Russell H. McKinney

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Russell H. McKinney (born May 28, 1929 in New York City ) is a retired American journalist and diplomat .

Life

Russell H. McKinney received his Bachelor of Arts in Russian Studies from Yale University in 1950 .

From 1951 to 1953 he was employed in the US Army as Refugee resettlement field director . In 1951 Eugene Lyons and William J. Casey founded the American Friends of Russian Freedom to disseminate operational information . The name was borrowed from The Society of Friends of Russian Freedom , which carried out public relations work against the Tsarist Empire in 1880 and 1905 . The aim of the American Friends of Russian Freedom was to induce Red Army soldiers , especially in Berlin, to desert . McKinney was fromAmerican Friends of Russian Freedom worked as a journalist and was accredited as US Vice-Consul in Munich , where he headed Radio Free Europe from 1955 to 1962 . In September 1959 when Nikita Sergejewitsch Khrushchev visited the USA, McKinney accompanied him. When Radio Free Europe broadcast a speech by Khrushchev, the Soviet jammers stopped working. Radio Free Europe also broadcast the shoe-knocking speech of October 12, 1960 at UN headquarters . On June 21 and 22, 1962, after listening to balalaika music , McKinney was beaten with rubber truncheons by the Munich city police as part of the Schwabing riots .

From 1963 to 1964 Russell McKinney was in Léopoldville spokesman for the US embassy under Edmund Asbury Gullion . In 1964, Simba rebels carried out a massacre in Stanleyville , kidnapped Martin Bormann junior and thus gave rise to Operation Dragon Rouge and Dragon Noir .

From 1964 to 1967 he was a public relations officer for the United States Information Agency , directed documentaries and edited the magazine Topic . In 1966 he traveled through Africa.

From 1967 to 1969 he worked for the United States Information Agency , the Voice of America at the Europe Department which broadcast a radio program in Russian for the hemisphere of the Soviet Union . During this time the Prague Spring fell .

From 1969 to 1971 he was accredited as a cultural attaché at the US embassy in Moscow . Since 1959, the cultural program of the US Embassy in the Soviet Union has included thematically and locally changing exhibitions called the American Exhibit . McKinney supervised such a traveling exhibition on the subject of education in the USA . At the request of the Soviet State Department , the United States Department of State dismissed the Cultural Attaché McKinney.

From 1971 to 1975 he was a Public Affairs officer (PAO) at the US Embassy in Bonn .

From 1975 to 1976 he reported on the effects of the Yom Kippur War on Japan in the context of training events .

From 1976 to 1978 he was deputy director of the film department for television companies, the United States Information Agency .

From 1978 to 1982 he was a Public Affairs officer at the US Embassy in Brasília .

From 1982 to 1985 he was a public affairs officer at the US embassy in Madrid, overseeing the local Fulbright program . The political issues in Spain included the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación and the dispute over a referendum on Spain's remaining in NATO .

From 1985 to 1987 he studied Mandarin Chinese at the Foreign Service Institute in Taiwan .

From 1987 to 1991 he was accredited as a cultural attaché at the US embassy in Beijing under Winston Lord and James R. Lilley and was in charge of the US cultural centers. During this time the Tian'anmen massacre took place.

From 1991 to 1993 he was employed in the human resources department of the United States Information Agency .

In 1993 he attended the Fletcher School where he taught in 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carnes Lord, Frank R. Barnett, Political warfare and psychological operations: rethinking the US approach
  2. ↑ Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv , MJu 24031, dismissal order from the public prosecutor's office at the Munich Regional Court I dated October 29, 1962.
  3. ↑ This exhibit toured six major cities - Leningrad, Kiev, Moscow, Baku, Tashkent, and Novosibirsk. This was the first American exhibit to tour a Siberian city. Attracting nearly a million visitors, the exhibition portrayed the techniques and technologies - provided by various private sector educational resources - used in the American educational system. Http://www.state.gov/p/eur/ci/rs/c26473.htm
  4. ^ Mike Chinoy, China live: people power and the television revolution
  5. ^ The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, Russell, McKinney
personal data
SURNAME McKinney, Russell H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City