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

  • Suzanne Labin chairman - an internationally-known author and journalist, holder of the Prix de la Liberte and expert on East European affairs.

Marquis de Valdeiglesins of Madrid.

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.