Albert Jolis

Albert Jolis(1912–2000) was an Americandiamonddealer, head of the international firm Diamond Distributors, Inc, and a fund-raising anti-communist, serving in the 1980s as board chairman ofResistance International.

World War II and its aftermath

Jolis served in theOffice of Strategic Services(OSS) with William Casey underBill DonovanduringWorld War II.

In a letter toArthur Koestleron 19 March 1946George Orwellwrote that "Bert Jolis is very much of our way of thinking”.^[1]They were planning to set up an anti-totalitarian League and Orwell had been talking to an American acquaintance about the sister organisation in the USA, theInternational Rescue Committee.^[2]

Implementing the Reagan Doctrine

After retiring from business, Jolis helped to create the anti-communistResistance International(1983–1988) and the National Council to Support the Democracy Movements with Soviet dissidentsVladimir Bukovsky,Vladimir Maximov andEduard Kuznetsov,^[3]and, among others,Jeane Kirkpatrick,Martin Colman, Jack Kemp,Richard Perle,andMidge Decter.

References

^George Orwell,Collected Works in 20 volumes,edited by Peter Davison.
^Eric Thomas Chester,Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA,M.E. Sharpe, 1995.
^Galina Akkerman, "Vladimir Maximov"Kontinentquarterly, 2010, (in Russian).

Edward Jay Epstein,The Rise and Fall of Diamonds: The Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion.Simon and Schuster, 1982
Albert JolisA Clutch of Reds and Diamonds,Columbia University Press, 1996

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[1] George Orwell,Collected Works in 20 volumes,edited by Peter Davison.

[2] Eric Thomas Chester,Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA,M.E. Sharpe, 1995.

[3] Galina Akkerman, "Vladimir Maximov"Kontinentquarterly, 2010, (in Russian).

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