- Source: National Committee for a Free Europe
The National Committee for a Free Europe, later known as Free Europe Committee, was an anti-communist Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) front organization, founded on June 1, 1949, in New York City, which worked for the spreading of NATO influence in Eastern Europe and to covertly destabilize Soviet Bloc countries.
History
The committee was founded by Allen Dulles, later to be Director of Central Intelligence, in conjunction with DeWitt Clinton Poole. Early board members included Dwight Eisenhower, Lucius D. Clay, Cecil B. DeMille, Henry Luce, Mark Ethridge, Charles Phelps Taft II and DeWitt Wallace. From 1951 to 1952, Charles Douglas Jackson served as its president. The organization created and oversaw the anti-communist broadcast service Radio Free Europe. CIA subsidies to the Free Europe Committee ended in 1971 which caused restructuring to its operations.
The Free Europe Committee sent balloons with leaflets from West Germany to the Eastern Bloc countries. Each balloon was able to drop 100,000 leaflets.
See also
American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia
Balloon campaigns in Korea, for similar balloon-and-leaflet campaigning by South Korean NGOs.
Brutus Coste
Crusade for Freedom
"Free Albania" National Committee
Committee for a Free Lithuania
References
External links
The Soviet Peace Myth by Leon Dennen, published by the NCFE
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Uni Eropa
- Badan Intelijen Pusat
- Republik Armenia (1918-1920)
- Kondroitin
- Pendidikan sains
- Pertanian organik
- Pangan rekayasa genetika
- Kekerasan terhadap perempuan
- Olimpiade
- National Committee for a Free Europe
- Free Albania National Committee
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Committee for a Free Lithuania
- Peter Yarrow
- Crusade for Freedom
- List of international radio broadcasters
- Romanian National Committee (1948)
- Free Software Foundation Europe
- European Free Alliance
