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Doc ID: 6652457                                      Doc Ref ID: A6606219
1950s Intelligence Chronology - Intellipedia 
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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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■ 15 September: Inchon landings send the North Koreans into retreat 
■ 23 September: McCarran Internal Security Act is passed 
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■ 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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■ 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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■ 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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■ 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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■ 14 June: Ngo Dinh Diem installed as Prime Minister to South Vietnam 
■ 18 June: Coup-related operations begin in Guatemala, PBSU .. 
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■ July: National Indications Center is activated 
■ 04 July: Clark Committee on Intelligence
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■ 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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■ 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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