European Freedom Council

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The European Freedom Council was formed at a conference in Munich on June 30-July 2 1967, as a co-ordinating body for organisations fighting communism in Europe.[1]

According to Stephen Dorril, the European Freedom Council was a front for the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations.[2]

Executive Board - July 1967

  • Ole Bjorn Kraft President - former Foreign Minister of Denmark, former Vice-President of the European Council and of the Danish Parliament.
  • Yaroslav Stetzko Chairman - president of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations.
  • Ivan Matteo Lombardo Chairman - former Minister of Foreign Trade, and former General-Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party, and Vice-President of the Atlantic Treaty Association.
  • Theodor Oberlander - a member of the Christian Democratic Party and a former member of the German Federal Government with special responsibilities for refugee matters.
  • John Graham - editor of the Anglo-Ukrainian News and a member of the British Labor Party (sic).[3]

Information Committee - July 1967

Notes

  1. EUROPEAN FREEDOM COUNCIL FORMED AT MUNICH MEETING], Svoboda, the Ukrainian Weekly, 15 July 1967.
  2. Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2000, p.449.
  3. EUROPEAN FREEDOM COUNCIL FORMED AT MUNICH MEETING], Svoboda, the Ukrainian Weekly, 15 July 1967.