Political Warfare Timeline 1942

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
==January==
==February==
*Emergency Rescue Committee and International Relief Association merge, initially to be known as the International Relief and Rescue Committee (later simply the International Rescue Committee.Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.18.
*12 - Esther and Nathan Mendelssohn stopped on flight from Miami.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
==March==
*2 - Mendelssohns arrested.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138. 
*6 - Lovestone writes Judge Justine Polier on Mendelssohns' behalf.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
==April==
*9 - Charges against Mendelssohns dismissed.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
*10 - Memorandum by Paul Hagen: How to Collaborate with the Anti-Nazi Underground in Germany.Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.17.
*23 - Memorandum by Adolf A. Berle, Assistant Secretary of State: Political Propaganda Campaign Directed Toward Germany.Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.20
==May==
*8 - Letter from Allen W. Dulles (COI New York) to COI William J. Donovan: Suggestions for Psychological Warfare.Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.23.
==June==
*US Office of the Coordinator of Information becomes the Office of Strategic Services.Geert van Goethem, The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.263.
*Emergency Rescue Committee office in Marseilles suppressed. Many of its volunteers join the resistance.Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.16.
==July==
*Francis Henson writes to Ernest Cuneo with material from the minority stockholders committee campaigning against Standard Oil of New Jersey over its links with I.G. Farben.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.99.
*OSS SI Labor Division established.Geert van Goethem, The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.261.
*22 - Memorandum by Heber Blankenhorn (OSS Washington): The Labor Factor in Psychological Warfare Plans for Western Europe.Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.25.
==August==
*15 - Telegram from Myron Taylor(OSS Stockholm) to OSS Washington): German Criticism of British Policy.Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.31.
*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."Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.137.
*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."Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
==September==
*Office of Strategic Services establishes Secret Intelligence Branch to organise clandestine agent operations abroad.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.
*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.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.138.
==October==
==November==
*Dies Committee investigator Robert E. Stripling reports to Congressman Martin Dies on Francis Henson, noting he is a director of the Union for Democratic Action, and described an "amazing conspiracy" involving Sanford Griffith "to smear and discredit the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey."Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.102.
==December==
*16 Memorandum by OSS Adviser Kurt Bloch: The Opposition Potential of the Foreign Workers in Germany.Jurgen Heideking, Christof Mauch, Marc Frey, American intelligence and the German resistance to Hitler: a documentary history, Westview Press, 1996, p.32.
*25 Leon Jouhaux arrested by Vichy authorities attempting to embark at Marseilles.Geert van Goethem, The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945, Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.261.
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