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Christopher Emmett (1900-1974) was a political journalist. he lived in Germany during Hitler's rise to power.[1]
World War Two
On his return to the United States he was involved in several organisations advocating intervention in Europe.[2] He worked closely with British Security Coordination (BSC) agent Sanford Griffith, and was vice-president of the BSC front France Forever.[3]
Cold War
After World War Two, according to Eric Thomas Chester, "he was involved in several anticommunist organisations, many of them linked to the covert network".[4] Thomas E. Mahl states that he worked on CIA and MI6 projects.[5]
In the early 1950s, he served on the board of the International Rescue Committee. He was also a central figure in the American Friends of Captive Nations.[6]
Affiliations
- Volunteer Christian Committee to Boycott Nazi Germany
- Committee to Aid Britain By Reciprocal Trade
- France Forever - Vice-President.
- American Irish Defence Association - Treasurer.
- Committee to Defend America By Aiding the Allies - Executive Committee.
- Committee Against Mass Expulsions
- Committee For a Fair Trial For Draja Mihailovich
- Committee For a Just Peace With Italy
- Common Cause
- American Council on Germany
- American Friends of Vietnam
- American Friends of the Captive Nations
Connections
- Robert Emmett Sherwood - Cousin.
Notes
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network, Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network, Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-1944, Brassey's, 1999, p.194.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network, Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-1944, Brassey's, 1999, p.40.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network, Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.
