The Independent Research Service was a non profithttps://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/E0/04/89/90/00001/LANCIA_J_pdf.txt#6 front organization financed by the Central Intelligence Agencyhttp://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/C%20Disk/CIA%20Foundations/Item%20031.pdf#1#1 during the Cold War. Harvard University students were recruited to infiltrate the USSR-controlled World Youth Festivals held in Vienna, Austria and Helsinki, Finland. Second-wave feminism leader Gloria Steinem revealed in a 1967 interview that she was its director from 1958 to 1962—the extent of its existence— in full knowledge of who was backing the surveillance operation.
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