Friday, October 8, 2021

the many entrenched branches of the Kissinger network

 


Antony Blinken approached Henry Kissinger for an interview for his senior thesis about the trans-Siberian pipeline.       https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/11/tony-blinken-secretary-state-harvard-crimson-college-writing-new-republic-columns-world-view-456699
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Blinken attended the Dalton School in New York City until 1971.[6]  He then moved to Paris with his mother Judith….In Paris Blinken attended École Jeannine Manuel.[17]
Blinken attended Harvard University from 1980 to 1984,[18] where he majored in social studies.  He entered Columbia Law School in 1985 and earned his J.D. in 1988.[22][23] After graduation, he practiced law in New York City and Paris.[24]
Blinken has held senior foreign policy positions in two administrations over two decades.[5]  He was a member of the National Security Council (NSC) staff from 1994 to 2001.[26]  From 1994 to 1998 Blinken was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Planning and NSC Senior Director for Speechwriting.[27] [29] In 2002, Blinken was appointed staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a position he served in until 2008.[26] Blinken assisted then-Senator Joe Biden, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

He was also a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  In 2008 Blinken worked for Joe Biden's presidential campaign,[5] and was a member of the Obama–Biden presidential transition team.[32]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Blinken
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Kissinger a counselor to and trustee of CSIS.  https://www.csis.org/people/henry-kissinger
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At Yale Jake Sullivan was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Daily News.  He also worked for Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.[8]
After graduating from law school, Sullivan clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then for Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court.[3][8][9] After his clerkships, Sullivan returned to his hometown of Minneapolis to practice law at Faegre & Benson[8] and taught law as an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law.[3] After Faegre & Benson, Sullivan worked as chief counsel to Senator Amy Klobuchar, [3][9] who connected him to Clinton. [1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Sullivan
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Kurt Campbell served in several capacities in government, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia and the Pacific, Director on the National Security Council Staff, Deputy Special Counselor to the President for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and as a White House fellow at the United States Department of the Treasury.[6]
Campbell served as an officer in the U.S. Navy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in the Chief of Naval Operations Special Intelligence Unit.[6] He was also associate professor of public policy and international relations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Assistant Director of the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.[6]
Campbell was hired[when?] at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank as one of its senior vice-presidents, as director of its International Security Program, and as its Henry A. Kissinger Chair in National Security Policy. [6]
Campbell went on to become the chief executive officer and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a national security think tank launched in January 2007. [7]
On June 26, 2009, Campbell was confirmed by the Obama administration as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.  His last day in office was February 8, 2013. [6]
Campbell also served as director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the chairman of the editorial board of the Washington Quarterly and was the founder and principal of StratAsia, a strategic advisory company focused on Asia. [6]
Campbell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Wasatch Group and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.[6]
In 2018-2019, Campbell was Kissinger Fellow at the McCain Institute for International Leadership. [8]
Campbell was appointed "Asia co-ordinator" or "Asia Tsar" on the first day of the Biden administration.[3][4]
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Lynn de Rothschild, Kurt Campbell, Kissinger, Kurt Volker  6-27-2019  NYC     https://twitter.com/kvolker/status/1144425338388094976
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Kurt Douglas Volker [1] (born December 27, 1964)[2] is an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to NATO and served as executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership.  After graduating from Hatboro-Horsham Senior High School, Volker graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in International Affairs in 1984.  He was awarded an M.A. in International Relations from the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs in 1987.[7]

After a short tenure as a CIA analyst,[8] in 1988 Volker joined the United States Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer in the United States Foreign Service.[5] While in the Foreign Service he served in various assignments overseas including London and Brussels, and the US Embassy in Budapest (1994–1997).  Volker was special assistant to the United States special envoy for Bosnia negotiations, Richard Holbrooke.[9]
Volker served as a legislative fellow on the staff of Senator John McCain from 1997 to 1998.  In 1998 he became first secretary of the US mission to NATO, and in 1999 he was sent to Deputy Director of NATO Secretary-General George Robertson's private office, serving in that position until 2001.[10]
He then became acting director for European and Eurasian Affairs for the National Security Council.  In that capacity he was in charge of US preparations for 2004 Istanbul summit of NATO members and the 2002 Prague summit.  In July 2005 Volker became the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, serving in that position until he was appointed United States Permanent Representative to NATO in July 2008 by President George W. Bush.[10] Volker served as Ambassador in that position from July 2, 2008 to May 15, 2009.[10]
Volker went into the private sector in 2009, becoming an independent director at the Wall Street Fund Inc,[11] where he worked until 2012.  He was a member of the board of directors at Capital Guardian Funds Trust[12] beginning in 2013.[13] Volker was also an independent director at Evercore Wealth Management Macro Opportunity Fund until 2012.[14]
Volker served as a senior advisor at McLarty Associates, a global consulting firm from 2010–2011.
In 2011 he joined BGR Group, a Washington-based lobbying firm and investment bank where he currently serves as a managing director in the firm's international group.[15]
He then became executive director of Arizona State University's McCain Institute for International Leadership[16] when it was launched[17] in 2012.  He resigned in 2019.[18]
He has been a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies since September 2009, and a Senior Advisor at the Atlantic Council since October 2009. Volker is currently listed as a trustee at the CG Funds Trust,[19] and a member of the board of trustees at American College of the Mediterranean (ACM), an American-style degree-granting institution in Aix-en-Provence, France.  He is also a member of the board of directors at the Hungary Initiatives Foundation. [20]  In addition Volker is a member of the Atlantic Partnership.[21]
Ukrainian media reported in June 2021 that Kurt Volker represents US investors that co-founded American University Kyiv in partnership with Arizona State University. [22]
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Of course Hillary Clinton and Sen. McCain have been very close to Kissinger.  Kissinger started with Allen Dulles in 1945 and thereafter in OSS-Nazi Operation Paperclip as translator, moved on to assist Nelson Rockefeller by the mid 1950s.   See also https://balance10.blogspot.com/2021/10/kissinger-and-his-gang.html           -r .................................................................


 
 
 
 

 

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