Gardner Cowles
 Gardner Cowles    (publisher, media mogul) | |
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| Born | 31 January 1903 Algona, Iowa, USA |
| Died | 8 July 1985 (Age 82) |
Cause of death | Cancer |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University |
| Member of | Bohemian Grove, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, Links Club, National Committee for a Free Europe |
US media mogul involved with a number of CIA-front organizations. Attended the 1954 Bilderberg Conference. | |
Gardner "Mike" Cowles Jr. was founder and publisher of Look magazine and head of one branch of a family big media empire that included newspapers, magazines, book publishing and television stations. He was involved with a number of CIA-front organizations, including the Farfield Foundation and the National Committee for a Free Europe.[1]
He was a delegate to the 1954 Bilderberg Conference, the first meeting of the conference.
Background
His father Gardner Cowles Sr. was a banker, publisher, and politician who purchased The Des Moines Register and the Des Moines Tribune. Cowles Jr. was born in Algona, Iowa.[2] He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University.[2]
Career
He became co-owner with his brother John of the Cowles Media Company (established in 1935), and in 1937 became co-founder, co-publisher, and editor of Look magazine. He also was executive editor of The Des Moines Register and The Des Moines Tribune.
In the 1940 Republican Party presidential primaries, Cowles and his brother supported Wendell Willkie in their newspapers and magazines. Cowles later accompanied Wilkie on a world tour, and helped him write the bestseller One World.[3]
In 1942 Cowles had been appointed to wartime duty as assistant director of the Office of War Information.[4] His responsibilities in the OWI were to direct a domestic news bureau, coordinating information from non-military government agencies. Cowles worked in the OWI under the leadership of Elmer Davis for about a year and then returned to Des Moines.[5]
In the fall of 1942 Cowles and Barnes accompanied Willkie, who was a special representative of President Roosevelt, in his international tour (North Africa - Beirut - Jerusalem - Soviet Union - Siberia - China). They visited Stalin in Moscow on September 23, 1942[6] Returned to USA Cowles had 2-hours press conference in November 1942 and told how Stalin allegedly expressed anti-British sentiment.[7] Stalin denied the accusation.[8]
He was also a corporate member of the Crusade for Freedom, and a sponsor of the periodical History, published by the Society of American Historians, and funded by 'private donations'. The journal was as much a product of the Cold War as the Crusade for Freedom, and included in its list of 'sponsors' William Donovan, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allen Dulles and Henry Luce.[9]
Cowles was a donor to the Gardner Cowles Foundation and an executive of the Farfield Foundation (a CIA front)[10].
In the 1950s, Cowles was involved with the propaganda campaign Crusade for Freedom.[11]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1954 | 29 May 1954 | 31 May 1954 | Netherlands Hotel Bilderberg Oosterbeek | The first Bilderberg meeting, attended by 68 men from Europe and the US, including 20 businessmen, 25 politicians, 5 financiers & 4 academics. |
References
- ↑ https://blog.independent.org/2014/02/12/americas-spymasters-and-cultural-propaganda/
- ↑ a b https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/09/nyregion/gardner-cowles-jr-is-dead-at-82-helped-build-publishing-empire.html
- ↑ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-07-09-mn-8147-story.html
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=cIdIAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA32
- ↑ Strentz, Herb. Gardner Cowles Jr. , Cowles Family Publishing Legacy, Drake University, Cowles Library. Accessed January 15, 2018.
- ↑ United States Department of State / Foreign relations of the United States diplomatic papers, 1942. Europe, pp.640-641
- ↑ RGASPI. F.558. Op.11. D.385. L.120
- ↑ RGASPI. F.558. Op.11. D.385. L.122
- ↑ https://redstarpublishers.org/CulturalColdWar.pdf
- ↑ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/17/unpopular-front
- ↑ Saunders, Frances Stonor (1999). The Cultural Cold War: the CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. New York: New Press. ISBN 1-56584-596-X, p. 137.
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