Political Warfare Timeline 1941

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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.

January

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

June

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

Sep

Oct

Nov

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

  1. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.32.
  2. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.136.
  3. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  4. 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
  5. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.32.
  6. Keith Jeffery, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949, Bloomsbury, 2010, p.448.
  7. Arthur Meier Schlesinger, A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950, Hughton Mifflin, 2002, p.263.
  8. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.20.
  9. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.137.
  10. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.23.
  11. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.18.
  12. Guide to the Serafino Romualdi Papers, 1936-1967, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
  13. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.16.
  14. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-41, Brassey's, 1999, p.19.
  15. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.15.
  16. Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor, Monthly Review Press, 1999, p.122.
  17. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.