Political Warfare Timeline 1979

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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

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.