Political Warfare Timeline 1945

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
==January==
*Secret high-level Soviet bulletin attacks Earl Browder's "Teheran doctrine".Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.148.
==February==
*22 - William Donovan orders William Casey to take on Gould's Free German exiles as OSS contract agents, despite doubts about their communist leanings.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.
==March==
*1 - Donovan orders Casey to dispatch first penetration mission to Berlin.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.
*2 - Free Germans Paul Lindner and Anton Ruh parachute into Berlin.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.
*20 - Raymond Murphy interviews Whittaker Chambers.Chambers, March 20, 1945, The Alger Hiss Story.
==April==
*Jacques Duclos attacks Browder policy in Cahiers du Communisme.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.147.
*6 - Varian Fry of the International Rescue Committee writes to David Dubinsky that the European Labour movement will be divided into two main ideological groups.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.151.
==May==
*8 Germany surrenders.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.
==June==
*OMGUS officials split over reformation of German unions.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.159.
*2 Ray Murphy of Eur/X writes analysis of Duclos article.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.148.
==July==
*16 Free Trade Union Committee has collected $186,393.59 from AFL affiliates by this date, including $50,000 from the ILGWU.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.153.
*Joseph Keenan introduces Irving Brown to Lucius Clay in Berlin.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.225.
*Potsdam Summit.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.235.
==September==
*Founding conference of World Federation of Trade Unions begins.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.152.
*Irving Brown arrives in Paris.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.176.
*French Communists oust Leon Jouhaux as head of the CGT union.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.177.
*20 - President Harry Truman passes Executive Order 9621 abolishing the Office of Strategic Services as of 1 October.Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.81.
*26 - William Donovan's Deputy, General John Magruder secured an order from Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy which preserved OSS operations as the Strategic Services Unit, keeping alive the hopes of those who advocated what would later become the Central Intelligence Agency.Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.10.
==October==
*George Kennan warns Secretary of State James F. Byrnes that the Kremlin may shortly orchestrate 'maximum trouble for western governments.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.182.
*Communist Party (PCF) emerges as largest party in French elections.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.171.
*1 - Office of Strategic Services abolished.Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.81.
*29 - Sidney Hillman protegé David Morse testifies in support of OMGUS official George Shaw Wheeler at hearing into allegations that he is a communist.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.161.
==December==
*Wartime Resistance Ouvriére group becomes Force Ouvriere-CGT.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.183.
*Captain Joseph Gould of OMGUS breaks into office of rival Major Alfred Bingham and finds evidence of deal to exclude German communists from American-sponsored Labor League.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
*7 - The Strategic Services Unit in London, successor to the OSS station, has 73 people at this date.Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, Overlook Press, 2002, p.83.
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