Editing Partisan Review (section)

=== Funding by the CIA ===
Although vehemently denied by founding editor William Phillips, following the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|fall of the Soviet Union]] it was revealed that ''Partisan Review'' was the recipient of money from the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] as part of its effort to shape intellectual opinion in the so-called "cultural cold war".{{sfn|Wilford |2008 |p= 103}} In 1953, the magazine found itself in financial difficulties, when one of its primary backstage financial backers, Allan D. Dowling, became embroiled in a costly divorce proceeding. The financial shortfall was made up by a $2,500 grant from the [[American Committee for Cultural Freedom]] (ACCF), a CIA front organization on the executive board of which editor Phillips sat throughout the decade of the 1950s.{{sfn|Wilford |2008 |p= 104}}

Additional CIA money came later in the 1950s. When the ACCF terminated its operations, half of the money remaining in the organization's coffers was transferred to ''Partisan Review.'' Additional funds came to the magazine to alleviate its financial problems in the 1950s in the form of a $10,000 donation from [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']] magazine publisher [[Henry Luce]]. Luce seems to have been instrumental in expediting contacts between ''PR'' publisher Phillips and Director of Central Intelligence [[Walter Bedell Smith]].{{sfn|Wilford |2008 |p= 104}}

A successor organization established by the CIA to funnel money to sympathetic groups and individuals, the [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]], stepped up to assist the magazine in the early 1960s, granting ''PR'' $3,000 a year for a three-year period in the guise of foreign magazine subscriptions.{{sfn|Wilford |2008 |p= 104}}