47: Timeline
1896/9/7 ~ William Douglas Pawley born in Florence, South Carolina.
1899 ~ After the Spanish American War when Teddy Roosevelts “Rough Riders” helped liberate Cuba from Spain, Pawley spends his early childhood at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station where his father had a store, earning him the nickname “Cuba” from classmates at Gordon Military Academy in Georgia.
1925/5/20 ~ Gerardo Machado becomes the 5th President of Cuba. He is overthrown in 1933.
1928 ~ William Douglas Pawley creates Cubana National Airlines which is sold to Pan American Airlines in 1932.
1929 ~ China Airways financed by Curtiss-Wright and controlled by Clement M. Keys begins flying mail from Shanghai to Hankow, Peiping and Canton. With pressure from the government, it evolves into China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC).
1932 ~ Pawley establishes Intercontinent Corporation run by him and his brothers Edward and Eugene.
1933 ~ Pawley becomes President of China National Aviation Corporation.
1940/12/23 ~ Pawley partners with India in establishing Hindustan Aircraft Limited near Calcutta (Bangalore).
1941 ~ Pawley begins China Aircraft Manufacturing Company CAMCO to manufacture planes for the American Volunteer Group (The Flying Tigers headed by General Clair Chennault) to defend Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists against Japanese planes. CAMCO airplane assembly plants moved from Hangzhou to Wuhan to Lowing (on the China-Burma border) to India.
1941/9 ~ David Harold Byrd, wealthy oil man and owner of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, co-founds the Civil Air Patrol to watch for enemy submarines and border crossings as well as enemy aircraft over the U.S. and provide other civilian support for the U.S. Army Air Force. Byrd is a cousin of Antarctic explorer Richard Byrd and West Virginia politician Harry F. Byrd.
1942 ~ CNAC based in Calcutta until 1945.
1945/7/20 ~ Pawley named U.S. Ambassador to Peru.
1945/10/13 ~ Carlos Prio Socrarrás becomes 5th Prime Minister of Cuba.
1946/6/13 ~ Pawley named U.S. Ambassador to Brazil.
1947 ~ Antonio de Varona appointed leader of the parliamentary committee of his party under Prio. Previously, de Varona was involved in the overthrow of Gerardo Machado and was elected to the Cuban congress and the senate.
1948/10/10 ~ Carlos Prio becomes President of Cuba, succeeding Ramon Grau.
1949/9 ~ Negotiated taking over the Havana trolly system.
1950/1 ~ Pawley runs Havana Autobuses Modernos, removing trolley car tracks.
1951/2/4 ~ Daughter Annie Hahr's wedding.
1951/2/19 ~ Pawley enters State Department as special assistant to Dean Acheson.
1951/6 ~ In India re wheat and monazite
1951/9 ~ Son Clifton Pawley died, left Washington for Mexico and Miami.
1951/11/20 ~ Resigned from State Department effective the 30th.
1951/12/3 ~ Pawley enters Defense Department as special assistant to Lovett.
1952/1/17 ~ Sailed with Edna and Anita Pawley and his assistant Ed Harris to Europe; stayed until May, but returned to Washington to settle a strike in Miami then flew to Lisbon Conference with Lovett. Took a two week trip for consultation with Defense Department
1952/5 ~ Resigned as assistant to Lovett.
1952/6 ~ At Belvoir House farm in Virginia.
1952/9 ~ In Europe and Middle East with Edna.
1952/3/10 ~ Fulgencio Batista overthrows Prio; de Varona begins fight against Batista.
1953 ~ In Miami. Owner president and general manager of the Miami Beach Railway Co. since 1941 and of Miami Transit Co. since 1948. Also owner of South Miami Coach Line and Tropical Coach Line Inc. and Grayline Sightseeing Co. of Miami.
1953/4/4 ~ CIA coup against Mossadegh in Iran (Operation AJAX) is hatched by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, CIA Director Allen Dulles, Frank Wisner and Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. Mossadegh is replaced by the Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, coincidentally a former classmate of future CIA Director Richard Helms.
1954/6 ~ Pawley works with the CIA on PBSUCCESS, the overthrow of the Arbenz government in Guatemala.
1954/6 ~ William Pawley, William Franke, Morris Hadley and General Jimmy Doolittle appointed by President Eisenhower to review the Central Intelligence Agency and recommend that it become “more ruthless than the enemy.”
1955/7/27 ~ Lee Harvey Oswald joins the Civil Air Patrol in New Orleans which also includes Captain David Ferrie
1956/10/24 ~ Oswald drops out of high school in Texas and joins the U.S. Marine Corps where he is trained as a sharpshooter.
1958/10/5 ~ Oswald is stationed at the Air Force base in in Atsugi, Japan where the U.S. dispatches U-2 planes to spy on Russia and Oswald learns Russian.
1959/Spring ~ Oswald, back in the U.S., becomes friend of Kerry Thornley
1959/9/4 ~ Oswald applies for a passport a week before he is discharged from active duty in the Marine Corps.
1959/9/20 ~ Oswald departs the U.S.
Labels: CIA, Dulles, Eastland, Helms, Mafia, Martino, McCone, Operation Pawley, QDDALE, Sourwine, TILT
posted by David Price Cannon @ 1:38 PM
