Political Warfare Timeline 1945
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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
- Secret high-level Soviet bulletin attacks Earl Browder's "Teheran doctrine".[1]
February
- 22 - William Donovan orders William Casey to take on Gould's Free German exiles as OSS contract agents, despite doubts about their communist leanings.[2]
March
- 1 - Donovan orders Casey to dispatch first penetration mission to Berlin.[2]
- 2 - Free Germans Paul Lindner and Anton Ruh parachute into Berlin.[2]
- 20 - Raymond Murphy interviews Whittaker Chambers.[3]
April
- Jacques Duclos attacks Browder policy in Cahiers du Communisme.[4]
- 6 - Varian Fry of the International Rescue Committee writes to David Dubinsky that the European Labour movement will be divided into two main ideological groups.[5]
May
- 8 Germany surrenders.[2]
June
- OMGUS officials split over reformation of German unions.[6]
- 2 Ray Murphy of Eur/X writes analysis of Duclos article.[7]
July
- 16 Free Trade Union Committee has collected $186,393.59 from AFL affiliates by this date, including $50,000 from the ILGWU.[8]
- Joseph Keenan introduces Irving Brown to Lucius Clay in Berlin.[9]
- Potsdam Summit.[10]
September
- Founding conference of World Federation of Trade Unions begins.[11]
- Irving Brown arrives in Paris.[12]
- French Communists oust Leon Jouhaux as head of the CGT union.[13]
- 20 - President Harry Truman passes Executive Order 9621 abolishing the Office of Strategic Services as of 1 October.[14]
- 26 - William Donovan's Deputy, General John Magruder secured an order from Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy which preserved OSS operations as the Strategic Services Unit, keeping alive the hopes of those who advocated what would later become the Central Intelligence Agency.[15]
October
- George Kennan warns Secretary of State James F. Byrnes that the Kremlin may shortly orchestrate 'maximum trouble for western governments.[16]
- Communist Party (PCF) emerges as largest party in French elections.[17]
- 1 - Office of Strategic Services abolished.[14]
- 29 - Sidney Hillman protegé David Morse testifies in support of OMGUS official George Shaw Wheeler at hearing into allegations that he is a communist.[18]
December
- Wartime Resistance Ouvriére group becomes Force Ouvriere-CGT.[19]
- Captain Joseph Gould of OMGUS breaks into office of rival Major Alfred Bingham and finds evidence of deal to exclude German communists from American-sponsored Labor League.[20]
- 7 - The Strategic Services Unit in London, successor to the OSS station, has 73 people at this date.[21]
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Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.148.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Jonathan S. Gould, The OSS and the London “Free Germans”, Studies in Intelligence - VOL. 46, NO. 1, 2002, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA.
- ↑ Chambers, March 20, 1945, The Alger Hiss Story.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.147.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.151.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.159.
- ↑ 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.153.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.225.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.235.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.152.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.176.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.177.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.81.
- ↑ Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.10.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.182.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.171.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.161.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.183.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
- ↑ Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.83.