an original intellectual production in Greek. Its weakness can be attributed to the inability to combine commitment to the anti-communist cause, in the liberal terms of the CCF, with intellectual or artistic work of some merit for CCF representatives in Greece. These contradictions are personified by Manolis Korakas, a socialist and passionate anti-communist, who remained in the shadows due to the Congress' elitist bias.