Political Warfare Timeline 1974
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
March
- 6 George Meany tells Jay Lovestone that he wants him to move his New York office to Washington, after discovering evidence of Lovestone's continuing relationship with James Angleton.[1]
Summer
- The Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM) Foreign Policy Task Force headed by Eugene Rostow publishes The Quest for Detente, arguing that the concept did not signal a change in Soviet foreign policy.[2]
June
- 20 Paul Nitze criticises the "myth of detente" in testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee.[3]
- 28 Jay Lovestone retires as head of the AFL-CIO International Department to be replaced by Ernest S. Lee.[4]
August
- 19 - Henry Kissinger writes to Rostow that he sees no evidence of a Soviet "headlong drive for first-strike capability", as claimed by the CDM Task Force.[5]
September
- 4 - Rostow warns in a letter to Kissinger that "Soviet foreign policy never changes."[6]
December
- 17 CIA director William Colby decides "to face up to my responsibility to remove Jim Angleton" before the end of
the year; James Angleton "resists" Colby's suggestion that he retire from counterintelligence.[7]
- 18 Colby speaks to journalist Seymour Hersh on the telephone - a call Colby claims Hersh initiated.[7]
- 20 Colby meets with Hersh, tells him about Angleton's role in the mail-cover program,and "confirms" his expose.[7]
- 21 Colby tells Angleton about the upcoming Hersh expose on counterintelligence, and insists on his resignation.[7]
- 22 Hersh article appears.[7]
- 23 Colby announces Angleton's resignation.[7]
- 24 Colby submits a lengthy report to the President.[7]
- Retirements from the CIA this month: Samuel Halpern[8], Newton S. Miler[9]
- 31 - George Kalaris appointed head of CIA counterintelligence division.[7]
Notes
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.351.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.150.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.152.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.351.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.151.
- ↑ Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.150.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 Edward Jay Epstein, The War Within The CIA, Commentary, August 1978, archived at EdwardJayEpstein.com.
- ↑ Roy Godson, ed., Intelligence requirements for the 1980s: Elements of Intelligence, National Strategy Information Center, 1983, p.13.
- ↑ Roy Godson, ed., Intelligence requirements for the 1980s: Elements of Intelligence, National Strategy Information Center, 1983, p.14.
