Political Warfare Timeline 1967
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
April
- Ramparts magazine exposé of CIA front organisations.[1]
- 4 - Peter Jessup writes to Walt Rostow, "In view of Ramparts dedication to smearing the administration and the murky background of its sponsorship, one might think that some agency of the government might be pursuing the threads here."[1]
- 8 - Michael Josselson writes to Isaiah Berlin about exposure of Encounter.[2]
- 13 Melvin Lasky writes to Isaiah Berlin with the text of a proposed statement in Encounter about CIA.[3]
- 16 - Isaiah Berlin writes to Josselson proposing a meeting of Encounter editors in London.[2]
- 18 Berlin writes to Lasky that "the proper role of Encounter is to say that they acted as they did in ignorance".[4]
- 21 Meeting of Encounter principals in London.[5]
May
- 8 New York Times reports Stephen Spender's resignation from Encounter.[6]
October
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.382.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.383.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.386.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.387.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.388.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.389.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.153.
