#Cold-War
Events indexed under #Cold-War — 33 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981-09-29 | Reagan Orders Coast Guard Interdiction of Haitian Refugees, Establishing Maritime Asylum Denial Ronald Reagan · U.S. Coast Guard · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Jean-Claude Duvalier · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1980-04-21 | Mariel Boatlift Exposes Racist Double Standards as Cubans Welcomed While Haitians Detained Jimmy Carter · Fidel Castro · Cuban refugees · Haitian refugees · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1980-03-17 | Refugee Act of 1980 Establishes Systematic Asylum Process, Becomes Target of Enforcement Capture Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · U.S. Congress · United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1975-04-28 | Church Committee Exposes Psychological Manipulation Techniques in Government Operations Senator Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community · Donald Ewen Cameron · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-11 | CIA-Backed Coup Overthrows Salvador Allende in Chile: Corporate and Intelligence Interests Align to Destroy Democracy CIA · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · Salvador Allende · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1958-01-01 | CIA Funding Reaches 53.5% of European Movement Budget via ACUE: Intelligence-Driven Supranational Integration CIA · Allen Dulles · William Donovan · American Committee on United Europe · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1955-12-05 | AFL-CIO Merger Consolidates Labor Movement, But Cements Conservative Leadership George Meany · Walter Reuther · American Federation of Labor · Congress of Industrial Organizations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1955-05-01 | Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group: CIA Officers Operate Under Academic Cover in Saigon Wesley Fishel · Michigan State University · CIA · Ngo Dinh Diem | confirmed | |
| 1954-09-01 | Communist Control Act Bans Party Members from Union Leadership, Weaponizing Anti-Communism Against Labor U.S. Congress · Dwight D. Eisenhower · House Un-American Activities Committee · American Federation of Labor · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-06-27 | CIA Operation PBSUCCESS Overthrows Guatemalan Democracy, Protects United Fruit Company Interests Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · United Fruit Company · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1954-02-26 | Bricker Amendment Fails by One Vote, Conservative Attempt to Limit Treaty Power Defeated John Bricker · Dwight D. Eisenhower · American Bar Association · U.S. Senate · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1953-08-19 | CIA Operation Ajax Overthrows Democratic Iranian Government, Installs Shah Dictatorship Central Intelligence Agency · Kermit Roosevelt Jr. · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1953-06-19 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed at Sing Sing, Cold War's Most Controversial Death Penalty Case Julius Rosenberg · Ethel Rosenberg · Roy Cohn · Irving Saypol · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1953-04-13 | CIA MKULTRA Project Officially Begins Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · Sidney Gottlieb | confirmed | |
| 1953-01-01 | Operation Mockingbird: CIA Cultivates Hundreds of Journalists at Major American Outlets CIA · Frank Wisner · Cord Meyer · Philip Graham · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1951-08-01 | Electric Boat Awarded Contract for First Nuclear Submarine USS Nautilus, Launching General Dynamics Electric Boat · General Dynamics Corporation · John Jay Hopkins · U.S. Navy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1951-01-01 | CIA Begins Systematic University Funding Through Front Foundations: Academic Capture at Scale CIA · Allen Dulles · MIT · Harvard · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1950-12-29 | Celler-Kefauver Act Closes Merger Loopholes, Strengthens Government Power to Block Anticompetitive Consolidation U.S. Congress · Representative Emanuel Celler · Senator Estes Kefauver · Harry Truman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Codifies Red-Scare Surveillance Apparatus Patrick McCarran · Harry S. Truman · Subversive Activities Control Board · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1950-06-26 | Congress for Cultural Freedom Founded with CIA Money: Intellectual Capture Across 35 Countries CIA · Frank Wisner · Michael Josselson · Melvin Lasky · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1950-04-07 | NSC-68 Directive Creates Permanent Military-Industrial Establishment - Defense Spending to Triple Harry S. Truman · Paul Nitze · Dean Acheson · George Kennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1949-12-08 | China Lobby Intensifies Campaign After Nationalist Retreat to Taiwan - Alfred Kohlberg Funds Propaganda Alfred Kohlberg · Chiang Kai-shek · T.V. Soong · Henry R. Luce · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1949-11-15 | CIO Expels United Electrical Workers and Farm Equipment Workers, Beginning Purge of Communist-Led Unions Congress of Industrial Organizations · Philip Murray · Walter Reuther · United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1949-04-04 | NATO Established - 12 Nations Form Collective Defense Pact, $1.4 Billion Defense Buildup Begins Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · North Atlantic Treaty Organization · Defense Department | confirmed | |
| 1948-04-03 | Marshall Plan Begins - $13 Billion Aid Program Benefits American Exporters and Defense Industry George Marshall · Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · European Recovery Program | confirmed | |
| 1948-01-27 | Smith-Mundt Act Authorizes State Department Propaganda Apparatus - Voice of America Expands Harry S. Truman · Karl E. Mundt · U.S. Congress · State Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-12-19 | NSC 4-A Secretly Authorizes CIA Covert Action Using "Fifth Function" Elastic Clause of 1947 Act Harry S. Truman · National Security Council · Central Intelligence Agency · George Kennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-10-01 | Federal Loyalty Program Implementation Creates Permanent Political Background-Check Regime Harry S. Truman · Seth Richardson · Civil Service Commission · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-09-18 | Central Intelligence Agency Begins Operations Under 1947 National Security Act Harry S. Truman · Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter · Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-03-12 | Truman Doctrine Announces $400 Million Military Aid Package - Cold War Containment Policy Begins Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · George F. Kennan · Dean Acheson | confirmed | |
| 1945-09-03 | Operation Paperclip Secretly Recruits Nazi Scientists, Whitewashes War Crimes Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency · U.S. War Department · Wernher von Braun · State Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1945-09-01 | Project SHAMROCK Begins, NSA Obtains Copies of All International Cables for 30 Years Armed Forces Security Agency · National Security Agency · Western Union · ITT Communications · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1943-02-01 | Army Signal Intelligence Service Begins VENONA Soviet Cable Decryption, Foundation for Post-War Counterintelligence Gene Grabeel · Meredith Gardner · Army Signal Intelligence Service · Carter Clarke · +2 | confirmed |