Political Warfare Timeline 1949

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Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.

Contents

1 February
2 March
3 April
4 May
5 June
6 August
7 October
8 Notes

February

American Committee on United Europe (ACUE) incorporated.

March

Friends of Russian Freedom created.^[1]
ACUE launched.
25 Waldorf conference.

April

30 International Day of Resistance to Dictatorship and War^[2]

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.^[3]

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.
↑ 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.

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