Thomas Wardell Braden (Greene, February 22, 1917 - Denver, April 3, 2009) was an American journalist and CIA responsible.
In 1940 he joined the British Army. Later he joined the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He moved to Washington D.C. and became a member of a group of journalists known as the "Georgetown Set". Braden joined the CIA and became Head of the International Organizations Division (IOD) in 1950. He focused mainly on anti-communist elements in groups such as the AFL-CIO union union coin. From 1951 to 1954, the CIA paid via Braden $ 1,000,000 a year to Irving Brown, a CIA agent in charge of the AFL-CIO's international relations. As head of the IOD, Braden played an important role in the "Operation Mockingbird". In 1954, Braden left the CIA and became owner of The Blade Tribune newspaper in Oceanside, California. He became a well-known newspaper columnist and became a political radio and TV commentator.
In 1975, Braden published autobiography Eight is Enough, on which the ABC television series with the same title was inspired by Dick Van Patten. From 1978 to 1984 he was one of the presenters of the Buchanan-Braden Program, a three-hour radio show with Pat Buchanan. Together with Buchanan, he also presented the CNN Crossfire program from 1982 to 1989. He died of a cardiac arrest in April 2009.
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