Political Warfare Timeline 1960
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
January
- 8 Allen Dulles orders Richard Bissell to organise task force to overthrow Fidel Castro.[1]
=March
- 2 Dulles briefs VP Richard Nixon on covert operations in Cuba.[2]
- 17 Dulles and Bissell brief President Dwight Eisenhower and Nixon re Cuba.[3]
April
- Leo Cherne of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) meets with Allen Dulles re Caribbean.[4]
July
- IRC announces Caribbean refugee program.[5]
August
- Bissell takes out a Mafia contract on Castro.[6]
- 18 Eisenhower agrees to train Cuban paramitary unit at meeting with Dulles and Bissell. At a National Security Council meeting, later that day, Eisenhower orders Dulles to eliminate Lumumba.[7]
Notes
- ↑ Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.180.
- ↑ Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.181.
- ↑ Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.182.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.185.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.186.
- ↑ Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.186.
- ↑ Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.187.
