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Revision as of 19:03, 28 September 2013

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

  • 10 Irving Brown reports to Jay Lovestone that German unions have begun organising on a zonal basis, but that Soviet-backed FDGB is starting to organize in the West.[12]
  • 12 German labour conference takes place in Frankfurt, establishing thirteen unions in the American zone, eventually leading to the creation of the Deutsche Gewerkschaftbund.[13]
  • 13 - Irving Brown accuses Major George Shaw Wheeler of the US military government in Germany, of being a Communist.[14]

May

June

July

Aug


September

October

November

  • Report of Security investigation on Alger Hiss prompted by Murphy.[19]
  • Ernest Bevin meets Dubinsky and Matthew Woll in New York, where they discuss opening up immigration to the United States as well as Palestine.[16]

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. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
  11. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.165.
  12. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.165.
  13. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
  14. Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.238.
  15. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.145.
  16. 16.0 16.1 Robert D. Parmet, The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement, NYU Press, 2005, p.238.
  17. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.148.
  18. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
  19. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.149.
  20. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.20.