Early "Psychological Warfare" Research and the
Rockefeller Foundation
by Prof. James F. Tracy
The Rockefeller Foundation was the principle source for funding
public opinion and psychological warfare research between the late 1930s and the
end of World War Two. With limited government and corporate interest or support
of propaganda-related studies, most of the money for such research came from
this powerful organization that recognized the importance of ascertaining and
steering public opinion in the immediate prewar years.
Rockefeller philanthropic attention toward public opinion was
twofold: 1) to review and establish the psychological environment in the United
States for anticipated US involvement in the coming world war and 2) to wage
psychological warfare and suppress popular dissent in foreign countries,
particularly Latin America.
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