Covert Network

This book tells the story of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the largest nonsectarian refugee relief agency in the world. Founded in the 1930s by socialist militants, the IRC attracted the support of renowned progressives such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Norman Thomas, and Reinhold Niebuhr. But by the 1950s it had been absorbed into the American foreign policy establishment. Throughout the Cold War, the IRC was deeply involved in the volatile confrontations between the two superpowers and participated in an array of sensitive clandestine operations. The IRC thus evolved from a small organization of committed activists to a global operation functioning as one link in the CIA's covert network. Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Formative Years; Part 1 Covert Network; Chapter 3 From Kennan to Wisner; Chapter 4 Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberation; Chapter 5 Soviet Exiles; Chapter 6 The Ford Foundation; Part 2 The Committee and the Cold War in Europe; Chapter 7 Launching the Cold War; Chapter 8 The Munich Institute; Chapter 9 The Fighting Group and Its Allies; Chapter 10 Crisis and Cooptation; Chapter 11 Confrontation in Eastern Europe; Part 3 The Committee as a Global Operation; Chapter 12 Into the Vietnam Quagmire; Chapter 13 Selling the War; Chapter 14 From Cuba to the Present; Chapter 15 Conclusions;