8. See, for example, Lewis Galantiere, “Memorandum for the Record,” 25 July 1956, 191.1, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Corporate Records, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (hereafter RFE/RL Papers).
9. Sig Mickelson,
10. Abbot Washburn, quoted in Grose,
11. “Free Europe, Inc., Operating Expenses by Divisions for the Year Ended June 30, 1952,” 189.5, RFE/RL Papers.
12. According to Spencer Phenix, a CIA “watchdog” on the Crusade board, Washburn was released only after the Agency had applied pressure on senior executives at General Mills. Spencer Phenix to Allen Dulles, 29 January 1951, 167.1, RFE/RL Papers.
13. Larry Tye,
14. See Daniel L. Lykins,
15. The influence on CIA front operations of public relations theory and advertising techniques would remain—indeed, Edward Bernays himself played an important role on behalf of his client the United Fruit Company in the Agency-engineered coup that took place in Guatemala in 1954—but it would never be as strong again as it had been in the case of the Crusade for Freedom, due to the relatively lower domestic profile of subsequent front organizations.
16. Mickelson,
17. Quoted in Nelson,
18. Scott Lucas,
19. Arch Puddington,
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20. NCFE press release, March 1950, 43.1, Dulles Papers. In December 1954, for example, NCFE officers met with representatives of the “Sponsor” in Washington to discuss, among other matters, membership of the Romanian National Council. The intelligence officers provided a list of nominees, carefully balanced so as to reflect all elements of political opinion in the Rumanian emigration. Lewis Galantiere, “Washington Meetings, December 9 and 10,” 13 December 1954, 190.12, RFE/RL Papers.
21. See Robert E. Terhaar to Brutus Coste, 1 September 1949, 26.1, Brutus Coste Papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
22. For a lively insider’s account of the Free Europe Press’s efforts to infiltrate western publications behind the Iron Curtain, see John P. C. Matthew, “The West’s Secret Marshall Plan for the Mind,”
23. Thomas,
24. See Mickelson,
25. Hixson,
26. For Lenin example, see Nelson,
27. Quoted in Lucas,
28. Hersh,
29. Hixson,
30. Quoted in Lucas,
31. See Nelson,
32. Puddington,
33. James Burnham to Levering Tyson, 27 February 1952, 9.2, James Burnham Papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. See also James Burnham to Levering Tyson, 17 August 1951, 9.2, Burnham Papers; C. D. Jackson to Levering Tyson, 20 September 1951, 9.2, Burnham Papers; James Burnham to A. A. Berle, Jr., 23 January 1952, 9.2, Burnham Papers.