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===January===
 
===January===
*US fund-raising for overseas relief centralised under the control of the [[National War Fund]].<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.18.</ref>
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*US fundraising for overseas relief centralised under the control of the [[National War Fund]].<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.18.</ref>
 
*'''13''' - Telegram from [[Allen W. Dulles]] (OSS Bern) to OSS Washington: German Efforts to Establish Contact with Americans.<ref>Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.37.</ref>
 
*'''13''' - Telegram from [[Allen W. Dulles]] (OSS Bern) to OSS Washington: German Efforts to Establish Contact with Americans.<ref>Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.37.</ref>
 
*'''14''' - Telegram from [[Allen W. Dulles]] (OSS Bern) to OSS Washington: [[Adam von Trott]]'s Criticism of the Western Allies.<ref>Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.38.</ref>
 
*'''14''' - Telegram from [[Allen W. Dulles]] (OSS Bern) to OSS Washington: [[Adam von Trott]]'s Criticism of the Western Allies.<ref>Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.38.</ref>
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===August===
 
===August===
 
*'''3''' - Memorandum from Irving H. Sherman (OSS Counterintelligence Branch) to Hugh R. Wilson (OSS Planning Group): Proposal for the Establishment of a Committee of German Exiles.<ref>Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.49.</ref>
 
*'''3''' - Memorandum from Irving H. Sherman (OSS Counterintelligence Branch) to Hugh R. Wilson (OSS Planning Group): Proposal for the Establishment of a Committee of German Exiles.<ref>Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.49.</ref>
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*'''3''' - [[Francis Henson]] writes to [[Sanford Griffith]], warning him about a confrontation in Washington with [[J.B. Matthews]], during which Matthews had attacked Griffith as a British and French agent, and warned Henson about material in the hands of the [[Dies Committee]].<ref name="Mahl101">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.101.</ref>
 
*'''6''' - Memorandum from James Grafton Rogers (OSS Planning Group) to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Manifesto to the German People by the Moscow National Committee of Free Germany.<ref>Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.52.</ref>
 
*'''6''' - Memorandum from James Grafton Rogers (OSS Planning Group) to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Manifesto to the German People by the Moscow National Committee of Free Germany.<ref>Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.52.</ref>
 
*'''11''' - Memorandum from [[John C. Wiley]] (OSS Foreign Nationalities Branch) to President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]: Comments on the Moscow Manifesto to Germany.<ref>Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.56.</ref>
 
*'''11''' - Memorandum from [[John C. Wiley]] (OSS Foreign Nationalities Branch) to President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]: Comments on the Moscow Manifesto to Germany.<ref>Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.56.</ref>

Latest revision as of 14:38, 29 April 2012

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

January

February

May

  • 17 - Memorandum from William L. Langer (OSS Research and Analysis Branch) to OSS Director William J. Donovan: New Possibilities for Psychological Warfare in Europe.[6]

August

  • 3 - Memorandum from Irving H. Sherman (OSS Counterintelligence Branch) to Hugh R. Wilson (OSS Planning Group): Proposal for the Establishment of a Committee of German Exiles.[7]
  • 3 - Francis Henson writes to Sanford Griffith, warning him about a confrontation in Washington with J.B. Matthews, during which Matthews had attacked Griffith as a British and French agent, and warned Henson about material in the hands of the Dies Committee.[8]
  • 6 - Memorandum from James Grafton Rogers (OSS Planning Group) to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Manifesto to the German People by the Moscow National Committee of Free Germany.[9]
  • 11 - Memorandum from John C. Wiley (OSS Foreign Nationalities Branch) to President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Comments on the Moscow Manifesto to Germany.[10]
  • 19 - Telegram from Allen W. Dulles (OSS Bern) to OSS Washington: Thoughts for Political Warfare.[11]
  • 31 - Memorandum by the OSS Morale Operations Branch in London: Suggestions for a German Underground Plan.[12]

September

  • 8 - Report from Lanning McFarland (OSS Istanbul) to OSS Washington: Founding of a Free German Movement in the Service of the Western Allies.[13]
  • 9 - Report by the British War Cabinet's Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee: Probabilities of a German Collapse.[14]
  • 21 - Report by the OSS Research and Analysis Branch: Possible Patterns of German Collapse.[15]

October

  • 21 - Memorandum from the US Joint Intelligence Committee to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Probabilities of a German Collapse.[16]

December

  • TUC proposes world-wide trade union conference..[17]

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Notes

  1. Jump up Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.18.
  2. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.37.
  3. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.38.
  4. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.41.
  5. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.42.
  6. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.44.
  7. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.49.
  8. Jump up Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.101.
  9. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.52.
  10. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.56.
  11. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.59.
  12. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.60.
  13. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.70.
  14. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.83.
  15. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.87.
  16. Jump up Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.94.
  17. Jump up Kees van der Pijl, The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class, Verso, 1984, p.136.