William Sloane Coffin

William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (born June 1, 1924) is a radical clergyman and long time peace activist with international stature. He was Chaplain of Yale University, Senior Minister at Riverside Church in New York City, and President of SANE/Freeze, a nuclear disarmament group, and has prominently opposed U.S. policy from the Vietnam War to the Iraq War.

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Coffin was an Army officer in World War II, acting as liaison to the French and Russian armies. Upon graduating from Yale University in 1949, Coffin entered the Union Theological Seminary, where he remained for a year, until the outbreak of the Korean War reignited his interest in fighting against communism. He joined the CIA in 1950, spending three years in Germany contacting anti-Soviet Russian refugees and training them how to undermine Stalin's regime. After leaving the CIA, he enrolled at Yale University Divinity School and earned his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1956, the same year he was ordained a Presbyterian minister.

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Riverside Church: Riverside Church is a interdenominational church on the border of the Morningside Heights and Harlem neighborhoods on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, famous not only for its elaborate, gothic style architecture, but also as a center for causes of social justice....

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