International Rescue Committee - Revision history

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Tom Griffin: External resources

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External resources

Tom Griffin: intro

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intro

Tom Griffin: /* Chairs */

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Chairs

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Chairs

Tom Griffin: /* Other historic board members */

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Other historic board members

Tom Griffin: ref format

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ref format

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Tom Griffin: /* El Salvador */

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El Salvador

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 ===UK===
-*[[Richard Sharp]], ex-Goldmans Sachs banker, sits on the board (circa 2013-2015)
+*[[Richard Sharp]], ex-Goldmans Sachs banker, sits on the board (from 2013-2015)
 ==Contact==

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 ===UK===
-*[[Richard Sharpe]], ex-Goldmans Sachs banker, sits on the board (circa 2013-2015)
+*[[Richard Sharp]], ex-Goldmans Sachs banker, sits on the board (circa 2013-2015)
 ==Contact==

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 ====Overseers====
 [[Madeleine K. Albright]] | [[Laurent Alpert]] | [[Kofi A. Annan]] | [[Lila Azam Zanganeh]] | [[F. William Barnett]] | [[Alan R. Batkin]] | [[Georgette F. Bennett]] | [[Vera Blinken]] | [[Michael Blumenthal]] | [[Andrew Brimmer]] | [[Jennifer Brokaw]], M.D. | [[Tom Brokaw]] | [[Frederick Burkle]], M.D. | [[Nestor Carbonell]] | [[Jeremy Carver]] | [[Geoffrey Colvin]] | [[Karen Cook]] | [[Robert M. Cotten]] | [[Robert P. DeVecchi]] | [[Dina Dublon]] | [[Robin Chandler Duke]] | [[Jodie Eastman]] | [[Katherine Farley]] | [[H.R.H. Princess Firyal of Jordan]] | [[Harold Ford, Jr.]] | [[Theodore J. Forstmann]] | [[Jeffrey E. Garten]] | [[Evan G. Greenberg]] | [[Maurice R. Greenberg]] | [[Andrew S. Grove]] | [[Morton I. Hamburg]] | [[Karen Hein]], M.D. | [[Lucile P. Herbert]] | [[Howard Jonas]] | [[Marvin Josephson]] | [[Alton Kastner]] | [[Henry A. Kissinger]] | [[Yong Kwok]] | [[Reynold Levy]] | [[Winston Lord]] | [[Dan Lufkin]] | [[Vincent A. Mai]] | [[John Makinson]] | [[Lucretia Martin]] | [[Roberto Martinez]] | [[Roman Martinez IV]] | [[Kati Marton]] | [[Jay Mazur]] | [[W. Allen Moore]] | [[Kathleen Newland]] | [[Indra Nooyi]] | [[Robert B. Oakley]] | [[Sadako Ogata]] | [[Sarah O’Hagan]]  | [[Catherine O’Neill]] | [[Susan Patricof]] | [[Alexandra L. Peters]] | [[David L. Phillips]] | [[David N. Pincus]] | General [[Colin L. Powell]], USA (Retired) | [[Donald H. Putnam]] | [[Bruce C. Ratner]] | [[Milbrey Rennie]] | [[John Richardson]]  | [[Felix G. Rohatyn]] | [[George Rupp]] | [[Jessica T. Seinfeld]] | [[Barbara Shailor]] | [[James T. Sherwin]] | [[Nancy Starr]] | [[H. Peter Stern]] | [[James C. Strickler]], M.D | [[Lee Thaw]] | [[Georgia Travers]] | [[Liv Ullmann]] | [[William J. Vanden Heuvel]] | [[Ronald J. Waldman]], M.D. | [[Rhonda Weingarten]] | [[Edwin J. Wesely]] | [[Josh Weston]] | [[Anne Whitehead]] | [[John C. Whitehead]] | [[Elie Wiesel]] | [[Jonathan L. Wiesner]] | [[James D. Wolfensohn]] | [[Guy Wyser Pratte]]<ref>[http://www.theirc.org/board-and-overseers IRC Board of Directors and Overseers], International Rescue Committee, accessed 24 February 2010.</ref>
 ==Contact==

