Political Warfare Timeline 1935
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- Saar plebiscite
- 4 - Intercepted letter
- 5 Jay Lovestone letter to Earl Browder which later leads to meeting between Lovestone, Charles Zimmerman and CPUSA leaders.
- 23 - Intercepted letter to August Thalheimer.
February
- 14 Lovestone intercepted letter to Thalheimer about Dubinsky
- 28 Lovestone writes Thalheimer about Jim Cork visit
March
- Lovestone urges Zimmerman to rush the next installment ot the German comrades.[1]
- 13 - Letter about Dubinsky uncovering false Brandler signature intercepted
Apr
May
- Keith Jeffery, a historian with access to the MI6 archives writes of the Lovestoneite movement in this period:
- In May 1935 Kathleen 'Jane' Sissmore of MI5 raised with Valentine Vivian 'the poverty of your information with regard to the progress of Communism in the United States', with one notable exception, a network run by Jay Lovestone in New York, which had been comprehensively penetrated by SIS. Lovestone who led the anti-Stalin Communist Party (Opposition), had worldwide contacts, and London was particularly interested in information about those in Britain and the empire. Canadian names were passed on to the Ottawa authorities, while others including the Indian Communist M.N. Roy, the Trinidadian 'rabid Trotskyite' C.L.R. James and the liberal-Marxist British intellectual Harold Laski (who could hardly be described as a 'subversive'), were passed on to Scotland Yard, MI5, and Indian Political Intelligence.[2]
- 11 - Critical review of Sidney Hook by Will Herberg.[3]
- 15 - Lovestone approves letter from Heinrich Brandler to Dubinsky.
- 28 - Lovestone writes Brandler that Cork is to return by 15 August
- 31 - Lovestone letter to Brandler re Dubinsky
June
July
August
- Lovestone pamphlet defends Stalin's foreign policy.[4]
- 15 Letter to Brandler say Dubinsky not to send more money at present
September
- 24 Lovestone mentions John Voight to Heinz.
Oct
- Keith Jeffery writes:
- ILGWU bankrolls International Relief Association with $15,000.
November
December
- 3 - Vernon Kell letter about Kurt Schaefer leading Right opposition.
Notes
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.10.
- ↑ Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949, Bloomsbury, 2011, p.252.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.117.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.120.
- ↑ Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949, Bloomsbury, 2011, p.252.
