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*[[CIA]] [[Special Procedures Group]] created. | *[[CIA]] [[Special Procedures Group]] created. | ||
| − | *[[Irving Brown] persuades [[Leon Jouhaux]] to split with the CGT.<ref name="Rathbun194">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.194.</ref> | + | *[[Irving Brown]] persuades [[Leon Jouhaux]] to split with the CGT.<ref name="Rathbun194">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.194.</ref> |
*'''7''' Lasky submits magazine proposal to General [[Lucius Clay]].<ref name="Saunders28">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.28.</ref> | *'''7''' Lasky submits magazine proposal to General [[Lucius Clay]].<ref name="Saunders28">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.28.</ref> | ||
*'''19''' [[CIA]] authorised to undertake covert psychological warfare by [[National Security Council]] directive [[NSC-4A]].<ref name="Saunders39">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.39.</ref> | *'''19''' [[CIA]] authorised to undertake covert psychological warfare by [[National Security Council]] directive [[NSC-4A]].<ref name="Saunders39">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.39.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 00:57, 4 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.
- Late June - Soviet delegation walks out of talks on the Marshall Plan.[2]
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.[3]
- 5 Cominform created.[4]
- Melvin Lasky disrupts the East Berlin writers congress.[5]
December
- CIA Special Procedures Group created.
- Irving Brown persuades Leon Jouhaux to split with the CGT.[6]
- 7 Lasky submits magazine proposal to General Lucius Clay.[7]
- 19 CIA authorised to undertake covert psychological warfare by National Security Council directive NSC-4A.[8]
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.192.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.194.
- ↑ 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.
