Political Warfare Timeline 1947
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
July
- National Security Act
- X Foreign Affairs article
October
- 5 Cominform created.[2]
- Melvin Lasky disrupts the East Berlin writers congress.[3]
December
- CIA Special Procedures Group created.
- 7 Lasky submits magazine proposal to General Lucius Clay.
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.149.
- ↑ 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.
