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Theodore Kaghan (c. 1912 – August 9, 1989) was an American civil servant and journalist. ==Early years== Kaghan was born in Boston on July 24, 1912 and graduated from the University of Michigan.〔''New York Times'': ("Theodore Kaghan, 77; Was in Foreign Service," August 11, 1989 ), accessed March 7, 2011〕 At the University of Michigan he won several annual prizes given for undergraduate dramatic writing, including the top award in 1935 for a play called ''Unfinished Picture'', later read but not performed by the Group Theatre, identified in 1948 as a Communist front organization by the House Un-American Activities Committee.〔 He wrote a one-act play called ''Hello, Franco'' that was staged in New York City in January 1938.〔''New York Times'': ("News of the Stage," January 20, 1938 ), accessed March 7, 2011〕 It depicted a multi-ethnic group of Americans in the Lincoln Brigade. They pretend to use their broken field telephone to talk with friends and family back home as well as with Francisco Franco.〔Kathleen M. Vernon, ''The Spanish Civil War and the Visual Arts'' (Ithaca, NY: Center for International Studies, Cornell University, 1990), 81; Malcolm Goldstein, ''The Political Stage: American Drama and Theater of the Great Depression'' (NY: Oxford University Press, 1974), 176〕 Kaghan worked on the foreign news desk of the ''New York Herald Tribune'' beginning in 1939 and moved to the Office of War Information in 1942.〔 In 1946, he served as editor-in-chief of the ''Wiener Kurier'', Vienna's official anti-Communist publication.〔 From 1945 to 1950 he was Director of American Publications for the U.S. Army forces then occupying Austria.〔 Kaghan served from 1950 to 1953 as Deputy Director of Public Affairs for the United States High Commission in Germany, with indirect responsibility for all of the Commission's newspapers and radios stations in Germany.〔 When Roy Cohn and David Schine, two investigators for Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, toured Europe early in 1953, Kaghan called them "junketeering gumshoes."〔''New York Times'': (C.P. Trussel "Kaghan Tells McCarthy Unit he has Fought Reds Decade," April, 30, 1953 ), accessed March 7, 2011〕 When Cohn called him a security risk, Kaghan said he would welcome a chance to testify before McCarthy's committee.〔''TIME'': ("Schnuffles & Flourishes," April 20, 1953 ), accessed March 7, 2011〕 He also said that when the two "have made half the record I have in the field of psychological warfare against communism, then perhaps the money this trip of theirs is costing the American taxpayer might begin to pay off." And he offered to show McCarthy his record fighting communism "here in Europe, where the threat is an everyday reality rather than an excuse for creating political confusion."〔''New York Times'': ("Aide of McCarthy Scored on Charge," April 9, 1953 ), accessed March 7, 2011〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Theodore Kaghan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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