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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.
 
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of [[covert action]] with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
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===January===
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*[[International Association for Cultural Freedom]] votes to dissolve itself.<ref name="Saunders413">Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.413.</ref>
  
 
===April===
 
===April===
 
*27-28 First [[Colloquium of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence]] (CSI).
 
*27-28 First [[Colloquium of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence]] (CSI).
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===May===
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*'''10''' President [[Jimmy Carter]] announces that the US and the USSR have reached an accord on the terms of the [[SALT-II]] treaty.<ref name="Sanders257">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.257.</ref>
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*'''C.20''' - [[Elmo Zumwalt]] and [[Paul Nitze]] appear on ''Meet the Press'' with [[Jake Garn]]. Zumwalt claims the Chiefs of Staff have "deep reservations" about the SALT II treaty.<ref name="Sanders25">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.258.</ref>
  
 
===June===
 
===June===
*[[SALT II]] agreement signed.<ref name="Sanders254">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.254.</ref>
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*'''18''' [[SALT II]] agreement signed.<ref name="Sanders259">Jerry W. Sanders, ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', South End Press, 1983, p.259.</ref>
 
*[[Shield]] met to consider a report by a recently retired senior MI5 officer.
 
*[[Shield]] met to consider a report by a recently retired senior MI5 officer.
  

Latest revision as of 11:35, 23 December 2011

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

January

April

May

  • 10 President Jimmy Carter announces that the US and the USSR have reached an accord on the terms of the SALT-II treaty.[2]
  • C.20 - Elmo Zumwalt and Paul Nitze appear on Meet the Press with Jake Garn. Zumwalt claims the Chiefs of Staff have "deep reservations" about the SALT II treaty.[3]

June

  • 18 SALT II agreement signed.[4]
  • Shield met to consider a report by a recently retired senior MI5 officer.

July

October

November

Notes

  1. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.413.
  2. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.257.
  3. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.258.
  4. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.259.