https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Joseph_Godson&feed=atom&action=historyJoseph Godson - Revision history2024-03-28T13:48:41ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.31.5https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Joseph_Godson&diff=195817&oldid=prevTom Griffin: references2014-07-23T15:33:23Z<p>references</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to ''The Times'', 'he spoke relatively little English when he went to New York at the age of 13, and throughout his life his accent carried a hint of Central Europe behind the warm and urgent American voice.'<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to ''The Times'', 'he spoke relatively little English when he went to New York at the age of 13, and throughout his life his accent carried a hint of Central Europe behind the warm and urgent American voice.'<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1937, and received a law degree from New York University in 1940.<ref name="NYTObit">Joseph Godson, 'New York Times', 12 September 1986.</ref> Hugh Wilford states that he was a member of the [[Communist Party Opposition]].<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.179.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1937, and received a law degree from New York University in 1940.<ref name="NYTObit">Joseph Godson, 'New York Times', 12 September 1986.</ref> Hugh Wilford states that he was a member of the [[Communist Party Opposition]].<ref <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Callingthetune179"</ins>>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.179.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===London labour attaché===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===London labour attaché===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson served as labour attaché in London from 1953 until 1959.<ref name="NYTObit">Joseph Godson, 'New York Times', 12 September 1986.</ref> Soon afterwards, he lost his assistant attaché to a 1953 reorganisation.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.177.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson served as labour attaché in London from 1953 until 1959.<ref name="NYTObit">Joseph Godson, 'New York Times', 12 September 1986.</ref> Soon afterwards, he lost his assistant attaché to a 1953 reorganisation.<ref <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Callingthetune177"</ins>>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.177.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1958, Godson married his second wife, [[Ruth Perlman]].<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1958, Godson married his second wife, [[Ruth Perlman]].<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson arrived at a time of increasing American concern about the rise of 'Bevanism'. He moved quickly to build up links between the British and American labour movements.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.177.</ref> According to the ''Times'' his friends in Britain over the years included [[Harold Wilson]], [[George Brown]], [[Arthur Deakin]] and [[Frank Chapple]].<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson arrived at a time of increasing American concern about the rise of 'Bevanism'. He moved quickly to build up links between the British and American labour movements.<ref <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Callingthetune177"</ins>>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.177.</ref> According to the ''Times'' his friends in Britain over the years included [[Harold Wilson]], [[George Brown]], [[Arthur Deakin]] and [[Frank Chapple]].<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to [[Stephen Haseler]], Labour leader [[Hugh Gaitskell]] became so close to Godson, that Gaitskell's friends warned him to lower Godson's profile.<ref name="haseler39">Stephen Haseler, The Grand Delusion: Britain After Sixty Years of Elizabeth II, I.B.Tauris, 2012, p.39.</ref> The ''Daily Mirror'''s Geoffrey Goodman called Godson's Kensington flat, 'a salon for Gaitskellites'.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.180.</ref> According to Hugh Wilford, even allies such as Deakin and Gaitskell himself began to entertain doubts about Godson's role in the Labour Party, while 'the Bevanites simply regarded him as a spy from the American Embassy.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.180.</ref>  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to [[Stephen Haseler]], Labour leader [[Hugh Gaitskell]] became so close to Godson, that Gaitskell's friends warned him to lower Godson's profile.<ref name="haseler39">Stephen Haseler, The Grand Delusion: Britain After Sixty Years of Elizabeth II, I.B.Tauris, 2012, p.39.</ref> The ''Daily Mirror'''s Geoffrey Goodman called Godson's Kensington flat, 'a salon for Gaitskellites'.<ref <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Callingthetune180"</ins>>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.180.</ref> According to Hugh Wilford, even allies such as Deakin and Gaitskell himself began to entertain doubts about Godson's role in the Labour Party, while 'the Bevanites simply regarded him as a spy from the American Embassy.<ref <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Callingthetune180"</ins>>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.180.</ref>  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson's support for the Gaitskellite right of the Labour Party partly reflected his [[AFL]] background. This also involved him in something of a rivalry with [[William Gaussman]], a [[USIA]] labour information officer with roots in the [[CIO]].<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.179.</ref>  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson's support for the Gaitskellite right of the Labour Party partly reflected his [[AFL]] background. This also involved him in something of a rivalry with [[William Gaussman]], a [[USIA]] labour information officer with roots in the [[CIO]].<ref <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Callingthetune179"</ins>>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.179.</ref>  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson's reports to the State Department, reflected Lovestoneite views of the Bevanite threat, and were informed by long conversations with Deakin and by access to Labour Party documents provided by [[Sam Watson]].<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.179.</ref>  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson's reports to the State Department, reflected Lovestoneite views of the Bevanite threat, and were informed by long conversations with Deakin and by access to Labour Party documents provided by [[Sam Watson]].<ref <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Callingthetune179"</ins>>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.179.</ref>  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the death of [[Jack Carney]] in 1956, Godson became Lovestone's main correspondent in London.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.180.</ref> They employed codewords reflecting  Lovestoneite involvement in covert action. Although there were rumours in London during the 1950s, that a CIA officer was operating under cover as a Labour attaché, Hugh Wilford concludes there is no evidence that Godson was a CIA officer.