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People (13)

  • Bernard L. Schwartz Loral's chairman through the 1996 Long March failure and the 1998 Chinasat-8 waiver, Schwartz gave heavily to Democratic committees and endowed programs at the New School and think tanks.
  • Bob Kerrey Former Navy SEAL, Nebraska governor and senator, co-chair of the 2000 National Commission for the Review of the National Reconnaissance Office, 9/11 Commission member and New School president, linked to the 1969 Thanh Phong killings.
  • Dorothy Payne Whitney Dorothy Payne Whitney, a Whitney heiress, helped found The New Republic, pledged $10,000 a year for ten years to the New School for Social Research, and later developed Dartington Hall with Leonard Elmhirst.
  • Ernst Kris Viennese art historian and psychoanalyst who built the BBC's analysis of German radio in 1939 and 1940 and co-directed the New School's Research Project on Totalitarian Communication.
  • Frank Haronian Frank J. Haronian Jr. (1922-1994) was a New Jersey clinical psychologist, a New School Ph.D. (1963), and the investigator of MKULTRA Subproject 134, a 1961 physique study financed by the CIA.
  • Gilbert Roller Gilbert Roller, a New York television and film producer, was a founding sitter of the teenage Bindelof séance circle and taught a paramechanics course at the New School in 1975.
  • Hans Speier German-American sociologist who analyzed Nazi radio at the New School, ran German analysis at the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, and from 1948 to 1960 directed the Social Science Division of the RAND Corporation.
  • Kurt Riezler German diplomat and adviser to Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg, head of the Russian section at Stockholm in 1917, acting head of the Moscow mission after the Mirbach assassination, and New School professor from 1939.
  • Martin Ebon Martin Ebon, a wartime and Voice of America information officer, became administrative secretary of the Parapsychology Foundation and wrote Psychic Warfare (1983).
  • Max Ascoli Italian anti-fascist exile, dean of the New School's Graduate Faculty (1940), president of the Mazzini Society, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs official, and editor and co-owner of The Reporter (1949 to 1968).
  • Philip Scaturro Allen and Company executive vice president and managing director who was a New School trustee from 1989, treasurer, chancellor from 1999 to 2002 and board chairman from 2002 to 2008.
  • Robert M. Brier Robert M. Brier was a research fellow at the Institute for Parapsychology, later a philosophy professor at C.W. Post College, and then an Egyptologist at the Webb Institute.
  • Wilhelm Reich Austrian-born psychoanalyst who taught at the New School in 1939 to 1941, was detained as an enemy alien in 1941, enjoined by the FDA in 1954 and died in Lewisburg penitentiary in 1957.

Organizations (4)

  • Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service The Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service was the United States government's radio monitoring and analysis service, created inside the Federal Communications Commission in 1941 and whose expertise was carried into the Open Source Center in 2005.
  • Institute of World Affairs A research unit of the New School for Social Research from 1943 to 1953 that produced government-commissioned postwar studies, funded in part through Doris Duke's Independent Aid.
  • New School for Social Research A private New York City university founded in 1919 by Columbia professors who left over the First World War, whose University in Exile sheltered German scholars and whose wartime faculty entered government propaganda work.
  • Office of War Information The Office of War Information was the federal propaganda and information agency created by Executive Order 9182 in June 1942 and abolished in December 1945, its foreign functions passing to the State Department.

Programs (1)

  • Research Project on Totalitarian Communication Rockefeller-funded wartime study of Nazi radio propaganda at the New School's Graduate Faculty, run by Ernst Kris and Hans Speier from April 1941 with BBC monitoring material, whose papers went to Washington, London and Ottawa.