Robert Kupperman

Robert Kupperman   (“terror expert”)
Born	May 12, 1935
Died	November 24, 2006 (Age 71)
Nationality	US
Interests	“terrorism”
"Expert" catapulted into media prominence as a terrorism expert during the Reagan years.  Terrorism specialist In office 1979 - 2006 Employer Center for Strategic and International Studies

Robert Harris Kupperman was an American government official and academic, and a leading expert on terrorism.

Edward S. Herman, In an article available on Wikispooks (see: Document:Robert Kupperman, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry), pointed out that "the same factors that made Kupperman an authentic expert for the mass media also assured that he would work strictly within the bounds of the Western model of terrorism."

Career

During his years working for the US government he served as director of the transition team for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as executive director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, and finally at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he helped President Nixon in creating the Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism. This first interagency study of foreign and domestic terrorism was created in response to the Black September terrorist attack in which 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.

After he left the public sector, Kupperman joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies as an advisor and authored several books, most notably Strategic Requirements for the Army to the Year 2000 (Lexington Books, 1984) and Final Warning: Averting Disaster in the New Age of Terrorism, which he co-wrote with journalist Jeff Kamen (Doubleday, 1989)

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Robert Kupperman, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry	book extract	1990	Edward Herman

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