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.”
Related pages
- The Fifth Estate | Counter-Spy | 1974
- Mailer's Guests ($50 a Couple) Hear His Plan on 'Secret Police' (73.2) | CIA, FBI 'Threaten Nation' (75.6)
- The Morning After (73.10) | The CIA vs. Democracy (75.4)