Political Warfare Timeline 1948
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- 4 Information Research Department founded.
February
- Jay Lovestone appeals to Secretary of Defence James Forrestal over newsprint for German unions.[1]
March
- Henry Rutz informs Jay Lovestone that the German labor unions have received more paper and an automobile allocation as a result of FTUC lobbying.[2]
April
- Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi sets up the American Committee for a Free and United Europe.[3]
- Carmel Offie resigns from US Foreign Service.
- Christian Democrats win the Italian general election.[4]
June
- CIA Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) established.[5]
- George Kennan recommends Frank Wisner, John Paton Davies and Irving Brown to George Marshall and Robert Lovett as potential heads of the OPC.[6]
July
- Berlin Blockade.[7]
August
- Jay Lovestone and David Dubinsky visit Berlin. At a subsequent meeting with Lucius Clay in the American zone they plead for the restoration of trade union property. Hesse labour leader Willi Richter tells them Clay is backing pro-Nazi big business.[8]
- 27 Richard Crossman writes to C.D. Jackson about the book that will become The God That Failed.[9]
September
October
- Melvin Lasky founds a new monthly magazine Der Monat with the backing of the American military governor Lucius Clay.[10]
November
- Harry Truman re-elected US President.
December
- Frank Wisner formally introduced to Jay Lovestone by Matthew Woll.[11]
- Sir William Hayter drafts a proposal for a British psychological warfare outfit to 'wage the Cold War.'[12]
Notes
- ↑ 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.169.
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune? Frank Cass, 2003, p.227.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, pp.26-27.
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.85.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, 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.169.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.64.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders,Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, pp.29-31.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life, Random House, 1999, pp.197-198.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.375.
