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* [[Earl Browder]] dissolves the [[Communist Party USA]] in favour of the [[Communist Political Association]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.147.</ref> | * [[Earl Browder]] dissolves the [[Communist Party USA]] in favour of the [[Communist Political Association]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.147.</ref> | ||
*[[Serafino Romualdi]] joins the [[OSS]].<ref name="KheelArchiveRomualdi">[http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/KCL05459.html Guide to the Serafino Romualdi Papers, 1936-1967], Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.</ref> | *[[Serafino Romualdi]] joins the [[OSS]].<ref name="KheelArchiveRomualdi">[http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/KCL05459.html Guide to the Serafino Romualdi Papers, 1936-1967], Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.</ref> | ||
| + | *[[Council for a Democratic Germany]] founded by German emigrés in New York.<ref>Thomas Adam, Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO, 2005, p.262.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 21:18, 23 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]
- Serafino Romualdi joins the OSS.[2]
- Council for a Democratic Germany founded by German emigrés in New York.[3]
June
- William Casey appointed director of the London office of the OSS Secret Intelligence Branch. Joseph Gould joins the office's labor section.[4]
July
- Serafino Romualdi sent to Italy as a Major in the OSS working with Max Corvo and Vincent Scamporino.[5]
August
- 20 - SHAEF approves OSS FAUST plan to send agents to make contact with underground labour groups in Germany.[4]
- "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.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.147.
- ↑ Guide to the Serafino Romualdi Papers, 1936-1967, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
- ↑ Thomas Adam, Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO, 2005, p.262.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 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.
