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.
March
- Dispute over Communist participation in the American Labor Party sees hardline anti-communists led by David Dubinsky defeated by Sidney Hillman, who believes that Communist support will help swing New York state for the Roosevelt presidential campaign. As a result Dubinsky forms the Liberal Party of New York which will campaign for Roosevelt separately.[1]
May
- Earl Browder dissolves the Communist Party USA in favour of the Communist Political Association.[2]
- Serafino Romualdi joins the OSS.[3]
- Council for a Democratic Germany founded by German emigrés in New York.[4]
June
- William Casey appointed director of the London office of the OSS Secret Intelligence Branch. Joseph Gould joins the office's labor section.[5]
July
- Serafino Romualdi sent to Italy as a Major in the OSS working with Max Corvo and Vincent Scamporino.[6]
August
- 20 - SHAEF approves OSS FAUST plan to send agents to make contact with underground labour groups in Germany.[5]
- "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.[5]
Notes
- ↑ John E. Vargo, End of the Line for the New York Liberal Party?, liberalparty.org, accessed 25 January 2012.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 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.
