Political Warfare Timeline 1946
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- Charles de Gaulle walks out of the French government.[1]
- 9 Jay Lovestone writes Ben Mandel about communist Atomic spying.[2]
- 22 Central Intelligence Group established.
Feb
- Irving Brown debates Benoit Frachon at a CGT congress in Lille, criticising the Communist call for wage restraint.[3]
- Kennan long telegram
- 3 Kennan describes WFTU as an instrument of Soviet policy.[4]
March
April
May
- 17 Lovestone writes Mandel about Walter Winchell.[5]
June
July
Aug
- Ray Murphy questions Whitaker Chambers.[6]
September
October
November
- Report of Security investigation on Alger Hiss prompted by Murphy.[7]
December
- National War Fund,the main funder for the International Rescue Committee dissolved.[8]
Notes
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.172.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.145.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.179.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.153.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.145.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.148.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.149.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.20.
