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| + | *French CGT begins a strike wave. [[Irving Brown]] tells [[Force Ouvriére]] it is an attempt to sabotage the Marshall plan.<ref name="Rathbun193">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.193.</ref> | ||
*'''5''' [[Cominform]] created.<ref name="Saunders26">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.26.</ref> | *'''5''' [[Cominform]] created.<ref name="Saunders26">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.26.</ref> | ||
*[[Melvin Lasky]] disrupts the East Berlin writers congress.<ref name="Saunders27">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.27.</ref> | *[[Melvin Lasky]] disrupts the East Berlin writers congress.<ref name="Saunders27">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.27.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 23:56, 3 August 2012
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
February
- Raymond Murphy brings Whittaker Chambers material to attention of Richard Nixon.[1]
March
- 12 Truman doctrine announced
June
- 5 Marshall Plan announced
July
- National Security Act
- X Foreign Affairs article
October
- French CGT begins a strike wave. Irving Brown tells Force Ouvriére it is an attempt to sabotage the Marshall plan.[2]
- 5 Cominform created.[3]
- Melvin Lasky disrupts the East Berlin writers congress.[4]
December
- CIA Special Procedures Group created.
- 7 Lasky submits magazine proposal to General Lucius Clay.[5]
- 19 CIA authorised to undertake covert psychological warfare by National Security Council directive NSC-4A.[6]
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.149.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.193.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.26.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.27.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.28.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.39.
