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.

January

  • 29 - Senator Henry Jackson proposes a detailed alternative to SALT I to President Nixon.[1]

March

Summer

June

  • 19 - Henry Jackson begins closed hearings of the Senate Arms Control Subcomittee ahead of Nixon's visit to Moscow.[4]
  • 20 Paul Nitze criticises the "myth of detente" in testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee.[5]
  • 28 Jay Lovestone retires as head of the AFL-CIO International Department to be replaced by Ernest S. Lee.[6]

August

September

  • 4 - Rostow warns in a letter to Kissinger that "Soviet foreign policy never changes."[9]

October

December

the year; James Angleton "resists" Colby's suggestion that he retire from counterintelligence.[13]

  • 18 Colby speaks to journalist Seymour Hersh on the telephone - a call Colby claims Hersh initiated.[13]
  • 18 - House passes Jackson-Vanik Amendment.[14]
  • 20 Colby meets with Hersh, tells him about Angleton's role in the mail-cover program,and "confirms" his expose.[13]
  • 21 Colby tells Angleton about the upcoming Hersh expose on counterintelligence, and insists on his resignation.[13]
  • 22 Hersh article appears.[13]
  • 23 Colby announces Angleton's resignation.[13]
  • 24 Colby submits a lengthy report to the President.[13]
  • 25 - Brezhnev writes to Nixon declaring Jackson-Vanik Amendment unacceptable.[15]
  • Retirements from the CIA this month: Samuel Halpern[16], Newton S. Miler[17]
  • 31 - George Kalaris appointed head of CIA counterintelligence division.[13]

Notes

  1. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.278.
  2. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.351.
  3. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.150.
  4. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.278.
  5. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.152.
  6. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.351.
  7. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
  8. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.151.
  9. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.150.
  10. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
  11. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
  12. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
  13. Jump up to: 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 Edward Jay Epstein, The War Within The CIA, Commentary, August 1978, archived at EdwardJayEpstein.com.
  14. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
  15. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.280 .
  16. Roy Godson, ed., Intelligence requirements for the 1980s: Elements of Intelligence, National Strategy Information Center, 1983, p.13.
  17. Roy Godson, ed., Intelligence requirements for the 1980s: Elements of Intelligence, National Strategy Information Center, 1983, p.14.