Donald Jameson

Donald Jameson (spook)
Born	Donald Fenton Booth Jameson 1925
Died	5 September, 2007 (Age 81)
Nationality	US
Children	• Jeremy Jameson • Margaret Jameson • Thomas Jameson
Spouse	• Barbara Nixon Jameson • Lisa Rodman Jameson
Member of	Le Cercle
Attended multiple Cercle meetings and worked for the CIA. Vice-president of the Jamestown Foundation

Donald Fenton Booth Jameson was an anti-communist spook, member of Le Cercle. He attended multiple Cercle meetings and worked for the CIA. His second wife was Lisa Jameson.

Career

Donald Jameson joined the CIA. At the end of World War II he recruited displaced persons in West German camps to infiltrate back into the Soviet Union. This policy wasn't very successful.

He was chief of the Soviet division of the CIA's Operations Directorate in the 1950s and 1960s and was an expert on the USSR and defectors.

He interviewed Yuri A. Rastvorov, the 1954 Soviet defector, who supposedly told him that the Soviets held maybe 10-15 US prisoners from the Korean War. Coincidentally, a person called Colonel Philip Corso said he arranged the interrogation of Rastvorov. In telephone interviews in 1994 and 1995, Corso recalled in detail his encounter with Rastvorov and said the defector told him several hundred American POWs had been sent to Siberia in rail cars during the war. Corso has maintained that the Eisenhower administration chose not to force the issue with Moscow out of concern that a confrontation might escalate into all-out war.

In 1975 he had an office at Tetra Tech Inc. of fellow Cercle member and retired CIA officer James Critchfield.

Jamestown Foundation

Full article: Jamestown Foundation

He was vice-president of the Jamestown Foundation, which was founded in 1984 (with the help of Cercle member William Casey) to protect and sponsor a group of high-level international defectors as they travelled the United States speaking out against the tyranny of communism.

Connections

Jameson was a member of the ultra conservative National Security Advisory Council (NSAC) of the Center for Security Policy, together with Cercle attendees Jeane Kirkpatrick & Ed Feulner, plus Dick Cheney, Richard Perle (good friend of former Cercle chairman Brian Crozier), Edward Teller and Frank Gaffney.

Jameson was at a conference on 15 November 1991 where former KGB and CIA officers spoke together in public for the first time.

Business

He was president of Jameson Associates in Great Falls, Va. in 1994. He was a writer and consultant on international finance and politics to various financial institutions and governments.

Deep political connections

He was a member of the Cosmos Club and the Army and Navy Club. Unusually, his Washington Post obituary mentioned his membership of Le Cercle.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Le Cercle/1980 (Washington)	5 December 1980	7 December 1980	US Washington DC Madison Hotel	Detailed in a telegram to the South African Embassy in Madrid that was posted to the internet in 2017.
Le Cercle/1982 (Wildbad Kreuth)	11 June 1982	13 June 1982	Germany Hanns Seidel Foundation	1982 conference organised by Franz Josef Bach. The participants were guests of Franz-Josef Strauss. The first page of the attendee list was published online in 2011
Le Cercle/1983 (Bonn)	30 June 1983	3 July 1983	Germany Bonn
Le Cercle/1984 (Capetown)	12 January 1984	15 January 1984	South Africa Stellenbosch Capetown	4 day meeting of Le Cercle in Capetown exposed after Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference and published it online in 2011
Le Cercle/1985 (Washington)	7 January 1985	10 January 1985	US Washington DC	4 day meeting of Le Cercle in Washington exposed after Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference and published it online in 2011

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