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*[[American Labor Committee to Aid British Labor]] formed during a US visit by the [[TUC]]'s Sir [[Walter Citrine]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.32.</ref> | *[[American Labor Committee to Aid British Labor]] formed during a US visit by the [[TUC]]'s Sir [[Walter Citrine]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.32.</ref> | ||
| + | *The State Department's [[Adolf Berle]] notes that [[William Stephenson]] was developing "a full size secret police and intelligence service" with "regularly employed secret agents and a much larger number of informers, etc."<ref>Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949, Bloomsbury, 2010, p.448.</ref> | ||
==Apr== | ==Apr== | ||
==May== | ==May== | ||
| + | *[[Union for Democratic Action]] founded.<ref>Arthur Meier Schlesinger, A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950, Hughton Mifflin, 2002, p.263.</ref> | ||
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*'''9''' [[Vincent Astor]] sends Roosevelt clipping of [[New York Herald Tribune]] call for intelligence co-ordinator.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.20.</ref> | *'''9''' [[Vincent Astor]] sends Roosevelt clipping of [[New York Herald Tribune]] call for intelligence co-ordinator.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.20.</ref> | ||
==June== | ==June== | ||
| − | *Vichy secret service learns that British intelligence is attempting to bring [[Léon Jouhaux to London.<ref name "vanGoethem261">Geert van Goethem, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xEeyD0Q2O2YC&source=gbs_navlinks_s The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945], Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.261.</ref> | + | *Vichy secret service learns that British intelligence is attempting to bring [[Léon Jouhaux]] to London.<ref name "vanGoethem261">Geert van Goethem, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xEeyD0Q2O2YC&source=gbs_navlinks_s The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945], Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.261.</ref> |
*'''22''' - German invasion of Russia. Lovestone told new policy of [[Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies]] is to back aid to Russia while doing nothing to advance communism.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.137.</ref> | *'''22''' - German invasion of Russia. Lovestone told new policy of [[Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies]] is to back aid to Russia while doing nothing to advance communism.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.137.</ref> | ||
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*[[Sydney Morrell]] report on British front organisations in the United States.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, ''Desperate Deception'', Brassey's 1999, p.23.</ref> | *[[Sydney Morrell]] report on British front organisations in the United States.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, ''Desperate Deception'', Brassey's 1999, p.23.</ref> | ||
*'''19''' British business blacklist of German agents in agents proscribed under US law.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.18.</ref>. | *'''19''' British business blacklist of German agents in agents proscribed under US law.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.18.</ref>. | ||
| + | *[[Serafino Romualdi]] visits Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, where as a representative of the [[Free Italy Committee]] he directed a campaign to enlist the Italian population in those countries to the side of the Allies.<ref>[http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/KCL05459.html Guide to the Serafino Romualdi Papers, 1936-1967], Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.</ref> | ||
==Aug== | ==Aug== | ||
| − | + | *Nazis insist that [[Varian Fry]] of the [[International Rescue Committee]] leave Vichy France.<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.16.</ref> | |
==Sep== | ==Sep== | ||
| − | + | *'''18''' [[Adolf Berle]] wrote to [[Sumner Welles]] about the [[Office of the Coordinator of Information]]: "For your confidential information, the really active head of the intelligence section in [[William Donovan|Donovan's]] group is [[Dick Ellis|Mr Elliot]], who is assistant to [[William Stephenson|Mr Stevenson]] [sic]. In other words, Stevenson's assistant in The British intelligence is running Donovan's intelligence service." "Elliot" was in fact a covername for [[Dick Ellis]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-41, Brassey's, 1999, p.19.</ref> | |
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*'''7''' Japan bombs Pearl Harbour.<ref>Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor, Monthly Review Press, 1999, p.122.</ref> | *'''7''' Japan bombs Pearl Harbour.<ref>Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor, Monthly Review Press, 1999, p.122.</ref> | ||
*'''15''' [[George Meany]] negotiates no strike deal on behalf of [[AFL]] in a meeting between President Roosevelt and union leaders.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.</ref> | *'''15''' [[George Meany]] negotiates no strike deal on behalf of [[AFL]] in a meeting between President Roosevelt and union leaders.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.</ref> | ||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Latest revision as of 18:43, 10 April 2012
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- 23 Last issue of Lovestoneite Workers Age announcing decision to go out of existence[1]
- 25 Workers Age announces dissolution of Independent Labor League of America.[2][3]
- 30 Executive Committee of the International Federation of Trade Unions decides to attempt to evacuate French Labour leaders, including Léon Jouhaux, to Britain.[4]
Feb
Mar
- American Labor Committee to Aid British Labor formed during a US visit by the TUC's Sir Walter Citrine.[5]
- The State Department's Adolf Berle notes that William Stephenson was developing "a full size secret police and intelligence service" with "regularly employed secret agents and a much larger number of informers, etc."[6]
Apr
May
- Union for Democratic Action founded.[7]
- 9 Vincent Astor sends Roosevelt clipping of New York Herald Tribune call for intelligence co-ordinator.[8]
June
- Vichy secret service learns that British intelligence is attempting to bring Léon Jouhaux to London.[4]
- 22 - German invasion of Russia. Lovestone told new policy of Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies is to back aid to Russia while doing nothing to advance communism.[9]
Jul
- Sydney Morrell report on British front organisations in the United States.[10]
- 19 British business blacklist of German agents in agents proscribed under US law.[11].
- Serafino Romualdi visits Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, where as a representative of the Free Italy Committee he directed a campaign to enlist the Italian population in those countries to the side of the Allies.[12]
Aug
- Nazis insist that Varian Fry of the International Rescue Committee leave Vichy France.[13]
Sep
- 18 Adolf Berle wrote to Sumner Welles about the Office of the Coordinator of Information: "For your confidential information, the really active head of the intelligence section in Donovan's group is Mr Elliot, who is assistant to Mr Stevenson [sic]. In other words, Stevenson's assistant in The British intelligence is running Donovan's intelligence service." "Elliot" was in fact a covername for Dick Ellis.[14]
Oct
Nov
- 26 Eric Maschwitz atrocity photographs memorandum.[15]
December
- 7 Japan bombs Pearl Harbour.[16]
- 15 George Meany negotiates no strike deal on behalf of AFL in a meeting between President Roosevelt and union leaders.[17]
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Notes
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.32.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.136.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Geert van Goethem, The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.260. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.32.
- ↑ Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949, Bloomsbury, 2010, p.448.
- ↑ Arthur Meier Schlesinger, A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950, Hughton Mifflin, 2002, p.263.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.20.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.137.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.23.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.18.
- ↑ Guide to the Serafino Romualdi Papers, 1936-1967, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.16.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-41, Brassey's, 1999, p.19.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.15.
- ↑ Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor, Monthly Review Press, 1999, p.122.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
