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- ↑ Weiner, Tim: "Legacy of Ashes", page 36. Doubleday, 2007.
- ↑ Shipkov, Michael (1950). Breakdown. National Committee for a Free Europe, Inc. p. Inside Front Cover.
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- ↑ A Look Back… The National Committee for Free Europe, 1949
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