Difference between revisions of "Political Warfare Timeline 1977"

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*'''19''' - Outgoing US Defence Secretary [[Donald Rumsfeld]] claims, in line with [[Team B]] analysis, that Soviets appear to be aiming at war-fighting rather than deterrence.<ref name="Sanders203"/>
 
*'''19''' - Outgoing US Defence Secretary [[Donald Rumsfeld]] claims, in line with [[Team B]] analysis, that Soviets appear to be aiming at war-fighting rather than deterrence.<ref name="Sanders203"/>
 
*'''30''' - Publication of a report by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, criticising [[Team B]]'s charges. ''New York Times'' reports that [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] administration will nominate [[Paul Warnke]] to direct the [[Arms Control and Disarmament Agency]]. A memo opposing Warnke by [[Penn Kemble]] and [[Joshua Muravchik]] of the [[Coalition for a Democratic Majority]] will begin to circulate anonymously around this time.<ref name="Sanders204">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.204.</ref>
 
*'''30''' - Publication of a report by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, criticising [[Team B]]'s charges. ''New York Times'' reports that [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] administration will nominate [[Paul Warnke]] to direct the [[Arms Control and Disarmament Agency]]. A memo opposing Warnke by [[Penn Kemble]] and [[Joshua Muravchik]] of the [[Coalition for a Democratic Majority]] will begin to circulate anonymously around this time.<ref name="Sanders204">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.204.</ref>
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==February==
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*'''7''' [[Paul Nitze]] writes to Senator [[John Sparkman]] criticising Warnke nomination.<ref name="Sanders206">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.206.</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Revision as of 16:20, 12 November 2011

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.

January

February

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.203.
  2. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.204.
  3. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.206.