Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Mailer Headlines Counter-Spy Pitch

Louise Lague's Washington Star-News report on the reception marking the merger of Mailer's Fifth Estate with CAR-IC into the body that would publish Counter-Spy magazine.

“Mailer Headlines Counter-Spy Pitch,” an article by Louise Lague in the Washington Star-News (25 March 1974), reports a reception celebrating the merger of The Fifth Estate — the organization Mailer had launched at his fiftieth-birthday party (73.10) — with CAR-IC, the Committee for Action/Research on the Intelligence Community, into a single body that would publish Counter-Spy magazine (75.4). Mailer said he wanted “to be remembered as old Uncle Norman who had something to do with it.”

First published: 1974-03-25
Form: article
Lennon & Lennon: 74.6
Cite as: /works/1974-03-25-counter-spy-pitch
Last updated: 2026-06-04