Information Bulletin Ltd

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Information Bulletin Ltd was a UK company which published books and journals on behalf of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a CIA funded propaganda operation. It later became Forum Information Services, which then became Forum World Features. [1]

According to Fred Landis the terrorism expert Walter Laqueur was the 'principal director' of Information Bulletin Ltd during his time in London. [2]

Information Bulletin Ltd published the anti-Soviet journal Survey - which was edited by Laqueur[3] - on behalf of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and its successor the International Association for Cultural Freedom. [4] It also published The China Quarterly from January 1962 to March 1968. The journal was previously published by the Congress for Cultural Freedom and was subsequently published by the Contemporary China Institute of the School of Oriental and African Studies. [5]

It also published several books including North Vietnam by Phillippe Deveillers in 1962,[6] and End of the Cold War? by Raymond Aron in 1964. [7] Aron, a French philosopher, had been introduced to Laqueur in Paris in 1955. [8]

Notes

  1. Fred Landis, 'Georgetown's Ivory Tower for Old Spooks', Inquiry, 30 September 1979
  2. Fred Landis, 'Georgetown's Ivory Tower for Old Spooks', Inquiry, 30 September 1979
  3. Walter Laqueur, Fin de siècle and other essays on America & Europe (Transaction Publishers, 1997) p.246
  4. WorldCat, Survey: a journal of Soviet and East European studies, (accessed 1 April 2009)
  5. National Library of Australia, The China quarterly (electronic resource) (accessed 1 April 2009)
  6. Phillippe Deveillers, North Vietnam: a special survey with contributions (Information Bulletin Ltd., 1962)
  7. Raymond Aron, End of the Cold War? (Information Bulletin Ltd, 1964)
  8. Walter Laqueur, Fin de siècle and other essays on America & Europe (Transaction Publishers, 1997) p.236