Leo Cherne

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Leo Cherne (born September 8, 1912 in the Bronx , New York City , † January 12, 1999 in Mount Sinai Hospital (New York) ) was an American management consultant and chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board of George HW Bush .

Life

His parents were the Russian immigrants Dora and Max Cherne. The father ran a photo studio in the Bronx. Leo Cherne studied at the New York Law School in 1935 . In 1935 he moved with the Bible seller Carl Hovgard Counselor on US Social Security and developed the business consultant Research Institute of America . Cherne was chairman of the executive board of the US government-funded non -governmental organization Freedom House . With the International Rescue Committee he was active in the Hungarian uprising . Ngô Đình Diệmhe attested the highest qualities as a hero and statesman at a dinner on his visit to the USA in 1957. Cherne was a close friend of Henry Kissinger , William Joseph Casey and was a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board from 1973 to 1991 and was a chairman of the HW Bush administration .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. http://openlibrary.org/a/OL123371A/Research_Institute_of_America_inc .
  2. ^ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert network: progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA, p. 133
  3. ^ Andrew F. Smith, Rescuing the world: the life and times of Leo Cherne
  4. ^ The New York Times , January 14, 1999, Leo Cherne, Leader of Agency For Refugees, Is Dead at 86
  5. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)