Political Warfare Timeline 1941
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Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
January
- 23 Last issue of Lovestoneite Workers Age announcing decision to go out of existence[1]
- 25 Workers Age announces dissolution of Independent Labor League of America.[2][3]
- 30 Executive Committee of the International Federation of Trade Unions decides to attempt to evacuate French Labour leaders, including Léon Jouhaux, to Britain.[4]
Feb
Mar
- American Labor Committee to Aid British Labor formed during a US visit by the TUC's Sir Walter Citrine.[5]
- The State Department's Adolf Berle notes that William Stephenson was developing "a full size secret police and intelligence service" with "regularly employed secret agents and a much larger number of informers, etc."[6]
Apr
May
- Union for Democratic Action founded.[7]
- 9 Vincent Astor sends Roosevelt clipping of New York Herald Tribune call for intelligence co-ordinator.[8]
June
- Vichy secret service learns that British intelligence is attempting to bring Léon Jouhaux to London.[9]
- 22 - German invasion of Russia. Lovestone told new policy of Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies is to back aid to Russia while doing nothing to advance communism.[10]
Jul
- Sydney Morrell report on British front organisations in the United States.[11]
- 19 British business blacklist of German agents in agents proscribed under US law.[12].
- Serafino Romualdi visits Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, where as a representative of the Free Italy Committee he directed a campaign to enlist the Italian population in those countries to the side of the Allies.[13]
Aug
- Nazis insist that Varian Fry of the International Rescue Committee leave Vichy France.[14]
Sep
- 18 Adolf Berle wrote to Sumner Welles about the Office of the Coordinator of Information: "For your confidential information, the really active head of the intelligence section in Donovan's group is Mr Elliot, who is assistant to Mr Stevenson [sic]. In other words, Stevenson's assistant in The British intelligence is running Donovan's intelligence service." "Elliot" was in fact a covername for Dick Ellis.[15]
Oct
Nov
- 26 Eric Maschwitz atrocity photographs memorandum.[16]
December
- 7 Japan bombs Pearl Harbour.[17]
- 15 George Meany negotiates no strike deal on behalf of AFL in a meeting between President Roosevelt and union leaders.[18]
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Notes
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.32.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.136.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
- ↑ Geert van Goethem, The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.260.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.32.
- ↑ Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949, Bloomsbury, 2010, p.448.
- ↑ Arthur Meier Schlesinger, A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950, Hughton Mifflin, 2002, p.263.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.20.
- ↑ Geert van Goethem, The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.261.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.137.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.23.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.18.
- ↑ Guide to the Serafino Romualdi Papers, 1936-1967, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.16.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-41, Brassey's, 1999, p.19.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.15.
- ↑ Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor, Monthly Review Press, 1999, p.122.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.