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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.
 
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of [[covert action]] with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
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==March==
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*Dispute over Communist participation in the [[American Labor Party]] sees hardline anti-communists led by [[David Dubinsky]] defeated by [[Sidney Hillman]], who believes that Communist support will help swing New York state for the Roosevelt presidential campaign. As a result Dubinsky forms the [[Liberal Party of New York]] which will campaign for Roosevelt separately.<ref name="Vargo">John E. Vargo, [http://www.liberalparty.org/vargoarticlep1.html End of the Line for the New York Liberal Party?], liberalparty.org, accessed 25 January 2012.</ref>
  
 
==May==
 
==May==
 
* [[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>
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*[[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==
 
==June==
*[[William Casey]] appointed director of the London office of the [[OSS Secret Intelligence Branch]]. [[Joseph Gould]]joins the office's labor section.<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>
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*[[William Casey]] appointed director of the London office of the [[OSS Secret Intelligence Branch]]. [[Joseph Gould]] joins the office's labor section.<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>
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==July==
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*[[Serafino Romualdi]] sent to Italy as a Major in the [[OSS]] working with [[Max Corvo]] and [[Vincent Scamporino]].<ref name"Harris97">Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency, Globe Pequot, 2006, p.97.</ref>
  
 
==August==
 
==August==
*'''20''' [[SHAEF]] approves [[OSS]] [[FAUST]] plan to send agents to make contact with underground labour groups in Germany.<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>
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*'''20''' - [[SHAEF]] approves [[OSS]] [[FAUST]] plan to send agents to make contact with underground labour groups in Germany.<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>
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*"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.<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>
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[[Political Warfare Timeline 1943]] | [[Political Warfare Timeline 1945]]
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 19:52, 31 January 2012

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

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  • 20 - SHAEF approves OSS FAUST plan to send agents to make contact with underground labour groups in Germany.[5]
  • "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.[5]

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Notes

  1. John E. Vargo, End of the Line for the New York Liberal Party?, liberalparty.org, accessed 25 January 2012.
  2. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.147.
  3. Guide to the Serafino Romualdi Papers, 1936-1967, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
  4. Thomas Adam, Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO, 2005, p.262.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 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.
  6. Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency, Globe Pequot, 2006, p.97.