Political Warfare Timeline 1947

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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.

February

March

  • 12 Truman doctrine announced

June

  • 5 Marshall Plan announced.
  • Late June - Soviet delegation walks out of talks on the Marshall Plan.[2]

July

  • National Security Act
  • X Foreign Affairs article

October

December

Notes

  1. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.149.
  2. Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.192.
  3. Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.193.
  4. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.26.
  5. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.27.
  6. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.28.
  7. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.39.