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| − | '''Georgetown University''' is a private university based in Washington DC. It of | + | '''Georgetown University''' is a private university based in [[Washington DC]]. It of singular relevance on this project as some of the most prominent "[[terrorism experts]]" have studied and/or taught there. Until July 1987 it housed the highly influential [[CSIS]].<ref>RIGHT WEB, [http://rightweb.irc-online.org/gw/1590.html Group Watch Profile: Center for Strategic and International Studies], (accessed 19 June 2008)</ref> In her study of the terrorism research field, [[Edna Reid]] describes how terrorism research at Georgetown University and its [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]] developed over the years in collaboration with other right-wing research centres and think-tanks: |
{{QB|During the 1970s, governments, international organizations, and research centers such as the [[RAND Corporation]], the [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]] (CSIS), Georgetown University, and the [[Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies]], [[Tel Aviv University]]... sponsored numerous terrorism conferences, research projects, specialized anthologies, study groups, and official inquiries into terrorism. The efforts helped to nurture terrorism research and create numerous forums which allowed cross-fertilization of ideas, sharing of resources, and creation of an invisible college of terrorism researchers. <ref>Edna F. Reid, Hsinchun Chen, ‘[http://ai.arizona.edu/go/intranet/papers/paper-Reid-terrorism-researcher.pdf Mapping the contemporary terrorism research domain]’, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 65 (2007) 42–56</ref>}} | {{QB|During the 1970s, governments, international organizations, and research centers such as the [[RAND Corporation]], the [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]] (CSIS), Georgetown University, and the [[Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies]], [[Tel Aviv University]]... sponsored numerous terrorism conferences, research projects, specialized anthologies, study groups, and official inquiries into terrorism. The efforts helped to nurture terrorism research and create numerous forums which allowed cross-fertilization of ideas, sharing of resources, and creation of an invisible college of terrorism researchers. <ref>Edna F. Reid, Hsinchun Chen, ‘[http://ai.arizona.edu/go/intranet/papers/paper-Reid-terrorism-researcher.pdf Mapping the contemporary terrorism research domain]’, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 65 (2007) 42–56</ref>}} | ||
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| − | Although the CSIS link was severed over twenty years ago, Georgetown continues to be a centre of "terrorism expertise", pro-government propaganda and rightwing ideology. The bundle of | + | Although the CSIS link was severed over twenty years ago, Georgetown continues to be a centre of "terrorism expertise", pro-government propaganda and rightwing ideology. The bundle of "experts" at Georgetown are mostly connected to its [[Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service]], which was the birthplace of [[CSIS]]. The School was founded in 1919 by the college dean, a Catholic priest and fanatical anti-communist called Edmund Walsh, who whilst at Georgetown had worked at the US War Department on a programme “designed to mobilise higher education’s resources for the war effort”.<ref>Patrick McNamara, A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of anti-communism (Fordham University Press, 2005) p.5</ref> Walsh is described by his biographer as a “proponent of American exceptionalism” who “viewed the [American] nation as a beacon of liberty and equality for the world.”<ref>Patrick McNamara, A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of anti-communism (Fordham University Press, 2005) p.xv</ref> During the [[1930s]] Walsh publicly opposed Roosevelt’s New Deal measures and during the cold war he endorsed a nuclear first strike on the basis that the Soviet were inherently immoral.<ref>Patrick McNamara, A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of anti-communism (Fordham University Press, 2005) p.xvi</ref> Expressing an ideological zeal common amongst neo-conservatives today, Walsh advocated what he called “the argument of strength justly and righteously employed.<ref>quoted in Patrick McNamara, A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of anti-communism (Fordham University Press, 2005) p.141</ref> |
