Gary Schmitt

Gary Schmitt   (academic)
Member of	American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Project for the New American Century
An important neo-conservative intelligence theorist

Gary J. Schmitt is a resident scholar and Director of Program on Advanced Strategic Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

As of 2003, Schmitt was secretary of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which posted the following biography on its website:

In the early 1980s, Dr. Schmitt was a member of the professional staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and, from 1982-1984, was the committee's minority staff director. In 1984, he was appointed by President Reagan to the post of executive director of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the White House. He was in that position until 1988. Since then, he has held visiting fellowships at the National Interest, a foreign policy journal, and the Brookings Institution, was Coordinator for the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence's Working Group on Intelligence Reform, and worked as a consultant to the Department of Defense. In addition, he has been an adjunct professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Schmitt has written articles in a number of areas, including the American founding, the U.S. presidency, the American political system, intelligence and national security affairs. He is the co-author with Abram N. Shulsky, of Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence (2002); co-editor of, and contributor to, U.S. Intelligence at the Crossroads: Agendas for Reform (1995); co-author of The Future of U.S. Intelligence (1996), a monograph prepared for the Working Group on Intelligence Reform; co-author of What Does "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" Mean? (1998), a monograph of the Henry Salvatori Center of Claremont McKenna College.,

Dr. Schmitt is a graduate of the University of Dallas (B.A./1974) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D./1980).

External Resources

• Gary J. Schmitt - Sourcewatch profile

Affiliations

• American Enterprise Institute
• Strategic Education Associates, LLC
• Consortium for the Study of Intelligence
• Working Group on Intelligence Reform
• Project for a New American Century
• American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
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/2008			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/2011	25 March 2011	27 March 2011	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
Colloquium on Intelligence Requirements for the 1990s	4 December 1987	5 December 1987		Spooky 1987 conference
Colloquium on Intelligence and Policy	9 November 1984	10 November 1984		A spooky conference in November 1984
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/2021	19 November 2021	21 November 2021	Canada Halifax Nova Scotia	Spooky conference in Canada in November 2021
Munich Security Conference/2009	2009	2009	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 45th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2010	5 February 2010	7 February 2010	Germany Munich Bavaria	An anti-war demonstration outside described it as "Nothing more than a media-effectively staged war propaganda event, which this year had the purpose of justifying the NATO troop increase in Afghanistan and glorifying the continuation of the war as a contribution to peace and stability."

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