Political Warfare Timeline 1975
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
January
- 3- Jackson-Vanik Amendment signed into law by President Ford.[1]
- 14 - Henry Kissinger announces that Soviets have cancelled trade deal. He blames Henry Jackson.[2]
February
- Henry Jackson declares his candidacy for President.[3]
April
- 9 New Dimensions on Security in Europe, Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC) conference opens at Ditchley Park.
- 12 ISC conference closes.
May
- ISC Special Report New Dimensions on Security in Europe published.
June
- 26 Time Out links Forum World Features to the CIA.
July
- 2 President Ford announces he will not meet with Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the advice of the National Security Council.[4]
- 30 - Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe until 1 August.[5]
November
- Information Research Department Background Brief - Two standards on Detente.
- 2 - James Schlesinger fired as US Defence Secretary.[6]
- 27 Eugene Rostow writes memo to Charls Walker and Paul Nitze proposing what will become the second Committee on the Present Danger.[7]
December
- 11 Leo Cherne testifies to House Intelligence Committee calling for independent examination of CIA estimates.
Notes
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.280.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.280 .
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.301.
- ↑ 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.292 .
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.289.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.152.