Political Warfare Timeline 1945
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
- 22 - William Donovan orders William Casey to take on Gould's Free German exiles as OSS contract agents, despite doubts about their communist leanings.[2]
March
- 1 - Donovan orders Casey to dispatch first penetration mission to Berlin.[2]
- 2 - Free Germans Paul Lindner and Anton Ruh parachute into Berlin.[2]
April
- Jacques Duclos attacks Browder policy in Cahiers du Communisme.[3]
- 6 - Varian Fry of the International Rescue Committee writes to David Dubinsky that the European Labour movement will be divided into two main ideological groups.[4]
May
- 8 Germany surrenders.[2]
June
- 2 Ray Murphy of Eur/X writes analysis of Duclos article.[5]
July
- 16 Free Trade Union Committee has collected $186,393.59 from AFL affiliates by this date, including $50,000 from the ILGWU.[6]
September
- Founding conference of World Federation of Trade Unions begins.[7]
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.148.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.147.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.151.
- ↑ 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.153.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.152.