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
February
- Brian Crozier leaves the Economist Intelligence Unit. Shortly afterwards, he is offered a consultancy with the Information Research Department by H.H. Tucker and a deeper relationship with MI6 by the officer he refers to with the pseudonym "Ronald Franks".[1]
May
- 25 - John Thompson writes to Stephen Spender denying that the Farfield Foundation is a front for the American government.[2]
July
- Encounter editors announce that in future the magazine's business affairs will be handled by Cecil King's International Publishing Corporation.[3]
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.[4]
- 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 "Ronald Franks".[5]
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?"[6]
- 18 Death of C.D. Jackson[7]
November
- Brian Crozier invited to Century House and asked to begin occasional writing for MI6.[8]
Notes
- ↑ Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, Harper Collins, 1993, pp.51-52.
- ↑ 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.
