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  IRC | The Life of IRC Chairman Leo Cherne
Leo Cherne visits an IRC clinic for Vietnamese refugee children in Cambodia in 1978.
Cherne was a consultant to General Douglas MacArthur in Japan, served as chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board and served as an advisor to nine presidents.
Cherne was chairman of the board of directors of the IRC from 1951 to 1991.
www.theirc.org /media/www/the_life_of_irc_chairman_leo_cherne.html   (340 words)

  
  Leo Carrillo - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Leo Carrillo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Leo Carrillo, born August 6, 1880 in Los Angeles, California - died September 10, 1961 in Santa Monica, California, was an actor and conservationist.
As a result of his service to the State, the Leo Carrillo State Park, west of Malibu on the Pacific Coast Highway, was named in his honor, And the city of Westminster, California named an elementary school for him.
Leo Carrillo died of cancer in 1961 and was interred in the Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery in Santa Monica.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Leo-Carrillo.html   (422 words)

  
 The Future
Cherne, leading expert in the new science of prediction based on patters of action, has been uncannily right in the past.
Cherne and his organization--which spends,000,000 annually researching the facts of yesterday and today for projection into the future--to predict what life will be like in 1965.
Cherne hopes he's wrong, there is currently no sign of any carefully planned, borad-scale national highway improvement progress that will be both adequate and acceptable to Congress.
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 Leo Cherne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Leo Cherne (1912–1999) was born in the Bronx, New York.
Cherne also served many Presidents, from Roosevelt to Bush, in a variety of capacities, including memberships on the U.S. Select Committee for Western Hemisphere Immigration and the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs, as well as his activities on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) and the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB).
Rescuing the World: The Life and Times of Leo Cherne by Andrew F. Smith and Henry A. Kissinger, is a biography of Leo Cherne.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leo_Cherne   (158 words)

  
 Leo Cherne -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Leo Cherne (1912–1999) was born in the (A borough of New York City) Bronx, (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York.
He was awarded the (additional info and facts about Presidential Medal of Freedom) Presidential Medal of Freedom by (The chief executive of a republic) President (40th President of the United States (1911-)) Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Rescuing the World: The Life and Times of Leo Cherne by Andrew F. Smith and Henry A. Kissinger, is a (An account of the series of events making up a person's life) biography of Leo Cherne.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leo_cherne.htm   (126 words)

  
 Welcome to Freedom House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Leo Cherne, one of America's most important humanitarian activists in the years of the Cold War, took quite a different view of collaboration with democratic governments.
True, Cherne (who died in 1999) fiercely defended the independence of his own group, the International Rescue Committee, but he was really the quintessential American insider.
Cherne, the son of Moldovan Jews, founded one of the first companies to produce economic and tax analysis (the Research Institute of America) before establishing the rescue committee.
www.freedomhouse.org /media/110502wsj.htm   (786 words)

  
 mhp: CIA Director (part 1)
Leo Cherne is not a household word, but he has been a powerful figure in the U.S. intelligence community over the period since World War II.
Cherne's IRC was clearly a conduit for neo-Bukharinite operations between east and west in the Cold War, and it was also reputedly a CIA front organization.
Cherne was a raving hawk during the Vietnam war, when he was associated with the as yet unreconstructed Kissinger clone Morton Halperin in the American Friends of Vietnam.
www.modernhistoryproject.org /mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=BushCh15-1   (9126 words)

  
 National Review: OBITUARY - Leo Cherne - Brief Article - Obituary
Leo Cherne, R.I.P. Leo Cherne, who died on January 12, was one of the toughest things ever to hit the Soviet enterprise.
Leo Cherne was a no- nonsense anti-Communist, but his concern for victims of totalitarian enterprises was comprehensive.
In l982 I closed an otherwise jocular introduction by saying, "Leo Cherne may be embarrassed at the injunction that he look back on his life, and take the satisfaction that is his due.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_2_51/ai_53662228   (468 words)

  
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Cherne and the members of both Boards were paid as citizen consultants on a per diem basis, and permitted to work only so many days per year.
Cherne's interest in the collection of economic intelligence is evident in several special instances.
Cherne has donated to the United States of America his copyright interest in any other of his writings that might be included in this collection.
www.ibiblio.org /lia/president/FordLibrary/presnet/cherne_l_c226   (3126 words)

  
 Saving the World One Refugee at a Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Two years before he died in 1999 at the age of 88, Leo Cherne told a friend he wanted to be "remembered as a cold warrior." He probably will be.
Here Cherne developed the pattern of action for which he became noted, the cultivation of a wide circle of influential friends in business and government.
Cherne cherished the Medal of Freedom that Reagan had given him, as he did his medal from the Central Intelligence Agency for distinguished service.
web.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2003/01/24/110.html   (764 words)

