Political Warfare Timeline 1956

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

February

• Kruschev speech

August

• Freedom Fund launches campaign for funding of several anti-communist organisations

October

• 24 Soviet troops enter Budapest
• 29 Leo Cherne and Angier Duke Biddle fly to Vienna.

November

• 1 Imre Nagy announces Hungarian resignation from Warsaw Pact. Leo Cherne and Marcel Faust arrive in Budapest.