Political Warfare Timeline 1949
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
February
- American Committee on United Europe (ACUE) incorporated.
March
- Friends of Russian Freedom created.[1]
- ACUE launched.
- 25 Waldorf conference.
- International Day of Resistance to Dictatorship and War
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.[2]
October
- John Paton Davies memo outlining a plan of political warfare against the USSR
