Robert Blackwill
| Robert Blackwill link Sourcewatch (Diplomat, author) | |
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| Born | August 8, 1939, U.S. Kellogg, Idaho, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Wichita State University |
| Party | Republican |
US deep state connected diplomat | |
Robert D. Blackwill is a retired US diplomat who was on the panel about Do We Have The Institutions To Deal With The Agenda? at the 1991 Bilderberg.
Education
Blackwill was born on August 8, 1939, in Kellogg, Idaho and grew up in Kansas.[1] He took a B.A. from Wichita State University.[2]
Blackwill was a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi from 1964 to 1966. While in the Peace Corps, he served with writer Paul Theroux.[3]
Career
In 1967, Blackwill was appointed as a Foreign Service Officer. He was a training officer in the Bureau of Personnel of the US State Department from 1968 to 1969 and an associate watch officer in the State Department's Operations Center from 1969 to 1970.[4]
Blackwill took Swahili language training in 1970 at the Foreign Service Institute.[4] He was a political officer in Nairobi, Kenya from 1970 to 1972[4] and as a staff officer in the Executive Secretariat of the State Department from 1972 to 1973.[4] In 1974, Blackwill was a special assistant to State Department counselor Helmut Sonnenfeldt.[4] While he was a special assistant, Blackwill worked closely with Paul Bremer, who was then a chief aide to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Blackwill and Bremer forged a close relationship through mediating policy differences between their bosses. The two would come to work together again thirty years later in August 2003, when Bremer was named by President George W. Bush to lead the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and Blackwill was named to the National Security Council staff to coordinate between Washington, D.C., and Baghdad.[5]
From 1975 to 1978, Blackwill was a political-military officer in London, England.[4] He was political counselor in Tel Aviv, Israel from 1978 to 1979.[4] Blackwill became the Director of Western European Affairs on the National Security Council staff at the White House in 1979.[4]
Blackwill was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs in the State Department in 1981.[4] Blackwill was principal deputy assistant secretary for European Affairs from 1982 to 1983.[4]
From 1983 to 1985, Blackwill took a sabbatical from the State Department and became associate dean and faculty member at the spooky John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[4]
After his return, President Ronald Reagan nominated him to Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor on March 29, 1985, and designated him to be the chief negotiator of the US with the Warsaw Pact for the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks. Blackwill worked in this position with the rank of Ambassador.[4]
After two years, Blackwill rejoined the Harvard faculty in 1987. There, he again was at the Kennedy School as associate dean and Belfer Lecturer in International Security for fourteen years until 2001. During his tenure, Blackwill taught foreign and defense policy and public policy analysis. He was also faculty chair for executive training programs for business and government leaders from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Palestinian Authority, and Kazakhstan, as well as military Officers from Russia and the People's Republic of China.[6][and recruiter?]
On March 13, 1989, President George H. W. Bush appointed Blackwill as special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and as senior director for European and Soviet Affairs.[7]
In a 2011 report for the Zionist Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Blackwill argued that Americans "starting with its top administrative official" should start acknowledging that Israel is a strategic asset for the U.S. The report said the U.S.-Israeli relationship "stands equally on an underappreciated third leg: common national interests and collaborative action to advance those interests." contrary to popular opinion - the U.S.-Israel relationship in no way weakens United States' standing in the Arab world.[8][9]
References
- ↑ Washington Post. "Foreign Policy Guru Tapped To Aid Rice, a Former Employee" by Robin Wright. December 23, 2003
- ↑ http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16775
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070927191951/http://www.financialexpress.com/news/story/88635/
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1985/32985c.htm
- ↑ Washington Post. "Rapport Between Bush, Bremer Grows." November 23, 2003
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070928194605/http://www.bgrdc.com/dsp_bios.asp?biosid=23
- ↑ http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16775
- ↑ https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/37/3707054_-os-us-israel-israel-is-a-strategic-asset-for-u-s-national.html
- ↑ http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/focus-u-s-a/israel-is-a-strategic-asset-for-u-s-national-interests-according-to-new-report-1.393309
