Political Warfare Timeline 1951
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- 4 Allen Dulles appointed CIA Deputy Director of Plans.[1]
- Norris Chipman writes to Lovestone that he is no longer assocated with the Office of Policy Coordination in Paris.
February
- Raymond Murphy writes to Lovestone that he is sick and tired of criticism.
March
- Jay Lovestone atttempts to renegotiate the Free Trade Union Committee's relationship with the CIA, but is rebuffed in a meeting with Dulles.[2]
April
- Thomas Braden appointed head of the CIA's International Organizations Division, taking control of the labour networks from Frank Wisner.[3]
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
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.98.
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.98.
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.98.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, 1983, pp.92-95.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life, Random House, 1999, pp.2220-221.
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, pp.98-100.
