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American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia

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The American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (ACLPR, AMCOMLIB), also known as the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism, was an American anti-communist organization founded in 1950[1] which worked for the abolition of the Soviet government.

The committee was a joint project of the State Department and the CIA via the Office of Policy Coordination. It was developed by George Kennan and Frank Wisner in 1950 and incorporated as a non-profit in 1951.[2] The first committee members were Eugene Lyons, William Henry Chamberlin, Time Inc. Vice-President Allen Grover, William L. White, and William Yandell Elliott,[2] with Lyons serving as chair.[3][4] It was a part of CIA project QKACTIVE.[5]

Mikola Abramchyk was the representative of a coordinating committee of organizations representing six non-Russian ethnic minorities (Ukrainians, Georgians, Azeris, North Caucasians, Armenians, and Belarusians), which was founded in Europe to represent non-Russian refugees willing to associate their activities with AMCOMLIB.[5]

ALCPR founded in 1953 the anti-communist broadcaster Radio Liberation, later known as Radio Liberty. It was based in Lampertheim in Hesse, Germany, and broadcast Russian-language programmes into the USSR while receiving funding from the U.S. Congress. Meanwhile, Soviet authorities attempted to jam their broadcasts. In 1973–1976, Radio Liberty was merged with Radio Free Europe, based in the English Garden in Munich. Following the Velvet Revolution in 1995, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) moved to Wenceslas Square in Prague.

It published its own quarterly Problems of the Peoples of the USSR (Munich; 1958–1966).

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  1. ^ Prados, John (2006). Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA. Ivan R. Dee. p. 48. ISBN 9781615780112.
  2. ^ a b Wisner, Frank (August 21, 1951), Office of Policy Coordination History of American Committee for Liberation
  3. ^ Eugene Lyons
  4. ^ Американский комитет освобождения от большевизма и советская эмиграция в Европе
  5. ^ a b "AMCOMLIB" (PDF). The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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