=== Center for Peace and Security Studies === | === Center for Peace and Security Studies === | ||
Revision as of 07:01, 10 December 2019
 Georgetown University      | |
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| Motto | Utraque Unum |
| Type |  university |
| Subgroups | • Center for Peace and Security Studies • Georgetown University Law Center • McDonough School of Business |
| Interests | “terrorism” |
| Sponsored by | ClimateWorks, Democracy Fund, Hewlett Foundation, Open Philanthropy |
| Other name | Hoyas |
| Subpage | •Georgetown University/Law Center |
Georgetown University is a private university based in Washington DC. It of singular relevance on this project as some of the most prominent "terrorism experts" have studied and/or taught there. Until July 1987 it housed the highly influential CSIS.[1] In her study of the terrorism research field, Edna Reid describes how terrorism research at Georgetown University and its Center for Strategic and International Studies developed over the years in collaboration with other right-wing research centres and think-tanks:
During the 1970s, governments, international organizations, and research centers such as the RAND Corporation, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Georgetown University, and the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University... sponsored numerous terrorism conferences, research projects, specialized anthologies, study groups, and official inquiries into terrorism. The efforts helped to nurture terrorism research and create numerous forums which allowed cross-fertilization of ideas, sharing of resources, and creation of an invisible college of terrorism researchers. [2]
Contents
- 1 Center for Strategic and International Studies
- 2 The Edmund Walsh School
- 3 Terrorism Research Center
- 4 Other Adjunct terrorism professors at Georgetown
- 5 More former staff, students and other connections
- 6 Events carried out
- 7 Related Quotation
- 8 Group
- 9 Employees on Wikispooks
- 10 Sponsors
- 11 Alumni on Wikispooks
- 12 References
Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Full article: Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Full article: Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) emerged from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service (see below) at the height of the cold war. It was founded in 1962 by Arleigh Burke, who had just served three terms as US Chief of Naval Operations and David Abshire, a West Point graduate who had studied his PhD at Georgetown. The Center became a hub of Cold War propaganda and later developed into an important center of research into "terrorism". During the 1980s the semi-permanent terrorism experts at CSIS were Michael Ledeen, Walter Laqueur, Robert H. Kupperman and Ray Cline, but Yonah Alexander, Claire Sterling, Paul Henze, Arnaud de Borchgrave, and Robert Moss were also occasional participants in CSIS's activities bearing on terrorism.[3]
The link between Georgetown and CSIS was severed after the university launched a committee to evaluate the centre in 1986. That year The Washington Post reported concerns that CSIS had focused too much on its media presence whilst producing poor scholarship.[4] Whilst the Center itself moved elsewhere, some of the CSIS men remained with the university. Anthony H. Cordesman still a strategic analyst at CSIS, remained an associate professor at Georgetown until very recently, and CSIS founder David Abshire remained an adjunct professor at Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service for many years. He was awarded an honorary degree by Georgetown in 2006.[5]
CSIS became the think tank where most out-of-office intelligence officers congregated. During the Carter presidency, Stansfield Turner was appointed to head the CIA, and one of his primary activities was to get rid of the ultra-right-wing personnel, e.g., Cuban exiles, right-wing ideologues, or those involved in illegal covert activities. The more educated of the fired bunch ended at CSIS where the brooded and plotted to regain their previous posts or influence. During this time CSIS fellows were the source for many articles meant to fan the Cold War fears or indicate that the current intelligence efforts were not "defending America". Cercle member Robert Moss and de Borchgrave published The Spike, a book which was basically the CSIS's Cold Warriors' fantasies. After the Carter's defeat and Reagan's accession to office, most of the CSIS Cold Warriors returned to the intelligence agencies, or principal roles within the government.
