Political Warfare Timeline 1974
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
Summer
- 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.[1]
June
- '20 Paul Nitze criticises the "myth of detente in testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee.[2]
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.[3]
September
- 4 - Rostow warns in a letter to Kissinger that "Soviet foreign policy never changes."[4]
December
- James Angleton and senior CIA Counter-intelligence officers resign.
- 31 - George Kalaris appointed head of CIA counterintelligence division.
Notes
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.150.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.152.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.151.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.150.
