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]
- Bizonal union convention in British and American areas of Germany.[2]
March
- 12 Truman doctrine announced
April
- Free Trade Union Committee earmarks funds for office equipment for Kurt Schumacher's SPD.[3]
- Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund founded at convention in Bielefeld.[4]
- 8 - Jay Lovestone writes to Matthew Woll about George Shaw Wheeler defection to Czechoslovakia.[5]
May
- George Marshall appoints George Kennan head of the State Department Policy Planning Staff.[6]
June
- 5 Marshall Plan announced.
- Late June - Soviet delegation walks out of talks on the Marshall Plan.[7]
July
- National Security Act
- X Foreign Affairs article
September
- Lucius Clay and Robert Murphy of OMGUS meet Henry Rutz to express reservations about Kurt Schumacher visit to the USA.[8]
October
- Kurt Schumacher tells AFL conference, "Communist totalitarianism is now attempting to conquer the European continent".[9] Jay Lovestone clashes with George Kennan over Schumacher's opposition to Konrad Adenauer.[10]
- French CGT begins a strike wave. Irving Brown tells Force Ouvriére it is an attempt to sabotage the Marshall plan.[11]
- 5 Cominform created.[12]
- Melvin Lasky disrupts the East Berlin writers congress.[13]
- 28 - Jay Lovestone writes to James Forrestal informing him of his underground labour network in the Soviet zone of Germany.[14]
November
- Power in OMGUS starts to shift towards pro-Social Democrat officers Henry Rutz and Alfred Bingham.[15]
- Jay Lovestone reports to George Meany and Matthew Woll on Free Trade Union Committee, stating that "our trade union programs have penetrated every country of Europe".[16]
December
- CIA Special Procedures Group created.
- Irving Brown persuades Leon Jouhaux to split with the CGT.[17]
- 7 Lasky submits magazine proposal to General Lucius Clay.[18]
- 19 CIA authorised to undertake covert psychological warfare by National Security Council directive NSC-4A.[19]
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.149.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.162.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.24.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.192.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.167.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.168.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.168.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.193.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.169.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.169.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.194.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.28.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.39.
