Political Warfare Timeline 1977

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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

February

April

  • Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) publishes What is the the Soviet Union up to?. At the launch event, Nitze praises praises President Jimmy Carter's stance in the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty talks but doubts it will be acceptable to the Soviets.[6]

May

July

August

  • 4 - President Carter, Defense Secretary Harold Brown and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brezinski meet with senior members of the CPD, including Nitze, and attempt to persuade them to tone down their critique of the administration.[9]

September

  • 15 - Defense Secretary Brown announces that the US will develop the M-X missile system.[5]

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. 5.0 5.1 Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.208. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Sanders208" defined multiple times with different content
  6. 6.0 6.1 Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.243.
  7. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.244.
  8. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.246.
  9. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.247.