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==February==
 
==February==
 
*'''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>
 
*'''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>
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*'''8-9''' Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds hearings on Warnke nomination. Nitze testifies that the Soviets look on "weakness as weakness and not be respected."<ref name="Sanders207">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.207.</ref>
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*Following the Warnke hearings, the [[Emergency Coalition Against Unilateral Disarmament]] is formed to oppose the nomination, bringing together supporters of the [[Coalition for a Democratic Majority]] with activists from the [[New Right]].<ref name="Sanders208">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.208.</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Revision as of 15:44, 14 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.
  4. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.207.
  5. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.208.