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.182.</ref> However, Lovestone himself was a CIA agent, and Godson's material was probably included in the material he sent to [[James Angleton]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</del>.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.183.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the death of [[Jack Carney]] in 1956, Godson became Lovestone's main correspondent in London.<ref <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Callingthetune180"</ins>>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.180.</ref> They employed codewords reflecting  Lovestoneite involvement in covert action. Although there were rumours in London during the 1950s, that a CIA officer was operating under cover as a Labour attaché, Hugh Wilford concludes there is no evidence that Godson was a CIA officer.<ref <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Callingthetune182"</ins>>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.182.</ref> However, Lovestone himself was a CIA agent, and Godson's material was probably included in the material he sent to [[James Angleton]].<ref <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="Callingthetune183"</ins>>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.183.</ref></div></td></tr>
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</table>Tom Griffinhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Joseph_Godson&diff=195815&oldid=prevTom Griffin: /* Foreign Service */2014-07-23T15:17:51Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Foreign Service</span></span></p>
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</table>Tom Griffinhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Joseph_Godson&diff=195814&oldid=prevTom Griffin: /* Struggle against Bevanites */2014-07-23T15:10:36Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Struggle against Bevanites</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson arrived at a time of increasing American concern about the rise of 'Bevanism'. He moved quickly to build up links between the British and American labour movements.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.177.</ref> According to the ''Times'' his friends in Britain over the years included [[Harold Wilson]], [[George Brown]], [[Arthur Deakin]] and [[Frank Chapple]].<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson arrived at a time of increasing American concern about the rise of 'Bevanism'. He moved quickly to build up links between the British and American labour movements.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.177.</ref> According to the ''Times'' his friends in Britain over the years included [[Harold Wilson]], [[George Brown]], [[Arthur Deakin]] and [[Frank Chapple]].<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson served as labour attaché in London from 1953 until 1959.<ref name="NYTObit">Joseph Godson, 'New York Times', 12 September 1986.</ref> Soon afterwards, he lost his assistant attaché to a 1953 reorganisation.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.177.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson served as labour attaché in London from 1953 until 1959.<ref name="NYTObit">Joseph Godson, 'New York Times', 12 September 1986.</ref> Soon afterwards, he lost his assistant attaché to a 1953 reorganisation.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.177.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">arrived at a time of increasing American concern about the rise of 'Bevanism'. He moved quickly to build up links between the British and American labour movements</del>.<ref><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Hugh Wilford</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The CIA</del>, The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Frank Cass, London 2003, p.177</del>.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In 1958, </ins>Godson <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">married his second wife, [[Ruth Perlman]]</ins>.<ref <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="TimesObit"</ins>><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Determined champion of Anglo-American relations</ins>, The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Times</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6 September 1986</ins>.</ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Stephen Haseler</del>]], <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Labour leader </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Hugh Gaitskell</del>]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">became so close to Godson</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">that Gaitskell's friends warned him to lower Godson's profile</del>.<ref name="<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">haseler39</del>"><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Stephen Haseler</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Grand Delusion: Britain After Sixty Years </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Elizabeth II</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I.B.Tauris, 2012</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">p.39</del>.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">====Struggle against Bevanites====</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Godson arrived at a time of increasing American concern about the rise of 'Bevanism'. He moved quickly to build up links between the British and American labour movements.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.177.</ref> </ins>According to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the ''Times'' his friends in Britain over the years included </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Harold Wilson</ins>]], [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">George Brown</ins>]], <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Arthur Deakin]] and [[Frank Chapple]]</ins>.<ref name="<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">TimesObit</ins>"><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Determined champion </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Anglo-American relations</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Times</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6 September 1986</ins>.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In 1958, Godson married his second wife</del>, [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ruth Perlman</del>]].<ref name="<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">TimesObit</del>"><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Obituary </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Mr Joseph </del>Godson, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Determined champion </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Anglo-American relations</del>, The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Times</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6 September 1986</del>.