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==Feb==
 
==Feb==
*ICO, ILP participate in Paris conference which establishes new international Bureau for Revolutionary Socialist Unity. Revolutionary Socialist Congress. Afterwards Lovestone invited to Vienna by Die Funke<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127.</ref>  
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*ICO, ILP participate in Paris conference which establishes new International Bureau for Revolutionary Socialist Unity. Revolutionary Socialist Congress. Afterwards [[Jay Lovestone]] invited to Vienna by [[Die Funke]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127.</ref>
  
 
==March==
 
==March==
 
*German annexation of Austria. Lovestone travels to Vienna to rescue ICO leaders.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.266-267.</ref>
 
*German annexation of Austria. Lovestone travels to Vienna to rescue ICO leaders.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.266-267.</ref>
 
*'''11''' - Germans cross Austrian border.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127.</ref>  
 
*'''11''' - Germans cross Austrian border.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127.</ref>  
*'''12'''- Lovestone sees Austrian Nazis marching in the streets.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127.</ref>  
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*'''12''' - Lovestone sees Austrian Nazis marching in the streets.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127.</ref>  
*'''15''' [[Nikolai Bukharin]] shot.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.120.</ref>
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*'''15''' - [[Nikolai Bukharin]] shot.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.120.</ref>
  
 
==Apr==
 
==Apr==
*'''1''' [[SIS Section D]] created.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.12.</ref>
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*'''1''' - [[SIS Section D]] created.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.12.</ref>
 
*'''9''' - Lovestone condemns Stalin over death of Bukharin.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.125.</ref><ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.121.</ref>  
 
*'''9''' - Lovestone condemns Stalin over death of Bukharin.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.125.</ref><ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.121.</ref>  
  
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==July==
 
==July==
*'''17''' Lovestone burgled by Communists.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.129.</ref>  
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*'''17''' - Lovestone burgled by Communists.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.129.</ref>  
*'''25''' Burgled Lovestone material produced at UAW disciplinary.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.</ref>
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*'''25''' - Burgled Lovestone material produced at UAW disciplinary.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.</ref>
  
 
==Aug==
 
==Aug==
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==December==
 
==December==
*'''16''' Workers Age advocating democratic socialism.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.131.</ref><ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.132.</ref>
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*'''16''' - Workers Age advocating democratic socialism.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.131.</ref><ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.132.</ref>
*'''19'''- Letter from Lovestoneites to KPO praises ILP leadership.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.261-262.</ref>
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*'''19''' - Letter from Lovestoneites to KPO praises ILP leadership.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.261-262.</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 21:51, 6 October 2011

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

January

Feb

  • ICO, ILP participate in Paris conference which establishes new International Bureau for Revolutionary Socialist Unity. Revolutionary Socialist Congress. Afterwards Jay Lovestone invited to Vienna by Die Funke.[1]

March

  • German annexation of Austria. Lovestone travels to Vienna to rescue ICO leaders.[2]
  • 11 - Germans cross Austrian border.[3]
  • 12 - Lovestone sees Austrian Nazis marching in the streets.[4]
  • 15 - Nikolai Bukharin shot.[5]

Apr

May

June

July

  • 17 - Lovestone burgled by Communists.[10]
  • 25 - Burgled Lovestone material produced at UAW disciplinary.[11]

Aug

Sep

  • UAW forces Martin to reinstate the board.[12]
  • Lovestoneites still backing CIO.[13]

Oct

November

December

  • 16 - Workers Age advocating democratic socialism.[16][17]
  • 19 - Letter from Lovestoneites to KPO praises ILP leadership.[18]

Notes

  1. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127.
  2. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.266-267.
  3. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127.
  4. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.127.
  5. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.120.
  6. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.12.
  7. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.125.
  8. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.121.
  9. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.128.
  10. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.129.
  11. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
  12. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.130.
  13. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.60.
  14. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.292.
  15. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.58.
  16. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.131.
  17. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.132.
  18. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.261-262.