1948

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( 1940s: )     1948
SS Exodus carrying immigrants to Israel. The boat was targeted by Operation Embarrass.

1948 saw an intensifying of the Cold War, and a commencement of mind control research (Operation Chatter). The CIA became operational in 1958, after being signed in law by Harry Truman the previous year.

Cold War

Full article: Cold War

The RAND Corporation was formed in 1948, a think tank which remains closely affiliated to the Military-industrial complex.

CIA expansion

Full article: CIA

In 1948, directive NSC 10/2 authorised the CIA to carry out covert actions anywhere in the world, specifically including "propaganda; economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition, and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world." By 1951, according to Walter Bedell Smith, the CIA covert operations had already "far exceeded" this.  

Events

Event
Tuskegee syphilis experiment
Morgenthau Plan
Operation Paperclip
Guatemala syphilis experiment
Cold War
Project CHATTER
CHATTER
Operation Embarrass
Operation Demagnetize

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Date	Type
OEEC		1948 - 1961	Intergovernmental organisation
Operation Gladio		1948 - Present	Military Terrorist
Association of Chief Police Officers		1948 - Present
American Committee on United Europe		1948 - Present
People's Bank of China		12 January 1948 - Present	Central bank
RAND Corporation		14 May 1948 - Present	Think tank
Israel		14 May 1948 - Present	Nation state
Israel/Defense Forces		26 May 1948 - Present	Military
Office of Policy Coordination		June 1948 - 1951	Intelligence agency
Office of Scientific Intelligence		31 December 1948 - 5 August 1963