Political Warfare Timeline 1981

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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

  • 15 - Casper Weinberger tells New York Times incoming Reagan administration will consider reviving an ABM system to protect American nuclear weapons.[1]

March

April

June

July

November

  • 30 Theater arms control negotiations open in Geneva. Paul Nitze is the US representative. Speaking in London, Rostow says "neogtiations have no magic in themselves.[4] High Frontier panel meets with President Reagan.[6]

December

Notes

  1. Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, Touchstone, 2000, p.119.
  2. Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.302.
  3. Sara Diamond, Roads to dominion: right-wing movements and political power in the United States, Guildford Press, 1995, pp.379-380.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment, South End Press, 1983, p.307.
  5. Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, Touchstone, 2000, p.132.
  6. Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, Touchstone, 2000, p.133.
  7. Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran -Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.18.
  8. Roy Godson (ed), Intelligence Requirements for the 1980': Clandestine Collection, National Strategy Information Center, 1982, p.225.
  9. Roy Godson (ed), Intelligence Requirements for the 1980': Clandestine Collection, National Strategy Information Center, 1982, p.2.