Political Warfare Timeline 1982

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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

  • 8 President Reagan meets with advocates of missile defence.[1]
  • 10 - Committee for the Free World puts an advertisement in the New York Times attacking Polish crackdown.[2]

February

  • 26 - Lane Kirkland claims that "principled anticommunist ideologues" were being over-ruled by "commercial and banking interests" within the Reagan administration over policy towards western investment in a Siberian oil pipeline.[2]

May

  • 9 - President Reagan proposes START arms control talks.[3]

June

  • 12 - 700,000 people protest against the arms race outside United Nations in New York, in largest demonstration in US history.[4]

Notes

  1. Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, Touchstone, 2000, p.136.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.321.
  3. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.332.
  4. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.334.