BRADLEE NAMED TO HEAD NEWSWEEK BUREAU HERE

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CIA-RDP74-00297R000201500027-8
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December 23, 2016
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October 25, 2013
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27
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April 25, 1961
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Cr?' :k Ci-ril \TCTON POST STKI Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/10/25: CIA-RDP74-00297R000201500027-8 Bradlee Named to Hea Newsweek BureAm ere Benjamin C. Bradlee has pean correSPOncre\it,after serv- -0; been named ? chief of News-!ing three year A''Press attache week's Washington Bureau ac-or."he United States Embassy cording to an announcement in Paris. yesterday by Osborn Elliott,' He moved to the Washing- editor, .of the magazine. ton staff Of Newsweek in 1957 Bradlee succeeds Kenneth and., two years later was pro- G. Crawford who become S moled ? f o assistant bureau Ney'vsweek's AIN?r4shington colt' manager. From 4948 to 1951, .? umnist ErAet, K. .-Lindley, Bradlee as a staff reporter who has wraith thge 'column for lhe Washingtcn Post. for the past 20 sears ; --.10awford 'iucceeded Hey- , WiTel Broun, founder of the ? Bradlee Crawford . . new assignments ng the Magazine to lecture, _ write and travel, Elliott said.1 Bradlee,: 38, joined News) 1 Neck in 1934.as chief Euro- American Newspaper Guild, as its president. in 1940. He joined Newsweek in 1943 as a war correspondent ' and . was tile first United States news- man ashore at Normandy on D-day. He became chief of the Washington Bureau in 1954. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/10/25: CIA-RDP74-00797Rnnn9n1 cnnno7