[1] Plain Talk featured articles by many conservative writers of the time, including John Chamberlain, Suzanne La Follette, Eugene Lyons, George S. Schuyler, and Ralph de Toledano.
[4] In the 1970s, Levine wrote that in July 1946, Benjamin Mandel (a "guide to the mission" of the magazine), accompanied by Father John F. Cronin and Alfred Kohlberg, approached Levine at home in Norwalk, Connecticut.
[3] Its low circulation and readership levels made the magazine cease publication in May 1950.
Former US President Herbert Hoover had provided some "half-hearted" funding, but it did not succeed in shoring up the magazine.
Kirkpatrick and Bierly joined with a third ex-FBI agent, John G. Keenan, to form "John Quincy Adams Associates" in Washington, DC, and then "American Business Consultants, Inc." in New York City, the publisher of Counterattack.