Political Warfare Timeline 1981
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
- 15 - Casper Weinberger tells New York Times incoming Reagan administration will consider reviving an ABM system to protect American nuclear weapons.[1]
March
- 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.[2]
April
- 6 Committee for the Free World letter to the New York Times.[3]
June
- 26 - Eugene V. Rostow confirmed by the Senate as Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.[4]
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
- 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.[5]
- 30-31 - The Colloquium on Clandestine Collection was held in Washington D.C.[6] 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.[7]
Notes
- ↑ Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, Touchstone, 2000, p.119.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.302.
- ↑ Sara Diamond, Roads to dominion: right-wing movements and political power in the United States, Guildford Press, 1995, pp.379-380.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran -Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.18.
- ↑ Roy Godson (ed), Intelligence Requirements for the 1980': Clandestine Collection, National Strategy Information Center, 1982, p.225.
- ↑ Roy Godson (ed), Intelligence Requirements for the 1980': Clandestine Collection, National Strategy Information Center, 1982, p.2.
