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Doc ID: 6652457 Doc Ref ID: A6606219 1950s Intelligence Chronology - Intellipedia 1 of 13 I (b) (3) - P . L . 86- 36 1 (U//FOUO) 1950s Intelligence Chronology 'FOP BE 6HE'F:11!'il,Cfl(s\'NOFOR1'1 From Intellipedia <~ 1940s Chronology 1960s Chronology~~> Intelligence History Portal Contents ■ 1 1950 ■ 2 1951 ■ 3 1952 ■ 4 1953 ■ 5 1954 ■ 6 1955 ■ 7 1956 ■ 8 1957 ■ 9 1958 ■ 10 1959 ■ 11 Useful Links 1950 ■ Early 1950: Guy Burgess reprimanded by Foreign Office for recent loose talk ■ January: Senate creates SISS, with Pat McCarran as cha…
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Doc ID: 6652457 Doc Ref ID: A6606219 1950s Intelligence Chronology - Intellipedia 2 of 13 ■ 15 September: Inchon landings send the North Koreans into retreat ■ 23 September: McCarran Internal Security Act is passed I (b) (3) - P . L . 86 - 36 1 ■ 07 October: Walter Bedell Smith becomes the DCI replacing Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter ■ 12 October: DCI Smith ordered that directives to OPC must go through DCI ■ 20 October: The interdepartmental role of the IAC is reinforced ■ November: ■ 01 November: Failed assassination of President Truman by Puerto Rican…
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Doc ID: 6652457 Doc Ref ID: A6606219 1950s Intelligence Chronology - Intellipedia 3 of 13 I (b) (3 ) -P . L . 86-36 1 ■ 01 July: The Office of Communications is established by DCI Smith; Harold M. McClelland as chief ■ 10 July: Korean truce talks open ■ 23 August: Allen Dulles appointed D/DCI replacing Jackson; Wisner became DD/P replacing Dulles ■ 08 September: World War II peace treaty signed with Japan; ratified 20 March 1952 ■ 23 October: NSC 10/5 increases CIA's Cold War operations responsibility ■ 27 October: (U) Edward Lee Howard, future CIA…
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Doc ID: 6652457 Doc Ref ID: A6606219 1950s Intelligence Chronology - Intellipedia 4 of 13 I (b) ( 3 ) -P . L . 86-36 1 ■ February: US/UK agree to joint operation against the Mossadeq regime in Iran ■ 26 February: Allen Dulles became the DCI; Walter Bedell Smith went to the Department of State ■ 01 March: Radio Liberty goes on the air ■ 05 March: Joseph Stalin dies ■ 15 March: Killian Committee report to ODM on US vulnerability to a surprise attack is issued ■ 17 March: DCI Dulles defends CIA personnel before senator Joseph McCarthy's subcommittee ■…
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Doc ID: 6652457 Doc Ref ID: A6606219 1950s Intelligence Chronology - Intellipedia 5 of 13 I (b) (3) -P . L. 86-36 1 ■ 09 November: HCUA subpoenas former President Truman ■ 16 November: Former President Truman publicly calls AG Brownell a liar ■ November: Brownell reads former President Hoover's declassified November 1945 letter to former President Truman before a Congressional committee ■ 23 November: Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance is suspended by the AEC ■ Late November: Boston University professor and OSS veteran Maurice Halpe…
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Doc ID: 6652457 Doc Ref ID: A6606219 1950s Intelligence Chronology - Intellipedia I (b ) (3 )- P . L . 86 - 36 1 • •• 6 of 13 ■ 14 June: Ngo Dinh Diem installed as Prime Minister to South Vietnam ■ 18 June: Coup-related operations begin in Guatemala, PBSU .. C_C_E_S_S _________________________________ _, (b ) ( 1 ) ■ 24 June: First of 5 defections of Soviet intelligence officers (b ) (3 )- 50 USC 3024 National Security Act of 19 47 Section 102A (i ) (1 ) ■ ■ July: National Indications Center is activated ■ 04 July: Clark Committee on Intelligence…
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Doc ID: 6652457 Doc Ref ID: A6606219 1950s Intelligence Chronology - Intellipedia 7 of 13 I (b) (3 ) -P . L . 86-36 1 ■ 11 April: Air India "Princess Kaslnnir" (Lockheed Constellation) is brought down by a bomb explosion in the sea near Natuna Island, Indonesia; 16 people are killed, a Koumintang (KMT)/Chinese Nationalist Party secret agent is suspected ■ 17 April: Bandung Conference of Afro-Asian countries heralds advent of non-aligned movement ■ 28 April: South Vietnam's war against the sects ends successfully ■ 05 May: West Germany becomes sovere…
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Doc ID: 6652457 Doc Ref ID: A6606219 1950s Intelligence Chronology - Intellipedia 8 of 13 I (b) (3 ) -P . L . 86-36 1 ■ IO January: The Air Force begins to release GENETRIX photoreconnaissance balloons ■ 13 January: PBCFIA is established ■ 21 January: HTAUTOMAT is created to exploit the future take from U-2 ■ 31 January: GMIC is created as an IAC committee ■ 02 February: CAT/Laos aircraft charter agreement ■ 05 February: ■ Last Launch of GENETRIX photo reconnaissance balloons by the Air Force ■ President Eisenhower creates the President's Board o…
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