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*[[Irving Brown]] debates [[Benoit Frachon]] at a CGT congress in Lille, criticising the Communist call for wage restraint.<ref name="Rathbun179">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.179.</ref>
 
*[[Irving Brown]] debates [[Benoit Frachon]] at a CGT congress in Lille, criticising the Communist call for wage restraint.<ref name="Rathbun179">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.179.</ref>
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*[[Irving Brown]] warns Lovestone that "the Russians are moving with seven-league boots in Germany".<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.</ref>
 
*Kennan long telegram
 
*Kennan long telegram
 
*'''3''' Kennan describes  WFTU as an instrument of Soviet policy.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - ''Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster'', Random House, 1999, p.153.</ref>
 
*'''3''' Kennan describes  WFTU as an instrument of Soviet policy.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - ''Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster'', Random House, 1999, p.153.</ref>

Revision as of 14:29, 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]
  • Irving Brown warns Lovestone that "the Russians are moving with seven-league boots in Germany".[7]
  • Kennan long telegram
  • 3 Kennan describes WFTU as an instrument of Soviet policy.[8]
  • 23 Alfred Bingham writes Jay Lovestone that "the influence of the Wolf crowd is almost gone" in Germany.[9]

March

April

May

June

July

Aug


September

October

November

  • Report of Security investigation on Alger Hiss prompted by Murphy.[13]

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