Political Warfare Timeline 1982
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
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
June
- 12 - 700,000 people protest against the arms race outside United Nations in New York, in largest demonstration in US history.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, Touchstone, 2000, p.136.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.332.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.334.
