Kissinger Associates /

Kissinger McLarty Associates

I have tried to ensure that all the information presented below is correct. Much is written about Kissinger Associates, and not all of it can be proven. All of the sources given are corporate, governmental or from reliable media sources. If you find any errors, or indeed have more to contribute, please don’t hesitate to contact me. – JohnHorneUK@aol.com - otherwise, I hope this proves useful.

John Horne

***NEW*** Henry Kissinger has recently been appointed to head the 9-11 Commission. Everything else considered (like Kissinger being a war criminal & all) there is the serious question of his conflicts of interest. Take for example this exchange on CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer:

BLITZER: Let me then move on to a Los Angeles Times editorial which came up with a different criticism of you, and I'll put that up on the screen as well. It says, "His company, Kissinger Associates, is known for introducing U.S. firms looking for business overseas to leaders of foreign governments. The company has not disclosed all of its clients or detailed the work it does. There is the possibility of a conflict of interest in investigating foreign governments that can be beneficial to clients." What about that point, that your company, Kissinger Associates, does not disclose its clients and there could be potentially a conflict of interest?

KISSINGER: No law firm discloses its clients. I will discuss my clients fully with the counsel of the White House and with the appropriate ethics groups. And the possibility that the investigation of a commission that contains eight commissioners would be affected by any conceived commercial interests is outrageous. I have served six presidents, and I have never been accused of anything of this kind.

(end extract)

Keep reading & decide for yourself.

*** Kissinger has resigned from the commission(!). ***

Click here to read his letter to Bush

About Kissinger Associates, Inc

Before you go any further, I will direct you to the company's own site, which will explain why this site is necessary:

http://www.kmaglobal.com/

Have you ever seen a company so bereft of information? All of the main sites for dispersing information about companies go dry when it comes to Kissinger Associates – believe me, I’ve been through them all. The best I mustered was this from Hoovers:

Kissinger Associates, Inc.

350 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10022

(212) 759-7919

From that I did manage to compile a list of companies who share the same building as Henry.

In short, very little is known about this “International Consulting Firm” other than a few press releases, or information culled from other companies and corporate reports. I have no idea whose the firm has as clients and have little idea of who works there. What follows is all I can find about the company.

First, a small description, provided by David Rockefeller’s “Council of the Americas”, of which Kissinger Associates is a member:

“Kissinger Associates and its affiliate, Kissinger McLarty Associates, provide strategic advisory and advocacy services to a select group of U.S. and multinational companies. The firms provide high-level intervention regarding special projects, assist their clients to identify strategic partners and investment opportunities, and advise clients on government relations throughout the world. KAI was founded in 1982 by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. In 1999, former Clinton Chief of Staff and Special Envoy for the Americas Thomas F. McLarty joined KAI as Vice-Chairman, and established a Washington office of KAI known as Kissinger McLarty Associates (KMA). The firm does not, however, lobby the United States government or engage in conduct that would require us to register as foreign agents under US law, nor do we accept fees from foreign governments.” (source)

Since June 2001, we can also add Bill Richardson to the dynamic duo as he became a senior managing director following a three year tenure as U.S. Secretary of Energy.

Writing for the New York Times Magazine on April 20^th, 1986, Leslie Gelb gave a small insight into the company: “[in] 25 to 30 corporations paid KA between $150,000 and $420,000 each per annum for political influence and access. […] The superstar international consultants [at KA] were certainly people who would get their telephone calls returned from high American government officials and who would also be able to get executives in to see foreign leaders.”

Back in 1989 it had five partners: Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, Lawrence Eagleburger, Alan Stoga, T. Jefferson Cunningham III. Power elite, each and every one. We know this in part because of documents that were subpeonad by the Committee on Foreign Relations in 1991, relating to the BCCI scandal.

For a comprehensive synopsis of Kissinger Associates and BCCI see here. (or here for the entire report)

Kissinger Associates was also involved in the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) scandal (also known as `Iraqgate’) which can pretty much be seen as another tentacle of the same illegal octopus. This scandal was particularly at the heart of Kissinger Associates because of the more intimate nature of the dealings that Kissinger, Scowcroft, Eagleburger and William Rogers had with the various companies and entities involved – not least because BNL hired Kissinger Associates. This scandal is perticularly pertinent given the current warmongering climate which seeks to launch an all out offensive in Iraq – these were the guys who armed the country in the first place. The best online information on this scandal comes from Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez (who died in 1998) in a series of presentations given to the House of Representatives in 1991-2.

