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* [[Earl Browder]] dissolves the [[Communist Party USA]] in favour of the [[Communist Political Association]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.147.</ref>
 
* [[Earl Browder]] dissolves the [[Communist Party USA]] in favour of the [[Communist Political Association]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.147.</ref>
 
*[[Serafino Romualdi]] joins the [[OSS]].<ref name="KheelArchiveRomualdi">[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>
 
*[[Serafino Romualdi]] joins the [[OSS]].<ref name="KheelArchiveRomualdi">[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>
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*[[Council for a Democratic Germany]] founded by German emigrés in New York.<ref>Thomas Adam, Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO, 2005, p.262.</ref>
  
 
==June==
 
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Revision as of 21:18, 23 January 2012

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

May

June

July

August

  • 20 - SHAEF approves OSS FAUST plan to send agents to make contact with underground labour groups in Germany.[4]
  • "Late August" - Joseph Gould recruits a number of German socialist exiles in London, in an operation that appears to have been penetrated by Soviet intelligence.[4]

Notes

  1. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.147.
  2. Guide to the Serafino Romualdi Papers, 1936-1967, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
  3. Thomas Adam, Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO, 2005, p.262.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 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.
  5. Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency, Globe Pequot, 2006, p.97.