The European Youth Campaign (EYC) was an organization funded by the CIA front organisation, the American Committee on United Europe (ACUE), and was created mainly as a response to the Comintern in Eastern Europe.
[2] 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".
But the Cold War played in fact an important role in the European integration process, also on a local level....
The international Youth Festival held in East Berlin in 1951 troubled western European and American politicians.
"[5] The EYC was dissolved in 1958 because its sole funder, the ACUE, withdrew its funds.