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.
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.[1]
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?"[2]
- 18 Death of C.D. Jackson[2]