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 *[[David Martin (International Rescue Committee)|David Martin]] 1949-1952<ref name="Chester244">Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.244.</ref>
 *[[Abraham Becker]]1952-<ref name="Chester117">Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.117.</ref>
 ===Other historic board members===
 [[Matthew Woll]] | [[Victor Reuther]]<ref name="Chester60">Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.60 .</ref> | [[Albert Jolis]] | [[Arthur Schlesinger Jr.]] | [[Sumner Welles]] | [[Adolf Berle]]<ref name="Chester61">Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.61.</ref> [[William Donovan]]<ref name="Chester242">Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.</ref> |[[Christopher Emmet]]<ref name="Chester242">Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.</ref> | [[Richard Salzmann]]<ref name="Chester245">Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.245.</ref>
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 ==External Resources==
 *RightWeb [http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/articles/display/International_Rescue_Committee_Inc International Rescue Committee, Inc.]
 ===Reading===
 *Eric Thomas Chester ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'',  M.E. Sharpe (31 Aug 1995) ISBN-10: 1563245507 ISBN-13: 978-1563245503

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−	The [[International Rescue Committee]] was founded in 1942 to assist social democratic refugees from Europe. During the Cold War it became increasingly integrated into the US foreign policy establishment.<ref name="Chester249>Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.249.</ref>	+	The [[International Rescue Committee]] (IRC) was founded in 1942 to assist social democratic refugees from Europe. During the Cold War it became increasingly integrated into the US foreign policy establishment.<ref name="Chester249>Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.249.</ref>
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		+	It grew into a major international aid agency, active in more than 40 countries, with $390 million in operating revenues in 2012.<ref name="Kumar290313">Nikhil Kumar, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/david-milibands-new-world-from-westminster-to-the-international-rescue-committee-in-new-york-8554177.html David Miliband's new world: From Westminster to the International Rescue Committee in New York], ''The Independent'', 29 March 2013.</ref>
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		+	In 1988, IRC executive director [[Robert DeVecchi]], stated: "It is... inaccurate to characterize IRC's operation as having `historically reflected the interests and directions of foreign policy. ' IRC establishes and follows its own policy directions which may or may not coincide with U.S. foreign policy objectives. It is immaterial to us whether they do or not."<ref>Letter from Robert P. DeVecchi, exec dir IRC, Dec 6, 1988, quoted in [http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/articles/display/International_Rescue_Committee_Inc International Rescue Committee, Inc.], ''RightWeb'', 11 January 1989, accessed 30 March 2013.</ref>
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		+	A 2011 organisation report on the IRC by non-profit consultancy Root Cause found that 44 per cent of its funding came from the US government, 27 percent from other governments, 11 per cent from the UN, and 14 per cent from private sources.<ref>[http://rootcause.org/documents/DR-IRC.pdf International Rescue Committee], Root Cause, June 2011.</ref>

	==History==		==History==

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 ====Chairs====
 *[[Frank Kingdon]] 1942<ref name="Chester18">Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.18.</ref>
-*[[Reinhold Neibuhr]] 1952<ref name="Chester245">Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.245.</ref>
+*[[Reinhold Niebuhr]] 1952<ref name="Chester245">Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.245.</ref>
 *[[Leo Cherne]] 1952-1991<ref name="Chester241">Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.241.</ref>
 *[[John Whitehead]] 1991-<ref name="Chester246">Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.246.</ref>

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 ===El Salvador===
 The IRC began a relief programme in El Salvador in 1984, following the election of the pro-American Christian Democrat [[José Napoléon Duarte]]. The programme was turned over to a local provider after the negotiation of a ceasefire in the country in 1992.<ref name="Chester190">Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.190.</ref>
 ===Iraq===