12 Facts About Theodore Kaghan

Theodore Kaghan was an American civil servant and journalist.

Theodore Kaghan wrote a one-act play called Hello, Franco that was staged in New York City in January 1938.

Theodore 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.

Theodore 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.

Theodore Kaghan admitted that in the 1930s he had held radical views and did not recognize the threat Communism posed to the United States, but said that his views had long since changed.

When McCarthy asked for the names of those who visited the apartment, Theodore Kaghan said he thought it "un-American" to provide them based on so little grounds for suspecting them of wrongdoing.

Theodore Kaghan described his conversion to anti-Communism, beginning with suspicions in 1939 and ending with firm belief in 1945 when he took up his State Department assignment in Vienna.

Theodore Kaghan returned to Bonn and there described the State Department's role in his resignation.

Theodore Kaghan said the Department had asked him to resign before he completed his subcommittee testimony and that its security investigator Scott McLeod gave personnel orders to the IIA.

Theodore Kaghan joined the New York Post as United Nations correspondent and then as a foreign affairs columnist.

Theodore Kaghan worked for a Manhattan public relations firm until retiring in 1975.

Theodore Kaghan died of heart failure on August 9,1989 at Memorial Hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont, survived by his wife Nancy, a son Benjamin, and a daughter Susan.