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DeWitt Poole person

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DeWitt Poole member_of National Committee for a Free Europe host_asserted
“He was the senior diplomat in Moscow at the time of the Russian Civil War. In June of 49, Grew and Poole set up a National Committee for Free Europe. It's a CIA front. Allen Dulles became its chairman and executive committee, chairman of th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 29:11

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The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2
▶ 19:13 Secretary of State Dean Atkinson also discussed the topic informally in the late 1948, early 1949, with several American diplomats, among them Joseph Grew, G-R-E-W, who in turn talked about it with DeWitt Poole, P-O-O-L-E. Both were OSS ass…
The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2
▶ 19:42 And Poole had actually been in Moscow during the Russian Civil War. So Grew and Poole proceeded to establish what was referred to as the National Committee for a Free Europe. It is basically a CIA front. They set it up in 1949, and Alan Dul…
The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2
▶ 22:11 for the people of the Soviet Union. Its broadcast station later became known as Radio Liberty. Its principal person or executive was called Franklin A. Lindsay, L-I-N-D-S-A-Y, who also was a CIA asset and represented the CIA on a joint comm…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4)
▶ 28:41 Inception, Alan Dulles, who continued his lunches with Wisner and was soon asked by President Truman to participate in an outside review. Among the people that were part of this was retired Ambassador Joseph Grew, who in turn contacted DeWi…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4)
▶ 29:11 He was the senior diplomat in Moscow at the time of the Russian Civil War. In June of 49, Grew and Poole set up a National Committee for Free Europe. It's a CIA front. Allen Dulles became its chairman and executive committee, chairman of th…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6
▶ 14:39 G-R-E-W, and then the next one was a former diplomat to the Soviet Union, DeWitt Clinton Poole, P-O-O-L-E, Lazard Ferraris, F-R-E-R-E-S, who was the New York chief and later General American Investor Company chairman, Frank Alschlod.…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6
▶ 18:48 and quote-unquote non-profit foundations, and last but not least, the CIA. Soon after its foundation, the FEC began to bargain about the size and regularity of the meetings and the contributions that these entities needed to make. Exile lea…