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Revision as of 14:47, 7 August 2012
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- Charles de Gaulle walks out of the French government.[1]
- Irving Brown visits Germany[2]
- 6 - Jay Lovestone writes Irving Brown that "the fight against Hillmanism in Europe must be made by the AFL".[3]
- 9 Jay Lovestone writes Ben Mandel about communist Atomic spying.[4]
- 16 Henry Rutz informs Jay Lovestone that Mortimer Wolf and Joseph Gould have left OMGUS along with "several other commies".[5]
- 22 Central Intelligence Group established.
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
- AFL's George Meany lobbies Secretary of State James F. Byrnes.[10]
- 20 - State Department announces that labour unions should be allowed to organise in Germany.[11]
April
- 13 - Irving Brown accuses Major George Shaw Wheeler of the US military government in Germany, of being a Communist.[12]
May
- 17 Lovestone writes Mandel about Walter Winchell.[13]
June
July
Aug
- Ray Murphy questions Whitaker Chambers.[14]
September
October
November
- Report of Security investigation on Alger Hiss prompted by Murphy.[15]
December
- National War Fund,the main funder for the International Rescue Committee dissolved.[16]
Notes
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.172.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.145.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.179.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.153.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.165.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.238.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.145.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.148.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.149.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.20.
