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Revision as of 12:09, 23 December 2011
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.[1]
- ACUE launched.
- 25 Waldorf conference.
April
- 4 - North Atlantic Treaty signed, establishing NATO.[2]
- 30 International Day of Resistance to Dictatorship and War[3]
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.[4]
October
- John Paton Davies memo outlining a plan of political warfare against the USSR
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, pp.71-72.
