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==March==
 
==March==
 
*'''1''' - [[Eugene Rostow]] warns Senate Budget Committee that US security position will erode without a substantial increase in the Defense budget.<ref name="Sanders251-2">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, pp.251-252.</ref>
 
*'''1''' - [[Eugene Rostow]] warns Senate Budget Committee that US security position will erode without a substantial increase in the Defense budget.<ref name="Sanders251-2">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, pp.251-252.</ref>
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==May==
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*'''16''' - In ''Is SALT II a Fair Deal for the United States'', a publication of the [[Committee on the Present Danger]], [[Paul Nitze]] claims the Soviet Union is attempting to outflank Western Europe via the Middle East.<ref name="Sanders255">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.255.</ref>
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==July==
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*'''25''' - Rostow tells Hartford conference on ''United States Security and the Soviet Challenge'' that "the Soviet Union is engaged in a policy of imperial expansion all over the world".<ref name="Sanders254-5">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, pp.254-255.</ref>
  
 
==August==
 
==August==
 
*[[Coalition For Peace Through Strength]] formed to build opposition to a Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty in Congress.<ref name="Sanders225">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.225.</ref>
 
*[[Coalition For Peace Through Strength]] formed to build opposition to a Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty in Congress.<ref name="Sanders225">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.225.</ref>
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==October==
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*'''5''' - A report by the [[Committee on the Present Danger]], ''Is America becoming Number 2? Current Trends in the U.S. Soviet Military balance'', charges that "the Unites States will become vulnerable to a Soviet pre-emptive attack without further improvements in US weapons."<ref name="Sanders255">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.255.</ref>
  
  

Latest revision as of 18:47, 17 November 2011

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.

March

  • 1 - Eugene Rostow warns Senate Budget Committee that US security position will erode without a substantial increase in the Defense budget.[1]

May

July

  • 25 - Rostow tells Hartford conference on United States Security and the Soviet Challenge that "the Soviet Union is engaged in a policy of imperial expansion all over the world".[3]

August

October

  • 5 - A report by the Committee on the Present Danger, Is America becoming Number 2? Current Trends in the U.S. Soviet Military balance, charges that "the Unites States will become vulnerable to a Soviet pre-emptive attack without further improvements in US weapons."[2]


Notes

  1. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, pp.251-252.
  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.255.
  3. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, pp.254-255.
  4. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.225.