Harvard/Kennedy School

Harvard/Kennedy School   (University, Deep state milieu)
Formation	1936
Headquarters	Harvard
Type	Private
Harvard school used by the CIA to recruit vast amounts of high-profile or soon-to-be-high-profile foreign leaders.

The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is used by the CIA to recruit vast amounts of high-profile or soon-to-be-high-profile foreign leaders.

Harvard Kennedy School alumni has over 63,000 alumni, which includes 21 heads of state or government from around the world. Alumni also include cabinet officials, military leaders, heads of central banks, and legislators.

Official narrative

The new Littauer Center at Harvard Kennedy School, built in 1978, one of several Harvard Kennedy School buildings on the Harvard campus

The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public administration, and international development, four doctoral degrees, and various executive education programs. It conducts research in subjects relating to politics, government, international affairs, and economics.

Harvard Kennedy School is home to 14 centers, including the spooky Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Center for Public Leadership, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Institute of Politics, and Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

CIA recruitment of foreign leaders

José María Figueres, who was soon to become president of Costa Rica was cultivated by the CIA at Harvard Kennedy School

Harvard allows the CIA to send officers to the midcareer program at the Kennedy School of Government while continuing to act undercover, with the school's knowledge. When the officers apply - often with fudged credentials that are part of their CIA cover -- the university doesn't know they're CIA agents, but once they're in, Harvard allows them to tell the university that they’re undercover. Their fellow students, however - often high-profile or soon-to-be-high-profile foreign leaders - are kept in the dark.

Daniel Golden, in his book Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities writes how "Kenneth Moskow is one of a long line of CIA officers who have enrolled undercover at the Kennedy School, generally with Harvard’s knowledge and approval, gaining access to up-and-comers worldwide. For four decades the CIA and Harvard have concealed this practice".

In 2008, when Kenneth Moskow died in a mountain climbing accident, many of his former classmates in the midcareer program at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government were startled to learn from the obituaries that he had been a top CIA spy. He had told them, and his professors, that he worked for the State Department — it was the same cover he used on assignment in Spain and Cyprus — and the school’s photo roster listed him that way. The pretense likely helped him cultivate foreign classmates, including ex–Guatemalan defense minister Héctor Gramajo and José María Figueres, who was soon to become president of Costa Rica.

Presumably it has plenty of domestic spook recruitment as well.

Belfer Center

Full article: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

The Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (also known as the Belfer Center) is a permanent research center located within the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Showing that the research is clearly in support of US militarism and regime changes, the center is led by Director Ash Carter, former US Secretary of Defense and Co-Director Eric Rosenbach, former Assistant Secretary of Defense. John Deutch, former director of the CIA, is on the board.

Young Global Leaders

The Harvard Kennedy Magazine of Summer 2009 wrote that "Through Alumni and Teaching Harvard Kennedy School plays a central role in the Forum of Young Global Leaders Program," with the author, Steve Nadis writing: "In 2004, Klaus Schwab MC/MPA 1967, a Harvard Kennedy School graduate who founded the World Economic Forum (WEF), won a $1 million prize from the Dan David Foundation and tried to think of the best use to which he could put that money. Schwab decided to start a WEF-affiliated program called the Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGL), which, as the name implies, would bring together a new generation of leaders from across the globe and turn them loose on the biggest problems of the day."

Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

Leslie Wexner, whose financed were controlled by Jeffrey Epstein, was a big donor to the school.

Leslie Wexner (of Jeffrey Epstein fame) has donated more than $40 million to the Kennedy School and has a building named after him. In 1989, the Wexner Israel Fellowship program was created to specifically "support up to 10 outstanding Israeli public officials earning their Mid-Career Master of Public Administration (MC/MPA) at Harvard Kennedy School." Among the 10 fellows who come annually are ministry officials, local government representatives, policy analysts, and directors of nonprofits, as well as members of the Mossad, the Israel Defense Forces, and the Shin Bet security service.

