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NOMOCHOMO ago

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More Digs on the Laybournes:

A. Kit Laybourne's father, Lawrence Laybourne's Smithsonian Obituary:

https://siarchives.si.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/torch/Torch%201976/SIA_000371_1976_03.pdf

"At the Smithsonian, Mr. Laybourne the merger of the Office of Development and the National Associates and initiated the regional program in which Smithsonian activities have been shared with Associates around the country."

B. Larry Laybourne, squashing a story at the behest of the secretary of state. Officially Operation Mockingbird started in the 50's, but in 46 and 48 Laybourne was running his stories by the national security state....and censoring his reporting.

https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cpmss/article/viewFile/36327/29278

“Advertising for Prestige”: Publicity in Canada-United States Arctic Defence Cooperation

The joint Canadian-US Military Cooperation Committee was busy drawing up a grandiose plan for a continental air-defence system that was never instituted and the United States had sought permission to construct a chain of weather stations across the Canadian Arctic. The stations would be operated by the United States Weather Bureau, a civilian agency, but they were clearly military in intent.

This was something new for Canada. Prior to 1940, there had been virtually no Canada-United States defence relationship. American troops or installations, civil or military, on Canadian soil, or joint Canadian-American defence planning, would have been unheard of.

Canadian government’s effort to keep the details of the new Canada-United States defence partnership under cover was not helped by an incident that took place in late September 1946. In an off-the-record conversation with Time magazine correspondent Larry Laybourne during a visit to New York, Secretary of State Paul Martin said that the Canadian government faced important decisions in the field of joint defence and that he was “staggered by the expense of the installations which Canada would have to finance.” Martin was undoubtedly referring to the MCC’s soon-to-be-shelved air defence plans.

Laybourne then contacted American government officials to try to pry more information out of them but was told that any publicity regarding Canada-United States defence activities at that point would embarrass US Secretary of State James Byrnes, then attending the Paris Peace Conference. Laybourne chose to sit on the story but Time’s representative in Ottawa tried to get details about Arctic defence installations from the United States embassy there. At the same time Maclean’s reporter Blair Fraser and the Financial Post’s Wilson were also poking around. Ottawa asked the State Department to help and Laybourne was contacted a second time and told to back off but not before the Canadians were reminded “where the responsibility for putting Time magazine on the trail lay.” The Americans might not have been so compliant if they were not “alive to the danger of prejudicing Canadian Government decisions by unfortunate publicity.”

C. Kit Laybourne's College years, (an entry in a yearbook which describes his exemplary academic, athletic, and extracurricular activities at Trinity College in Hartford CT (Elite Lib Arts college)

https://archive.org/stream/trinitycollegesc66trin/trinitycollegesc66trin_djvu.txt