Brexit: European Project Was A CIA Operation

The European project was a CIA-inspired operation from its outset, and citizens in the UK ought to vote for a Brexit in the upcoming referendum, according to journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.  Evans-Pritchard recently wrote a piece for The Telegraph in which she commented on President Obama’s attempts to convince Brits to vote against Brexit, saying, “Brexiteers should have been prepared for the shattering intervention of the US,” since “the European Union always was an American project.” Sputniknews.com reports: In fact, the journalist recalled, taking a look back through archival history, one finds that “it was Washington that drove European integration in the late 1940s,”, and Washington that “funded it covertly under the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.” Contrary to popular belief among some in Europe that the US may have viewed European integration as a threat, the project was in actually always seen as an “anchor to American regional interests alongside NATO,” all the way back to its inception. Evans-Pritchard recalled that the May 1950 Schuman Declaration, the proposal by French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman to create the European Coal and Steel Community, which “set the tone of Franco-German reconciliation – and would lead by stages to the European Community – was cooked up by the US Secretary of State Dean Acheson at a meeting in Foggy Bottom” (in Washington DC). [...]