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==July==
 
==July==
 
*'''16''' [[Free Trade Union Committee]]  has collected $186,393.59 from [[American Federation of Labor|AFL]] affiliates by this date, including $50,000 from the [[ILGWU]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.153.</ref>
 
*'''16''' [[Free Trade Union Committee]]  has collected $186,393.59 from [[American Federation of Labor|AFL]] affiliates by this date, including $50,000 from the [[ILGWU]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.153.</ref>
*[[Joe Keenan]] introduces [[Irving Brown]] to [[Lucius Clay]] in Berlin.<ref name="Rathbun225">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.225.</ref>
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*[[Joseph Keenan]] introduces [[Irving Brown]] to [[Lucius Clay]] in Berlin.<ref name="Rathbun225">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.225.</ref>
 
*Potsdam Summit.<ref name="Rathbun235">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.235.</ref>
 
*Potsdam Summit.<ref name="Rathbun235">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.235.</ref>
  
 
==September==
 
==September==
 
*Founding conference of [[World Federation of Trade Unions]] begins.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.152.</ref>
 
*Founding conference of [[World Federation of Trade Unions]] begins.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.152.</ref>
*[[Irving Brown]] arrives in Paris.<ref name="Rathbun349">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.349.</ref>
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*[[Irving Brown]] arrives in Paris.<ref name="Rathbun176">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.176.</ref>
 
*French Communists oust [[Leon Jouhaux]] as head of the CGT union.<ref name="Rathbun177">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.177.</ref>
 
*French Communists oust [[Leon Jouhaux]] as head of the CGT union.<ref name="Rathbun177">Ben Rathbun, ''The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.177.</ref>
 
*'''20''' - President [[Harry Truman]] passes Executive Order 9621 abolishing the [[Office of Strategic Services]] as of 1 October.<ref name="aldrich81">Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.81.</ref>
 
*'''20''' - President [[Harry Truman]] passes Executive Order 9621 abolishing the [[Office of Strategic Services]] as of 1 October.<ref name="aldrich81">Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.81.</ref>

Latest revision as of 21:08, 4 January 2014

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

March

April

May

  • 8 Germany surrenders.[2]

June

July

September

October

December

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Notes

  1. Jump up Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.148.
  2. Jump up to: 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.
  3. Jump up Chambers, March 20, 1945, The Alger Hiss Story.
  4. Jump up Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.147.
  5. Jump up Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.151.
  6. Jump up Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.159.
  7. Jump up Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.148.
  8. Jump up Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.153.
  9. Jump up Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.225.
  10. Jump up Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.235.
  11. Jump up Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.152.
  12. Jump up Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.176.
  13. Jump up Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.177.
  14. Jump up to: 14.0 14.1 Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.81.
  15. Jump up Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.10.
  16. Jump up Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.182.
  17. Jump up Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.171.
  18. Jump up Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.161.
  19. Jump up Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.183.
  20. Jump up Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
  21. Jump up Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.83.