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Article: Lloyd A. Free Dies at Age 88; Monitored Nazi Broadcasts
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 16, 1996
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Lloyd A. Free, 88, an international public opinion polling
pioneer who had worked in both government and private industry, died
Nov. 11 at the Manor Care nursing home in Bethesda after strokes. He
had prostate cancer.
He monitored Nazi broadcasts during World War II, helping to
establish what is now the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service. He
also had been a military attache in Switzerland, a mass
communications adviser to the United Nations and a State Department
official. In the late 1930s and 1940s, he twice served as editor of
the prestigious Public Opinion Quarterly.
In 1955, he and Hadley Cantril founded the Institute for
International Social Research. It was established at ...