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“Mailer Headlines Counter-Spy Pitch.” Article by Louise Lague. Washington Star-News, 25 March, Sec. D, pp. 1 and one additional page. Report on a reception to celebrate the merger of the organization Mailer launched at his 50th birthday party, “The Fifth Estate” (see 73.10), and CAR-IC, the Committee for Action/Research on the Intelligence Community, into one organization, which would in turn publish Counter-Spy magazine (see 75.4). Mailer said he wanted “to be remembered as old Uncle Norman who had something to do with it.” See also 73.2, 75.6 and “Follow-Up on the News,” New York Times, 17 March, 33.