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*[[Frank Wisner]] formally introduced to [[Jay Lovestone]] by [[Matthew Woll]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life, Random House, 1999, pp.197-198.</ref> | *[[Frank Wisner]] formally introduced to [[Jay Lovestone]] by [[Matthew Woll]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life, Random House, 1999, pp.197-198.</ref> | ||
| + | *Sir [[William Hayter]] drafts a proposal for a British psychological warfare outfit to 'wage the Cold War.'<ref name="Saunders375">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.375.</ref> | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Revision as of 00:12, 15 December 2011
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
January
- 4 Information Research Department founded.
April
- Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi sets up the American Committee for a Free and United Europe.[1]
- Carmel Offie resigns from US Foreign Service.
June
- CIA Office of Policy Coordination established.[2]
August
- 27 Richard Crossman writes to C.D. Jackson about the book that will become The God That Failed.[3]
September
October
- Melvin Lasky founds a new monthly magazine Der Monat with the backing of the American military governor Lucius Clay.[4]
December
- Frank Wisner formally introduced to Jay Lovestone by Matthew Woll.[5]
- Sir William Hayter drafts a proposal for a British psychological warfare outfit to 'wage the Cold War.'[6]
Notes
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune? Frank Cass, 2003, p.227.
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.85.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.64.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders,Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, pp.29-31.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life, Random House, 1999, pp.197-198.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.375.