Robert Belfer, David Rubenstein and Idan Ofer

According to Stephen Walt, whose book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy was highly critical of the Lobby, "Another prominent donor is Robert Belfer, who has donated more than $20 million to the Kennedy School, as well as donating to the ADL and the American Jewish Committee. Belfer's influence at the Kennedy School extends far beyond his center (the Belfer Center). He and his son Laurence sit on the Dean’s Executive Board - "a small group of business and philanthropic leaders who serve as trusted advisors to the Dean and are among the most committed financial supporters of the School," according to its site. The board’s chair, David Rubenstein, is the cofounder and former CEO of the Carlyle Group, the private equity giant, and one of the most well-connected members of the US financial and cultural elite; among the many prestigious boards on which he sits is the Harvard Corporation, the university’s main governing body."

The 16 members of the Dean's Executive Board also include Idan Ofer and his wife, Batia. Idan is the son of Sammy Ofer, an Israeli shipping magnate who until his death in 2011 was one of Israel’s richest men.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Ken Moskow	“In 2008, when Kenneth Moskow died in a mountain climbing accident, many of his former classmates in the midcareer program at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government were startled to learn from the obituaries that he had been a top CIA spy. He had told them, and his professors, that he worked for the State Department — it was the same cover he used on assignment in Spain and Cyprus — and the school’s photo roster listed him that way. The pretense likely helped him cultivate foreign classmates, including ex–Guatemalan defense minister Héctor Gramajo and José María Figueres, who was soon to become president of Costa Rica.”	Ken Moskow Daniel Golden	14 October 2017

 

Group

Group	Start
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs	1973

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Tom Axworthy	Adjunct Lecturer	1984	2003
Edward Mason	Dean of Kennedy School of Government	1947	1958

