David Petraeus

David Petraeus
Born	David Howell Petraeus 1952-11-07 Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	United States Military Academy, Princeton University
Spouse	Holly Knowlton
Founder of	Center for Afghanistan Pakistan Excellence
Member of	Arthur F. Burns Fellowship/Trustees, Atlantic Council/Board, Atlantic Council/Distinguished Leadership Awards, Council on Foreign Relations/Members 3, Institute for the Study of War, Justice for Kurds, KKR & Co., McCain Institute, Panthera, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, Trilateral Commission
Party	Republican
Chairman of the KKR Global Institute In office September 7, 2017 - Present  Director of the Central Intelligence Agency In office September 6, 2011 - November 9, 2012 Preceded by Michael Morell Succeeded by Michael Morell  Commander of the International Security Assistance Force  In office June 23, 2010 - July 18, 2011 Preceded by Stanley McChrystal Succeeded by John Allen  Commander of United States Central Command  In office October 31, 2008 - June 30, 2010 Succeeded by John Allen

David Howell Petraeus is a retired United States Army general and public official.

Career

Petraeus worked as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011, until his resignation on November 9, 2012. Michael Hastings opined that: “[David Petraeus] is... a world-class bullshit artist... He essentially armed and trained what later became known as ‘Iraqi death squads.’ He... took the Shiites’ side in a civil war, armed them to the teeth, and suckered the Sunnis into thinking we’d help them out too... Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives during a sectarian conflict that Petraeus’ policies fueled... The reputations of the men who were intimately involved in these years of foreign misadventure, where we tortured and supported torture, armed death squads, conducted nightly assassinations, killed innocents, and enabled corruption on an unbelievable scale, lie in tatters.”

He was hired by Henry Kravis in December 2014 to head his own intelligence agency called the KKR Global Institute which was used to funnel weapons into the Syria conflict. Operation Timber Sycamore was the largest weapons trafficking operation in history, implicating at least 17 governments and representing many thousands of tons of weapons worth several billion dollars. }}

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2013	6 June 2013	9 June 2013	Watford UK	The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
Bilderberg/2014	29 May 2014	1 June 2014	Denmark Copenhagen Marriott Hotel	The 62nd Bilderberg, with 136 guests, held in Copenhagen
Bilderberg/2015	11 June 2015	14 June 2015	Austria Telfs-Buchen	The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria
Bilderberg/2016	9 June 2016	12 June 2016	Germany Dresden	The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany.
Bilderberg/2017	1 June 2017	4 June 2017	US Virginia Chantilly	The 65th Bilderberg Meeting
Bilderberg/2018	7 June 2018	10 June 2018	Italy Turin Hotel Torino Lingotto Congress	The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government.
Bilderberg/2019	30 May 2019	2 June 2019	Switzerland Montreux	The 67th Bilderberg Meeting
Bilderberg/2022	2 June 2022	5 June 2022	US Washington DC Mandarin Oriental Hotel	The 68th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Washington DC, after an unprecedented two year hiatus during which a lot of the Bilderberg regulars were busy managing COVID-19
Bilderberg/2024	30 May 2024	2 June 2024	Spain Madrid	The 70th Bilderberg Meeting
Munich Security Conference/2009	2009	2009	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 45th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2018	12 February 2018	14 February 2018	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 54th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2019	15 February 2019	17 February 2019	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/2020	14 February 2020	16 February 2020	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers."
Munich Security Conference/2022	18 February 2022	20 February 2022	Germany Munich Bavaria	Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here
Munich Security Conference/2023	17 February 2023	19 February 2023	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere.
Munich Security Conference/2024	16 February 2024	18 February 2024	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects

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