National Committee for a Free Europe

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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

1 People
2 Affiliations
- 2.1 Subsidiaries
3 Notes
4 External links

People

Presidents

Admiral Harold B. Miller^[2]
Charles Douglas Jackson (1951 - 1952)
Whitney Hart Shepardson (1953 - 1956)

Members

Allen Dulles | 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

Central Intelligence Agency

Subsidiaries

Notes

↑ Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.87.
↑ Two-day World Affairs Forum Will Open Here Today .. May 14, 1952. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

External links

An Urgent Whisper: Radio Free Europe Begins Broadcasting

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