Political Warfare Timeline 1966

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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.

April

  • 27 New York Times reports claims that Encounter magazine is funded by the CIA.[1]

May

  • Victor Reuther gives the Los Angeles Times an interview hinting at CIA involvement in foreign labour operations.[2]
  • 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.[3]
  • 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."[4]
  • 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."[5]

September

Notes

  1. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.371.
  2. Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wurlitzer, How The CIA played America, Harvard University Press, 2008, p.238.
  3. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.379.
  4. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.378.
  5. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.368.
  6. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.377.