Difference between revisions of "Political Warfare Timeline 1951"

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==April==
 
==April==
 
*[[Thomas Braden]] appointed head of the CIA's [[International Organizations Division]], taking control of the labour networks from [[Frank Wisner]].<ref>Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.98.</ref>
 
*[[Thomas Braden]] appointed head of the CIA's [[International Organizations Division]], taking control of the labour networks from [[Frank Wisner]].<ref>Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.98.</ref>
Chancellor [[Hugh Gaitskell]] introduces a budget that would almost double Britain's defence budget to support the American war effort in Korea. It includes plans to charge for NHS spectacles and teeth, prompting [[Aneurin Bevan]], [[Harold Wilson]] and [[John Freeman]] to resign from the Government in April 1951.<ref>Stephen Dorril & Robin Ramsay, Smear, Wilson and the Secret State, Fourth Estate Ltd, 1991, p10.</ref>
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*Chancellor [[Hugh Gaitskell]] introduces a budget that would almost double Britain's defence budget to support the American war effort in Korea. It includes plans to charge for NHS spectacles and teeth, prompting [[Aneurin Bevan]], [[Harold Wilson]] and [[John Freeman]] to resign from the Governmen.<ref>Stephen Dorril & Robin Ramsay, Smear, Wilson and the Secret State, Fourth Estate Ltd, 1991, p10.</ref>
 
*'''4'''  US Senate vote commits a 100,000 man army to Europe, and greatly expanded presidential power over foreign affairs.<ref>Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, 1983, pp.92-95.</ref>
 
*'''4'''  US Senate vote commits a 100,000 man army to Europe, and greatly expanded presidential power over foreign affairs.<ref>Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, 1983, pp.92-95.</ref>
 
*'''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.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life, Random House, 1999, pp.2220-221.</ref> Hugh Wilford describes the meeting, which degenerated into a "shouting match", as the beginning of a steady decline in CIA sponsorship of the FTUC.<ref>Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, pp.98-100.</ref>
 
*'''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.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life, Random House, 1999, pp.2220-221.</ref> Hugh Wilford describes the meeting, which degenerated into a "shouting match", as the beginning of a steady decline in CIA sponsorship of the FTUC.<ref>Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, pp.98-100.</ref>

Revision as of 01:20, 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

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. Stephen Dorril & Robin Ramsay, Smear, Wilson and the Secret State, Fourth Estate Ltd, 1991, p10.
  5. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, 1983, pp.92-95.
  6. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life, Random House, 1999, pp.2220-221.
  7. Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, pp.98-100.