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[[Walter Winchell]] was a US newspaper and radio columnist.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1998, p.202.</ref>

==British Security Co-ordination==
During the early years of World War Two, Winchell worked closely with [[British Security Coordination]] and his column was largely written by BSC agent [[Ernest Cuneo]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1998, p.202.</ref>

Cuneo wrote of his relationship with Winchell:
::"... I controlled the world's largest newspaper and radio circulation, centering on Walter Winchell and his near 1,000 papers and the only near approach was [[Drew Pearson]]'s Washington Merry-Go-Round."<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1998, p.49.</ref>

==Jay Lovestone==
[[Jay Lovestone]] used Winchell as an outlet for material from his anti-communist network, although he was not always satisfied with Winchell's use of it. In 1946, Lovestone wrote to [[Ben Mandel]]:
::He complains that some of the stuff I gave him would make people believe Hitler was right about Stalin. The dope does not see that Hitler was right about Stalin in many ways.<ref>Quoted in Ted Morgan, A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone, Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.146.</ref>

A Winchell radio broadcast on 23 February 1954, featured a Lovestone-inspired story attacking Assistant Secretary of Labour [[Spencer Miller]], who had been denouncing Lovestone to the [[FBI]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone, Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.237.</ref>

==External Resources==
*Namebase [http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Winchell,+Walter Winchell Walter]

==Notes==
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[[Category:British Propaganda|Winchell, Walter]]

Walter Winchell - Revision history

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