James Burnham
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James Burnham (1905–1987)
US political theorist, former Communist activist, exemplary radical, CIA Op
Books:
- Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World (1941)
- The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
- Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism (1964)
Commie > 1955 > National Review > paleoconservative
check:
- Italian sociologist Vilfredo Pareto (over whom there was some stir in 1936)
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2007/09/national-review-cia-front.html
National Review: a CIA front?
Was the launch of Bill Buckley’s National Review in the mid-1950s a CIA operation? I first heard Joseph Sobran imply this in 1993 at a Rothbard-Rockwell Report conference in San Mateo, California. I thought the idea was kinda paranoid and kooky at the time. But here’s Murray Rothbard himself suggesting the same thing in The Betrayal of the American Right, written 30 years ago:
“In the light of hindsight, we should now ask whether or not a major objective of National Review from its inception was to transform the right wing from an isolationist to global warmongering anti-Communist movement; and, particularly, whether or not the entire effort was in essence a CIA operation. We now know that Bill Buckley, for the two years prior to establishing National Review, was admittedly a CIA agent in Mexico City, and that the sinister E. Howard Hunt was his control. His sister Priscilla, who became managing editor of National Review, was also in the CIA, and other editors James Burnham and Willmoore Kendall had at least been recipients of CIA largesse in the anti-Communist Congress for Cultural Freedom. In addition, Burnham has been identified by two reliable sources as a consultant for the CIA in the years after World War II. . . .
