Political Warfare Timeline 1943

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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

  • 13 - Telegram from Allen W. Dulles (OSS Bern) to OSS Washington: German Efforts to Establish Contact with Americans.[1]
  • 14 - Telegram from [[Allen W. Dulles (OSS Bern) to OSS Washington: Adam von Trott's Criticism of the Western Allies.[2]

February

May

  • 17 - Memorandum from William L. Langer (OSS Research and Analysis Branch) to OSS Director William J. Donovan: New Possibilities for Psychological Warfare in Europe.[5]

August

  • 3 - Memorandum from Irving H. Sherman (OSS Counterintelligence Branch) to Hugh R. Wilson (OSS Planning Group): Proposal for the Establishment of a Committee of German Exiles.[6]
  • 6 - Memorandum from James Grafton Rogers (OSS Planning Group) to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Manifesto to the German People by the Moscow National Committee of Free Germany.[7]
  • 11 - Memorandum from John C. Wiley (OSS Foreign Nationalities Branch) to President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt

]]: Comments on the Moscow Manifesto to Germany.[8]

  • 19 - Telegram from Allen W. Dulles (OSS Bern) to OSS Washington: Thoughts for Political Warfare.[9]
  • 31 - Memorandum by the OSS Morale Operations Branch in London: Suggestions for a German Underground Plan.[10]

=September

  • 8 - Report from Lanning McFarland (OSS Istanbul) to OSS Washington: Founding of a Free German Movement in the Service of the Western Allies.[11]
  • 9 - Report by the British War Cabinet's Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee: Probabilities of a German Collapse.[12]
  • 21 - Report by the OSS Research and Analysis Branch: Possible Patterns of German Collapse.[13]

October

  • 21 - Memorandum from the US Joint Intelligence Committee to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Probabilities of a German Collapse.[14]


Notes

  1. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.37.
  2. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.38.
  3. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.41.
  4. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.42.
  5. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.44.
  6. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.49.
  7. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.52.
  8. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.56.
  9. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.59.
  10. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.60.
  11. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.70.
  12. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.83.
  13. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.87.
  14. Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.94.