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Contains 17 Results:

Correspondence A-B, 1947-1965

 Box — Box: 1, Folder: 1-17
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Apawamis Club, Julian Amery, Sherman Adams, T. Ault, French Ambassador to the United States Herve Alphand (review of Allen W. Dulles’ book “The Craft of Intelligence”), Mme. Nicole Alphand, Hoye Ammidon, W. Barney Arthur, Dillon Anderson, Edward J. Applewhite, A. G. Atwater, Mrs. Dean “Alice” Acheson, and the Atomic Energy Commission (an invitation for Wisner to witness an atomic test explosion.)

Dates: 1947-1965
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence

Charles F. Adams, 1962-1964

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Duck hunting, concern about Italy becoming vulnerable to communism, interest by Charles Adams in the Scope Company, and sorrow about the assassination of President Kennedy.

Dates: 1962-1964
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Richard Aldrich, 1955

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Planning meetings to brief John Cabot Lodge, United States Ambassador to Spain

Dates: 1955
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Louis Aletti, 1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Wisner seeks approval to represent Aletti’s business transactions in Senegal.

Dates: 1965
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Archibald S. Alexander, 1955-1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Archibald “Archie” Alexander retires as President of the Board of the Free Europe Committee, appointment of John Richardson, Jr. as the new president, and Alexander accepts a new position as Assistant Director for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Mention of Adlai Stevenson, Cord Meyer, Gordon Gray, and C. Tracy [Barnes]

Dates: 1955-1965
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Dinu C. Alim, 1952-1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Wisner helps Alim with his citizenship and protects his employment status when Alim became ill.

Dates: 1952-1954
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Joseph and Susan Alsop, 1951-1964

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents Alsop criticism of the New Leader attack on Robert Oppenheimer, untrustworthiness of Harvey Matusow, Wisner encourages Alsop to write about the improvements in South Vietnam and a piece on Britain, Libya and the Middle East. Selling of Alsop’s book about archaeology, “From the Silent Earth,” Tom Wolfe’s criticism of Norman Mailer’s book, and Wisner very upset about Morris West’s novel, “The Ambassador.” (Of interest is that Fritz Nolting, the ambassador of Vietnam in 1961 who supported Diem,...
Dates: 1951-1964
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Stewart Alsop, 1955-1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents Wisner wants to know Alsop’s opinion of Sol Stein’s book on “Harvey Matusow’s ‘False Witness.’” Mention of a serious leak of classified information, suggestions for Alsop’s article, “Hogwash,” Wisner criticism of The New York Times for not reporting on Senator Fulbright’s comments about Cuba, Wisner wants Samuel Pope Brewer to write an article for The Washington Post on Brazil (suggestion that Adolf Berle would write the article), and mention of Carlos Lacerda. Also includes letters with...
Dates: 1955-1965
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

James and Cecily Angleton, 1955-1964

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Angleton enjoys friendship with Gordon Gray, Wisner working with Angleton and [Charles J. V. Murphy] on a speech for [Tom H.] and Wisner recommendation of Angleton for membership in the 1925 F Street Club. Angleton mentions his orchid business.

Dates: 1955-1964
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Edward M. Ashcraft, 1956-1957

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Tribute for Richard Helms (listing of the agency duties of Richard Helms and his nickname, “Honeybucket Dick”), and a proposal that they invite Woodberry Forest schoolmate, and famous songwriter, John Mercer to compose a song for the occasion.

Dates: 1956-1957
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Correspondence B, 1947-1957

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents George H. Bookbinder, Edwin De T. Bechtel Esq., (Jack Maher, and Rumanians that Wisner helped including Stefan Dugaesesci, and Dinu Alim), mention of Draza Mihailovic, Charles D. G Breckinridge, Bellevue Medical Center Fund, Andrew H. Berding, David and Evangeline Bruce, William S. Boyd, Charles F. Bound (about Richard Millett), T. Munford Boyd (about Jack Rorimor), Chester Bowles, Pierre Boursicot, Richard M. Bissell, John A. Bross, George E. Brewer, Jr., (nuclear weapons-Soviet Union), J....
Dates: 1947-1957
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Correspondence B, 1958-1959

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents Herbert Block (Wisner outraged at the secret trials and executions of Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter during the Hungarian revolution and wants Block to draw cartoons about Kruschnev covered in blood and guilt), David K. Bruce, Joseph and Katherine Bryan III, Norborne Berkeley (nominations for UVA presidency), John Block, Katharine D. Bond, Jack Miller, Samuel R. Milbank, Oakley Brooks, Thomas D. Bourne, J. C. Herbert Bryant, Ellis O. Briggs, Pearl Breckinridge, Thomas Bell, Harry Sears, Alex...
Dates: 1958-1959
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Correspondence B, 1960-1963

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents Stock investments with G. Edward Brooking, Jr., Joseph Bryan (Jefferson Standard and Southern Industries), John H. Bush (European breweries), Hillyer Brown (Middle East and oil wells), Thomas Winfield Blackwell (Annual Report on Gulf Coast Drilling), Eugene R. Black Sr., (discussion of the Middle East), and George E. Brewer (Conservation Foundation). Other correspondents include Richard M. Bissell, Jr., (Joseph Alsop article praising Bissell, and news of Wisner’s resignation from the...
Dates: 1960-1963
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Correspondence B, 1964-1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents Stock investments and business ventures with Joseph M. Bryan (oil well investments and hunting trip in Spain), Colonel Ronald Bassett (partridge shooting), Alastair Balfour, Esq. (shooting properties), Cecil E. Barnett (oil drilling), Walter L. Ball (geologist for Central Oil Company), H. C. Bailey (oil interests), Robert W. Boyd (Weyerhaeuser stock), G. Edward Brooking, Jr. (Weyerhaeuser, Amoskeag, Fanny Farmer, and Reynolds Tobacco Stock), Howard Brush (Great Northern Paper Stock), George...
Dates: 1964-1965
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Sir Isaiah Berlin, 1953-1955; 1972-1978

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Topics include Charles Bohlen, Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Krushchev, and discussions about power struggles in the Russian government. Photocopies from the Library of Congress of correspondence between Isaiah Berlin and Joseph Alsop with comments about Russian terrorism. Parts of Berlin’s manuscript for Alsop and Francis Haskell. (1972-1978)

Dates: 1953-1955; 1972-1978
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

2 photographs and m Mostly handwritten notes by Wisner

Dates: 1948-1949
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B

Correspondence A

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Apawamis Club, Julian Amery, Sherman Adams, T. Ault, French Ambassador to the United States Herve Alphand (review of Allen W. Dulles’ book “The Craft of Intelligence”), Mme. Nicole Alphand, Hoye Ammidon, W. Barney Arthur, Dillon Anderson, Edward J. Applewhite, A. G. Atwater, Mrs. Dean “Alice” Acheson, and the Atomic Energy Commission (an invitation for Wisner to witness an atomic test explosion.)

Dates: 1947-1965
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Frank Gardiner Wisner papers / Correspondence / Correspondence A-B