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Evan Galbraith

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Person.png Evan Galbraith   C-SPAN SourcewatchRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
diplomat,  deep state functionary)
Evan G. Galbraith.jpg
BornJuly 2, 1928
 Toledo,  Ohio
DiedJanuary 21, 2008 (Age 79)
Nationality American
Alma mater •  Yale University
•  Harvard Law School
Member ofSkull and Bones
InterestsWilliam F. Buckley Jr.jpg William Buckley

Evan "Van" Griffith Galbraith was a US banker and spook who was the United States Ambassador to France from 1981 to 1985 under Ronald Reagan and the Secretary of Defense Representative to Europe and NATO under Donald Rumsfeld from 2002 to 2007.

Education

Galbraith was born in Toledo, Ohio. He graduated from Ottawa Hills High School in 1946 and was a graduate of Yale University (class of 1950, member of Skull and Bones[1]) and Harvard Law School. Galbraith served on active duty in the Navy from 1953 to 1957, attached to the Central Intelligence Agency. From 1960 to 1961, he was the confidential assistant to the Secretary of Commerce under Dwight Eisenhower. He was a close personal friend and Yale classmate of William F. Buckley, Jr. who died one month after Galbraith.

Career

He started his banking career at Morgan Guaranty in Paris selling and designing bonds and later became the Managing Director of Dillon Read in London in 1969. In the 1990s, he was an Advisory Director of Morgan Stanley in New York, Chairman of the Board of National Review, and a member of the board of the Groupe Lagardère S.A. Paris. Together with Daimler Benz, the Groupe Lagardère S.A. controls EADS (European Aerospace and Defense Systems), Europe's largest defense contractor and principal owner of Airbus.


 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/198214 May 198216 May 1982Norway
Sandefjord
The 30th Bilderberg, held in Norway.
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