Kennan gains oversight of US clandestine operations
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- Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War pp. 119-122 · open book
By the summer of 1948 Truman and Marshall had delegated personal responsibility for political oversight of all peacetime clandestine operations to George Kennan, according to a later Senate investigation of U.
- Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War pp. 119-122 · open book
The spring and summer of 1948 were a period of extraordinary activity in U.
- Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War pp. 159-163 · open book
By 1948 that the United States would increasingly rely on atomic weapons to deter any Soviet military moves against the West had already become a foregone conclusion among most U.
- Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War pp. 219-222 · open book
During the 1948 Italian election campaign, according to Lyon, Bishop attempted to build the CIC’s highly secret underground escape operation into a large-scale paramilitary force.
- Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War pp. 363-367 · open book
Committee for a Free Europe (1948–1949); the National Committee for a Free Europe (1949–1954); the Free Europe Committee, Inc. (1954–1976); and, finally, RFE/RL, Inc.
- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
Then the Holocaust convinced nearly all Jews of the need for a sovereign state. The American Warburgs were proud and jubilant when Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948, and won President Truman’s blessing. Felix’s nemesis, David Ben-Gurion, became prime minister, Weizmann took the ceremonial post of president, and James G.
chapter: 41 - Museum Pieces
- Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe whole source · open book
After leaving the National Physical Laboratory in 1948
chapter: 18. The Thirty-ninth Step