Political Warfare Timeline 1979
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
January
- International Association for Cultural Freedom votes to dissolve itself.[1]
April
- 27-28 First Colloquium of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence (CSI).
May
- 10 President Jimmy Carter announces that the US and the USSR have reached an accord on the terms of the SALT-II treaty.[2]
- C.20 - Elmo Zumwalt and Paul Nitze appear on Meet the Press with Jake Garn. Zumwalt claims the Chiefs of Staff have "deep reservations" about the SALT II treaty.[3]
June
- 18 SALT II agreement signed.[4]
- Shield met to consider a report by a recently retired senior MI5 officer.
July
- 15 Shield had its first meeting with Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister at Chequers on 15 July 1979, according to Brian Crozier, "Nothing of much substance was said".
October
- In October 1979, Crozier and Nicholas Elliott received a report from a mole in Militant which they submitted to the Prime Minister.
- 21 Thatcher, Lord Carrington, Keith Joseph, John Hunt, and his successor as Cabinet Secretary, Robert Armstrong discussed "action to counter hostile forces working for industrial unrest."
November
- 30 CSI Colloquium on Analysis and Estimates opens, concluding on 1 December.
Notes
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.413.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.257.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.258.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.259.
