Political Warfare Timeline 1949
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- John Meskimen passes top secret cable from Lucius Clay's office to Jay Lovestone.[1]
- George Kennan reviews of Office of Policy Coordination plans for covert action and finds them insufficient.[2]
February
- American Committee on United Europe (ACUE) incorporated.
- 14 Matthew Woll writes to Lucius Clay accusing the American military government in Germany of discriminating against labour.[3]
March
- Friends of Russian Freedom created.[4]
- ACUE launched.
- 25 Waldorf conference.
April
- 4 - North Atlantic Treaty signed, establishing NATO.[5]
- 30 International Day of Resistance to Dictatorship and War[6]
May
- Allen Dulles law firm draws up legal papers for National Committee for a Free Europe NCFE.
June
- First board meeting of NCFE
July
- 1 John J. McCloy arrives in Germany as American High Commissioner.[7]
August
- Ex-Comintern intellectuals Ruth Fischer and Franz Borkenau proposed a permanent structure for this purpose at a meeting with Melvin Lasky in Frankfurt.[8]
September
- Konrad Adenauer becomes President of the new Federal Republic of Germany.[9]
October
- German Democratic Republic established.[10]
- First congress of the Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund in Munich with Hans Boeckler as President.[11]
- John Paton Davies memo outlining a plan of political warfare against the USSR
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.171.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.27.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.171.
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, pp.32-34.
- ↑ The North Atlantic Treaty, NATO, accessed 23 December 2011.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.68.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.171.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, pp.71-72.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.172.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.172.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.172.
