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Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of [[covert action]] with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
 
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of [[covert action]] with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
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==January==
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*[[John Meskimen]] passes top secret cable from [[Lucius Clay]]'s office to [[Jay Lovestone]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.171.</ref>
  
 
==February==
 
==February==
 
* [[American Committee on United Europe]] (ACUE) incorporated.
 
* [[American Committee on United Europe]] (ACUE) incorporated.
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*'''14''' [[Matthew Woll]] writes to [[Lucius Clay]] accusing the American military government in Germany of discriminating against labour.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.171.</ref>
  
 
==March==
 
==March==
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==June==
 
==June==
 
*First board meeting of NCFE
 
*First board meeting of NCFE
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==July==
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*'''1''' [[John J. McCloy]] arrives in Germany as American High Commissioner.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.171.</ref>
  
 
==August==
 
==August==
 
*Ex-[[Comintern]] intellectuals [[Ruth Fischer]] and [[Franz Borkenau]] proposed a permanent structure for this purpose at a meeting with [[Melvin Lasky]] in Frankfurt.<ref>Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, pp.71-72.</ref>
 
*Ex-[[Comintern]] intellectuals [[Ruth Fischer]] and [[Franz Borkenau]] proposed a permanent structure for this purpose at a meeting with [[Melvin Lasky]] in Frankfurt.<ref>Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, pp.71-72.</ref>
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==September==
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*[[Konrad Adenauer]] becomes President of the new Federal Republic of Germany.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.172.</ref>
  
 
==October==
 
==October==
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*[[German Democratic Republic]] established.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.172.</ref>
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*First congress of the [[Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund]] in Munich with [[Hans Boeckler]] as President.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.172.</ref>
 
*[[John Paton Davies]] memo outlining a plan of political warfare against the USSR
 
*[[John Paton Davies]] memo outlining a plan of political warfare against the USSR
  

Revision as of 21:15, 7 August 2012

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

January

February

March

April

May

June

  • First board meeting of NCFE

July

August

September

October

Notes

  1. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.171.
  2. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.171.
  3. Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, pp.32-34.
  4. The North Atlantic Treaty, NATO, accessed 23 December 2011.
  5. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.68.
  6. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.171.
  7. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, pp.71-72.
  8. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.172.
  9. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.172.
  10. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.172.