The Edmund Walsh School
Although the CSIS link was severed over twenty years ago, Georgetown continues to be a centre of "terrorism expertise", pro-government propaganda and rightwing ideology. The bundle of "experts" at Georgetown are mostly connected to its Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, which was the birthplace of CSIS. The School was founded in 1919 by the college dean, a Catholic priest and fanatical anti-communist called Edmund Walsh, who whilst at Georgetown had worked at the US War Department on a programme “designed to mobilise higher education’s resources for the war effort”.[6] Walsh is described by his biographer as a “proponent of American exceptionalism” who “viewed the [American] nation as a beacon of liberty and equality for the world.”[7] During the 1930s Walsh publicly opposed Roosevelt’s New Deal measures and during the cold war he endorsed a nuclear first strike on the basis that the Soviet were inherently immoral.[8] Expressing an ideological zeal common amongst neo-conservatives today, Walsh advocated what he called “the argument of strength justly and righteously employed.[9]
Center for Peace and Security Studies
Today a particular focal point for terrorism experts within the School of Foreign Service is the Center for Peace and Security Studies. Established in 2000 by Michael E. Brown, the Center’s declared mission is to ‘create a hub where the academic and policy communities meet’[10] The Center’s founder left to join George Washington University in 2005 and since then the Center has been headed by terrorism expert Daniel Byman. Byman is currently an expert at the Brookings Institution and previously spent five years at the RAND Corporation. One of Byman’s colleagues at the Center Bruce Hoffman is perhaps the most significant addition to Georgetown’s staff in recent years. Hoffman, whose employment at Georgetown was announced on 12 July 2006[11], is also a former RAND analyst. He helped set up the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrews University and is one of America’s most high profile terrorism experts. The Center for Peace and Security Studies also houses Paul Pillar, a former CIA analyst, prolific media pundit and Brookings Institution analyst.
Terrorism Research Center
An independent institution with strong affiliations to Georgetown is the Terrorism Research Center, a company funding largely by US government contacts with close associations with a number of corporate security companies. The Terrorism Research Center was founded in 1996 by Matthew Devost and Neal Pollard, both of whom are still adjunct facility members at Georgetown. The Center’s staff are made up almost entirely of Georgetown graduates. DFI International, which worked on a major government contract with the Terrorism Research Center was founded by Barry Blechman who studied his PhD at Georgetown and also taught there for a time.
Other Adjunct terrorism professors at Georgetown
- Roger Cressey, former Clinton advisor and founder of the corporate security company Good Harbor Consulting.
- Seth Jones, a RAND analyst who has a substantial media presence particularly on Afghanistan.
- Justine Rosenthal, Director of the Council on Global Terrorism and executive editor of The National Interest.
- Michael Scheuer former CIA analyst now a news analyst for CBS News and a terrorism analyst for the Jamestown Foundation's online publication Global Terrorism Analysis.[12]
- Steve Simon, a "terror expert" with the Council on Foreign Relations and a former RAND analyst.
More former staff, students and other connections
The rightwing ideologue Jeane Kirkpatrick taught at Georgetown for many years, and security consultant and lobbyist Neil Livingstone once served as an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's National Security Studies Program. Judith C. Areen, the current Dean of Georgetown University’s Law Center is a Non-Executive Director at the corporate security company Kroll Inc which has been involved in counter-terrorism. Several other prominent ‘terrorism experts’ are known to have studied at Georgetown. These include Mia Bloom, author of Dying to kill: the allure of suicide terror, Michael Noone a collaborator of Walter Laqueur, and the amateurish cyber-terrorism 'expert' Evan Kohlmann.
Events carried out
| Event | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| A Spreading Plague | Germany Munich Munich Security Conference/2019 | Tabletop simulation of a global biological warfare attack predicting an apocalyptic outcome. Included several senior pandemic planners. Held February 2019. |
