Elmo Zumwalt

Admiral Elmo Zumwalt was a US Chief of Naval Operations. he later ran for the Senate, criticizing the SALT negotiations during his campaign.

Navy

former CIA Director of Strategic Research Noel Firth told Anne Hessing Cahn that when Zumwalt was Chief of Naval Operations, he sent an officer to the CIA for six months to check on the agency's supposed underestimation:

When the six months were over, the naval officer said the problem for him was how to write his report to Zumwalt explaining that everything was okay with the CIA's estimating process and not ruin his own career in the process.

Politics

Zumwalt was an ally of Senator Henry Jackson]] and a critic of Henry Kissinger. He claimed to have been told by Kissinger that "the United States has passed its historic high point", an account which Kissinger disputed.

Zumwalt attended an organizing meeting for the second Committee on the Present Danger on 12 March 1976.

Affiliations

• Committee on the Present Danger (1976 version)
• Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs

Connections

• Douglas Feith - former aide

Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p.27.

Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p.91.

Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.252.