Constanze Stelzenmüller
 Constanze Stelzenmüller    (spook) | |
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| Born | 1962 Bonn |
| Nationality | United States |
| Member of | American Council on Germany/Young Leaders/1993, Atlantik-Brücke, Brookings Institution, Centre for European Reform, Ditchley/Governors, Ditchley/UK, European Policy Centre, German Marshall Fund |
Constanze Stelzenmüller is a German citien with several deep ties to the intelligence community. She has worked as a newspaper editor, leader of the Berlin office of the very CIA-close foundation German Marshall Fund of the United States, and from 2014, she works for the US Brookings Institution.
Education
From 1979 to 1985, Stelzenmüller studied law at the university of Bonn and University of Geneva. As a McCloy scholarship holder, she received a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1988); subsequently she did research as a visiting scientist at Harvard Law School (1988–89). With a thesis on Direct Democracy in the United States, she got a Doctorate at the University of Bonn in 1992.
Career
After a short internship (1992–93) at the newspaper Tagesspiegel, Stelzenmüller moved straight to defense and international security editor at the influential mainstream weekly newspaper die Zeit 1994, where she focused on human rights, refugee dramas and the UN, as well as African conflicts such as Rwanda, Congo and Eritrea / Ethiopia. From 1998 from 1998 onward, she covered a broad spectrum of issues, including NATO, European defense and security policy, military intervention in Kosovo and Afghanistan, the war on terror, Iraq, international war crimes tribunals, German foreign policy, and US-German relations.
To what extent she as editor planted stories from intelligence services and maintained the wanted narrative as a gatekeeper, can only be conjectured.
From April to June 2004, Stelzenmüller was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC. In July 2005, she took over the management of the Berlin office of the foundation German Marshall Fund of the United States, which traditionally has very close ties to the CIA (according to Udo Ulfkotte a direct CIA-front). From 2009 to 2014 she was a senior transatlantic fellow at the foundation.
From 2014 onwards, she works for the Brookings Institute. [1]
She is governor of the Ditchley Foundation, a Bilderberg-like group of US and British power brokers.
In 2017, she testified before the US Congress on "Russian interference" in Europe. (headlines like: "The toolbox of head-hacking"..."useful idiots“..."Attribution is elusive: No smoking gun")[2]
Stelzenmüller’s essays and articles, in both German and English, have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Internationale Politik, the Financial Times, the international edition of New York Times and Süddeutsche Zeitung.[3]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| 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 |
| Brussels Forum/2007 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. | ||
| Brussels Forum/2009 | 20 March 2009 | 22 March 2009 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2010 | 26 March 2010 | 28 March 2010 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2012 | 23 March 2012 | 24 March 2012 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2014 | 21 March 2014 | 24 March 2014 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The theme in 2014 was A World in Transition |
| Brussels Forum/2015 | 20 March 2015 | 22 March 2015 | Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Cleve | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The 2015 main theme was (R)evolution. |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2009 | 20 November 2009 | 22 November 2009 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada in November 2009 |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2010 | 20 November 2010 | 22 November 2010 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada in November 2010 |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2015 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada | ||
| Halifax International Security Forum/2016 | 18 November 2016 | 21 November 2016 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2017 | 17 November 2017 | 19 November 2017 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2021 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada | ||
| Halifax International Security Forum/2022 | 18 November 2022 | 20 November 2022 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in November 2022 |
| Munich Security Conference/2009 | 2009 | 2009 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 45th Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2014 | 31 January 2014 | 2 February 2014 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 50th Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2015 | 6 February 2015 | 8 February 2015 | Germany Munich Bavaria | "400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts." |
| Munich Security Conference/2016 | 12 February 2016 | 14 February 2016 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 52nd 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/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 |
