Difference between revisions of "Political Warfare Timeline 1974"

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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.
  
===December===
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==Summer==
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*The [[Coalition for A Democratic Majority]] (CDM) Foreign Policy Task Force headed by [[Eugene Rostow]] publishes ''The Quest for Detente'', arguing that the concept did not signal a change in Soviet foreign policy.<ref>Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.150.</ref>
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==August==
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*'''19''' - [[Henry Kissinger]] writes to Rostow that he sees no evidence of a Soviet "headlong drive for first-strike capability", as claimed by the CDM Task Force.<ref>Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.151.</ref>
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==September==
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*'''4''' - Rostow warns in a letter to Kissinger that "Soviet foreign policy never changes."<ref>Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.150.</ref>
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==December===
 
*[[James Angleton]] and senior [[CIA]] Counter-intelligence officers resign.
 
*[[James Angleton]] and senior [[CIA]] Counter-intelligence officers resign.
*'''31''' [[George Kalaris]] appointed head of CIA counterintelligence division.
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*'''31''' - [[George Kalaris]] appointed head of CIA counterintelligence division.
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Revision as of 14:50, 11 November 2011

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

Summer

August

  • 19 - Henry Kissinger writes to Rostow that he sees no evidence of a Soviet "headlong drive for first-strike capability", as claimed by the CDM Task Force.[2]

September

  • 4 - Rostow warns in a letter to Kissinger that "Soviet foreign policy never changes."[3]

December=

Notes

  1. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.150.
  2. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.151.
  3. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.150.