Political Warfare Timeline 1973
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
February
- February - CIA Congressional liaison officer Jack Maury approaches Henry Jackson about a problem with the Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations of the Foreign Relations Committee. Jackson referred him to Senator John McClellan.[1]
March
- March - Senator Henry Jackson reintroduces Jackson-Vanik Amendment.[2]
May
- May - During a dinner party at his home, Senator Henry Jackson advised Richard Helms to testify in open public session to the Church Committee.[3]
- 10 - William Colby nominated as DCI by President Nixon.[4]
September
- 4 - William Colby becomes director of the Central Intelligence Agency
October
- 6 - Arab-Israeli War breaks out.[5]
- 11 - Admiral Elmo Zumwalt tells Henry Jackson that Israel will lose the war without immediate American resupply. Jackson meets President Nixon the same day.[6]
- 13 - Nixon orders immediate supply of arms to Israel.[7]
December
- 13 - House of Representatives passes Jackson-Vanik amendment.[8]
Notes
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.317.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.267.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.317.
- ↑ Harold P. Ford, William Colby: Retrospect, Studies in Intelligence, Semiannual Edition, No. 1, 1997, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.273.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.275.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.275.
- ↑ Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.271.