| Preventing Global Catastrophic Biological Risks | Germany Munich Security Conference Munich | Simulation of a global influenza pandemic predicting an apocalyptic outcome. Held February 2020, with a who-is-who of pandemic planners. Held February 2020. |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels Forum/2010 | “Some of us think of José Manuel Barroso as a former scholar at Georgetown University in Washington.” | Craig Kennedy German Marshall Fund | March 2010 |
Group
| Group | Start |
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| McDonough School of Business | 1957 |
Employees on Wikispooks
Sponsors
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| ClimateWorks | Large funder of projects intended to steer public opinion and take control over all government policy under the pretext of fighting climate change. Part of "a blob" of similar very wealthy interconnected foundations with opaque structures. Backers include Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg. |
| Democracy Fund | Finances numerous organizations as part of effort to control the narrative. Founded by Pierre Omidyar in 2011. |
| Hewlett Foundation | Huge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects. |
| Open Philanthropy | Grant maker funneling deep state money among other things to pandemic planning. Financed Event 201. |
Alumni on Wikispooks
| Person | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Abramoff | 28 February 1958 | Lobbyist Businessperson | Convicted lobbyist and founder of the International Freedom Foundation | ||
| Ziad Abu-Amr | 1950 | Palestine | Author Politician | Double Bilderberger Palestinian leader who attended Georgetown | |
| David Addington | 22 January 1957 | War criminal | The "most powerful man you’ve never heard of" (2006) who was an energetic supporter of torture under George W. Bush. | ||
| John Allen | 15 December 1953 | US | Spook Soldier Deep state operative | A Retired US Marine Corps 4 star General | |
| Roger Altman | 2 April 1946 | US | Banker | US Banker, Bilderberg Steering Committee | |
| Ali Aslan | 1977 | Germany | Journalist Deep state operative | Spooky journalist, Georgetown University, many deep state ties | |
| Robert Baer | 1 July 1952 | US | Spook | American author and former CIA operative; some very interesting stuff, some suspected misdirection. | |
| Elizabeth Frawley Bagley | 13 July 1952 | Diplomat Lawyer Deep state actor | American diplomat who has been closely associated with the Clintons since Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. Big donor to the Clinton Foundation. Member of the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children. | ||
| Steve Bannon | 27 November 1953 | Businessperson | Executive chairman of Breitbart News, at one time alleged Trump mastermind | ||
| José Manuel Barroso | 23 March 1956 | Portugal | Deep state operative | Bilderberg Steering committee, President of the European Commission | |
| Hunter Biden | 4 February 1970 | US | Lawyer Businessperson | Second son of the deep state actor, Joe Biden. | |
| Kurt Biedenkopf | 28 January 1930 | 12 August 2021 | Germany | Politician | West German politician "parachuted" into the former East Germany to lead the state of Saxony. |
| David Bowdich | US | Spook Police officer | Deputy Director of the FBI 2018-2021, Georgetown alumnus | ||
| Sundaa Bridgett-Jones | US | Deep state functionary | Rockefeller Foundation allied deep state functionary, Georgetown alumna | ||
| Tania Bryer | 5 July 1962 | UK | Journalist TV presenter | British broadcaster in Epstein's black book. | |
| Pat Buchanan | 2 November 1938 | US | Author Speechwriter Pundit | American Conservative author, syndicated columnist, and television commentator. | |
| Jack Caravelli | 1952 | 31 October 2019 | US | Spook | Suspected US Deep state operative, CIA, Georgetown, University |
| Robert Cardillo | US | Spook | Director of the large National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency | ||
| Paul Clement | 24 June 1966 | Lawyer | Solicitor General of the United States 2004-2008, Georgetown alumnus | ||
| Bill Clinton | 19 August 1946 | US | Spook Politician Lawyer Deep politician | US deep politician, husband of Hillary Clinton, “every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother” | |
| Charles Cook | 20 November 1953 | US | Political analyst | CFR. Election forecast analyst who attended his first Bilderberg meeting in 2018. | |
| Lawrence H. Cooke | 15 October 1914 | 17 August 2000 | Judge | Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1979 to 1984 | |
| Herbert Cordt | 12 January 1947 | Austria | Businessperson | "In attendance" at the Bilderberg as an Economic Advisor to the Federal Minister of Finance | |
| Ivo Daalder | 2 March 1960 | Diplomat Deep state operative | USDSO who co-authored Protecting the American Homeland - A Preliminary Analysis, a book published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution about 9/11 | ||
