Political Warfare Timeline 1966
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
January
- Forum Information Service relaunched as Forum World Features.[1]
March
- Brian Crozier offers his resignation from Forum World Features. Michael Josselson persuades him to stay by promising that he will deal directly with the CIA rather than the Congress for Cultural Freedom.[2]
April
May
- Victor Reuther gives the Los Angeles Times an interview hinting at CIA involvement in foreign labour operations.[4]
- 9 - The New York Times publishes a letter signed by Kenneth Galbraith, George Kennan, Robert Oppenheimer and Arthur Schlesinger, stating that the Congress for Cultural Freedom has been "an entirely free body' responsive only to the wishes of its members and collaborators and the decisions of its executive committee". The letter does not, however, explicitly deny a CIA link.[5]
- 10 - The New York Times publishes a letter signed by Irving Kristol, Stephen Spender and Melvin Lasky defending the "independent record of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in defending writers and artists in both East and West against misdemeanours of all governments including that of the US."[6]
- 19 - Conor Cruise O'Brien accuses Encounter of following a political line involving "the inculcation of uniformly favourable attitudes in Britain towards American policies and practises."[7]
September
- 16 Julius Fleischmann denies that the Farfield Foundation has received US government funds in a letter to Stephen Spender.[8]
Notes
- ↑ Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, Harper Collins, 1993, p.64.
- ↑ Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, Harper Collins, 1993, p.71.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.371.
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wurlitzer, How The CIA played America, Harvard University Press, 2008, p.238.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.379.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.378.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.368.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.377.
