National Committee for a Free Europe
The National Committee for a Free Europe, later known as Free Europe Committee, was an
Soviet Bloc
countries.
History
The committee was founded by
Dwight Eisenhower, Lucius D. Clay, Cecil B. DeMille, Henry Luce, Mark Ethridge, Charles Phelps Taft II and DeWitt Wallace.[2][3] From 1951 to 1952, Charles Douglas Jackson served as its president. The organization created and oversaw the anti-communist broadcast service Radio Free Europe.[4] CIA subsidies to the Free Europe Committee ended in 1971 which caused restructuring to its operations.[5]
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.[6]
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
- ISBN 9781615780112.
- ^ Weiner, Tim: "Legacy of Ashes", page 36. Doubleday, 2007.
- ^ Shipkov, Michael (1950). Breakdown. National Committee for a Free Europe, Inc. p. Inside Front Cover.
- ^ Mihail Bumbes - Un simbol: Europa Libera -Evenimentul Zilei Nr. 4989, 20 Februarie 2007
- ^ A Look Back… The National Committee for Free Europe, 1949
- ISSN 0032-4558.
External links
- The Soviet Peace Myth by Leon Dennen, published by the NCFE
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