Political Warfare Timeline 1942
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
February
- 12 - Esther and Nathan Mendelssohn stopped on flight from Miami.[1]
March
- 2 - Mendelssohns arrested.[2]
- 6 - Lovestone writes Judge Justine Polier on Mendelssohns' behalf.[3]
April
- 9 - Charges against Mendelssohns dismissed.[4]
- 10 - Memorandum by Paul Hagen: How to Collaborate with the Anti-Nazi Underground in Germany.[5]
- 23 - Memorandum by Adolf A. Berle, Assistant Secretary of State: Political Propaganda Campaign Directed Toward Germany.[6]
May
- 8 - Letter from Allen W. Dulles (COI New York) to COI William J. Donovan: Suggestions for Psychological Warfare.[7]
June
- US Office of the Coordinator of Information becomes the Office of Strategic Services.[8]
- Emergency Rescue Committee office in Marseilles suppressed. Many of its volunteers join the resistance.[9]
July
- OSS SI Labor Division established.[8]
- 22 - Memorandum by Heber Blankenhorn (OSS Washington): The Labor Factor in Psychological Warfare Plans for Western Europe.[10]
August
- 15 - Telegram from Myron Taylor(OSS Stockholm) to OSS Washington): German Criticism of British Policy.[11]
- 24 - Lovestone writes to George K. Bowden asking to join OSS and stating "I have made a firsthand study of the Nazi movement and I have had practical experience in underground as well as open work in nearly fifteen countries."[12]
- 31 - OSS memo states "Lovestone is engaged not only in a number of intrigues involving the Communist Party, from which he broke ostensibly in 1929 when he formed the Communist Party Opposition, but also in other activities which may render him useless as an impartial source of information."[13]
September
- Office of Strategic Services establishes Secret Intelligence Branch to organise clandestine agent operations abroad.[14]
- 9 - After Lovestone applies for work with Department of Labor, J. Edgar Hoover writes: "It is positively shocking that this man is even being considered for a government job.[15]
October
November
December
- 16 Memorandum by OSS Adviser Kurt Bloch: The Opposition Potential of the Foreign Workers in Germany.[16]
- 25 Leon Jouhaux arrested by Vichy authorities attempting to embark at Marseilles.[8]
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
- ↑ Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.17.
- ↑ Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.20
- ↑ Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.23.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Geert van Goethem, The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.263. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid<ref>tag; name "" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.16.
- ↑ Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.25.
- ↑ Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.31.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.137.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
- ↑ Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.32.
