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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. | Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of [[covert action]] with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement. | ||
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| + | *'''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]].<ref name"Morgan351">Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.351.</ref> | ||
==Summer== | ==Summer== | ||
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==June== | ==June== | ||
*'''20''' [[Paul Nitze]] criticises the "myth of detente" in testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee.<ref>Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.152.</ref> | *'''20''' [[Paul Nitze]] criticises the "myth of detente" in testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee.<ref>Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.152.</ref> | ||
| + | *'''28''' [[Jay Lovestone]] retires as head of the [[AFL-CIO]] International Department to be replaced by [[Ernest S. Lee]].<ref name"Morgan351">Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.351.</ref> | ||
==August== | ==August== | ||
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==December== | ==December== | ||
| − | *[[ | + | *[[Seymour Hersh]] of the ''New York Times'' tells [[CIA]] director [[William Colby]] he is on to a major story about [[CIA]] spying. After the meeting, Colby fires [[James Angleton]].<ref name"Morgan350">Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.350.</ref> |
*'''31''' - [[George Kalaris]] appointed head of CIA counterintelligence division. | *'''31''' - [[George Kalaris]] appointed head of CIA counterintelligence division. | ||
Revision as of 00:51, 14 January 2012
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
=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.[1]
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.[2]
June
- 20 Paul Nitze criticises the "myth of detente" in testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee.[3]
- 28 Jay Lovestone retires as head of the AFL-CIO International Department to be replaced by Ernest S. Lee.[4]
August
- 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.[5]
September
- 4 - Rostow warns in a letter to Kissinger that "Soviet foreign policy never changes."[6]
December
- Seymour Hersh of the New York Times tells CIA director William Colby he is on to a major story about CIA spying. After the meeting, Colby fires James Angleton.[7]
- 31 - George Kalaris appointed head of CIA counterintelligence division.
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.350.
