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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.
 
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of [[covert action]] with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
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==January==
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*'''4''' - [[Americans for Democratic Action]] founding conference.
  
 
==February==
 
==February==
 
*[[Raymond Murphy]] brings [[Whittaker Chambers]] material to attention of [[Richard Nixon]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - ''Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster'', Random House, 1999, p.149.</ref>
 
*[[Raymond Murphy]] brings [[Whittaker Chambers]] material to attention of [[Richard Nixon]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - ''Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster'', Random House, 1999, p.149.</ref>
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*Bizonal union convention in British and American areas of Germany.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.</ref>
  
 
==March==
 
==March==
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==April==
 
==April==
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*[[Free Trade Union Committee]] earmarks funds for office equipment for [[Kurt Schumacher]]'s [[SPD]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.</ref>
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*[[Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund]] founded at convention in Bielefeld.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.</ref>
 
*'''8''' - [[Jay Lovestone]] writes to [[Matthew Woll]] about [[George Shaw Wheeler]] defection to Czechoslovakia.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.162.</ref>
 
*'''8''' - [[Jay Lovestone]] writes to [[Matthew Woll]] about [[George Shaw Wheeler]] defection to Czechoslovakia.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.162.</ref>
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==May==
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*[[George Marshall]] appoints [[George Kennan]] head of the State Department [[Policy Planning Staff]].<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.24.</ref>
  
 
==June==
 
==June==
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*National Security Act
 
*National Security Act
 
*X Foreign Affairs article
 
*X Foreign Affairs article
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==September==
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*[[Lucius Clay]] and [[Robert Murphy]] of [[OMGUS]] meet [[Henry Rutz]] to express reservations about [[Kurt Schumacher]] visit to the USA.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.167.</ref>
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*'''1''' - United Nations Special Committee on Palestine recommends partition.<ref name="Parmet239">Robert D. Parmet, ''The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement'', NYU Press, 2005, p.239.</ref>
  
 
==October==
 
==October==
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*[[Kurt Schumacher]] tells [[AFL]] conference, "Communist totalitarianism is now attempting to conquer the European continent".<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.168.</ref> [[Jay Lovestone]] clashes with [[George Kennan]] over Schumacher's opposition to [[Konrad Adenauer]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.168.</ref>
 
*French CGT begins a strike wave. [[Irving Brown]] tells [[Force Ouvriére]] it is an attempt to sabotage the Marshall plan.<ref name="Rathbun193">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.193.</ref>
 
*French CGT begins a strike wave. [[Irving Brown]] tells [[Force Ouvriére]] it is an attempt to sabotage the Marshall plan.<ref name="Rathbun193">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.193.</ref>
 
*'''5''' [[Cominform]] created.<ref name="Saunders26">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.26.</ref>
 
*'''5''' [[Cominform]] created.<ref name="Saunders26">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.26.</ref>
 
*[[Melvin Lasky]] disrupts the East Berlin writers congress.<ref name="Saunders27">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.27.</ref>
 
*[[Melvin Lasky]] disrupts the East Berlin writers congress.<ref name="Saunders27">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.27.</ref>
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*'''28''' - [[Jay Lovestone]] writes to [[James Forrestal]] informing him of his underground labour network in the Soviet zone of Germany.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.169.</ref>
  
 
==November==
 
==November==
*Power in [[OMGUS]] starts to shift towards pro-Social Democrat officers [[Henry Rutz]] and [[Alfred Bingham]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.161.</ref>
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*Power in [[OMGUS]] starts to shift towards pro-Social Democrat officers [[Henry Rutz]] and [[Alfred Bingham]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.</ref>
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*[[Jay Lovestone]] reports to [[George Meany]] and [[Matthew Woll]] on [[Free Trade Union Committee]], stating that "our trade union programs have penetrated every country of Europe".<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.169.</ref>
  
 
==December==
 
==December==
 
*[[CIA]] [[Special Procedures Group]] created.
 
*[[CIA]] [[Special Procedures Group]] created.
 
*[[Irving Brown]] persuades [[Leon Jouhaux]] to split with the CGT.<ref name="Rathbun194">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.194.</ref>
 
*[[Irving Brown]] persuades [[Leon Jouhaux]] to split with the CGT.<ref name="Rathbun194">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.194.</ref>
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*'''3''' - [[Louis Nelson]] resigns as vice-president of the [[Jewish Labor Committee]] over its support for a Jewish state in Palestine.<ref name="Parmet239">Robert D. Parmet, ''The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement'', NYU Press, 2005, p.239.</ref>
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*'''4''' - A dinner in honour of [[Chaim Weizmann]] at the Hotel Astor raises $1 million for the [[Histadrut]]. [[David Dubinsky]] is among the speakers.<ref name="Parmet239">Robert D. Parmet, ''The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement'', NYU Press, 2005, p.239.</ref>
 
*'''7''' Lasky submits magazine proposal to General [[Lucius Clay]].<ref name="Saunders28">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.28.</ref>
 
*'''7''' Lasky submits magazine proposal to General [[Lucius Clay]].<ref name="Saunders28">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.28.</ref>
 
*'''19''' [[CIA]] authorised to undertake covert psychological warfare by [[National Security Council]] directive [[NSC-4A]].<ref name="Saunders39">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.39.</ref>
 
*'''19''' [[CIA]] authorised to undertake covert psychological warfare by [[National Security Council]] directive [[NSC-4A]].<ref name="Saunders39">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.39.</ref>

Latest revision as of 23:27, 3 October 2013

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.

January

February

March

  • 12 Truman doctrine announced

April

May

June

  • 5 Marshall Plan announced.
  • Late June - Soviet delegation walks out of talks on the Marshall Plan.[7]

July

  • National Security Act
  • X Foreign Affairs article

September

October

November

December

Notes

  1. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.149.
  2. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
  3. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
  4. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
  5. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.162.
  6. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.24.
  7. Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.192.
  8. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.167.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Robert D. Parmet, The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement, NYU Press, 2005, p.239.
  10. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.168.
  11. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.168.
  12. Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.193.
  13. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.26.
  14. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.27.
  15. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.169.
  16. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
  17. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.169.
  18. Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.194.
  19. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.28.
  20. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.39.