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
People
Presidents
- Allen Dulles [2]
- Admiral Harold B. Miller [3]
- Dewitt Clinton Poole (1949 - 1951)[4]
- Charles Douglas Jackson (1951 - 1952)
- Whitney Hart Shepardson (1953 - 1956)
- General Willis D. Crittenberger
- Archibald Alexander
- John Richardson, Jr. (1961 - 1968)
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."
- ↑ Head of Committee For a Free Europe. January 19, 1951. New York Times