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">According to [[Stephen Haseler]]</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Labour leader </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Hugh Gaitskell</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">became so close to Godson, that Gaitskell's friends warned him to lower Godson's profile</ins>.<ref name="<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">haseler39</ins>"><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Stephen Haseler, The Grand Delusion: Britain After Sixty Years </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Elizabeth II, I.B.Tauris, 2012, p.39.</ref>  Godson's support for the Gaitskellite right of the Labour Party partly reflected his [[AFL]] background. This also involved him in something of a rivalry with [[William Gaussman]], a [[USIA]] labour information officer with roots in the [[CIO]].<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.179.</ref> </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'s reports to the State Department</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">reflected Lovestoneite views </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the Bevanite threat, and were informed by long conversations with Deakin and by access to Labour Party documents provided by [[Sam Watson]].<ref>Hugh Wilford</ins>, The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">CIA</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.179</ins>.</ref>  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">According to </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''Times'' his friends in Britain over the years included </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Harold Wilson</del>]], <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[George Brown]], [[Arthur Deakin]] and [[Frank Chapple]]</del>.<ref <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="TimesObit"</del>><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Determined champion of Anglo-American relations</del>, The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Times</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6 September 1986</del>.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">After </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">death of </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Jack Carney</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in 1956</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Godson became Lovestone's main correspondent in London</ins>.<ref><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Hugh Wilford</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The CIA</ins>, The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Frank Cass, London 2003, p.180</ins>.</ref>  </div></td></tr>
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</table>Tom Griffinhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Joseph_Godson&diff=195810&oldid=prevTom Griffin: /* Background */2014-07-22T23:51:42Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Background</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This is most likely a reference to [[Jay Lovestone]]'s [[Independent Labor League of America]], the final American incarnation of the Communist Right Opposition which was wound up in 1940.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.132.</ref>  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This is most likely a reference to [[Jay Lovestone]]'s [[Independent Labor League of America]], the final American incarnation of the Communist Right Opposition which was wound up in 1940.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.132.</ref>  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Between 1940 and 1944 Godson worked in the American labour movement, where he 'helped to beat off communist attempts to control two New York-based trade unions'.<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref> For the following six years, he worked for the [[Jewish Labor Committee]].<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Between 1940 and 1944 Godson worked in the American labour movement, where he 'helped to beat off communist attempts to control two New York-based trade unions'.<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref> For the following six years, he worked for the [[Jewish Labor Committee]].<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td></tr>
</table>Tom Griffinhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Joseph_Godson&diff=195809&oldid=prevTom Griffin: /* Background */2014-07-22T23:51:23Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Background</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to ''The Times'', 'he spoke relatively little English when he went to New York at the age of 13, and throughout his life his accent carried a hint of Central Europe behind the warm and urgent American voice.'<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to ''The Times'', 'he spoke relatively little English when he went to New York at the age of 13, and throughout his life his accent carried a hint of Central Europe behind the warm and urgent American voice.'<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1937, and received a law degree from New York University in 1940.<ref name="NYTObit">Joseph Godson, 'New York Times', 12 September 1986.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1937, and received a law degree from New York University in 1940.<ref name="NYTObit">Joseph Godson, 'New York Times', 12 September 1986<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</ref> Hugh Wilford states that he was a member of the [[Communist Party Opposition]].<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.179</ins>.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::A Marxist in his early years, he soon decided that Stalin held no attraction for him; but he also rejected the romanticism of the Trotskyists (and was thereby saved from the exaggerated swing to the right which many Trotskyists subsequently went through by way of over-compensation). He belonged to that brave group of Americans who continued to search for a workable, democratic form of Marxism until the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 made them dissolve their organization in despair.<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::A Marxist in his early years, he soon decided that Stalin held no attraction for him; but he also rejected the romanticism of the Trotskyists (and was thereby saved from the exaggerated swing to the right which many Trotskyists subsequently went through by way of over-compensation). He belonged to that brave group of Americans who continued to search for a workable, democratic form of Marxism until the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 made them dissolve their organization in despair.<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This is most likely a reference to [[Jay Lovestone]]'s [[Independent Labor League of America]] which was wound up in 1940.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.132.</ref> According to the ''Times'', this background led Godson into his first jobs.<ref name="TimesObit">Obituary of Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion of Anglo-American relations, The Times, 6 September 1986.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This is most likely a reference to [[Jay Lovestone]]'s [[Independent Labor League of America]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, the final American incarnation of the Communist Right Opposition </ins>which was wound up in 1940.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.132.</ref>  </div></td></tr>
