Political Warfare Timeline 1946
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- Charles de Gaulle walks out of the French government.[1]
- Irving Brown visits Germany[2]
- 6 - Jay Lovestone writes Irving Brown that "the fight against Hillmanism in Europe must be made by the AFL".[3]
- 9 Jay Lovestone writes Ben Mandel about communist Atomic spying.[4]
- 16 Henry Rutz informs Jay Lovestone that Mortimer Wolf and Joseph Gould have left OMGUS along with "several other commies".[5]
- 22 Central Intelligence Group established.
Feb
- Irving Brown debates Benoit Frachon at a CGT congress in Lille, criticising the Communist call for wage restraint.[6]
- Irving Brown warns Lovestone that "the Russians are moving with seven-league boots in Germany".[7]
- Kennan long telegram
- 3 Kennan describes WFTU as an instrument of Soviet policy.[8]
- 23 Alfred Bingham writes Jay Lovestone that "the influence of the Wolf crowd is almost gone" in Germany.[9]
March
- AFL's George Meany lobbies Secretary of State James F. Byrnes.[10]
- 20 - State Department announces that labour unions should be allowed to organise in Germany.[11]
April
- 10 Irving Brown reports to Jay Lovestone that German unions have begun organising on a zonal basis, but that Soviet-backed FDGB is starting to organize in the West.[12]
- 12 German labour conference takes place in Frankfurt, establishing thirteen unions in the American zone, eventually leading to the creation of the Deutscher Gewerkschaftbund.[13]
- 13 - Irving Brown accuses Major George Shaw Wheeler of the US military government in Germany, of being a Communist.[14]
May
- 17 Lovestone writes Mandel about Walter Winchell.[15]
June
July
- Internal ILGWU pressure leads David Dubinsky to cable Clement Attlee, calling for conciliation in Palestine.[16]
Aug
- Ray Murphy questions Whitaker Chambers.[17]
September
October
- Henry Rutz demobilised. Remains in Germany as AFL representative funded by the Free Trade Union Committee.[18]
November
- Report of Security investigation on Alger Hiss prompted by Murphy.[19]
- Ernest Bevin meets Dubinsky and Matthew Woll in New York, where they discuss opening up immigration to the United States as well as Palestine.[16]
December
- National War Fund,the main funder for the International Rescue Committee dissolved.[20]
Notes
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.172.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.145.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.179.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.153.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.165.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.165.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
- ↑ Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.238.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.145.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Robert D. Parmet, The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement, NYU Press, 2005, p.238.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.148.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.149.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.20.