  
 Reviews - Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley
In Dooley, Leo Cherne, director of the IRC and Harold Oram saw a Catholic superstar who appeared to combine on the one hand, a devotional Catholicism which linked him to traditional sources of Catholic piety yet also reflected a "newer" Catholic internationalist spirit.
Cherne told Casey biographer, Joseph E. Persico, that his understudy was "to the right of Attila the Hun...one hundred per cent for Franco and one hundred per cent against the Loyalists.
Cherne would accomplish this as a seasoned pro within the sector of humanitarian aid projects, while Dooley would do this by his "pretty brilliance" as Catholic folk hero.
www.culturewars.com /CultureWars/Archives/cw_feb98/Dooley.html   (3157 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Rescuing the World: The Life and Times of Leo Cherne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The name Leo Cherne is not universally known, but though he was never elected to public office, the man was enormously influential.
Cherne was born in 1912 of first generation Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.
Cherne was able to unite diverse talents to support the aims of his International Rescue Committee, and through the book wander helpful volunteers like Rock Hudson, Liv Ullmann, and Joan Baez.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0791453790   (784 words)

  
 SUNY Press :: Rescuing the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
He was born in the Bronx to a poor, immigrant, Jewish family, and yet rose to the heights of economic and political power in WASP America.
He was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984 by Ronald Reagan, who proclaimed that although never elected to governmental office, Leo Cherne had more influence on American foreign policy than most elected officials.
Leo Cherne was surely one of those ten just men." - from the Foreword by Henry A. Kissinger.
www.sunypress.edu /details.asp?id=60570   (503 words)

  
 Mar 26   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Leo, an enormously successful lawyer, economist, and businessman, had become chairman of the IRC in 1951 (after joining the board of directors in 1946).
Under Leo's stewardship, the IRC grew into the largest refugee relief and resettlement organization in the world.
Leo co-founded the Research Institute of America in 1936; it grew out of his efforts to advise businessmen on how to comply with the new Social Security law.
www.eureka.edu /emp/jrodrig/otdieh/mar26.htm   (432 words)

  
 Leo Cherne - RIA
Leo Cherne demonstrated that one person can make a world-wide political and humanitarian difference.
While Cherne was never elected to governmental office, he had more influence on American foreign policy than did most elected officials, or so President Ronald Reagan proclaimed when he gave Cherne the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Leo Cherne was an intelligent, creative, talented man who exuded confidence and charisma.
ria.thomson.com /70years/cherne.asp   (326 words)

  
 OBITUARY - Leo Cherne - Brief Article - Obituary National Review - Find Articles
Leo Cherne, R.I.P. Leo Cherne, who died on January 12, was one of the toughest things ever to hit the Soviet enterprise.
Leo Cherne was a no- nonsense anti-Communist, but his concern for victims of totalitarian enterprises was comprehensive.
In l982 I closed an otherwise jocular introduction by saying, "Leo Cherne may be embarrassed at the injunction that he look back on his life, and take the satisfaction that is his due.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_2_51/ai_53662228   (418 words)

  
 More about bio
While Cherne was never elected to governmental office, he had more influence on American foreign policy than did most elected officials, or so President Ronald Reagan proclaimed when he gave Cherne the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Leo Cherne was an intelligent, creative, talented man who exuded confidence and charisma.
When I first met him, the eighty-six year old Cherne was physically immobile, had difficulty seeing and hearing, and was suffering from a host of medical complications; I’m sure he was in pain.
www.andrewfsmith.com /Biographies/more_about_bio.htm   (1173 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Rescuing the World: The Life and Times of Leo Cherne: Books: Andrew F. Smith,Henry Kissinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The name Leo Cherne is not universally known, but though he was never elected to public office, the man was enormously influential.
Cherne was sufficiently busy in the public sphere to make this first attempt a valuable chronicle.
Cherne was able to unite diverse talents to support the aims of his International Rescue Committee, and through the book wander helpful volunteers like Rock Hudson, Liv Ullmann, and Joan Baez.
www.amazon.com /Rescuing-World-Life-Times-Cherne/dp/0791453790   (1364 words)

  
 IRC | Former Chairman of IRC, Leo Cherne, dies in New York
Former Chairman of IRC, Leo Cherne, dies in New York
Leo Cherne, who died in New York on January 12, 1999, was the driving force behind the International Rescue Committee for 40 years.
Under his direction, the IRC became, in the words of the New York Times, "the largest agency in the world for the relief and resettlement of refugees."
www.theirc.org /news/former_chairman_of_irc_leo_cherne_dies_in_new_york.html   (422 words)

