1947
15 verified events recorded in 1947.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 1947-11-25 | Waldorf Statement Launches Hollywood Blacklist, Studio Executives Pledge to Fire Hollywood Ten Motion Picture Association of America · Eric Johnston · Louis B. Mayer · Eddie Mannix · +17 | confirmed | |
| 1947-10-20 | HUAC Hollywood Hearings Begin, Studio Executives Cooperate as "Friendly Witnesses" House Un-American Activities Committee · J. Parnell Thomas · Robert E. Stripling · Walt Disney · +9 | 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 | |
| 1947-10-01 | Levittown Opens as America's First Suburb With Explicit Whites-Only Policy William Levitt · Levitt & Sons · Federal Housing Administration · Veterans Administration | 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 | |
| 1947-09-18 | James Forrestal Becomes First Defense Secretary, Fusing Wall Street Financial Power with Pentagon James Forrestal · Harry Truman · U.S. Department of Defense · Dillon, Read & Co. | confirmed | |
| 1947-07-26 | National Security Act Establishes Permanent Warfare State and Military-Industrial Framework Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-07-26 | National Security Act: Structural Transfer of Military-Intelligence Policy From Congressional to Executive Control Harry S. Truman · James Forrestal · Clark Clifford · Ferdinand Eberstadt · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-06-23 | Anti-Communist Loyalty Oaths and Taft-Hartley Act Weaponized to Crush Labor Movement Robert A. Taft · Fred A. Hartley · CIO · AFL · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1947-06-23 | Taft-Hartley Act Severely Restricts Union Power, Enables State Right-to-Work Laws Robert Taft · Fred Hartley · Republican Party · Harry Truman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1947-04-10 | Mont Pelerin Society Founded with Volker Fund Support, Launching International Free-Market Network Friedrich Hayek · Milton Friedman · Ludwig von Mises · William Volker Fund · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1947-03-21 | Executive Order 9835 Establishes Federal Loyalty Program - 5 Million Screened, Guilt Presumed Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Civil Service Commission · House Un-American Activities Committee | 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 | |
| 1947-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Drafts Taft-Hartley Act "Sentence by Sentence, Paragraph by Paragraph" National Association of Manufacturers · Robert Taft · Fred Hartley · Donald O'Toole · +3 | confirmed |