Political Warfare Timeline 1964
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
May
- 25 - John Thompson writes to Stephen Spender denying that the Farfield Foundation is a front for the American government.[1]
July
- Encounter editors announce that in future the magazine's business affairs will be handled by Cecil King's International Publishing Corporation.[2]
August
- During an investigation by Congressman Wright Patman, a leak identifies eight foundations ("The Patman Eight") as CIA fronts: the Gotham Foundation, the Michigan Fund, the Price Fund, the Edsel Fund, the Andrew Hamilton Fund, the Borden Trust, the Beacon Fund and the Kentfield Fund.[3]
- Brian Crozier embarks on a trip to South America commissioned by Anthony C. Hartley of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. He is also reporting back to an MI6 officer he refers to with the pseudonym "Ronald Franks".[4]
September
- 14 The Nation magazine asks "Should the CIA be permitted to channel funds to magazines in London - and New York - which pose as "magazines of opinion" and are in competition with independent journals of opinion?"[5]
- 18 Death of C.D. Jackson[6]
November
- Brian Crozier invited to Century House and asked to begin occasional writing for MI6.[7]
Notes
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.377.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.374.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, pp.353-354.
- ↑ Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, Harper Collins, 1993, p.52.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.355.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.360.
- ↑ Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, Harper Collins, 1993, p.56.
