1967 Rampartsreveals CIA funding of National Student Association.
8 June:USSLibertyattacked by Israeli gunboats.1968 January:The Tet Offensive in Vietnam. 23 January:North
Korea seizes the USSPueblo. Summer:Soviet invasion of Czechoslo-
vakia. 23 December:North Korea releases crew of USS Pueblo.1970 5 March:Nonproliferation Treaty enters into force. 4 Septem-
ber:Salvador Allende Gossens popularly elected president of Chile. 15
September:President Richard M. Nixon orders the CIAto prevent Sal-
vador Allende’s election in Chile. 22 October:General Rene Schneider
of Chile assassinated. November:National Security Council issues Na-
tional Security Directive (NSD) Memorandum 93, authorizing the
destabilization of the government of Chilean president Allende.1972 CORONA satellite system terminated. February: President
Nixon visits the People’s Republic of China. 17 June:Break-in at the
Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate building in
Washington, D.C. 23 July: LANDSAT Satellite launched.December:
DCI Helms fired by President Nixon for saying no to assisting in the
Watergate break-in.1973 February–June:James Schlesinger serves as DCI. 8 August:
President Nixon resigns presidency. September:DCI William Colby
disbands Office of National Estimates and establishes the National In-
telligence Council (NIC).11 September:General Augusto Pinochet
mounts a coup in Chile against Salvador Allende.1974 Hughes-Ryan Amendment, banning CIA assassinations and re-
quiring findings. 12 August:Glomar Explorerretrieves parts of sunken
Soviet submarine in Pacific.
1975 Senate creates Select Committee on Intelligence; House creates
its own panel to investigate CIA abuses. Iranian Shah reaches under-
standing with Iraq’s Saddam Hussein against the Kurds. CIA Station
Chief in Athens, Richard Welch, murdered by terrorists. 4 January:
President Gerald R. Ford establishes the Rockefeller Commission to in-
vestigate activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. February:Sen-
ate establishes the Select Committee on Intelligence to Investigate Al-
legations of Illegal or Improper Activities of Federal Intelligence
Agencies (later the Church Committee). 30 April:North Vietnamese
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