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

==February==
* [[American Committee on United Europe]] (ACUE) incorporated.

==March==
*[[Friends of Russian Freedom]] created.<ref>Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, pp.32-34.</ref>
* ACUE launched.
*'''25''' Waldorf conference.
*[[International Day of Resistance to Dictatorship and War]]

==May==
*[[Allen Dulles]] law firm draws up legal papers for [[National Committee for a Free Europe]] NCFE.

==June==
*First board meeting of NCFE

==August==
*Ex-[[Comintern]] intellectuals [[Ruth Fischer]] and [[Franz Borkenau]] proposed a permanent structure for this purpose at a meeting with [[Melvin Lasky]] in Frankfurt.<ref>Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, pp.71-72.</ref>

==October==
*[[John Paton Davies]] memo outlining a plan of political warfare against the USSR

==Notes==
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 ==October==
 *[[German Democratic Republic]] established.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.172.</ref>
-*First congress of the [[Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund]] in Munich with [[Hans Boeckler]] as President.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.172.</ref>
+*First congress of the [[Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund]] in Munich with [[Hans Boeckler]] as President.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.172.</ref>
 *[[John Paton Davies]] memo outlining a plan of political warfare against the USSR

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 ==January==
 *[[John Meskimen]] passes top secret cable from [[Lucius Clay]]'s office to [[Jay Lovestone]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.171.</ref>
 ==February==

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		+	*'''4''' - North Atlantic Treaty signed, establishing [[NATO]].<ref>[http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_17120.htm The North Atlantic Treaty], NATO, accessed 23 December 2011.</ref>
	*'''30''' [[International Day of Resistance to Dictatorship and War]]<ref name="Saunders68">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.68.</ref>		*'''30''' [[International Day of Resistance to Dictatorship and War]]<ref name="Saunders68">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.68.</ref>

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 Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of [[covert action]] with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
 ==February==
 * [[American Committee on United Europe]] (ACUE) incorporated.
 ==March==
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 ==June==
 *First board meeting of NCFE
 ==August==
 *Ex-[[Comintern]] intellectuals [[Ruth Fischer]] and [[Franz Borkenau]] proposed a permanent structure for this purpose at a meeting with [[Melvin Lasky]] in Frankfurt.<ref>Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, pp.71-72.</ref>
 ==October==
 *[[John Paton Davies]] memo outlining a plan of political warfare against the USSR

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 * ACUE launched.
 *'''25''' Waldorf conference.
 *[[International Day of Resistance to Dictatorship and War]]
 ==May==