  
 Biographies
Leo Cherne demonstrated that one person can make a world-wide political and humanitarian difference.
Born in the Bronx into a poor, immigrant, secular-Jewish family, Cherne rose to the pinnacle of economic and political power in WASP America.
When Cherne died in January 1999, his memorial service was attended by Henry A. Kissinger, Liv Ullmann, Henry Denker, and many other prominent Americans.
www.andrewfsmith.com /Biographies.htm   (214 words)

  
 Osama bin Laden and the Israeli spy scandal
Cherne coordinated his activities with Vice President George Bush I, who was placed in charge of the U.S. government side of the operation under National Security Decision Directive-3, signed by President Reagan in 1982.
Cherne’s IRC offices, meanwhile, were staffed mostly by members of Gulbuddin Hekmatyr’s Hezb-i-Islami (Party of Islam), which controlled the largest share of opium and heroin production in Afghanistan.
AAUK activities, which were key in the mujahideen war effort, were coordinated with Radio Free Kabul, which was established at the beginning of the war by Lord Nicholas Bethell, and run out of Coutts and Co., the private banker to Queen Elizabeth II.
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 IRC | History of the International Rescue Committee
Leo Cherne, a board member since 1946, elected IRC Chairman, a position he would hold for 40 years.
The IRC begins emergency relief, medical, educational and self-help programs for Indochinese refugees fleeing to Thailand, later to include thousands from Burma.
IRC President Leo Cherne organizes the Citizens Commission on Indochinese Refugees, comprising a cross-section of America's political, cultural and religious leaders.
www.theirc.org /about/history.html   (1458 words)

  
 Unauthorized Biography of George Bush - David Icke E~Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Cherne was for declassifying whatever could be declassified, a bureaucratic posture that could not go wrong.
Cherne thought that the "Pike Commission has a poor staff, issued a dreadful final report, but it did in the course of its inquiry ask the right questions." These, Cherne told Bush, should be answered.
The increasingly complicit relationship of Cherne to Bush meant that all alleged oversight by the IOB was a mockery.
www.hiddenmysteries.com /freebook/bush/bush15.html   (18508 words)

  
 Leo Cherne - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Leo Cherne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Leo Cherne - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Leo Cherne.
Here you will find more informations about Leo Cherne.
The orginal Leo Cherne article can be editet
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 Jan 12
It was on this date in 1999 that Leo Cherne died.
The following passage about Leo Cherne is taken from the eulogy that Daniel Patrick Moynihan delivered on the floor of the United States Senate:
To close, I leave you with a wonderful Leo Cherne quote "The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid.
www.eureka.edu /emp/jrodrig/otdieh/jan12.htm   (762 words)

  
 Rescuing the World: The Life and Times of Leo Cherne
Without formal training, Cherne also became a successful sculptor and his works have graced the Cabinet Room in the White House, the Smithsonian Institution, and numerous museums.
A consummate networker, Cherne had the uncanny ability to attract and cultivate talented people before they became prominent, including such figures as John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Patrick Moynihan, Claiborne Pell, Tom Dooley, William Casey, John Whitehead, and Henry A. Kissinger.
Although he was a successful entrepreneur, Cherne's real love was humanitarian work, particularly with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), which he chaired for forty years.
www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn0791453790   (450 words)

  
 Why the Democratic Party Failed To Function in This Crisis
William Galston, senior advisor to the DLC, is a leading American follower of fascist Leo Strauss, and a specialist in Strauss' attack on Plato's doctrine of truth.
This Cherne was Moynihan's close associate and former employer, and a government intelligence advisor.
Cherne and Henry Kissinger had jointly activated an FBI harassment onslaught versus LaRouche on false "national security" grounds, following LaRouche's meeting and collaboration with the President of Mexico José López Portillo for an anti-imperial banking program.
www.larouchepub.com /pr/site_packages/2003/leo_strauss/3015why_dems_failed_ahc.html   (4794 words)

  
 Buy.com - Rescuing the World: The Life and Times of Leo Cherne : Andrew F. Smith : ISBN 9780791453797   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Leo Cherne's life brimmed with paradox and improbability.
He was born in the Bronx to a poor, immigrant, Jewish family, and yet rose to the heights of economic and political power in WASP America.
A successful entrepreneur and an unofficial advisor to nine presidents, he nevertheless devoted the majority of his time to humanitarian causes, particularly the International Rescue Committee, which he chaired for forty years.
www.buy.com /prod/rescuing-the-world-the-life-and-times-of-leo-cherne/q/loc/106/31005545.html   (316 words)

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