Political Warfare Timeline 1947

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
==January==
*4 - Americans for Democratic Action founding conference.
==February==
*Raymond Murphy brings Whittaker Chambers material to attention of Richard Nixon.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.149.
*Bizonal union convention in British and American areas of Germany.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
==March==
*12 Truman doctrine announced
==April==
*Free Trade Union Committee earmarks funds for office equipment for Kurt Schumacher's SPD.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
*Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund founded at convention in Bielefeld.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
*8 - Jay Lovestone writes to Matthew Woll about George Shaw Wheeler defection to Czechoslovakia.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.162.
==May==
*George Marshall appoints George Kennan head of the State Department Policy Planning Staff.Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.24.
==June==
*5 Marshall Plan announced.
*Late June - Soviet delegation walks out of talks on the Marshall Plan.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.192.
==July==
*National Security Act
*X Foreign Affairs article
==September==
*Lucius Clay and Robert Murphy of OMGUS meet Henry Rutz to express reservations about Kurt Schumacher visit to the USA.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.167.
*1 - United Nations Special Committee on Palestine recommends partition.Robert D. Parmet, The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement, NYU Press, 2005, p.239.
==October==
*Kurt Schumacher tells AFL conference, "Communist totalitarianism is now attempting to conquer the European continent".Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.168. Jay Lovestone clashes with George Kennan over Schumacher's opposition to Konrad Adenauer.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.168.
*French CGT begins a strike wave. Irving Brown tells Force Ouvriére it is an attempt to sabotage the Marshall plan.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.193.
*5 Cominform created.Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.26.
*Melvin Lasky disrupts the East Berlin writers congress.Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.27.
*28 - Jay Lovestone writes to James Forrestal informing him of his underground labour network in the Soviet zone of Germany.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.169.
==November==
*Power in OMGUS starts to shift towards pro-Social Democrat officers Henry Rutz and Alfred Bingham.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
*Jay Lovestone reports to George Meany and Matthew Woll on Free Trade Union Committee, stating that "our trade union programs have penetrated every country of Europe".Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.169.
==December==
*CIA Special Procedures Group created.
*Irving Brown persuades Leon Jouhaux to split with the CGT.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.194.
*3 - Louis Nelson resigns as vice-president of the Jewish Labor Committee over its support for a Jewish state in Palestine.Robert D. Parmet, The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement, NYU Press, 2005, p.239.
*4 - A dinner in honour of Chaim Weizmann at the Hotel Astor raises $1 million for the Histadrut. David Dubinsky is among the speakers.Robert D. Parmet, The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement, NYU Press, 2005, p.239.
*7 Lasky submits magazine proposal to General Lucius Clay.Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.28.
*19 CIA authorised to undertake covert psychological warfare by National Security Council directive NSC-4A.Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.39.
==Notes==
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