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[[Christopher Emmett]] (1900-1974) was a political journalist. he lived in Germany during Hitler's rise to power.<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network, Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.</ref>
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[[Christopher Emmett]] (1900-1974) was a political journalist. He lived in Germany during Hitler's rise to power.<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network, Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.</ref>
  
 
==World War Two==
 
==World War Two==

Latest revision as of 16:37, 23 January 2012

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

Connections

Notes

  1. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network, Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.
  2. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network, Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.
  3. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-1944, Brassey's, 1999, p.194.
  4. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network, Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.
  5. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-1944, Brassey's, 1999, p.40.
  6. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network, Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.