Here is the private letter from Charles Koch to Nobel Prize economist Friedrich Hayek, godfather of today’s free-market movement. The letter was obtained by Yasha Levine from the Hayek Archives at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. It is part of a series of correspondences in which Hayek, Koch and the University of Chicago all reveal themselves to be fans of state-backed health care and retirement benefits in private, while publicly denouncing and destroying these same programs.

This is the first time Charles Koch’s letter to Hayek promoting Social Security has been released to the public.

Below are digital images of Koch’s letter along with the text below. Read Yasha Levine and Mark Ames’ article about the “Koch-Hayek Social Security-Fanboy Letters” in The Nation: Monster Koch Bust: Charles Koch Used Social Security to Lure Friedrich von Hayek to America.

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