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.

April

• 27-28 First Colloquium of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence (CSI).

June

• Shield met to consider a report by a recently retired senior MI5 officer..

July

• 2 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism opens

• 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.