Counterattack (newsletter)

Counterattack: The Newsletter of Facts on Communism
Counterattack (May 7, 1948)
Managing EditorTheodore C. Kirkpatrick
Categoriesanti-communist, conservative
Frequencyweekly
FormatNewsletter
PublisherCounterattack
Paid circulationunknown
Unpaid circulationunknown
FounderJohn G. Keenan
Founded1947
First issueMay 16, 1947; 77 years ago (1947-05-16)
Final issueNovember 25, 1955 (1955-11-25)
CompanyAmerican Business Consultants, Inc. (ABC)
CountryUnited States of America
Based inNew York City
LanguageEnglish
Websitearchive.fo/2DFoM

Counterattack was a weekly subscription-based newsletter published from 1947 to 1955, with an emphasis on anti-communist content and organizing boycotts or other actions against those who were accused of communist associations or sympathies. The mimeographed newsletter was published by American Business Consultants, a "private, independent organization" started by three former agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Counterattack went into decline after a series of lawsuits by people who were named in the publication.

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