1970s
The 1970s contain 176 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-12-27 | Soviet Afghanistan Invasion Positions BCCI for CIA Covert Operations Expansion Central Intelligence Agency · ISI Pakistan · General Zia ul-Haq · BCCI · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1979-10-06 | Volcker Shock - Federal Reserve Raises Rates to 20%, Recession Begins Paul Volcker · Jimmy Carter | confirmed | |
| 1979-06-01 | Falwell and Weyrich Found Moral Majority, Fusing Religious Right with Corporate Agenda Jerry Falwell · Paul Weyrich · Ed McAteer · Richard Viguerie · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1979-06-01 | Moral Majority Founded - Corporate Agenda Masked by Religious Cultural Warfare Paul Weyrich · Jerry Falwell · Richard Viguerie · Howard Phillips · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-08 | Vietnam Veterans File Agent Orange Class Action Lawsuit Against Dow Chemical and Monsanto - Corporations Deny Liability Despite Evidence Lawyer Victor Yannacone · Dow Chemical Company · Monsanto Company · Vietnam Veterans · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-02 | Federation for American Immigration Reform Founded, Launching Modern Nativist Movement Infrastructure John Tanton · Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) · Pioneer Fund · Cordelia Scaife May · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-01 | ALEC Begins Tobacco Industry Partnership for Legislative Influence American Legislative Exchange Council · Tobacco Institute · ALEC Executive Director | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Begins "Mandate for Leadership" Preparation for Reagan Transition Edwin Feulner · Jack Eckerd · Robert Krieble · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-01 | Supreme Court Adopts Bork's "Consumer Welfare Standard," Transforming Antitrust Law U.S. Supreme Court · Robert Bork | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-01 | Wage Stagnation Era Begins: Productivity-Pay Gap Opens as Union Power Collapses American workers · Corporate management · Federal Reserve · Business Roundtable | confirmed | |
| 1978-12-31 | Corporate Lobbying Presence Quintuples in Washington DC U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Corporate Lobbying Industry · Lewis Powell · Fortune 500 Leadership | confirmed | |
| 1978-11-09 | Natural Gas Policy Act Begins Energy Sector Deregulation Jimmy Carter | confirmed | |
| 1978-11-07 | Business Roundtable Coordinates First Major Corporate PAC Election Strategy Business Roundtable · Reginald Jones · Corporate PAC Committee · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-25 | Carter Signs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Creating FISC, Nominal Constraint on Domestic Surveillance Jimmy Carter · Ted Kennedy · Birch Bayh · Church Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-25 | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as Executive-Power Bargain: Statutory Authorization in Exchange for Court Review Becomes Template Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Frank Church · Birch Bayh · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-24 | Carter Signs Airline Deregulation Act, Neoliberal Turn Begins Jimmy Carter · Alfred Kahn · Edward Kennedy · Stephen Breyer | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-05 | Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy Established, Framework for 1986 Reform Jimmy Carter · Theodore Hesburgh · U.S. Congress · Alan Simpson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-08-22 | IRS Tightens Private School Tax Exemption Rules Catalyzing Religious Right Political Mobilization Internal Revenue Service · Paul Weyrich · Richard Viguerie · Bob Jones University · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-08-11 | American Indian Religious Freedom Act Passes Without Enforcement Mechanisms, Proving Ineffective at Protecting Sacred Sites U.S. Congress · President Jimmy Carter · Bureau of Indian Affairs · Native American Tribes | confirmed | |
| 1978-08-07 | Love Canal Disaster Exposes Decades of Corporate Toxic Dumping Cover-Up Hooker Chemical Company · Occidental Petroleum · Niagara Falls Board of Education · Lois Gibbs · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1978-06-22 | Labor Law Reform Act Killed by Filibuster After Business Roundtable Lobbying Blitz Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · AFL-CIO · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1978-06-06 | Proposition 13 Passes, California Tax Revolt Spreads Nationally Howard Jarvis · Paul Gann | confirmed | |
| 1978-04-26 | Powell delivers Bellotti decision establishing corporate First Amendment rights Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Supreme Court of the United States · First National Bank of Boston · Francis X. Bellotti · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-03-06 | DOJ Returns to Court: Trump Violated 1975 Discrimination Settlement Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn | confirmed | |
| 1978-01-01 | Clark Clifford and Robert Altman Begin Representing BCCI in US Operations Clark Clifford · Robert Altman · Bert Lance · Agha Hasan Abedi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-01-01 | Jude Wanniski Publishes "The Way the World Works," Supply-Side Economics Manifesto Jude Wanniski · Arthur Laffer · Wall Street Journal | confirmed | |
