Political Warfare Timeline 1974

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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

  • 29 - Senator Henry Jackson proposes a detailed alternative to SALT I to President Nixon.[1]

March

Summer

June

  • 19 - Henry Jackson begins closed hearings of the Senate Arms Control Subcomittee ahead of Nixon's visit to Moscow.[4]
  • 20 Paul Nitze criticises the "myth of detente" in testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee.[5]
  • 28 Jay Lovestone retires as head of the AFL-CIO International Department to be replaced by Ernest S. Lee.[6]

August

September

  • 4 - Rostow warns in a letter to Kissinger that "Soviet foreign policy never changes."[9]

October

December

  • 13 - Senate passes [[Jackson-Vanik Amendment.[12]
  • 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.[13]

  • 18 Colby speaks to journalist Seymour Hersh on the telephone - a call Colby claims Hersh initiated.[13]
  • 18 - House passes Jackson-Vanik Amendment.[14]
  • 20 Colby meets with Hersh, tells him about Angleton's role in the mail-cover program,and "confirms" his expose.[13]
  • 21 Colby tells Angleton about the upcoming Hersh expose on counterintelligence, and insists on his resignation.[13]
  • 22 Hersh article appears.[13]
  • 23 Colby announces Angleton's resignation.[13]
  • 24 Colby submits a lengthy report to the President.[13]
  • 25 - Brezhnev writes to Nixon declaring Jackson-Vanik Amendment unacceptable.[15]
  • Retirements from the CIA this month: Samuel Halpern[16], Newton S. Miler[17]
  • 31 - George Kalaris appointed head of CIA counterintelligence division.[13]

Notes

  1. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.278.
  2. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.351.
  3. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.150.
  4. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.278.
  5. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.152.
  6. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.351.
  7. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
  8. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.151.
  9. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.150.
  10. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
  11. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
  12. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 Edward Jay Epstein, The War Within The CIA, Commentary, August 1978, archived at EdwardJayEpstein.com.
  14. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.279.
  15. Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.280 .
  16. Roy Godson, ed., Intelligence requirements for the 1980s: Elements of Intelligence, National Strategy Information Center, 1983, p.13.
  17. Roy Godson, ed., Intelligence requirements for the 1980s: Elements of Intelligence, National Strategy Information Center, 1983, p.14.