Political Warfare Timeline 1960

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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

March

April


July

  • IRC announces Caribbean refugee program.[5]


August

  • Bissell takes out a Mafia contract on Castro.[6]
  • 18 Eisenhower agrees to train Cuban paramitary unit at meeting with Dulles and Bissell. At a National Security Council meeting, later that day, Eisenhower orders Dulles to eliminate Lumumba.[7]


Notes

  1. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.180.
  2. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.181.
  3. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.182.
  4. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.185.
  5. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.186.
  6. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.186.
  7. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.187.