State Department Policy Planning Director George Kennan outlines, in a document for the National Security Council, the idea of a public committee, working closely with the US government, to sponsor various émigré activities
August 26, 1948
Memorandum of Conversation [Approved for Release, March 2009]
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CIA, State Department, Defense Department, and OPC officials discuss establishing a philanthropic organization to sponsor radio broadcasts and other activities of Eastern European émigrés.
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CIA Mandatory Declassification Review, C05458947, released March 2009. Obtained and contributed by A. Ross Johnson. Cited in his book 'Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty,' Ch.1, p. 13.
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2012-06-01
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