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|parents= Stanley Matthews Cleveland, Marian Van Buren
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|description=Foreign Service official who exposed the extremely wasteful and ineffective spending during the reconstruction effort after the 2003 Iraq War.
 
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'''Harold van Buren Cleveland''' was a US economist and author.
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'''Peter van Buren''' is a former [[United States Foreign Service]] employee, and the author of two novels and two non-fiction [[books]] about military affairs.
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==Background==
 
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He was born in New York City to [[Stanley Matthews Cleveland]] and [[Marian Van Buren]]. His siblings were [[Harlan Cleveland]], a [[diplomat]] and fellow Bilderberger; [[Anne Cleveland White]], an artist; and [[Stanley Cleveland]], a [[diplomat]].
 
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Harold Van B. Cleveland graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1938 and from its law school in 1942, when he joined the War Production Board as an industrial specialist.  
 
  
 
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Cleveland worked for the [[US State Department]]. After the war he and [[Ben T. Moore]], as members of the State Department's economic bureau, wrote a report outlining a program for the economic revival of [[Europe]].
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Van Buren served in the [[U.S. Department of State]] for 24 years, including a year in [[Iraq War|Iraq]] as a team leader for two [[Provincial Reconstruction Team]]s (PRTs).<ref>https://www.thenation.com/authors/peter-van-buren/</ref>
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Their study and a parallel one from the department's policy planning staff were submitted to Gen. [[George C. Marshall]], the Secretary of State, who used them to shape what became known as the [[Marshall Plan]]. Formally called the European Recovery Program, it was proposed by General Marshall in [[1947]].
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After his [[book]], ''We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People'', was published in 2012 Van Buren claims to have experienced a series of escalating, adverse actions.<ref>http://www.salon.com/2012/04/12/the_man_the_state_dept_wants_silenced/</ref><ref name="WashDiplomat1">https://web.archive.org/web/20160327134507/http://washdiplomat.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8467:us-foreign-service-officer-blacklisted-for-scathing-expose&catid=1491&Itemid=428</ref> His former employer, the U. S. State Department, claimed van Buren had not properly cleared his book for publication under Department rules, and that the book contained unauthorized disclosures of classified material.<ref name="WaPoDavidson">https://web.archive.org/web/20180624060718/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/states-actions-against-peter-van-buren-offer-a-few-lessons-on-use-of-classified-info-power/2011/10/27/gIQAdAcHNM_story.html</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' noted that "Van Buren has tested the First Amendment almost daily."<ref name="WaPoRein">https://web.archive.org/web/20180624064113/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/state-dept-moves-to-fire-peter-van-buren-author-of-book-critical-of-iraq-reconstruction-effort/2012/01/31/gIQAiXNSCS_blog.html</ref> The [[Government Accountability Project]] and the [[ACLU]] helped defend van Buren, and the State Department eventually allowed him to retire with his standard pension and benefits.<ref>http://diplopundit.net/category/peter-van-buren/</ref><ref name="WaPoRein" /><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/world/us-envoy-peter-van-buren-takes-caustic-pen-to-iraq-war.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all</ref><ref name="FP1">https://web.archive.org/web/20180206092942/https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/09/29/how-the-state-department-came-after-me/</ref>
  
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Cleveland helped carry it out as a deputy director in the European division of the Economic Cooperation Administration. He returned to [[Washington]] as an economist for the Committee for [[Economic Development]] in the early 1950's.
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Van Buren was associate producer for the film ''Silenced'' (2014) by [[James Spione]].<ref>http://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/53208997c07f5df7d2000113-silenced</ref><ref>http://nakededgefilms.com/films/silenced/</ref>
  
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He was later counsel for the [[John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company]] in [[Boston]] and director of Atlantic Policy Studies for the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] in Manhattan.  
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In August 2018, Twitter banned Van Buren for life for writing that "harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence someone else's voice."<ref name="PVBsuspension">https://web.archive.org/web/20180810042328/https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/i-was-banned-for-life-from-twitter/ </ref>
  
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He joined [[Citibank]] in [[1965]], where he worked for 20 years, becoming a vice president and chief international economist.
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==Bibliography==
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* ''Hooper's War: A Novel of WWII Japan'', Luminis Books, 15 May 2017, ISBN 978-1941311127
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* ''Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99 Percent'', Luminis Books, 25 April 2014, ISBN 978-1935462910
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* ''We Meant Well'', Metropolitan Books, 27 September 2011, ISBN 9780805094367
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* ''Why Peace'' (as a contributor), Marc Guttman, 23 April 2012
  
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Cleveland was the author and co-author of many books and articles, including "''The Atlantic Idea and Its European Rivals'' (1966, McGraw-Hill for the Council on Foreign Relations), and a history of Citibank.
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* [[Commondreams]] - [https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/12/14/goodnight-american-dream-middle-class-now-minority Goodnight American Dream: The Middle Class Is Now a Minority]
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Latest revision as of 19:17, 27 January 2022

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(Government official, Whistleblower)
Peter van Buren.jpg
Born1960
New York City
NationalityUS
Member ofVeteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Interests2003 Iraq War
Foreign Service official who exposed the extremely wasteful and ineffective spending during the reconstruction effort after the 2003 Iraq War.

Peter van Buren is a former United States Foreign Service employee, and the author of two novels and two non-fiction books about military affairs.

Career

Van Buren served in the U.S. Department of State for 24 years, including a year in Iraq as a team leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs).[1]

"We Meant Well" by Peter Van Buren - U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center

After his book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, was published in 2012 Van Buren claims to have experienced a series of escalating, adverse actions.[2][3] His former employer, the U. S. State Department, claimed van Buren had not properly cleared his book for publication under Department rules, and that the book contained unauthorized disclosures of classified material.[4] The Washington Post noted that "Van Buren has tested the First Amendment almost daily."[5] The Government Accountability Project and the ACLU helped defend van Buren, and the State Department eventually allowed him to retire with his standard pension and benefits.[6][5][7][8]

Van Buren was associate producer for the film Silenced (2014) by James Spione.[9][10]

In August 2018, Twitter banned Van Buren for life for writing that "harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence someone else's voice."[11]

Bibliography

  • Hooper's War: A Novel of WWII Japan, Luminis Books, 15 May 2017, ISBN 978-1941311127
  • Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99 Percent, Luminis Books, 25 April 2014, ISBN 978-1935462910
  • We Meant Well, Metropolitan Books, 27 September 2011, ISBN 9780805094367
  • Why Peace (as a contributor), Marc Guttman, 23 April 2012

External links

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.thenation.com/authors/peter-van-buren/
  2. ↑ http://www.salon.com/2012/04/12/the_man_the_state_dept_wants_silenced/
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160327134507/http://washdiplomat.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8467:us-foreign-service-officer-blacklisted-for-scathing-expose&catid=1491&Itemid=428
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180624060718/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/states-actions-against-peter-van-buren-offer-a-few-lessons-on-use-of-classified-info-power/2011/10/27/gIQAdAcHNM_story.html
  5. ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20180624064113/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/state-dept-moves-to-fire-peter-van-buren-author-of-book-critical-of-iraq-reconstruction-effort/2012/01/31/gIQAiXNSCS_blog.html
  6. ↑ http://diplopundit.net/category/peter-van-buren/
  7. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/world/us-envoy-peter-van-buren-takes-caustic-pen-to-iraq-war.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180206092942/https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/09/29/how-the-state-department-came-after-me/
  9. ↑ http://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/53208997c07f5df7d2000113-silenced
  10. ↑ http://nakededgefilms.com/films/silenced/
  11. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180810042328/https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/i-was-banned-for-life-from-twitter/
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