| Mitchell Daniels | 7 April 1949 | US | Politician Deep state functionary Big pharma/Lobbyist | Attended the 2012 Bilderberg as Governor of Indiana | |
| John Dean | 14 October 1938 | Lawyer | A key witness for the prosecution during the Watergate Coup | ||
| Edward Djerejian | 6 March 1939 | Diplomat | US Ambassador to Israel 1993-1994, US Ambassador to Syria 1998-1991... | ||
| Tyler Drumheller | 12 April 1952 | 2 August 2015 | US | Spook | Former chief of the CIA covert operations in Europe |
| Joseph Dunford | 23 December 1955 | Soldier | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 2015-2019 | ||
| Saagar Enjeti | Podcaster | An American "young pundit on the rise" - with connections to the national security state | |||
| Noura Erakat | 16 January 1980 | Activist Academic | |||
| Mary Erdoes | 13 August 1967 | US | Financier Millionaire | Money manager for JPMorgan Chase. Georgetown, CFR, Bilderberg. | |
| Jay Freres | 1934 | 19 June 2015 | Diplomat Spook 9-11/Premature death | USDSO who pressured Michael Springman to give visas in Jaddah. Supposed victim of a lightning strike. | |
| Frank Gaffney | 5 April 1953 | Author Editor Neoconservatism | Described as "one of America’s most notorious Islamophobes" | ||
| Robert Gates | 25 September 1943 | Spook Deep state actor | US deep state actor and spook | ||
| Jeffrey Gedmin | 1958 | Academic Neoconservatism | US spooky/hawkish neoconservative academic | ||
| Stuart M. Gerson | 16 January 1944 | Lawyer | Scting United States Attorney General in 1994, including in the beginning of the Waco Siege. | ||
| Tatiana Gfoeller | 1960 | US | Diplomat | US diplomat with an awareness of U.S. foreign policy interests in the Caspian Basin and Central Asia | |
| Rose Gottemoeller | 24 March 1953 | Spooky US diplomat | |||
| Jakub Grygiel | 4 March 1972 | US | Spook Academic | US academic who collaborated with the Integrity Initiative | |
| Alexander Haig | 2 December 1924 | 20 February 2010 | US | Soldier Civil servant | Attended the 1978 Bilderberg as SACEUR |
| Philip Hart | 10 December 1912 | 26 December 1976 | Lawyer | US Senator who was strong supporter of civil rights, anti-trust legislation and consumer and environmental protection. Member of Church Committee. Died of cancer soon after. | |
| Mazie Hirono | 3 November 1947 | US | Politician | US Democratic politician | |
| Karl William Hofmann | 6 April 1961 | US | Diplomat | Career diplomat on National Security Council, changed to Gates-funded family planning organization | |
| Samuel M. Hoskinson | Spook | National Intelligence Council, then Bechtel and lobbyism | |||
| Tom Inglesby | US | Very influential proponent of extensive Covid-19 lockdown measures | |||
| Nina Jankowicz | 10 March 1989 | US | Spook Propagandist Censorship Deep state operative | An Integrity Initiative's Inner Core member who styled herself "The Mary Poppins of disinformation", nominal head of a US DoDS internet censorship project in 2022 which was disbanded amid condemnation and ridicule. In 2024 she resurfaced as head of the "American Sunlight Project". | |
| Pramila Jayapal | 21 September 1965 | US | US politician | ||
| Bonnie Jenkins | 1960 | US | Diplomat | Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs under Joe Biden | |
| James L. Jones | 19 December 1943 | US | Diplomat Marine | Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Atlantic Council, Bilderberger | |
| ... further results | |||||
References
- ↑ RIGHT WEB, Group Watch Profile: Center for Strategic and International Studies, (accessed 19 June 2008)
- ↑ Edna F. Reid, Hsinchun Chen, ‘Mapping the contemporary terrorism research domain’, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 65 (2007) 42–56
- ↑ see Center for Strategic and International Studies, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry
- ↑ Alison Muscatine, ‘Georgetown's Media Profs; A University Thinks Hard About Its Think Tank’, The Washington Post, 11 May 1986
- ↑ Center for the Study of the Presidency, DAVID M. ABSHIRE, Ph.D. President and CEO (accessed 26 June 2008)
- ↑ Patrick McNamara, A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of anti-communism (Fordham University Press, 2005) p.5
- ↑ Patrick McNamara, A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of anti-communism (Fordham University Press, 2005) p.xv
- ↑ Patrick McNamara, A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of anti-communism (Fordham University Press, 2005) p.xvi
- ↑ quoted in Patrick McNamara, A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of anti-communism (Fordham University Press, 2005) p.141
- ↑ CPASS, About the Center for Peace and Security Studies, (accessed 19 June 2008)
- ↑ Georgetown University New, ‘Terrorism Expert Bruce Hoffman Joins Faculty’, 12 July 2006
- ↑ Global Terrorism Analysis