| 1978-01-01 | Manhattan Institute Founded by CIA Director William Casey - Intelligence-Policy Crossover William J. Casey · Antony Fisher · Charles Murray · George Kelling · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-01-01 | Robert Bork Publishes "The Antitrust Paradox," Revolutionizing Corporate Power Robert Bork · Aaron Director · University of Chicago · Chicago School of Economics | confirmed | |
| 1977-12-28 | International Emergency Economic Powers Act: Carter-Era Statute Becomes Principal Modern Instrument of Unilateral Economic Action Jimmy Carter · Jonathan Bingham · Clement Zablocki · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1977-10-20 | Carl Bernstein Exposes CIA Media Network in Rolling Stone: 400+ Journalists Secretly Served Intelligence Agency Carl Bernstein · CIA · William Colby · George H.W. Bush | confirmed | |
| 1977-10-12 | Community Reinvestment Act Passed to Combat Redlining, Banking Industry Resists President Jimmy Carter · Senator William Proxmire · American Bankers Association · Federal Reserve · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1977-08-31 | J.P. Stevens Found Guilty of Massive NLRB Violations, Creates Corporate Union-Busting Playbook J.P. Stevens & Company · Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union · National Labor Relations Board · Corporate Campaign Inc. | confirmed | |
| 1977-08-12 | Weinberger v. Equifax: Fifth Circuit Guts Anti-Pinkerton Act, Clearing Path for Private Intelligence Industry U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · Equifax Inc. · Government Accountability Office | confirmed | |
| 1977-07-01 | Exxon Internal Climate Research Program Confirms Human-Caused Global Warming James Black · Roger Cohen · ExxonMobil · Exxon Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1977-06-23 | Supreme Court Decides GTE Sylvania, First Major Chicago School Antitrust Victory U.S. Supreme Court · Aaron Director · Chicago School of Economics | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | American Enterprise Institute Budget Surges to $10 Million - Think Tank Infrastructure Expansion American Enterprise Institute · William Baroody Sr. · Gerald Ford · Howard Pew Freedom Trust · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | American Enterprise Institute Organizational Profile: Transforming Industry Lobby into 'Scholarly' Think Tank American Enterprise Institute · Irving Kristol · Jeane Kirkpatrick · Dick Cheney · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | BCCI Establishes Partnership with Pakistan's Zia ul-Haq Military Regime General Zia ul-Haq · Agha Hasan Abedi · Pakistan military · BCCI Pakistan operations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Charles Koch Founds Cato Institute with $500,000, Expanding Libertarian Infrastructure Charles Koch · Ed Crane · Murray Rothbard · Koch Industries | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Department of Justice Announces Abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement, Adopting Chicago School Critique Department of Justice · Robert Bork · Federal Trade Commission · Chicago School of Economics | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Edwin Feulner Becomes Heritage Foundation President, Beginning 36-Year Tenure Building Conservative Policy Infrastructure Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Richard Scaife · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Jack Kemp and William Roth Introduce Tax Cut Bill, Translating Supply-Side Theory to Legislation Jack Kemp · William Roth · Arthur Laffer · Jude Wanniski | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Milton Friedman Begins Development of "Free to Choose" PBS Series on Free Markets Milton Friedman · Rose Friedman · Bob Chitester · Free to Choose Network | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | National Association of Business PACs Founded to Coordinate Corporate Political Money National Association of Business Political Action Committees | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Oracle Corporation Founded to Build CIA Database, Named After CIA Project Larry Ellison · Robert Miner · Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | William E. Simon Becomes Olin Foundation President, Launching Strategic Conservative Funding William E. Simon · John M. Olin · John M. Olin Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1976-12-31 | Corporate PAC Explosion: 433 New Corporate PACs Formed in Post-Buckley Era Corporate America · Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Election Commission | confirmed | |
