Difference between revisions of "Political Warfare Timeline 1947"

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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.

February

March

  • 12 Truman doctrine announced

June

  • 5 Marshall Plan announced

July

  • National Security Act
  • X Foreign Affairs article

October

December

Notes

  1. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.149.
  2. Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.193.
  3. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.26.
  4. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.27.
  5. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.28.
  6. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.39.