Difference between revisions of "Political Warfare Timeline 1946"

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==January==
 
==January==
 
*[[Charles de Gaulle]] walks out of the French government.<ref name="Rathbun172">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.172.</ref>
 
*[[Charles de Gaulle]] walks out of the French government.<ref name="Rathbun172">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.172.</ref>
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*[[Irving Brown]] visits Germany<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.</ref>
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*'''6''' - [[Jay Lovestone]] writes [[Irving Brown]] that "the fight against Hillmanism in Europe must be made by the AFL".<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.</ref>
 
*'''9''' [[Jay Lovestone]] writes [[Ben Mandel]] about communist Atomic spying.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - ''Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster'', Random House, 1999, p.145.</ref>
 
*'''9''' [[Jay Lovestone]] writes [[Ben Mandel]] about communist Atomic spying.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - ''Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster'', Random House, 1999, p.145.</ref>
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*'''16''' [[Henry Rutz]] informs [[Jay Lovestone]] that [[Mortimer Wolf]] and [[Joseph Gould]] have left [[OMGUS]] along with "several other commies".<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.</ref>
 
*'''22''' [[Central Intelligence Group]] established.
 
*'''22''' [[Central Intelligence Group]] established.
  

Revision as of 01:26, 7 August 2012

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.

January

Feb

  • Irving Brown debates Benoit Frachon at a CGT congress in Lille, criticising the Communist call for wage restraint.[6]
  • Kennan long telegram
  • 3 Kennan describes WFTU as an instrument of Soviet policy.[7]

March

April

May

June

July

Aug


September

October

November

  • Report of Security investigation on Alger Hiss prompted by Murphy.[11]

December

Notes

  1. Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.172.
  2. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
  3. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
  4. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.145.
  5. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
  6. Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.179.
  7. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.153.
  8. Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.238.
  9. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.145.
  10. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.148.
  11. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.149.
  12. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.20.