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'''Michael Josselson''', is born 2 March 1908 in [[Tartu]] ([[Estonia|Estonie]]) and died on 7 January 1978 in [[Geneva]] ([[Switzerland]]), was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent. |
'''Michael Josselson''', is born 2 March 1908 in [[Tartu]] ([[Estonia|Estonie]]) and died on 7 January 1978 in [[Geneva]] ([[Switzerland]]), was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00064|title=Michael Josselson: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center|website=norman.hrc.utexas.edu|access-date=2016-11-26}}</ref> |
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== Biographie == |
== Biographie == |
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Revision as of 15:22, 26 November 2016
Michael Josselson, is born 2 March 1908 in Tartu (Estonie) and died on 7 January 1978 in Geneva (Switzerland), was a CIA agent. [1]
Biographie
Michael Josselson was born in a Jewish family in Estonia. Strongly opposed to the Bolsheviks, his family moved to Germany after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Josselson studied at the University of Berlin. After obtaining his diploma, he worked for the Gimbels stores becoming the representative of the firm in Paris. When Hitler came to power, Josselson left Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1937 with his French wife. He continues to work in New York for the firm Gimbels as manager of the European branches.
Michael Josselson joined the US Army during the Second World War. As he could speak four languages without the slightest accent, he was placed in the intelligence service. He was sent to Berlin with a team charged with conducting interrogations of German prisoners of war with the aim of sorting between the convicted Nazis and those who were not.
During the Cold War, Michael Josselson was commissioned by the CIA to set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom in 1950. Josselson recruited former communist intellectuals (André Malraux, Denis de Rougemont, Arthur Koestler, Franz Borkenau, Andre Gide, Raymond Aron, Bertrand Russell, Michael Polanyi, etc.) to lead an ideological kabbalah in Europe against the influence of Marxist ideas , In the name of freedom of expression. The book of Frances Stonor Saunders, Who leads the dance? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (Denoël, 2003) explains in detail the role of Michael Josselson in this propaganda operation.
In 1966, the New York Times, reveals that the Congress for Cultural Freedom receives funding from the CIA. In 1967, the magazines Ramparts and Saturday Evening Post investigated the CIA's funding of a number of anti-communist cultural associations. These reports were credited with a statement by a former CIA secret operations director admitting CIA funding and congressional operations. This revelation causes a great scandal and many departures of intellectuals from the Congress for Freedom.
At the end of his life, Michael Josselson devoted himself to the writing of a biography of General Michel Barclay de Tolly, General Winter, which was published posthumously in 1980.
Bibliographie
- Michael et Diana Josselson, Le Général Hiver, Champ libre, 1986.
- Frances Stonor Saunders, Qui mène la danse ? La CIA et la guerre froide culturelle, Denoël, 2003.
See also
References
- ^ "Michael Josselson: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center". norman.hrc.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-26.