Brutus Coste

Brutus Coste (10 February 1910 – 3 September 1984) was a Romanian diplomat whose service was cut short by the Second World War and who spent most of the rest of his life as an anti-communist campaigner in the United States.

When U.S. government funding and interest in East European émigrés waned, Coste took up an academic position at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.

Around 1954, Coste became director of the International League for the Rights of Man, and the representative of that organisation at the United Nations.

He worked on a project titled "Democracy in Russia" for which he received a monthly payment of $300 from the CIA-funded National Committee for a Free Europe (NCFE) as part of their policy of supporting anti-communist émigré groups from Eastern Europe in the United States.

[5] By that time, the money to support anti-communist activity by émigrés in the U.S. was drying up and there was a general feeling in government circles that those groups had little sway in their home countries.