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.
January
- 29 - Senator Henry Jackson proposes a detailed alternative to SALT I to President Nixon.[1]
March
- 6 George Meany tells Jay Lovestone that he wants him to move his New York office to Washington, after discovering evidence of Lovestone's continuing relationship with James Angleton.[2]
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.[3]
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
- 9 - Gerald Ford replaces Richard Nixon as US President.[7]
- 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.[8]
September
- 4 - Rostow warns in a letter to Kissinger that "Soviet foreign policy never changes."[9]
October
- 18 - Henry Jackson and Henry Kissinger agree terms over the Jackson-Vanik Amendment.[10]
- 26 - Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko complains that Jackson-Kissinger agreement is based on a distortion of the Soviet position.[11]
December
- 13 - Senate passes Jackson-Vanik Amendment.[12]
- 17 - CIA director William Colby decides "to face up to my responsibility to remove Jim Angleton" before the end of
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
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.278.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.351.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.150.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.278.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.152.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.351.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.280 .
- ↑ Roy Godson, ed., Intelligence requirements for the 1980s: Elements of Intelligence, National Strategy Information Center, 1983, p.13.
- ↑ Roy Godson, ed., Intelligence requirements for the 1980s: Elements of Intelligence, National Strategy Information Center, 1983, p.14.
