Alfred Kohlberg

Alfred Kohlberg

Alfred Kohlberg (1887-1960) was an American entrepreneur and staunch anti-communist -- being the head of the so called "China lobby", a close ally of Joe McCarthy, a guide to Robert Welch and founding director of the John Birch Society.

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first = Robert E.
last = Herzstein
title = Alfred Kohlberg: Counter-Subversion in the Global Struggle against Communism, 1944-1960
booktitle = Globalization, Empire, and Imperialism in Historical Perspective
date = 2006-06-01
location = University of North Carolina
url = http://www.webcitation.org/5HqTqz3zF
accessdate = 2006-08-02
]

Kohlberg was also a board member of the Institute of Pacific Relations, which he thought was infiltrated by communists. He was the financial backer of "Plain Talk", which merged with "The Freeman" in 1950.

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