Political Warfare Timeline 1935

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Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.

Jan

  • Saar plebiscite
  • 4 - Intercepted letter
  • 5 Lovestone letter to Earl Browder which later leads to meeting between Loverstone, Zimmerman and CPUSA leaders.
  • 23 - Intercepted letter to August Thalheimer.

February

  • 14 Lovestone intercepted letter to Thalheimer about Dubinsky
  • 28 Lovestone writes Thalheimer about Jim Cork visit

March

  • Lovestone urges Zimmerman to rush the next installment ot the German comrades.[1]
  • 13 - Letter about Dubinsky uncovering false Brandler signature intercepted

Apr

May

[2]

  • 15 - Lovestone approves letter from Brandler to Dubinsky.
  • 28 - Lovestone writes Brandler that Cork is to return by 15 August
  • 31 - Lovestone letter to Brandler re Dubinsky

June

July

August

  • Lovestone pamphlet defends Stalin's foreign policy.

[3]

  • 15 Letter to Brandler say Dubinsky not to send more money at present

September

  • 24 Lovestone mentions John Voight to Heinz.

Oct

November

December

  • 3 - Vernon Kell letter about Kurt Schaefer leading Right opposition

Notes

  1. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.10.
  2. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.117.
  3. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.120.