Political Warfare Timeline 1946

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
==January==
*Charles de Gaulle walks out of the French government.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.172.
*Irving Brown visits GermanyTed Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
*6 - Jay Lovestone writes Irving Brown that "the fight against Hillmanism in Europe must be made by the AFL".Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
*9 Jay Lovestone writes Ben Mandel about communist Atomic spying.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.145.
*16 Henry Rutz informs Jay Lovestone that Mortimer Wolf and Joseph Gould have left OMGUS along with "several other commies".Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.163.
*22 Central Intelligence Group established.
==Feb==
*Irving Brown debates Benoit Frachon at a CGT congress in Lille, criticising the Communist call for wage restraint.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.179.
*Irving Brown warns Lovestone that "the Russians are moving with seven-league boots in Germany".Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
*Kennan long telegram
*3 Kennan describes WFTU as an instrument of Soviet policy.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.153.
*23 Alfred Bingham writes Jay Lovestone that "the influence of the Wolf crowd is almost gone" in Germany.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
==March==
*AFL's George Meany lobbies Secretary of State James F. Byrnes.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.164.
*20 - State Department announces that labour unions should be allowed to organise in Germany.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.165.
==April==
*10 Irving Brown reports to Jay Lovestone that German unions have begun organising on a zonal basis, but that Soviet-backed FDGB is starting to organize in the West.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.165.
*12 German labour conference takes place in Frankfurt, establishing thirteen unions in the American zone, eventually leading to the creation of the Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
*13 - Irving Brown accuses Major George Shaw Wheeler of the US military government in Germany, of being a Communist.Ben Rathbun, The Point Man, Irving Brown and the Deadly Post-1945 Struggle for Europe and Africa, Minerva Press, 1996, p.238.
==May==
*17 Lovestone writes Mandel about Walter Winchell.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.145.
==June==
==July==
*Internal ILGWU pressure leads David Dubinsky to cable Clement Attlee, calling for conciliation in Palestine.Robert D. Parmet, The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement, NYU Press, 2005, p.238.
==Aug==
*Ray Murphy questions Whittaker Chambers.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.148.
==September==
==October==
*Henry Rutz demobilised. Remains in Germany as AFL representative funded by the Free Trade Union Committee.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.166.
==November==
*Report of Security investigation on Alger Hiss prompted by Murphy.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.149.
*Ernest Bevin meets Dubinsky and Matthew Woll in New York, where they discuss opening up immigration to the United States as well as Palestine.Robert D. Parmet, The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement, NYU Press, 2005, p.238.
==December==
*National War Fund,the main funder for the International Rescue Committee dissolved.Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.20.
==Notes==
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