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The [[National Committee for a Free Europe]], later known simply as the Free Europe Committee, was established in New York in May 1949, with covert funding from the [[CIA]]'s [[Office of Policy Coordination]].<ref>Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.87.</ref> 

==People==
===Presidents===
*[[Allen Dulles]] <ref>{{cite book
|title=War of the Black Heavens
|isbn=0815604793
|publisher=Syracuse University Press
|date=2003
|pages=41
|author=Syracuse University Press
|quote= Dulles was briefly the first president of the Free Europe Committee}}</ref>
*[[DeWitt Poole]] (1949 - 1951)<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F1EF63A5F177A93CBA8178AD85F458585F9
|title=Head of Committee For a Free Europe
|date=January 19, 1951
|publisher=New York Times}}</ref>
*[[Charles Douglas Jackson]] (1951 - 1952)
*Admiral Harold B. Miller (1952 - 1953) <ref>{{cite news
|publisher=New York Times
|quote=He also was director of the Congressional Aviation Policy Board and president of the National Committee for Free Europe.
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/18/us/harold-miller-89-navy-publicist-launched-planes-from-dirigibles.html
|title=Harold Miller, 89, Navy Publicist; Launched Planes From Dirigibles
|date=May 18, 1992}}</ref>
*[[Whitney Hart Shepardson|Whitney Shepardson]] (1953 - 1956)
*General Willis D. Crittenberger
*Archibald Alexander
*[[John Richardson Jr.]] (1961 - 1968)

===Members===
* [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] | [[Henry Luce]] | [[Cecil B. DeMille]] | [[Lucius Clay]] | [[Gardner Cowles]] | [[Henry Ford II]] | [[Oveta Culp Hobby]] | [[Francis Spellman]] | [[John C. Hughes]] | [[Junkie Fleischmann]] | [[Arthur Schlesinger]] | [[Spyros Skouras]] | [[Darryl Zanuck]]
===Staff===
*[[DeWitt Poole]] - Executive Secretary

==Affiliations==
*[[Central Intelligence Agency]]
===Subsidiaries===
*[[Crusade for Freedom]]
*[[Radio Free Europe]]

==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://coldwarradios.blogspot.com/2010/11/urgent-whisper-radio-free-europe-begins.html An Urgent Whisper: Radio Free Europe Begins Broadcasting]


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