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*''''6''' [[Security Service]] reports understanding between [[Willi Muenzenberg]] and [[Heinrich Brandler]].
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*'''6''' [[Security Service]] reports understanding between [[Willi Muenzenberg]] and [[Heinrich Brandler]].
 
*'''16''' Roosevelt agrees to military talks at meeting with British ambassador.
 
*'''16''' Roosevelt agrees to military talks at meeting with British ambassador.
 
<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, ''Desperate Deception'', Brassey's 1999, p.4.</ref>
 
<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, ''Desperate Deception'', Brassey's 1999, p.4.</ref>

Revision as of 21:15, 7 October 2011

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


January

  • Lovestoneites supporting CIO against AFL.[1]
  • 9 - Lovestone defends POUM in Workers Age.[2]

February

  • Bukharin arrested
  • Wolfe visits Spain.

March

April

  • Lovestone people in place for anti-communist push in UAW.[3]
  • 7 - Lovestone arranges for purge of Flint local including Victor Reuther.

May

  • 3 - May events in Barcelona
  • 16 - Irving Brown beaten up trying unionise Ford plant in Chicago.[4]

June

  • 16 - Arrest of POUM leaders.

July

  • 5 Lovestone rejects official version of Stalin's show trial.[5]
  • ICO statement against arrest of German oppositionists in Spain.

August

  • 23 UAW convention opens. Splits into Pro and Anti-Martin factions.[6]
  • 27 ILGWU's Julius Hochman to travel to Paris according to SIS report.

September

  • 15 - ICO seeks rapprochement with London Buro.

October

  • 5 - Roosevelt quarantine speech against agressor nations.[7]
  • 7 - Lovestone urges fair Poum trial.[8]

November

December

[10]

Notes

  1. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.60.
  2. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.121.
  3. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.125.
  4. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.125.
  5. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.124.
  6. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.126.
  7. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.4.
  8. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.123.
  9. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.152.
  10. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.4.