Elmo Zumwalt
Admiral Elmo Zumwalt was a US Chief of Naval Operations. he later ran for the Senate, criticizing the SALT negotiations during his campaign.[1]
Zumwalt served as Commander U. S. Naval Forces, Vietnam and Chief of the Naval Advisory Group, U. S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, from 1 October 1968 to 15 May 1970.[2]
Zumwalt served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1 July 1970 to 1 July 1974.[2]
Former CIA Director of Strategic Research Noel Firth told Anne Hessing Cahn that when Zumwalt was Chief of Naval Operations, he sent an officer to the CIA for six months to check on the agency's supposed underestimation:
- When the six months were over, the naval officer said the problem for him was how to write his report to Zumwalt explaining that everything was okay with the CIA's estimating process and not ruin his own career in the process.[3]
On 11 October 1973, during the Arab-Israeli War, Zumwalt told Senator Henry Jackson that Israel would lose the war without immediate American arms supplies.[4]
Zumwalt also provided Jackson with information about secret guarantees to South Vietnam from the Nixon Administration, at the time of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords.[5]
Politics
Zumwalt was an ally of Senator Henry Jackson and a critic of Henry Kissinger. He claimed to have been told by Kissinger that "the United States has passed its historic high point", an account which Kissinger disputed.[6]
Zumwalt attended an organizing meeting for the second Committee on the Present Danger on 12 March 1976.[1]
Affiliations
Conferences
Connections
- Douglas Feith - former aide
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p.27. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "Cahn27" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p.91.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.275.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.291.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.252.
