In 1949 or 1950, DeMille was recruited by Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner to serve on the board of the anti-communist National Committee for a Free Europe, the public face of the organization that oversaw the Radio Free Europe service.

The Ashbourne portrait of William Shakespeare, which hangs in the Folger Shakespeare Library was analysed by Charles Wisner Barrell, director of Photography at Bell, who concluded it was an overpainting of the Earl of Oxford, though more recent research identifies it as a portrait of Hugh Hamersley.

This view was first expressed by Charles Wisner Barrell, who argued that De Vere " kept the place as a literary hideaway where he could carry on his creative work without the interference of his father-in-law, Burghley, and other distractions of Court and city life.

Wisner was home to world's first international plow race in 1946, a light-hearted competition intended to engender a spirit of peace in the wake of World War II.

The township was first organized in 1861 and named after Moses Wisner, Governor of Michigan from 1859 – 1861.

A post office named Wisner was established on December 11, 1871, with Henry H. Gilbert as the first postmaster.

Neihardt's newspaper, the Bancroft Blade, was absorbed by the Wisner, Nebraska Wisner News-Chronicle in 1954.

The township where Wisner was platted, Elmont Township, was soon renamed Wisner Township.

The first homesteader for the city of Wisner was Richard Thompson.

The local school district was formed in 1879, and within a few years Wisner High School produced its first graduates.

Located next to the original Wisner high school building, it featured a large gazebo and was often the site for graduations and school activities.

In 1960, a swimming pool was built on the site, and that pool was replaced in 1982 with a heated, Olympic-sized pool courtesy of contributions by Wisner cattleman Louis Dinklage.

Founded by Wisner businessman Andy Peterson, it featured livestock show barns, a dance hall and an ice skating rink and was the site of Wisner's first baseball diamond.

River Park — Also called " Community Park " and perched directly by the Elkhorn River, this was built on land purchased by the city of Wisner in 1927.

It was the site of an unincorporated collection of German farmers in the late 19th century who felt shunned by area communities, particularly Wisner and Beemer, Nebraska.

The road was paved in 1964, as the newly constructed Elkhorn River Bridge made it the only route into Wisner from the south.

The new position, also in the old OSO ( but since 1947 within CIA ), was soon merged into the newly formed, clandestine-oriented Directorate for Plans managed by Frank Wisner as DDP.

Kyl was born in Wisner, Nebraska, the son of Johanna ( née Boonstra ) and John George Kyl.

In 1948, Frank Wisner was appointed director of the Office of Special Projects ( OSP ).

Wisner recruited Philip Graham from The Washington Post to run the project within the industry.

Frank Wisner was put in charge of the operation and recruited many of his old friends from Carter Ledyard.

In 1947 Wisner established Operation Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic and foreign media.

Ninth Street in Wisner directly runs the route that Dutch Hollow ran, and this street is still referred to as " Dutch Hollow " by residents.

West Field — A pasture owned by the West family, where Wisner High first played football through 1930.

Frank Wisner, a well-known CIA operations executive said of the autobiography of Director of Central Intelligence Allen W. Dulles, that Dulles " disposes of the popular misconception that counterintelligence is essentially a negative and responsive activity, that it moves only or chiefly in reaction to situations thrust upon it and in counter to initiatives mounted by the opposition " Rather, he sees that can be most effective, both in information gathering and protecting friendly intelligence services, when it creatively but vigorously attacks the " structure and personnel of hostile intelligence services.

According to Nina Burleigh ( A Very Private Woman ), these journalists sometimes wrote articles that were commissioned by Frank Wisner.

In 1954, Wisner arranged for the funding of the Hollywood production of Animal Farm, the animated allegory based on the book written by George Orwell.

Drew Pearson, Joe Alsop, Jack Anderson, Walter Lippmann and Ed Murrow all engaged in intensely negative coverage of McCarthy, whose political reputation was permanently damaged by the press coverage orchestrated by Wisner.

In 1858, Wisner was elected the 12th Governor of Michigan by a large majority and served one term from 1859 to 1861.

* Produced and engineered by James Paul Wisner.

* Produced, engineered, and recorded by James Paul Wisner at Wisner Productions.

* Mixed by James Paul Wisner at The Sound Kitchen except " Already Gone " mixed by Jeremy du Bois at The Dungeon Recording Studio in north Miami, Florida.

Their most recent LP, Free at Last, was recorded in April and May 2005 with James Paul Wisner ( producer of albums by Further Seems Forever and Underoath ) and released in fall of the same year.

At first, the U. S. State Department directed the new CIA's covert operations component, and George F. Kennan chose Frank Wisner to be its director.

Frank Gardiner Wisner ( June 23, 1909 – October 29, 1965 ) was head of Office of Strategic Services operations in southeastern Europe at the end of World War II, and the head of the Directorate of Plans of the Central Intelligence Agency during the 1950s.

Looney's theory attracted a number of activist followers who published books supplementing his own and added new arguments, most notably Percy Allen, Bernard M. Ward, Louis P. Bénézet and Charles Wisner Barrell.

* March 4 – Henry Wisner, American Continental Congressman for New York ( b. 1720 )

Tachihara and Wisner are examples of modern field cameras at opposite ends of the price scale.

In January 1989 Michael Lawrie sent a licenced copy of AberMUD3 to Vijay Subramaniam and Bill Wisner, both American Essex MIST players.

Bill Wisner subsequently spread AberMUD around the world.

Wisner is a town in Franklin Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Wisner is located at ( 31. 981030 ,-91. 655866 ).

The Akron post office, with ZIP code 48701, also serves the southern and western portions of Akron Township, as well as portions of northern Fairgrove Township, most of eastern Wisner Township, and smaller portions of western Columbia Township and Almer Township.

* Bay Park is an unincorporated community on the border of the Township with Wisner Township on Saginaw Bay west of Vassar Road and Bay Park Road at.

* Wisner is an unincorporated community on the boundary between Akron Township to the east and Wisner Township to the west.

Wisner Township is a civil township of Tuscola County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

* Wisner is an unincorporated community at on the eastern boundary of the township with Akron Township centered about the junction of Vassar Road ( marking the township line ) and M-25 / Bay City Forestville Rd, with settlement spread into both townships along M-25.