61 GFK, Memoirs, I, 403–4.
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1 GFK, Memoirs, I, 360–61.
2 GFK to Lippmann, April 6, 1948, GFK Papers, 299:7.
3 GFK, Memoirs, I, 361–63; GFK interview, September 7, 1983, p. 19.
4 PPS/23, “Review of Current Trends: U.S. Foreign Policy,” February 24, 1948, in FRUS: 1948, I, 522–23.
5 E. Herbert Norman to Department of External Affairs, March 6, 1948, Pearson to Norman, March 11, 1948, Norman Robertson to Escott Reid, April 1, 1948, and May 11, 1948, all in Ministry of External Affairs, Record Group 25, Volume 5697, File 2AE(S), Pt. 2.1, National Archives of Canada. Hankey’s minute, dated April 30, 1948, is in the British Foreign Office Records, FO 371/71671, National Archives, London.
6 Davies to George Butler, March 19, 1948, PPS Records, Box 23, “USSR 1946–1950” folder; Bohlen to Lovett, April 22, 1948, Bohlen Papers, Box 1, “Correspondence 1946–49: H” folder, National Archives; Lovett memorandum on April 23, 1948, cabinet meeting, dated April 26, in FRUS: 1948, IV, 834n; Marshall to Smith, April 29, 1948, ibid., pp. 840–41; Inverchapel to Foreign Office, May 5, 1948, British Foreign Office Records, FO 371/68014/AN1914. See also Miscamble, Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy pp. 186–88.
7 Bevin to Inverchapel, May 11, 1948, conveyed to Marshall on the same date, in FRUS: 1948, IV, 860–61n. See also Bullock, Ernest Bevin, p. 558.
8 GFK, Memoirs, I, 347; GFK to Marshall, May 12, 1948, PPS Records, Box 23, “USSR 1946–1950” folder.
9 Pechatnov and Edmondson, “The Russian Perspective,” in Levering et al., Debating the Origins of the Cold War, p. 140; Durbrow to State Department, May 18, 1948, in FRUS: 1948, IV, 871. For more on the Wallace initiative, see White and Maze, Henry A. Wallace, pp. 262–64.
10 GFK to Smith, June 18, 1948, GFK Papers, 140:2. See also GFK to Lovett, June 9, 1948, PPS Records, Box 23, “USSR 1946–1950” folder; and, for the evidence on Wallace’s collusion with Moscow, Pechatnov, Stalin, Ruzvel’t, Trumen, pp. 527–57; and Zubok, Failed Empire, pp. 47, 76. Smith’s own account of this episode is in his memoir, My Three Years in Moscow, pp. 157–66.
11 GFK lecture, “Russia and the Community of Nations,” Canadian National Defence College, Kingston, Ont., May 31, 1948, GFK Papers, 299:9.
12 Miscamble, Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, pp. 106–8; Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, pp. 26–29. Miller, United States and Italy, pp. 243–49, provides a good overall account of the election campaign.
13 PPS Memorandum, “The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare,” May 4, 1948, in FRUS: 1945–1950: Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, pp. 668–72. The FRUS version of this document indicates that other proposed secret activities have been excised from it. The reference to the Italian elections has also been removed, but it appears in the Policy Planning Staff files and is quoted in Lucas and Mistry, “Illusions of Coherence,” p. 52.
14 GFK interview, September 7, 1983, p. 21; Davies interview, December 8, 1982, p. 11. For the Marshall Plan connection, see Pisani, CIA and the Marshall Plan.
15 Hillenkoetter to James S. Lay, Jr., June 9, 1948, in FRUS: 1945–1950, p. 703. See also the CIA’s internal history of these events, Darling, Central Intelligence Agency, p. 272.
16 GFK to Lovett and Marshall, June 16, 1948, in FRUS: 1945–1950, p. 709. NSC 10/2, “National Security Council Directive on Office of Special Projects,” approved by the NSC on June 17, is ibid., pp. 713–15.
17 GFK to Lovett, June 30, 1948, ibid., p. 716; Wisner memorandum, meeting with Hillenkoetter and GFK, August 6, 1948, ibid., p. 720; GFK to Lovett, PPS Records, Box 33, “Chronological July–December” folder. Hersch, Old Boys, and Thomas, Very Best Men, provide the best accounts of Wisner’s life and career. For the dinners, see Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, pp. 20–21. Project Umpire is described in Corke, U.S. Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy, p. 51.
18 Lovett to Forrestal (drafted by GFK), October 1, 1948, in FRUS: 1945–1950, pp. 724–25; GFK to Lovett, October 29, 1948, ibid., pp. 728–29; GFK to Wisner, January 6, 1949, ibid., p. 734. See also Miscamble, Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, pp. 109–10.
19 GFK National War College lecture, “Measures Short of War (Diplomatic),” September 16, 1946, in Harlow and Maerz, Measures Short of War, p. 17; D. M. Ladd to J. Edgar Hoover, April 18, 1947, FBI Records, 62-81548-4x1, GFK Papers, 181:3–6; GFK to Forrestal, September 29, 1947, PPS Records, Box 33, “Chronological 1947”; GFK Canadian National Defence College lecture, May 31, 1948, GFK Papers, 299:9. See also Chapters Seven, Eight, and Eleven, above.
20 GFK interviews, September 7, 1983, pp. 20–23, 27, and December 13, 1987, p. 21; Davies interview, December 8, 1982, p. 11; GFK to JLG, November 13, 1987, JLG Papers. See also Karalekas, “History of the Central Intelligence Agency,” pp. 31–32.
21 A point missed by several secondary studies of Kennan’s CIA connections, especially Corke, U.S. Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy, and Simpson, Blowback. Miscamble, Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, pp. 199–205, provides the most balanced assessment.
22 Rusk interview, p. 5; ASK interview, August 26, 1982, p. 15. See also, on Kennan’s failure to control OPC, Aldrich, The Hidden Hand, pp. 172–73.
23 GFK, Memoirs, I, 405–6; GFK to Marshall and Lovett, April 29, 1948, in FRUS: 1948, III, 108–9. See also Miscamble, Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, pp. 128–29.
