Talk:Irving Kristol
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Encounter Magazine was funded by the CIA wasn't it??? TitaniumDreads 20:50, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
"proud" to be a Trotskyist? Is this facetious? Not knowing the history of neocons well yet I was surprised to come across him. Am I a Liberal overreacting? I honestly don't know; but it was from an American Conservative article. I just want this to be NPOV and in my experience most Americans might believe it is inconceivable to be a Pinky Lefty and a proud American. I saw his son on Jon Stewart and after reading his quote on truths his son is truly carrying the banner of a term I once equated with less respectable epithets. No big deal; just wondering. I would just like to understand the context in a transparent NPOV manner; I'm actually intrigued to learn more about this guy. Please correct me if I'm overreacting, I'm all too aware I might fit into some hippie stereotype here ;-) Khirad 08:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Encounter/CIA connection issue
Yes, I think Encounter was funded by the CIA. I might be remembering it incorrectly, but Kristol talks about it briefly towards the end of 'Neoconservatism'. In effect, I think he says that the only person who knew about the CIA connection was their Publisher? Something along those lines, anyway. I'll see if I can find the passage again. Edders 10:25, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Encounter's editor, poet Stephen Spender, resigned when details of the CIA's financing of the magazine came out in 1967. Spender said that he wasn't aware of the payments and the CIA's involvement caused a major scandal at the time, deeply embarrassing some of the West's leading public intellectuals. Godzilla Awoken 17:25, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
