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==February==
 
==February==
 
*[[Raymond Murphy]] writes to Lovestone that he is sick and tired of criticism.
 
*[[Raymond Murphy]] writes to Lovestone that he is sick and tired of criticism.
 
  
 
==March==
 
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Revision as of 01:19, 13 October 2011

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.

January

February

  • Raymond Murphy writes to Lovestone that he is sick and tired of criticism.

March

April

4 US Senate vote commits a 100,000 man army to Europe, and greatly expanded presidential power over foreign affairs.[4]

  • 9 On the advice of Carmel Offie, Jay Lovestone and David Dubinsky obtain a meeting with Walter Bedell Smith which leads to the reorganisation of the FTUC's relationship with the CIA.[5] Hugh Wilford describes the meeting, which degenerated into a "shouting match", as the beginning of a steady decline in CIA sponsorship of the FTUC.[6]

Notes

  1. Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.98.
  2. Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.98.
  3. Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.98.
  4. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, 1983, pp.92-95.
  5. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life, Random House, 1999, pp.2220-221.
  6. Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, pp.98-100.