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@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ tags:
- DarkAlliance
- NewsweekQuranStory
summary: "American news weekly founded in 1933, owned by the Washington Post Company from 1961 to 2010, whose staff and stringers appear in Carl Bernstein's 1977 account of CIA press relations."
updated: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-15
relations:
- type: owned
with: "[[Vincent Astor]]"
@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ The historian [[Howard Schonberger]] wrote that Kern, as foreign affairs editor,
Bernstein wrote that about a dozen columnists and broadcast commentators were regarded at the Agency as "known assets." He named [[Stewart Alsop]], whose column appeared in Newsweek among other publications, as one of three columnists with such ties, and wrote that CIA files contain reports of specific tasks all three undertook.[^26]
[[Arnaud de Borchgrave]] became Newsweek's Paris bureau chief in 1951 and went on to a career as a roving correspondent. A Washington Times obituary of February 2015 describes him as the magazine's chief foreign correspondent for 25 years and quotes Osborn Elliott, onetime editor of Newsweek: "de Borchgrave has played a role in world affairs known to no other journalist." He became editor in chief of the [[Washington Times]] in 1985 and later president of [[United Press International]].[^27]
[[Arnaud de Borchgrave]] became Newsweek's Paris bureau chief in 1951 and went on to a career as a roving correspondent. A Washington Times obituary of February 2015 describes him as the magazine's chief foreign correspondent for 25 years and quotes Osborn Elliott, onetime editor of Newsweek: "de Borchgrave has played a role in world affairs known to no other journalist." He became editor in chief of the [[Washington Times]] in 1985 and in January 1999 president and chief executive officer of [[United Press International]].[^27][^44]
### IBT Media and the Manhattan District Attorney
@ -215,3 +215,4 @@ According to [[Gary Webb]]'s account, [[William J. Casey]] himself leaked news o
[^41]: Neda Ulaby, "'Newsweek' Retracts Story Alleging Quran Abuse," NPR *Morning Edition*, May 17, 2005. https://www.npr.org/2005/05/17/4654641/newsweek-retracts-story-alleging-quran-abuse.
[^42]: "Newsweek retracts Quran report," Al Jazeera (Reuters), May 17, 2005. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2005/5/17/newsweek-retracts-quran-report.
[^43]: Howard B. Schonberger, *Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945-1952* (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1989), pp. 7, 135, 157-158. https://archive.org/details/aftermathofwaram0000scho
[^44]: United Press International, "De Borchgrave named CEO of UPI," December 16, 1998, https://www.upi.com/Archives/1998/12/16/De-Borchgrave-named-CEO-of-UPI/2072913784400/ (appointment; start January 4; editor in chief of The Washington Times, 1985 to 1991; Newsweek chief foreign correspondent, 1963 to 1980; senior adviser at CSIS and director of the Global Organized Crime Project).