Albert Jolis Diamond miner and foundation executive. Served in the Army OSS

OSS

-Science and technology:* Open-source software* Open Sound System, a standard interface for making and capturing sound in Unix operating systems* Open Search Server, search engine software...

 with William Casey under Bill Donavon during World War II.
Close friend of George Orwell

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist...

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After retiring, he helped to create the American Foundation For Resistance International and the National Council to Support the Democracy Movements along with Jeane Kirkpatick, Vladimir Bukovsky

Vladimir Bukovsky

Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky is a leading member of the dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s, writer, neurophysiologist, and political activist....

, Martin Colman, Richard Perle

Richard Perle

Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor, consultant, and lobbyist who began his career in government, a senior staff member to Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970’s...

, Midge Decter

Midge Decter

-Biography:Midge Rosenthal Decter was born on July 25, 1927 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She attended the University of Minnesota, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and New York University....

and others. These foundations became the organizations responsible for the democratic Revolutions that brought the demise of the Soviet Union and Communism in Eastern Europe.