Political Warfare Timeline 1982

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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.

January


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.[1]

May

  • 9 - President Reagan proposes START arms control talks.[2]

June

  • 12 - 700,000 mass protest against the arms race outside United Nations in New York, in largest demonstration in US history.[3]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.321.
  2. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.332.
  3. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.334.