Difference between revisions of "National Committee for a Free Europe"
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==People== | ==People== | ||
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| + | *[[Allen Dulles]] <ref>{{cite book | ||
| + | |title=War of the Black Heavens | ||
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| + | |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> | ||
*Admiral Harold B. Miller <ref>{{cite news | *Admiral Harold B. Miller <ref>{{cite news | ||
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*[[Whitney Hart Shepardson]] (1953 - 1956) | *[[Whitney Hart Shepardson]] (1953 - 1956) | ||
===Members=== | ===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=== | ===Staff=== | ||
*[[DeWitt Poole]] - Executive Secretary | *[[DeWitt Poole]] - Executive Secretary | ||
Revision as of 13:28, 19 February 2011
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.[1]
Contents
People
Presidents
- Allen Dulles [2]
- Admiral Harold B. Miller [3]
- Charles Douglas Jackson (1951 - 1952)
- Whitney Hart Shepardson (1953 - 1956)
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
Subsidiaries
Notes
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.87.
- ↑ Syracuse University Press (2003) War of the Black Heavens. Syracuse University Press. pp. 41 . ISBN 0815604793. "Dulles was briefly the first president of the Free Europe Committee"
- ↑ Harold Miller, 89, Navy Publicist; Launched Planes From Dirigibles. May 18, 1992. New York Times "He also was director of the Congressional Aviation Policy Board and president of the National Committee for Free Europe."
