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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.
 
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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==February==
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*[[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]]".<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, Harper Collins, 1993, pp.51-52.</ref>
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==May==
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*'''25''' - [[John Thompson]] writes to [[Stephen Spender]] denying that the [[Farfield Foundation]] is a front for the American government.<ref name="Saunders377">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.377.</ref>
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==July==
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*''[[Encounter]]'' editors announce that in future the magazine's business affairs will be handled by [[Cecil King]]'s [[International Publishing Corporation]].<ref name="Saunders374">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.374.</ref>
  
 
==August==
 
==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]].<ref name="Saunders353-4">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, pp.353-354.</ref>
 
*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]].<ref name="Saunders353-4">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, pp.353-354.</ref>
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*[[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]]".<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, Harper Collins, 1993, p.52.</ref>
  
 
==September==
 
==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?"<ref name="Saunders355">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.360.</ref>
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*'''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?"<ref name="Saunders355">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.355.</ref>
*'''18''' Death of [[C.D. Jackson]]<ref name="Saunders355">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.360.</ref>
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*'''18''' Death of [[C.D. Jackson]]<ref name="Saunders360">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.360.</ref>
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==November==
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*[[Brian Crozier]] invited to Century House and asked to begin occasional writing for [[MI6]].<ref>Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, Harper Collins, 1993, p.56.</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 14:45, 23 December 2011

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.

February

May

July

August

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

Notes

  1. Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, Harper Collins, 1993, pp.51-52.
  2. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.377.
  3. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.374.
  4. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, pp.353-354.
  5. Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, Harper Collins, 1993, p.52.
  6. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.355.
  7. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.360.
  8. Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991, Harper Collins, 1993, p.56.