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.
Contents
April
May
- 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.[2]
- 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."[3]
- 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."[4]
September
- 16 Julius Fleischmann denies that the Farfield Foundation has received US government funds in a letter to Stephen Spender.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.371.
- ↑ 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.
