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| + | *[[Office of Strategic Services]] establishes [[OSS Secret Intelligence Branch|Secret Intelligence Branch]] to organise clandestine agent operations abroad.<ref name="GouldCSI">Jonathan S. Gould, [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no1/article03.html The OSS and the London “Free Germans”], Studies in Intelligence - VOL. 46, NO. 1, 2002, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA.</ref> | ||
*'''9''' - After Lovestone applies for work with Department of Labor, [[J. Edgar Hoover]] writes: "It is positively shocking that this man is even being considered for a government job.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.</ref> | *'''9''' - After Lovestone applies for work with Department of Labor, [[J. Edgar Hoover]] writes: "It is positively shocking that this man is even being considered for a government job.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 15:02, 14 January 2012
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
February
- 12 - Esther and Nathan Mendelssohn stopped on flight from Miami.[1]
March
- 2 - Mendelssohns arrested.[2]
- 6 - Lovestone writes Judge Justine Polier on Mendelssohns' behalf.[3]
April
- 9 -- Charges against Mendelssohns dismissed.[4]
May
June
July
August
- 24 - Lovestone writes to George K. Bowden asking to join OSS and stating "I have made a firsthand study of the Nazi movement and I have had practical experience in underground as well as open work in nearly fifteen countries."[5]
- 31 - OSS memo states "Lovestone is engaged not only in a number of intrigues involving the Communist Party, from which he broke ostensibly in 1929 when he formed the Communist Party Opposition, but also in other activities which may render him useless as an impartial source of information."[6]
September
- Office of Strategic Services establishes Secret Intelligence Branch to organise clandestine agent operations abroad.[7]
- 9 - After Lovestone applies for work with Department of Labor, J. Edgar Hoover writes: "It is positively shocking that this man is even being considered for a government job.[8]
October
November
December
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.137.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
- ↑ Jonathan S. Gould, The OSS and the London “Free Germans”, Studies in Intelligence - VOL. 46, NO. 1, 2002, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
