Blowback is great. At the risk of quibbling, I'm not aware that it deals with the Brown Scare or with the great majority of groups I cover -- those that weren't CIA fronts or among the minority of organizations associated with the State Department that Simpson dealt with. One of my opportunities is that no one has previously connected more than a few of these dots.
Do I take it you're distributing my post on the list?
Louis
On 2014-10-01 11:14, Steve Horn wrote:
> Good piece. A lot of this ground is covered in Christopher Simpson's
> book
> "Blowback," particularly on the Brown Scare and the Crusade for
> Freedom/Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty (REF/RL).
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Louis Trager <ltrager at sonic.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Dozens of elite national "citizens committees" on public affairs have
>> been
>> documented, individually, by reputable scholars and journalists to
>> have
>> collaborated secretly with the presidential administration of the day,
>> whether Democratic or Republican. Most of the most important
>> committees
>> were initiated by leaders of corporate organizations such as the
>> Council on
>> Foreign Relations and the Committee for Economic Development.
>>
>> I have an article -- hnn.us/article/156791 -- that contends these
>> citizens committees were instrumental in helping form and maintain the
>> liberal-moderate consensus across U.S. politics and society from the
>> 1940s
>> through most of the '60s. And it explains why the record is as
>> incompatible
>> with conspiracy theories as with conventional pluralist models. I'd be
>> delighted for you to comment online or privately, and to share the
>> link.
>>
>>
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