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</table>Tom Griffinhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Joseph_Godson&diff=195808&oldid=prevTom Griffin: /* London labour attaché */2014-07-22T23:13:09Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">London labour attaché</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson served as labour attaché in London from 1953 until 1959.<ref name="NYTObit">Joseph Godson, 'New York Times', 12 September 1986.</ref> <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">According </del>to the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''Times'' his friends in Britain over </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">years included [[Harold Wilson]]</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[George Brown]]</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Arthur Deakin]] and [[Frank Chapple]]</del>.<ref <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name="TimesObit"</del>><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Obituary </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Mr Joseph Godson, Determined champion </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Anglo-</del>American <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">relations</del>, The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Times</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6 September 1986</del>.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Godson served as labour attaché in London from 1953 until 1959.<ref name="NYTObit">Joseph Godson, 'New York Times', 12 September 1986.</ref> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Soon afterwards, he lost his assistant attaché </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a 1953 reorganisation.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Cold War: Calling </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Tune?</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Frank Cass</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">London 2003, p.177</ins>.<<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">/</ins>ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Godson arrived at a time </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">increasing American concern about the rise </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'Bevanism'. He moved quickly to build up links between the British and </ins>American <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">labour movements.<ref>Hugh Wilford</ins>, The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">CIA</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Frank Cass, London 2003, p.177</ins>.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to [[Stephen Haseler]], Labour leader [[Hugh Gaitskell]] became so close to Godson, that Gaitskell's friends warned him to lower Godson's profile.<ref name="haseler39">Stephen Haseler, The Grand Delusion: Britain After Sixty Years of Elizabeth II, I.B.Tauris, 2012, p.39.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to [[Stephen Haseler]], Labour leader [[Hugh Gaitskell]] became so close to Godson, that Gaitskell's friends warned him to lower Godson's profile.<ref name="haseler39">Stephen Haseler, The Grand Delusion: Britain After Sixty Years of Elizabeth II, I.B.Tauris, 2012, p.39.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::Gaitskell held a series of secret meetings at the Russell Hotel, where he planned the expulsion with [[Sam Watson]], the leader of the Durham miners. Also in attendance was the Labour attaché at the American Embassy in London, Joe Godson. One of the most important post-war events in the Labour Party's internal affairs was overseen by an American spook. <ref> Smear: Wilson and the Secret State, Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Fourth Estate Ltd, 1991, p14 </ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::Gaitskell held a series of secret meetings at the Russell Hotel, where he planned the expulsion with [[Sam Watson]], the leader of the Durham miners. Also in attendance was the Labour attaché at the American Embassy in London, Joe Godson. One of the most important post-war events in the Labour Party's internal affairs was overseen by an American spook. <ref> Smear: Wilson and the Secret State, Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Fourth Estate Ltd, 1991, p14 </ref></div></td></tr>
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</table>Tom Griffinhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Joseph_Godson&diff=195804&oldid=prevTom Griffin: /* 'Challenges to the Western Alliance' */2014-07-22T17:43:57Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">'Challenges to the Western Alliance'</span></span></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">President Reagan's International Director for Communications in the mid-1980s, [[Walter Raymond Jr.]], testified to Congressional [[Iran-Contra]] investigators that his assistant [Steven Steiner], had met with Joe Godson. He denied that Central American matters had been discussed.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::Q Do you recall your deputy , Steve Steiner, accompanying Ollie North to a meeting in the Washington Hotel with Joe Godson?</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::A I did not recall that. I recall Steve Steiner meeting Joe Godson at one point. I do not recall Ollie North. I don't know that. Might be.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::Q Do you know whether Ollie North met with Joe Godson?</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::A No, I do not know.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::Q What was the purpose of Steve Steiner meeting with Joe Godson?</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::A Joe Godson was interested and concerned about American image in Europe, particularly the infrastructure of our allies. In other words, the communications, the dialogue among our allies on the one hand and the United States, which he felt had been strained by the INF debate.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::Q Did it relate in any way to Central America?</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::A To the best of my knowledge, no.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::Q Was Joe Godson involved in any way in the efforts to influence public opinion in Europe on behalf of the President's policies in Central America?</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::A I do not believe that he was involved in that aspect of it. I think he was involved only in terms of the U.S.- European debate.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::A It could have. I don't know that for a fact.<ref>Report .of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, Appendix B: Volume 22, Depositions, 17 November 1987, pp.369-370.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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