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==January== | ==January== | ||
*Merger of CIA with OPC begins | *Merger of CIA with OPC begins | ||
| + | *'''9''' [[Jay Lovestone]] writes to [[Kurt Schumacher]] "too many our enemies would welcome your being incapacitated at this moment."<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.168.</ref> | ||
==February== | ==February== | ||
| − | *'''16''' [[Reinhold | + | *'''16''' [[Reinhold Niebuhr]] has a stroke. Is replaced as acting chair of [[International Rescue Committee]] by [[Leo Cherne]]. |
==May== | ==May== | ||
*[[Allen Dulles]] holds secret conference at Princeton Inn. | *[[Allen Dulles]] holds secret conference at Princeton Inn. | ||
| + | ==August== | ||
| + | *'''20''' - death of Kurt Schumacher.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.168.</ref> | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Latest revision as of 19:34, 7 August 2012
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- Merger of CIA with OPC begins
- 9 Jay Lovestone writes to Kurt Schumacher "too many our enemies would welcome your being incapacitated at this moment."[1]
February
- 16 Reinhold Niebuhr has a stroke. Is replaced as acting chair of International Rescue Committee by Leo Cherne.
May
- Allen Dulles holds secret conference at Princeton Inn.
August
- 20 - death of Kurt Schumacher.[2]
