October 5, 1949: National Security Council Releases NSC-58, Outlining Covert Operations in "Eastern European Satellite States"
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Objective: "To find means of improving and intensifying our efforts to reduce and eventually to cause the elimination of dominant Soviet influence in the satellite states of Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Rumania"