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==People== | ==People== | ||
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| + | *[[Charles Douglas Jackson]] (1951 - 1952) | ||
| + | *[[Whitney Hart Shepardson]] (1953 - 1956) | ||
===Members=== | ===Members=== | ||
| − | *[[Allen Dulles]] | [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] | [[Henry Luce]] | [[Cecil B. DeMille]] | [[Lucius Clay]] | [[Gardner Cowles]] | [[Henry Ford II]] | [[Oveta Culp Hobby]] | [[Francis Spellman | + | *[[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=== | ===Staff=== | ||
*[[DeWitt Poole]] - Executive Secretary | *[[DeWitt Poole]] - Executive Secretary | ||
Revision as of 21:41, 18 February 2011
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]
People
Presidents
- 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
Subsidiaries
Notes
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.87.
