Political Warfare Timeline 1944
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]
June
- William Casey appointed director of the London office of the OSS Secret Intelligence Branch. Joseph Gould joins the office's labor section.[2]
August
- 20 SHAEF approves OSS FAUST plan to send agents to make contact with underground labour groups in Germany.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.147.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
