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Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of [[covert action]] with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
 
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==March==
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*'''29''' Katzenbach Committee report concludes that the US government should not "provide any covert financial assistance or support, direct or indirect, to any of the nation's education or private voluntary organizations."<ref name="Saunders405">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.405.</ref>
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*'''30''' [[Dwight MacDonald]] writes to [[Michael Josselson]], claiming that "I think I've been played for a sucker", over US government funding of ''[[Encounter]]''.<ref name="Saunders409">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.409.</ref>
  
 
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*'''13''' General Assembly of the [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]] meets in Paris to consider resignations tendered by [[Michael Josselson]] and [[John Hunt (CIA)|John Hunt]]. Those present include [[Minoo Misani]] (in the chair), [[Raymond Aron]], [[Daniel Bell]], [[Pierre Emmanuel]], [[Louis Fischer]], [[Anthony Hartley]], [[K.A.B. Jones-Quartey]], [[Ezekiel Mphahlele]], [[Nicholas Nabokov]], [[Hans Oprecht]], [[Michael Polanyi]], [[Denis de Rougement]], [[Yoshihiko Seki]], [[Edward Shils]], [[Ignazio Silone]], and [[Manes Sperber]]. Josselson's resignation is accepted.<ref name="Saunders391-4">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, pp.391-394.</ref>
 
*'''13''' General Assembly of the [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]] meets in Paris to consider resignations tendered by [[Michael Josselson]] and [[John Hunt (CIA)|John Hunt]]. Those present include [[Minoo Misani]] (in the chair), [[Raymond Aron]], [[Daniel Bell]], [[Pierre Emmanuel]], [[Louis Fischer]], [[Anthony Hartley]], [[K.A.B. Jones-Quartey]], [[Ezekiel Mphahlele]], [[Nicholas Nabokov]], [[Hans Oprecht]], [[Michael Polanyi]], [[Denis de Rougement]], [[Yoshihiko Seki]], [[Edward Shils]], [[Ignazio Silone]], and [[Manes Sperber]]. Josselson's resignation is accepted.<ref name="Saunders391-4">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, pp.391-394.</ref>
 
*'''20''' [[Tom Braden]] article, "I'm glad the CIA is immoral", appears in the ''Saturday Evening Post''. Braden details the covert sponsorship of the "non-communist left" by the [[CIA]]'s [[International Organizations Division]].<ref name="Saunders397-8">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, pp.397-398.</ref>
 
*'''20''' [[Tom Braden]] article, "I'm glad the CIA is immoral", appears in the ''Saturday Evening Post''. Braden details the covert sponsorship of the "non-communist left" by the [[CIA]]'s [[International Organizations Division]].<ref name="Saunders397-8">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, pp.397-398.</ref>
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*'''7''' - [[Americans for Democracy in the Middle East]] publishes petition in support of Israel in the ''New York Times''.
  
 
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Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.

March

  • 29 Katzenbach Committee report concludes that the US government should not "provide any covert financial assistance or support, direct or indirect, to any of the nation's education or private voluntary organizations."[1]
  • 30 Dwight MacDonald writes to Michael Josselson, claiming that "I think I've been played for a sucker", over US government funding of Encounter.[2]

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October

Notes

  1. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.405.
  2. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.409.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.382.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.383.
  5. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.386.
  6. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.387.
  7. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.401.
  8. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.388.
  9. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.389.
  10. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, pp.391-394.
  11. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, pp.397-398.
  12. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.153.