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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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===January===
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*'''15''' - [[Casper Weinberger]] tells ''New York Times'' incoming Reagan administration will consider reviving an ABM system to protect American nuclear weapons.<ref name="Fitzgerald119">Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, Touchstone, 2000, p.119.</ref>
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===March===
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*Reagan officials [[Richard Allen]] and [[Jeane Kirkpatrick]] tell delegates to the [[Conservative Political Action Conference]] that the US must develop a new and positive relationship with South Africa.<ref name="Sanders302">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.302.</ref>
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===April===
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*'''6''' [[Committee for the Free World]] letter to the ''New York Times''.<ref>Sara Diamond, Roads to dominion: right-wing movements and political power in the United States, Guildford Press, 1995, pp.379-380.</ref>
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===June===
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*'''26''' - [[Eugene V. Rostow]] confirmed by the Senate as Director of the [[Arms Control and Disarmament Agency]].<ref name="Sanders307">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.307.</ref>
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===July===
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*'''28''' - [[Ed Meese]] meets with members of the [[High Frontier]] panel.<ref name="Fitzgerald132">Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, Touchstone, 2000, p.132.</ref>
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===November===
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*'''30''' Theater arms control negotiations open in Geneva. [[Paul Nitze]] is the US representative. Speaking in London, Rostow says "neogtiations have no magic in themselves.<ref name="Sanders307">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.307.</ref>
  
 
===December===
 
===December===
 
*President [[Ronald Reagan]] authorizes a congressionally-funded programme of covert aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. [[Duane Clarridge]] will be transferred from Rome to run the operation as head of the [[CIA]]'s Latin-American division.<ref>Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran -Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.18.</ref>
 
*President [[Ronald Reagan]] authorizes a congressionally-funded programme of covert aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. [[Duane Clarridge]] will be transferred from Rome to run the operation as head of the [[CIA]]'s Latin-American division.<ref>Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran -Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.18.</ref>
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*'''30-31''' - The [[Colloquium on Clandestine Collection]] was held in Washington D.C.<ref>Roy Godson (ed), Intelligence Requirements for the 1980': Clandestine Collection, National Strategy Information Center, 1982, p.225.</ref> The gathering, convened by the [[Consortium for the Study of Intelligence]], involved "over sixty academics,journalists, current and former senior intelligence specialists, and practitioners serving in both the Executive and Legislative branches of the US government.<ref>Roy Godson (ed), Intelligence Requirements for the 1980': Clandestine Collection, National Strategy Information Center, 1982, p.2.</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 00:15, 25 November 2011

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

January

  • 15 - Casper Weinberger tells New York Times incoming Reagan administration will consider reviving an ABM system to protect American nuclear weapons.[1]

March

April

June

July

November

  • 30 Theater arms control negotiations open in Geneva. Paul Nitze is the US representative. Speaking in London, Rostow says "neogtiations have no magic in themselves.[4]

December

Notes

  1. Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, Touchstone, 2000, p.119.
  2. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.302.
  3. Sara Diamond, Roads to dominion: right-wing movements and political power in the United States, Guildford Press, 1995, pp.379-380.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.307.
  5. Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, Touchstone, 2000, p.132.
  6. Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran -Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.18.
  7. Roy Godson (ed), Intelligence Requirements for the 1980': Clandestine Collection, National Strategy Information Center, 1982, p.225.
  8. Roy Godson (ed), Intelligence Requirements for the 1980': Clandestine Collection, National Strategy Information Center, 1982, p.2.