American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia

The American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (ACLPR, AMCOMLIB), also known as the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism, was an American anti-communist organization founded in 1950^[1] which worked for the abolition of the Soviet government. It was a part of CIA project QKACTIVE.^[2]

The first chairman of AMCOMLIB was Eugene Lyons.^[3][4]

Mikola Abramchyk was the representative of a coordinating committee of organizations representing six non-Russian ethnic minorities (Ukrainians, Georgians, Azeris, North Caucasians, Armenians, and Belarusians), which was founded in Europe to represent non-Russian refugees willing to associate their activities with AMCOMLIB.^[2]

ALCPR founded in 1953 the anti-communist broadcaster Radio Liberation, later known as Radio Liberty. It was based in Lampertheim in Hesse, Germany, and broadcast Russian-language programmes into the USSR while receiving funding from the U.S. Congress. Meanwhile, Soviet authorities attempted to jam their broadcasts. In 1973–1976, Radio Liberty was merged with Radio Free Europe, based in the English Garden in Munich. Following the Velvet Revolution in 1995, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) moved to Wenceslas Square in Prague.

It published its own quarterly Problems of the Peoples of the USSR (Munich; 1958–1966).

See also

• Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, a committee of Russian anticommunists organized in Germany during World War II
• Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations

References

1. Prados, John (2006). Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA. Ivan R. Dee. p. 48. ISBN 9781615780112.
2. "AMCOMLIB" (PDF). The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
3. Eugene Lyons
4. Американский комитет освобождения от большевизма и советская эмиграция в Европе