Political Warfare Timeline 1973

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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.

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

May

Autumn

September

October

  • 6 - Arab-Israeli War breaks out.[6]
  • 11 - Admiral Elmo Zumwalt tells Henry Jackson that Israel will lose the war without immediate American resupply. Jackson meets President Nixon the same day.[7]
  • 13 - Nixon orders immediate supply of arms to Israel.[8]

December

Notes

  1. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.317.
  2. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.267.
  3. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.317.
  4. Harold P. Ford, William Colby: Retrospect, Studies in Intelligence, Semiannual Edition, No. 1, 1997, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA.
  5. Michael Harrington, The Welfare State and Its Neoconservative Critics, Dissent, Fall 1973, first page archived at neoconservatism.vaisse.net.
  6. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.273.
  7. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.275.
  8. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.275.
  9. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.271.