| 1976-09-30 | Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Requires Pre-Merger Notification, Last Major Antitrust Strengthening Before Reagan Dismantlement Gerald Ford · Senator Philip Hart · Senator Hugh Scott · Representative Peter Rodino · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1976-09-14 | National Emergencies Act: Congress Attempts to Catalogue and Constrain 470 Executive Emergency Powers Frank Church · Charles Mathias · Gerald Ford · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-06-23 | Supreme Court Miller Decision Holds Bank Records Have No Fourth Amendment Protection, Creates Third-Party Doctrine Lewis Powell · William Rehnquist · Thurgood Marshall · William Brennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-05-24 | Powell Expands Corporate Speech Rights in Virginia State Board of Pharmacy Decision Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Brennan · Warren Burger · Byron White · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1976-05-19 | Senate Creates Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, First Institutional Legislative Oversight of U.S. Intelligence Agencies U.S. Senate · Frank Church · Daniel Inouye · Howard Baker · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-04-20 | Supreme Court Allows Metropolitan-Wide Housing Desegregation Remedy U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Potter Stewart · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · Chicago Housing Authority · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-03-10 | Attorney General Levi Issues First Written Guidelines Limiting FBI Domestic Security Investigations Edward H. Levi · Gerald Ford · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Clarence Kelley · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford EO 11905: Executive-Self-Regulation of Intelligence Establishes Assassination Ban Without Statute Gerald Ford · George H.W. Bush · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Intelligence Community | confirmed | |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford Executive Order 11905 Bans Political Assassination: Executive Self-Regulation Substitutes for Legislative Reform Gerald Ford · CIA · Church Committee | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-30 | Supreme Court Rules Money Is Speech in Buckley v. Valeo U.S. Supreme Court · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · James Buckley · Eugene McCarthy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-27 | Reagan Launches 'Welfare Queen' Attack Using Racially Coded Chicago Fraud Story Ronald Reagan · Linda Taylor | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-01 | Francis Schaeffer's "How Should We Then Live?" Convinces Evangelicals That Political Engagement Is Christian Duty Francis Schaeffer · C. Everett Koop · Jerry Falwell · Tim LaHaye | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-01 | Richard Mellon Scaife Becomes Heritage Foundation's Primary Donor Richard Mellon Scaife · Heritage Foundation · Scaife Family Charitable Trust · Joseph Coors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-01 | Tobacco Industry 'Operation Berkshire' and global coordination to resist smoking regulation British American Tobacco · Philip Morris · RJ Reynolds · Imperial Tobacco | confirmed | |
| 1975-11-20 | Church Committee Interim Report on Assassination Plots Documents CIA Foreign-Leader Targeting Frank Church · Church Committee · Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1975-10-29 | Ford Refuses NYC Bailout, "Drop Dead" Headline, Austerity Era Begins Gerald Ford · William Simon · Alan Greenspan · Donald Rumsfeld · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1975-08-06 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1975: Expands Protection to Language Minorities Including Latino, Asian, and Native American Voters Gerald Ford · U.S. Congress · Barbara Jordan · Edward Roybal · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1975-07-16 | Pike Committee Investigation: House Intelligence Findings Suppressed After CIA and White House Obstruction Otis Pike · CIA · Gerald Ford · Daniel Schorr · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1975-06-10 | Trump Settles Housing Discrimination Case Without Admitting Guilt Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn | confirmed | |
| 1975-04-28 | Church Committee Exposes Psychological Manipulation Techniques in Government Operations Senator Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community · Donald Ewen Cameron · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1975-04-26 | Church Committee Exposes Systemic Intelligence Agency Abuses Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 1975-04-22 | Church Committee: Landmark Democratic Resistance Framework Against Intelligence Abuses Senator Frank Church · Senator John Tower · US Senate · Central Intelligence Agency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1975-04-14 | Federal Election Commission Begins Operations, Institutionalizing Corporate PAC Framework Federal Election Commission · President Gerald Ford | confirmed | |
| 1975-02-21 | Nixon Top Aides Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Mitchell Sentenced to Prison for Watergate Cover-up H.R. Haldeman · John Ehrlichman · John N. Mitchell · John Sirica | confirmed | |
| 1975-01-27 | Church Committee begins exposing illegal intelligence activities Senator Frank Church · Church Committee · Mike Mansfield · Seymour Hersh · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1975-01-04 | Ford Creates Rockefeller Commission on CIA Activities to Pre-Empt Congressional Investigation Gerald Ford · Nelson Rockefeller · Dick Cheney · Donald Rumsfeld · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1975-01-01 | ALEC Registers as Federal Nonprofit and Moves to Washington D.C. American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich · American Conservative Union | confirmed | |
