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*27-28 First [[Colloquium of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence]] (CSI). | *27-28 First [[Colloquium of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence]] (CSI). | ||
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| + | *'''10'' President [[Jimmy Carter]] announces that the US and the USSR have reached an accord on the terms of the [[SALT-II]] treaty.<ref name="Sanders257">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.257.</ref> | ||
| + | *'''C.20''' - [[Elmo Zumwalt]]] and [[Paul Nitze]] appear on ''Meet the Press''' with [[Jake Garn]]. Zumwalt claims the Chiefs of Staff have "deep reservations" about the SALT II treaty.<ref name="Sanders25">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.258.</ref> | ||
===June=== | ===June=== | ||
Revision as of 18:57, 17 November 2011
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
April
- 27-28 First Colloquium of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence (CSI).
May
- '10 President Jimmy Carter announces that the US and the USSR have reached an accord on the terms of the SALT-II treaty.[1]
- 'C.20 - Elmo Zumwalt] and Paul Nitze appear on Meet the Press with Jake Garn. Zumwalt claims the Chiefs of Staff have "deep reservations" about the SALT II treaty.[2]
June
- SALT II agreement signed.[3]
- Shield met to consider a report by a recently retired senior MI5 officer.
July
- 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.
Notes
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.257.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.258.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.254.
