CONFERENCE ON CULTURAL FREEDOM IN ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R002000150009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 16, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The Conference on Cultural Freedom in Asia, held in Rangoon, Burma,
from 17-20 February 1955 was sponsored by The Congress for Cultural
Freedom and the Society for the Extension of Democratic Ideals
whose headquarters are in Paris. The Conference began, as all such
conferences usually do, with heated denunciations of the "Imperialist
Colonial Powers" who had "held our lands in slavery for so many years".
The Ceylonese delegates were the worst in this respect. The Indian
and Philippine delegates finally rose, however,, and pointed out that
these "Imperialists" had done a lot for their countries.
2. Every Asian country east of Afghanistan, except Communist China, had
delegates at the conference. Papers were presented and the usual
discussions were held.. The conference delegates were definitely an
anti-Communist group.
-/Available on file in the CIA Library is a photostat of the program of
the conference and a list of delegates]
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