Political Warfare Timeline 1950

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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.

January

  • Proposal for the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) reaches Frank Wisner's desk.

April

June

July

September

  • 'Citizens's lobby' proposal took further shape at a 'private citizens conference' in late September attended by some 50 key figures from the worlds of business, academia and the media. [4]

October Bedell Smith accepts job as head of CIA

November

December

Notes

  1. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, 1983, pp.23-34.
  2. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, p.75.
  3. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, 1983, p.61.
  4. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, 1983, p.65.
  5. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, 1983, p.67.
  6. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, p.88.
  7. *Robert D. Parmet, The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement, NYU Press, 2005, p.235.
  8. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, 1983, pp.54-55.
  9. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, 1983, pp.54-55.