The European Youth Campaign (EYC) was an organization funded by the

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front organisation, the

American Committee on United Europe The American Committee on United Europe (ACUE), founded in 1948, was a private American organization that sought to counter communism in Europe by promoting European federalism. Its first chairman was former head of the Office of Strategic Services ...

(ACUE), and was created mainly as a response to the

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in Eastern Europe.telegraph.co.uk: "Euro-federalists financed by US spy chiefs" 19 Sep 2000
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, which is part of the European Movement. The EYC was active in the 1950s, worked to promote a pro-European attitude amongst European youth and conducted "a massive propaganda campaign of conferences and exhibitions, cinema shows, radio broadcasts and a large array of publications".

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and

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Institut Universitaire Europeene Archives Historiques de l'Union Europeene: "Fausta Deshornes la Vallee"
{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140601054802/http://apps.eui.eu/HAEU/pdfinv/inv-fdlv.pdf , date=2014-06-01 collected archival material, retrieved 31 May 2014 were prominent organisers. The EYC was the doctoral thesis of

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, who reported, "More than 15 European countries were involved in the EYC, each in a different way and with changing intensity. Germany, France and Italy were without a doubt the more active countries, but also the Benelux countries played their part.... Many active personalities thought that the countries in Eastern Europe could still be converted to Democracy and that they belonged certainly to Europe. But the

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played in fact an important role in the

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process, also on a local level.... The international Youth Festival held in

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in 1951 troubled western European and American politicians. In answer to it the grounds for the EYC were laid in cooperation with the European Movement. The Campaign was financed by an American association, the

. All of its members were US-secret service agents. Without the US financial aid the Campaign would not have been able to survive."eui.eu: "'We are Europe' – The European Youth Campaign (1951-1958) and the role of youth in uniting Europe" 16 Apr 2013
retrieved 31 May 2014 The EYC was dissolved in 1958 because its sole funder, the ACUE, withdrew its funds.

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