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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300380020-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: December 20, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For'Release 2006/11/12 : CIA-RDP88-01315ROO.q
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20 DEC ~,M:31?R _l.97(7
1W11-1-Al WORLD Features The chairman of FWF and agency side, or through con-' entered .into negotiations
appeared to he just another Director of,the Institute for tributing to or writing in with the Taiwan government
news agency sere-ice, supply- the Study of Conflict, which "Conflict Studies," put but before a synopsis was even
ing to new..spapwrs all over acquired the library of F'WF,?" by the Institute for the Study written. The arrangement-
tyre globe articles ranging wa Mr Brian Crozier,. who of Conflict at E3 each for a was that the Government,
from fashion to politics, coin- had preceded Aer - Robert more informed and iniluert- because of what F';WF's
petenily written, profession- Afoss. author of "Chile's tial audience, managing director described
ally pruducc.d and att.ractively? Marxist I xperiment,".'at tire. The arrangement even- : as the "-objective " nature of
priced. - Economist. - tually agreed between David the work, would. wish to purl
But in reality ita main put'- Forum ? started its olio- and Charles and FIVE in Feb- chase a considerable quantityt
pose was different. Forum was rations-in the publishing field ruary, 1972, meant that the The Government decision was
throuIt an publishing company in effect - to be based on their approial
in the propaganda 'hursirtess. 11 tote 19GUk
An internal CIA memo to the arrangement with the pub acte(i only as printers and of the typescript. .
then I7hector of Central .fishing house of Secker and distributors: For the Pull- This kind of arr-rr' i iient
Intelligence, Richard Heims, Warburg. The arrangement ltsliers the financial risks was not .foreseon wh^ii the
noted as part of its progress lasted until 1969, when- with. were minimal. Forum. saw to - Chile book was first commis-
report : "In its first two three books published it the selection of authors, the sioned. The idea of a book out ,
tic i,i I orimr World-I'e:atures lapsed, mainly because. the commissioning of the-actual . Chile ).vas first mooted byi
Sur provided the I--IS with a books and then sent a swoop Forum In 1971 at a.tirrte_
significant means to counter ^^ ~^? ^~ ' ~^ sis to the publishers. David when the Allende govern-"
(r,ornirirrnist propaganda and and Charles would then (le- reel. was in power. It wottld'
has be erne a respected fea- The authors who tide whet.lier the title would not have been a likely clieitt. q
lures service well on the way sell or not. If they agreed to After- the book liad beat"
to a nnsitinn of prestige In were to write publish one; Forum then
the j:rrr rtalism w orld." . handled all the . negotiations moote(1 it was deciil^(} ntta
It was the publication of the books wC1`e with the author :and oversaw clutnge the., author to Robert
tlrzt aiemoranduun with its careful! .chosen the book right dolwrt to.the Aiass. Ai(rss was no stranger
t y .to Mr CroAWS op_:atiar:s..
han'd-wri'tten note "ruin with ,finished draft. havirit; already contri}toted to
he knowledge and coopera- ^^'~ "^"^ ?""~'"'""'"""^ '"' In an extraordinary prod-
Lion of -British, Intelligence. ") duce for the publishing world iptil~Iicat]ons put out by' the r
books ' ele riot very Forum, which was acting as /~
fol. One by Sir Robert -.4Onflict. AS Late as. 1974,
-ur: of the agency. But the literary menu, then hired its
Thompson, the noted goer- shortly before Forum's bur- r
y at the time goner!))- own literary agent David
poi i;4lated. it solely on the news ri]la warfare and. counter- Iiighatn Associates, them- pied clO:SUre, he was still wri t-
insurgen(:y expert, who is ing'for the news agen^_y Side.
agency fide of Forum--and selves innocent of the Two articles he wrote in that
its other, lon ;-term operation also on the council of the motives of F'WI , to act for it
event a.rrloti .ed. National Association for In negotiati.nn5 with the puh year both carried his by-mine.
Free-dom. sold only 1, One, entitled ", russet:> --=?
Thi:z second operation was that 415 mi... ?
to cnrrirtli::sion, promote, an,l copies and after than both Forum in fact took all the centre. of subversion" des
sides appeared to lose. inter- scribed . him as Brussels
Krrt;an]r:~: the ? pnh]ication of commercial risk, It 11811-
tnok, by authors of whom est. died the payntents of - ,WE. cori'esprindent," It?was
f~or?tim World ' Featurer:s But in- 1971 I?oritni, advances to authors and their craisub-tf.iitno led titskyireatl re-
Ii :' F) apprirved. Because of through its managing di.ree- payment from beginning to by Trootskyite 4th In?
:.. .... -
Mr rain. Hamilton and _.-.r
its part
Mr Brian Crozier. who ran - - - -
anon, the pulilishzrs would ceived frortr the publishers
bps completely unaware of the the. agency on a day-to-day nothing except the authors' The Scale of thf, Cu CIA connection. Thew publi- basis, reviewed the operation royalties - the normal 10 per
:.atiou went far beyond t r}- in a big way. Negotiations cent on. home sales and 71 opoi'ation was revealed
Lain. Editions were printed in were started with the publish-- per cent on overseas sales..
When the amount which had in the Church
~f t t:;ri and in Japanese to ing company- of David and
pre i is an international Charles, ir. Newton Abbot, to be paid to David Iligham committee hearili :%?-`.
il(at;L'ni-k of soft prop,),,^rnr :a. Devon, to publish more books Associates was deducted
The owner of FWF in Bri- in the lapsed title series Forum would then he faced
=airy and in the United States which had been started. with with either making some pro- t = ' '
s Kern Howie Enterprises. Seeker and . Warburg =?-- the fit out Of taking a share of ter:!ational." The second,'
-:hivk Is registered in the US world realities" Series. the royalties, or alternatively again naining Moss as "Fs'~I
state of Delaware. notorious Like two Institute for the conducting the whole exercise Correspondent' ups an
or its easy company rules Study - of Conflict, which at a loss. exclusive interview with.
mod already spotlilglmbrd as a had grown out of Forum, the But-as was to happen, ttri- - Pooch Powell. -13y 1974 lie
-regular haven for CIA cover title sounds authoritative and known to them, on Mr Aloss's 'had also written fie ISC,
,ampanies. one of ' Kern , dis;raSsiona?le? .. book-there wits occasionally "Conflict Studies." two on
ir,lise's directors. Robert The .authors who were to the prospect of nintkiog cons)- Chile, two on Uruguay, and
,vrie Gatcly, has since been write the books were care- tlerably more money than anc, c o - a u l h o r e (l with
_ssigned to Ilannkok as CIA fully chosen. Many, like there would he through the Forum's managing director.
a.ation officer. The accounts Robert Moss, lvho was normal small print, by obtain- - lain Hamilton, on Irelan(i.
-or FWF in 1972 noted that. if commissioned. to - write the ing a large special order from Nor was,he, by the time of
he Kern House subsidy, was book on Chile, had already an interested party. ' the Allende government's fall
withdrawn " it would seriously got close kirks with Forum On a hook Forum-intended in September, 1973 and the
3arnage our financial viahi- either }tbrou'1t wo.rkttt ag to have published on Taiwan eventual; publication of his
ity:, Apl rAl(k - lftalfl eB a .Ob111~fl :~ * -O~Cdt 1~'OO r ~r8 (7Y2 n.:rrds, any,