| 1981-09-29 | Reagan Orders Coast Guard Interdiction of Haitian Refugees, Establishing Maritime Asylum Denial
3 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Coast Guard · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of State |
| confirmed |
| 1980-04-21 | Mariel Boatlift Exposes Racist Double Standards as Cubans Welcomed While Haitians Detained
3 src Jimmy Carter · Haitian refugees · Immigration and Naturalization Service | | confirmed |
| 1980-03-17 | Refugee Act of 1980 Establishes Systematic Asylum Process, Becomes Target of Enforcement Capture
3 src 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
4 src Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community · National Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-11 | CIA-Backed Coup Overthrows Salvador Allende in Chile: Corporate and Intelligence Interests Align to Destroy Democracy
3 src CIA · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger |
| confirmed |
| 1958-01-01 | CIA Funding Reaches 53.5% of European Movement Budget via ACUE: Intelligence-Driven Supranational Integration
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles · William Donovan |
| confirmed |
| 1955-12-05 | AFL-CIO Merger Consolidates Labor Movement, But Cements Conservative Leadership
3 src Walter Reuther · American Federation of Labor · Congress of Industrial Organizations · AFL-CIO | | confirmed |
| 1955-05-01 | Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group: CIA Officers Operate Under Academic Cover in Saigon
3 src Michigan State University · CIA |
| confirmed |
| 1954-09-01 | Communist Control Act Bans Party Members from Union Leadership, Weaponizing Anti-Communism Against Labor
3 src 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
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · Edward Bernays |
| confirmed |
| 1954-02-26 | Bricker Amendment Fails by One Vote, Conservative Attempt to Limit Treaty Power Defeated
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · American Bar Association · U.S. Senate · American Medical Association · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1953-08-19 | CIA Operation Ajax Overthrows Democratic Iranian Government, Installs Shah Dictatorship
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles |
| confirmed |
| 1953-06-19 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed at Sing Sing, Cold War's Most Controversial Death Penalty Case
3 src Roy Cohn · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| confirmed |
| 1953-04-13 | CIA MKULTRA Project Officially Begins
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · Sidney Gottlieb | | confirmed |
| 1953-01-01 | Operation Mockingbird: CIA Cultivates Hundreds of Journalists at Major American Outlets
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles |
| confirmed |
| 1951-08-01 | Electric Boat Awarded Contract for First Nuclear Submarine USS Nautilus, Launching General Dynamics
3 src U.S. Navy | | confirmed |
| 1951-01-01 | CIA Begins Systematic University Funding Through Front Foundations: Academic Capture at Scale
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles · Michigan State University |
| confirmed |
| 1950-12-29 | Celler-Kefauver Act Closes Merger Loopholes, Strengthens Government Power to Block Anticompetitive Consolidation
4 src U.S. Congress · Emanuel Celler · Estes Kefauver · Harry Truman · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Codifies Red-Scare Surveillance Apparatus
3 src Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Communist Party USA |
| confirmed |
| 1950-06-26 | Congress for Cultural Freedom Founded with CIA Money: Intellectual Capture Across 35 Countries
3 src CIA |
| confirmed |
| 1950-04-07 | NSC-68 Directive Creates Permanent Military-Industrial Establishment - Defense Spending to Triple
4 src Harry S. Truman · Dean Acheson · Louis Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1949-12-08 | China Lobby Intensifies Campaign After Nationalist Retreat to Taiwan - Alfred Kohlberg Funds Propaganda
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1949-11-15 | CIO Expels United Electrical Workers and Farm Equipment Workers, Beginning Purge of Communist-Led Unions
3 src Congress of Industrial Organizations · Philip Murray · Walter Reuther · House Un-American Activities Committee | | confirmed |
| 1949-04-04 | NATO Established - 12 Nations Form Collective Defense Pact, $1.4 Billion Defense Buildup Begins
3 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · North Atlantic Treaty Organization | | confirmed |
| 1948-04-03 | Marshall Plan Begins - $13 Billion Aid Program Benefits American Exporters and Defense Industry
3 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1948-01-27 | Smith-Mundt Act Authorizes State Department Propaganda Apparatus - Voice of America Expands
3 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · State Department · Voice of America |
| confirmed |
| 1947-12-19 | NSC 4-A Secretly Authorizes CIA Covert Action Using "Fifth Function" Elastic Clause of 1947 Act
3 src Harry S. Truman · National Security Council · Central Intelligence Agency | | confirmed |
| 1947-10-01 | Federal Loyalty Program Implementation Creates Permanent Political Background-Check Regime
3 src Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1947-09-18 | Central Intelligence Agency Begins Operations Under 1947 National Security Act
3 src Harry S. Truman · Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles | | confirmed |
| 1947-03-12 | Truman Doctrine Announces $400 Million Military Aid Package - Cold War Containment Policy Begins
3 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · Dean Acheson | | confirmed |
| 1945-09-03 | Operation Paperclip Secretly Recruits Nazi Scientists, Whitewashes War Crimes
3 src U.S. War Department · State Department · Harry Truman |
| confirmed |
| 1945-09-01 | Project SHAMROCK Begins, NSA Obtains Copies of All International Cables for 30 Years
3 src Armed Forces Security Agency · National Security Agency · Harry S. Truman |
| confirmed |
| 1943-02-01 | Army Signal Intelligence Service Begins VENONA Soviet Cable Decryption, Foundation for Post-War Counterintelligence
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency | | confirmed |