I AM WATCHING CSPAN3 replay from April 1, authur Benn Steil, talks about Marshall Plan, which was enacted under Truman, after WWII.
just little tidbits i picked up and looked up that i never thought about or knew
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Although the US invested billions, it was a drop in bucket to privtate investers who came in and worked with US to rebuild parts of Europe. Who were those investers who came in and what did they invest in?
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The Central Intelligence Agency received 5% of the Marshall Plan funds (about $685 million spread over six years),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
3 Marshall plan was a huge propaganda play by the Deep State to turn Americans into 'globalist' from 'nationalist'
During the period leading up to World War II, Americans were highly isolationist, and many called The Marshall Plan a "milestone" for American ideology.[124] By looking at polling data over time from pre-World War II to post-World War II, one would find that there was a change in public opinion in regards to ideology. Americans swapped their isolationist ideals for a much more global internationalist ideology after World War II.