"The Luce media empire led a campaign against the presidency of Henry Luce remained active in right-wing politics and in 1964, campaigned for The possibility that there was a powerful mutual attraction hedged with normal lunges and hesitations seemed ruled out by their importance and ambition. "To the extent that America remains an avatar of freedom," Time's managing editor contends, "the Global Century about to dawn will be, in Luce's terminology, another American Century." To see, and to take pleasure in seeing. To see and be amazed..."This was directly from "American Photography: A Century of Images" off the following site: )Luce said that Pawley had gotten the idea of putting together a fleet of speedboats-sea-going "Flying Tigers" as it were-which would be used by the exiles to dart in and out of Cuba on "intelligence gathering" missions.
Paley, 76, was not interviewed by Salant’s investigators. He carried out a survey of the magazine's readership. There are perhaps a dozen well-known columnists and broadcast commentators whose relationships with the CIA go far beyond those normally maintained between reporters and their sources. The success of Communism, then, was not attributable to its message but rather to the fact that it offered people the spiritual certainty they no longer found in Christianity. During this period he became very religious. He accused his English professor of being a pacifist and suggested that Yale should ban all student groups that could not be classified as "war industries".
In his public statements, Colby conveyed the impression that the use of journalists had been minimal and of limited importance to the Agency.He then initiated a series of moves intended to convince the press, Congress and the public that the CIA had gotten out of the news business. Editors shared their staffs. Advertising revenues rose to $240,000 and the company made a profit of $10,000. He went at the request of the CIA.Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty-five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters.Some of these journalists’ relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. In a press conference, the president noted that such sorties could renew hostilities between the superpowers if they were not stopped.His exasperation was not shared by others in Washington. Luce told Mrs. McCormick he really wanted to become a journalist. After this he developed a stammer. It is the single subject about which his memory has failed.Time and Newsweek magazines. "Luce predicted a circulation of 250,000. Their host, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, had reason to be distressed at this unceremonious departure. Clearly Acheson was not a patch on MacArthur: "What people thought of Dean Gooderham Acheson ranged from the proposition that he was a fellow traveller, or a wool-brained sower of `seeds of jackassery,' or an abysmally uncomprehending man, or a warmonger who was taking the U.S. into a world war, to the warm if not so audible defense that he was a great Secretary of State." When I went to Washington, I would talk to Foster or Allen Dulles about what was going on .... We thought it was admirable at the time. And reverent Air Force General George E. Stratemeyer put it as strongly as it could be put. “These were the guys who went through the ranks and were told, “You’re going to be a journalist,” the CIA official said. He met routinely with exile groups including the CRC (Virginia Prewett appears to have been one of Phillips' significant media contacts and certainly one of the most consistent sources of media coverage for Alpha 66 activities.The other major source was Life magazine, part of the Luce Media family managed by Claire Booth Luce's husband Henry Robinson "Harry" Luce (a member of the Citizens Committee to Free Cuba, along with Phillips' friends Hal Hendrix and Paul Bethel).
QUICK LINKS Hadden and Luce would often print fake letters in order to create debates about controversial subjects. By this time the cause of liberating Cuba from Castro had become the grail of the Republican right. The fall of China and the rise of a post-war anti-Communist mood had produced the essential issue to use against the Democrats: softness on Communism. It was one of these boat crews, Luce said, that originally brought back the news of Russian missiles in Cuba. Ttime's heroes during the late forties and early fifties were men like Foster Dulles and Douglas MacArthur, who talked of bringing moral standards to foreign affairs.