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| − | *'''20''' [[SHAEF]] approves [[OSS]] [[FAUST]] plan to send agents to make contact with underground labour groups in Germany.<ref name="GouldCSI">Jonathan S. Gould, [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no1/article03.html The OSS and the London “Free Germans”], Studies in Intelligence - VOL. 46, NO. 1, 2002, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA.</ref> | + | *'''20''' - [[SHAEF]] approves [[OSS]] [[FAUST]] plan to send agents to make contact with underground labour groups in Germany.<ref name="GouldCSI">Jonathan S. Gould, [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no1/article03.html The OSS and the London “Free Germans”], Studies in Intelligence - VOL. 46, NO. 1, 2002, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA.</ref> |
| + | *"Late August" - [[Joseph Gould]] recruits a number of German socialist exiles in London, in an operation that appears to have been penetrated by Soviet intelligence.<ref name="GouldCSI">Jonathan S. Gould, [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no1/article03.html The OSS and the London “Free Germans”], Studies in Intelligence - VOL. 46, NO. 1, 2002, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA.</ref> | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Revision as of 15:23, 14 January 2012
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
May
- Earl Browder dissolves the Communist Party USA in favour of the Communist Political Association.[1]
June
- William Casey appointed director of the London office of the OSS Secret Intelligence Branch. Joseph Gould joins the office's labor section.[2]
August
- 20 - SHAEF approves OSS FAUST plan to send agents to make contact with underground labour groups in Germany.[2]
- "Late August" - Joseph Gould recruits a number of German socialist exiles in London, in an operation that appears to have been penetrated by Soviet intelligence.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.147.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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.
