T.R. Fyvel
T.R. Fyvel was an anti-communist writer and broadcaster prominent in the Zionist movement in the mid-Twentieth Century.[1]
During World War Two, Fyvel worked with Richard Crossman in the Psychological Warfare Branch attached to General Eisenhower's headquarters.[2]
Fyvel subsequently worked as a reader for the publisher F.J. Warburg and later succeeded his friend and colleague George Orwell as literary editor of Tribune.[3]
Fyvel joined the BBC External Services in 1949, and was recruited into the Information Research Department two years later.[3]
When a permanent executive for the Congress for Cultural Freedom was established in Berlin in November 1950, Fyvel was elected as alternate to the British representative, Stephen Spender.[4]
He was a key mover in the foundation of the Congress for Cultural Freedom magazine Encounter in 1952.[3]
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Notes
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2002, p.479.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2002, p.479-480.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2002, p.480.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2002, p.478.
