Marshall himself said, “Our policy is not directed against any country, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos.” The agency also allegedly financed an anti-communist insurgency in Ukraine, which at the time was a Soviet satellite state.īy and large, though, the Marshall Plan was generally lauded for the desperately needed boost it gave America’s European allies. The CIA used these funds to establish “front” businesses in several European countries that were designed to further U.S. It’s worth noting, too, that the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA), the secret service agency of the United States, received 5 percent of the funds allocated under the Marshall Plan.

Post-war Europe was in dire straits: Millions of its citizens had been killed or seriously wounded in World War II, and in related atrocities such as the Holocaust. WATCH: World War II Documentaries on HISTORY Vault Europe After World War II Marshall, for whom it was named, it was crafted as a four-year plan to reconstruct cities, industries and infrastructure heavily damaged during the war and to remove trade barriers between European neighbors-as well as foster commerce between those countries and the United States. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S.

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