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*'''18''' - [[Francis Henson]] writes to [[Ernest Cuneo]], asking him to have [[Walter Winchell]] plug the campaign against isolationist Congressman [[Hamilton Fish]] in his column and on the radio.<ref name="Mahl110">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.110.</ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 15:28, 28 April 2012

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

January

  • 13 Lovestoneites attack Trotskiyites over support for Soviet invasion of Finland.[1]

Feb

Mar

Apr

  • Jay Lovestone sends letter to Socialist Party convention.
  • 2 William Stephenson arrives in US on mission[3]
  • 13 B Herman criticises Lenin in Workers Age.[4]
  • 20 German Communist Opposition Message appears in Workers Age.

May

June

Jul

Aug

  • Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) holds its first public function.[23]
  • Varian Fry leaves for Vichy France as representative of ERC.[24]
  • 14 Lovestone writes Brockway against American appeasement of Hitler.[25]
  • 16 Rockefeller office created.[26]
  • 28 Brockway writes Lovestone expecting imminent end to war.[27]

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

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Notes

  1. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.104.
  2. The KPD and the Solidarity of the Illegals, marxists.org, accessed 17 January 2012.
  3. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.
  4. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.128.
  5. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
  6. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.294.
  7. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.127.
  8. Stephen Koch, Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenburg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals, Harper Collins, 1995, p.211.
  9. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.
  10. 10.0 10.1 Terry Charman, Hugh Dalton, SOE and Poland 1940-42 in Mark Seaman (ed.), Special Operations Executive: a new instrument of war, Routledge, 2006, p.61.
  11. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.25.
  12. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.
  13. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.17.
  14. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
  15. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
  16. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  17. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  18. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  19. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  20. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
  21. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  22. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  23. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.11
  24. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.15
  25. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  26. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.
  27. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  28. John E. Vargo, End of the Line for the New York Liberal Party?, liberalparty.org, accessed 25 January 2012.
  29. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.110.
  30. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.136.
  31. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.132.
  32. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.72.