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*[[William Casey]] appointed director of the London office of the [[OSS Secret Intelligence Branch]]. [[Joseph Gould]] joins the office's labor section.<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> | *[[William Casey]] appointed director of the London office of the [[OSS Secret Intelligence Branch]]. [[Joseph Gould]] joins the office's labor section.<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> | ||
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| + | *[[Serafino Romualdi]] sent to Italy as a Major in the [[OSS]] working with [[Max Corvo]] and [[Vincent Scamporino]].<ref name"Harris97">Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency, Globe Pequot, 2006, p.97.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 17:32, 15 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]
July
- Serafino Romualdi sent to Italy as a Major in the OSS working with Max Corvo and Vincent Scamporino.[3]
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.
- ↑ Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency, Globe Pequot, 2006, p.97.