| 1975-01-01 | Paul Weyrich Becomes First Director of ALEC, Consolidating State Legislative Strategy Paul Weyrich · American Legislative Exchange Council · Henry Hyde | confirmed | |
| 1975-01-01 | Richard Viguerie Perfects Direct Mail Fundraising - Conservative Grassroots Infrastructure Richard Viguerie · Paul Weyrich · Howard Phillips · Morton Blackwell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-12-30 | Hughes-Ryan Amendment: Congress Requires Presidential Findings for Covert Action, Ends Plausible-Deniability Era Harold Hughes · Leo Ryan · Gerald Ford · Central Intelligence Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-12-22 | Hersh NYT Expose of CIA Domestic Surveillance Triggers Church, Pike, Rockefeller Investigations Seymour Hersh · The New York Times · William Colby · Gerald Ford · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1974-12-01 | Arthur Laffer Sketches Curve on Napkin with Rumsfeld and Cheney, Creating Supply-Side Icon Arthur Laffer · Jude Wanniski · Donald Rumsfeld · Dick Cheney | confirmed | |
| 1974-10-28 | Equal Credit Opportunity Act and RESPA Pass After Industry Lobbying Weakens Enforcement U.S. Congress · President Gerald Ford · American Bankers Association · Mortgage Bankers Association · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1974-10-15 | FECA Amendments Enable Corporate PAC Formation, Triggering 1,600% Growth U.S. Congress · Federal Election Commission | confirmed | |
| 1974-09-12 | Boston Busing Crisis Erupts, Northern White Resistance to Desegregation Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. · Louise Day Hicks · Restore Our Alienated Rights · Boston School Committee | confirmed | |
| 1974-09-08 | Ford Issues Full Pardon to Nixon for All Watergate Crimes, Ensures No Criminal Accountability Gerald Ford · Richard Nixon | confirmed | |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Enacted, Establishing Federal Preemption of State Employee Benefit Regulation U.S. Congress · President Gerald Ford | confirmed | |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Pension Law Creates Framework for Corporate Benefit Cuts Gerald Ford · Jimmy Hoffa | confirmed | |
| 1974-08-09 | Richard Nixon Becomes First U.S. President to Resign, Gerald Ford Sworn In as 38th President Richard Nixon · Gerald Ford · Spiro Agnew | confirmed | |
| 1974-08-05 | Nixon Releases Smoking Gun Tape Under Supreme Court Order, Political Support Collapses Completely Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · House Judiciary Committee · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-27 | House Judiciary Committee Approves Three Articles of Impeachment Against President Nixon House Judiciary Committee · Peter Rodino · Robert McClory · Richard Nixon | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-25 | Milliken v. Bradley - Supreme Court Blocks Cross-District School Desegregation, Entrenches White Flight Chief Justice Warren Burger · Justice Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-24 | Supreme Court Rules 8-0 in United States v. Nixon: President Must Surrender Tapes U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Richard Nixon · Leon Jaworski · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-12 | Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act: Congress Strips Nixon's Unilateral Authority to Withhold Appropriated Funds Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Sam Ervin · Al Ullman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-01 | William Simon Establishes Petrodollar Recycling System William Simon · Ahmed Zaki Yamani · Richard Nixon · King Faisal · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1974-06-21 | Chuck Colson Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice in Ellsberg Case, Serves Seven Months Chuck Colson · Daniel Ellsberg · E. Howard Hunt · John Ehrlichman | confirmed | |
| 1974-06-08 | US-Saudi Economic Commission Agreement Signed Henry Kissinger · Prince Fahd bin Abdulaziz · Richard Nixon · Saudi Arabia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-06-01 | Nixon Executive-Privilege Theory (1973-74) Establishes Doctrinal Infrastructure Cited by Every Subsequent Presidency Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Leon Jaworski · John Dean · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-01-01 | American Enterprise Institute Establishes Center for Health Policy Research American Enterprise Institute | confirmed | |
| 1974-01-01 | Richard Butler Establishes Aryan Nations Compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho Richard Girnt Butler · Aryan Nations · Church of Jesus Christ Christian · Christian Posse Comitatus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-01-01 | Richard Scaife Begins Major Funding of Heritage Foundation as Primary Donor Richard Mellon Scaife · Scaife Family Charitable Trust · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1974-01-01 | Weyrich Founds Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, Expanding Infrastructure Paul Weyrich · Joseph Coors | confirmed | |
| 1973-12-29 | HMO Act Enables For-Profit Healthcare Expansion Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman · Edward Kennedy · Edgar Kaiser | confirmed |