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Amr Al-Dabbagh	1966		Saudi Arabia	Businessperson	Governor and chairman of the board of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority. Jeffrey Epstein/Black book.
Joaquín Almunia	17 June 1948		Spain	Politician Union organizer	Spanish politician, European Commissioner for 10 years, 6 Bilderbergs
Morris Amitay	5 July 1936
Andreas Andrianopoulos	1946		Greece	Politician	Greek politician who attended the 1988 Bilderberg, then became Minister of Trade. Was along with fellow Bilderberger Stefanos Manos the main spokesman for the economic liberal tradition in Greece.
Larry Arnold				Soldier Pilot	NORAD Commander Major General who on 9/11 "failed" to scramble fighters in a timely manner, allegedly due to the exercise Vigilant Guardian
Ami Ayalon	27 June 1945			Spook Politician	Head of Israel's Shin Bet 1996-2000
Dawood Azami			UK	Journalist	Spooky BBC journalist and editor. Selected as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Ed Balls	25 February 1967		UK	Politician Deep state operative	UK politician. 7 Bilderbergs
Peter Bisanz			US	Film director	Works for the World Economic Forum on creating an Universal Curriculum on Values that will encompass a full spectrum of socially relevant media, from Television to the Internet.
Irina Bokova	12 July 1952		Bulgaria	Politician
Nicholas Boles	2 November 1965		UK	Politician	Notting Hill Set UK politician, Director of Policy Exchange
Bill Bratton	6 October 1947			Police officer
Felipe Calderón	8 August 1962			Politician Puppet leader	WEF/Global Leader for Tomorrow 1997. President of Mexico 2006-2012.
Andrew Card	10 May 1947			Politician	George W. Bush's Chief of Staff on 9-11
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho	31 May 1978		Brazil	Activist	Brazilian activist showered with attention and funding from "global leaders".
Charles Cogan	11 January 1928	14 December 2017	US	Spook	CIA officer, admitted the agency had “funded the worst fellows right from the start, long before the Iranian revolution and long before the Soviet invasion.”
Dan Crenshaw	14 March 1984			Soldier Politician	Republican politician from Texas.
Shaun Donovan	24 January 1966				For President Obama's State of the Union address in 2010, Donovan served as the designated survivor.
Nicholas Eberstadt	20 December 1955		US	Economist Deep state actor	Involved in a lot of deep state think tanks and planning committees.
Theodore Eliot	24 January 1928	8 August 2019	US	Diplomat	US Ambassador to Afghanistan who attended 15 Bilderberg meetings.
Mark Esper	26 April 1964		US		military-industrial complex lobbyist and defense minister
Doug Fears			US	Mariner	United States Coast Guard officer working on drug interdiction.
Joseph Felter				Soldier Academic	Spooky military-industrial complex officer and academic with interest in South-East Asia and militarized hacking.
Michèle Flournoy	14 December 1960			Deep state actor	US deep state actor
Justin Fox	28 January 1964		US	Journalist	Business journalist for Fortune magazine, Time Magazine and Bloomberg
Carmi Gillon	January 1950			Diplomat Spook Politician	Shin Bet leader who failed to provide adequate security during the 4 November 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Rodrigo Pérez-Alonso González	3 June 1978		Mexico	Politician	Mexican Green politician with interest in digital transformation
Richard Grenell	1966		US	Diplomat Spook	US diplomat/spook accused by many of arrogance
Ted Halstead	25 July 1968	2 September 2020	US	Activist	WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/2001. Started several "conservative" carbon reduction NGOs.
Keith Hennessey			US	Economist	Assistant to George W. Bush for Economic Policy
Stanley Hilton				Author Lawyer	A Lawyer who brought a class action lawsuit against the 9/11 perpetrators in 2002. The case was dismissed in 2004 after the US Justice system ruled that the US government had "Sovereign immunity".
Fred Hochberg	3 February 1952		US	Businessperson	Chairman and President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States 2009-2017.
Daniel Hoffman			US	Spook	US senior spook who negotiated Sergei Skripal's spy swap
Said Tayeb Jawad	22 February 1958		Afghanistan	Diplomat Academic	Afghan diplomat; posted in Russia, UK and USA
Vuk Jeremić	3 July 1975		Serbia	Politician	Otpor! activist. Part of "the most westward-leaning government Serbia has ever had".
Robert Kagan	26 September 1958		US	Neoconservatism Deep state operative	Co-founder of the Project for the New American Century
Raymond Kelly	4 September 1941			Police officer Deep state functionary	US deep state functionary, NYC Police Commissioner for over a decade.
Bernard Kerik	4 September 1955			Police officer Fraudster Deep state actor	A criminal sidekick whom Rudy Giuliani appointed to New York City Police Commissioner and suggested for United States Secretary of Homeland Security.
Ban Ki-moon	13 June 1944		South Korea		8th UN Secretary General
Lim Hng Kiang	9 April 1954		Singapore	Soldier Politician	WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1994, then various ministerial posts in the Singaporean government, including for Health and Trade.
Robert Klitgaard	1947		US	Academic	Corruption expert with ties to the deep state RAND Corporation.
Karen Kornbluh				Spook	Spook. BBG Governor
Bruce Kovner	25 April 1946		US	Financier Billionaire	Single Bilderberg hedge fund billionaire. Described as "one of the most powerful people in the country, culturally, financially, and politically." and ""George Soros's Right-Wing Twin".
Jörg Kukies	21 February 1968		Germany	Economist	Goldman-Sachs bankster who became State Secretary and guiding hand for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Attended the 2022 Bilderberg Conference.
Marcel Lettre				Spook Bureaucracy	Was principal intelligence advisor to the US Secretary of Defense
He Liu	25 January 1952		China	Politician Economist	Harvard-educated economic liberal Chinese Vice Premier and confidant of President Xi Jinping. Attended the 2014 Bilderberg and gave a "special address" at the 2023 WEF AGM
Lee Hsien Loong	10 February 1952		Singapore	Politician	Singapore Prime Minister. Son of Singapore founder Lee Kuan Yew. Introduced hard law against false news. PM during COVID-19 with lockdowns, RNA-vaccines and vaccine passports
Douglas Lute	3 November 1952			Diplomat Soldier	Diplomat soldier on a lotof boards, US Ambassador to NATO 2013-2017
Eva Maydell	26 January 1986		Bulgaria	Politician	President of the European Movement International. WEF/Young Global Leaders/2022. One of the youngest ever visitors to the Munich Security Conference.
Mark McClellan	26 June 1963		US	Bureaucrat Big pharma/Lobbyist	Food and Drug Administration Commissioner who "streamlined" regulatory requirements for new drugs. Later made big bucks on boards of Big Pharma companies.
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