Robert van Roijen Sr.

Robert van Roijen Sr. (spook)
Born	1908 New York City
Residence	Orlando
Nationality	US (Born: Dutch)
Alma mater	University of Utrecht
Children	• Victoria • Valaer
Siblings	Herman van Roijen
Spouse	Susan
Dates unknown

Robert van Roijen was a spook, board member of KuwAm, with a noteworthy "deep-state U.S. intelligence background."

Background

Van Roijen’s father was Dutch ambassador to the United States in the 1920s, and his brother Herman van Roijen, had the very same appointment from 1950 to 1964. He moved to New York City in the late 1930s, where he studied journalism.

van Roijen was born in London, where his father was stationed, as a Dutch diplomat. He received a doctorate in law at the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands in 1936 and moved to the United States the same year.

Career

He became a U.S. citizen in 1942 and was an intelligence officer in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He saw service in North Africa and Europe.

In 1948, he joined the CIA as a covert operations officer. He was stationed in Germany for some time in the early 1950s. The rest of his career was in Washington. He retired in 1962.

In 1964, he purchased Robert B. Luce Inc., a Washington publishing firm ( He sold it in 1978.

In 1974 he co-founded Clyde Associates, a venture-capital group in Washington.

Van Roijen's sister was working in the White House communications office, and he used those connections to his advantage as a lobbyist for IBM, obtaining strategic information from government offices such as the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

In 1977 he co-founded the Secor Group in Washington. He was elected chairman of Control Laser Corp. of Orlando later that year and assumed added duties as company president and chief executive in 1981. In January 1988 he founded Tox Financial Co. of Winter Park. Robert van Roijen "was said to be the man responsible for getting [Wirt] Walker [III] involved in the aircraft business." He was a board member of KuwAm.

During the 1973 Oil Crisis, the Dutch government sent Herman van Roijen, who was also a member of the Bilderberg Group, to Saudi Arabia in an unsuccessful attempt to patch things up diplomatically. His father was born a Dutch citizen in England, immigrated to the U.S. in the 1930s and was a spook in the Army Air Corps before joining the CIA. He graduated in 1961 from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in economics and philosophy.

He was also Tricia Nixon's White House party escort during the time of the Nixon Administration.

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