Documents / FOIA release
This is a Central Intelligence Agency release dated 2025-06-12 under the JFK Act. It collects 1975 newspaper and magazine clippings. They include Mark Harris's New York Times Magazine essay on a UCLA "Conspiracy in America" conference and the conspiracy-theory mindset, a Jack Anderson column on stalled CIA reform, and wire reports of Richard Helms calling CBS newsman Daniel Schorr "Killer" after he testified to the Rockefeller Commission. There is also an essay on power and a publishing item about Philip Agee's book.
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BY JOYCE ILLIG Company Man PHILIP AGER, the ex-CLA agent living in England, has finally found a publisher and filmmaker to get his book Inside the Company: CLA Diary out to the American public. Stonehill Publishing Company will publish this book and Emile de Antonio has purchased the film rights. Stonehill, a small, relatively unknown New York trade house distributed by George Braziller & Co., signed a contract with Scott Meredith, Agee's literary agent, giving Agee essentially the same deal he'd turned down with Straight Arrow Books: a $12,000 advance and a 60-40 split on the paperback sale. Stonehill is a four-year-old company run by Jeffrey Steinberg. Steinberg is young (late 190s), enthusiastic and persistent. He was a founder of Chelsea House publishers and was hired in 1970 by Jana Wenner to start Straight Arrow Books with Man Ninzler. He said that he didn't last long because of personality differences with Wenner. Steinberg started Stonehill and is backed by "a consortium of European bankers." Stonehill's current schedule for Agee's book is to ship a first printing of 30,000 copies in June for July publication. The probable price: $12.95. Steinberg is also planning to add an index for the American edition. "We're going to hold off on the mass market paperback sale until we've completed our legal review and can deliver a reasonably meaningful warranty," said Steinberg. The American Civil Liberties Union has given Steinberg a letter "agreeing to provide as much legal assistance, at no cost, as we warrant." This is in case all the rumors become fact concerning government suppression of the book here and threats of libel suits. "There will definitely be a libel and invasion of privacy review by our law firm." said Steinberg, and there will probably " Sir, I am afraid that there is present in the world very little because he has not written the book that is well as the movie that the only warranty that Aurelius is giving is the warranty that he has the right to sell these rights and that the government doesn't own them," said Morrison. Stonehill's biggest seller is a recently published book called The Cocaine Paper. It's a 9125 volume documenting Freud's use of cocaine. Emile de Antonio, the underground Markist filmmaker, plans to make a fiction film of Agee's book, using different names for everyone except the author. De Antonio, creator of the controversial and highly praised documentaries "Point of Order" (the Army-McCarthy hearings), "In the Year of the Pig" (an overview of the Vietnam war) and "Millhouse" (a satire look at Nixon), has agreed to pay $25,000 dollars against five per cent of the profits—the producer's gross, not the net—of the picture. Agee will receive $7500 when he signs the contract and $17,500 in the first day of principal photography, which has to be within a year. Haskel Wexler has agreed to be the director of cinematography and De Antonio said that Jane Fonda has volunteered to be in it. JOYCE ULEG writes regularly on the publishing scene for Book World.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 83 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.