ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization, their Soviet-funded Afro-Asian Writers Association and the Central Intelligence Agency Congress for Cultural Freedom there in the wake of the April 1955 Bandung Conference. It draws for the first time upon photos, correspondence, and other documents held in the archives of the International Association for Cultural Freedom at the University of Chicago. The chapter shows that threat that Afro-Asian solidarity posed to the bipartisan logic of an American-Soviet cold war of superpowers. In May 1959, Ivan Kats prepared a report for John Hunt entitled "The Projected Near-Eastern Forum Service," and another report, "Lebanon & Egypt 1959," which fixated on "the influence that radiates from Cairo." The goal was to "start the magazine in Cairo," to edit and produce it there, to stamp the journal with Cairo's political and cultural capital to be part of the influence that radiated from there.