The key testimonies relating to Kissinger Associates: April 24^th 1991, April 25^th 1991, May 2^nd 1991, April 28^th 1992 (for the rest: 1991, 1992)

Some of the information in the April 25^th 1991 hearing may still be relevant. This concerns Volvo and its then CEO Pehr Gyllenhammar. I have confirmed that up until 1997 he was still a director of Kissinger Associates and it is quite possible that that relationship still exists.

The investigation was stonewalled from the highest corridors of power, especially because the scandal went straight into the heart of the Bush Administration. Indeed, it would appear that much of the key evidence was shredded by the Department of Justice. In two speeches given in July (1 2) Gonzalez explains the explicit foreknowledge that the USG had of US corporate interest in arming Iraq – the poiniant fact being therefore that Kissinger, Scowcroft et al operated under a blanket of protection. Only time will tell what Kissinger Associates have been doing in the past ten years – but the addition of McLarty is ominous. If the Republicans help their own you can be sure that Democrats will do similar.

Back then, Lloyd Cutler, was (and may still be) the attourney for the company. He was also Presidential Counsel to Carter and Clinton. Fickle – maybe – but I rest my case.

We also know that companies who have used (& may way still use) the services of Kissinger Associates include:

American Express – Kissinger sits on the International Advisory Board

Anheuser-Busch

Arco (aka Atlantic Richfield)

ASEA Brown Boveri (ABB)

the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro – see above for info on the BNL scandal

Coca-Cola

Daewoo of South Korea

Delta Air Lines

Exxon Mobil

Fiat

Forstmann Little & Co – of which Kissinger is a Director

Freeport McMoRan – Kissinger is now a `Director Emeritus’ of the company earning himself personally $400,000 in 1994.

JP Morgan Chase – Kissinger also sits on its International Advisory Board

Merck & Co

Midland Bank (HSBC)

Revlon

Shearson Lehman Hutton

Union Carbide – now merged with Dow Chemical Company – Union Carbide is the company responsible for the Bhopal disaster. Much more info on this here.

United Parcel Service

Volvo

(sources: Christopher Hitchens The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Verso, 2002) p.121-126; Walter Isaacson Kissinger: A Biography p.733-734; also Reuters release 5/31/02)

Indeed, the small chapter in Christopher Hitchens book The Trial of Henry Kissinger just hints at the utterly power centric and compassionless nature of Kissinger Associates. An excerpt from the book, predeminately focussing on Kissingers role with Freeport McMoRan (but also his business interests in Iraq) can be found here.

The company has also met the wrath of Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch:

“The firm of Kissinger, McLarty & Richardson epitomizes Washington, D.C. at its worst – sleazy ex-administration officials, feeding off special influence and power and then pretending, with the help of their enablers, to be fine, upstanding and respected gentlemen. Judicial Watch will `watch’ closely their activities and take action whenever warranted. Today, we will be filing Freedom of Information Act requests to learn about their activities in the recent past,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. (source)

This announcement was made in June 2001 – sadly there is no update of yet.

Kissinger McLarty Associates has a “strategic alliance” with the Blackstone Group – seen by many as nothing more than another arm of the Carlyle Group. The Blackstone Group describes their relationship thus:

“Blackstone's alliance with Kissinger McLarty Associates is designed to help provide financial advisory services to corporations seeking high-level strategic advice. The relationship was announced in 2000 and recently completed its first strategic advisory assignment on behalf of a NYSE-listed company.” (source)

Infact the alliance also incorporates Maurice Greenberg’s American International Group, as per this press release on February 21^st 2000:

“American International Group, Inc. (AIG), The Blackstone Group L. P. and Kissinger Associates Inc. announced the establishment of a new venture to provide financial advisory services to corporations seeking high-level independent strategic advice. […] The venture will operate globally and will take advantage of the existing relationships between the partners:

- AIG has an ownership interest in Blackstone and is an investor in several of Blackstone's private equity funds;

- AIG and Blackstone have a joint venture, specializing in restructuring and M&A advisory services in selected Asian countries;

- Henry Kissinger chairs both AIG's International Advisory Board and the advisory boards of several AIG-sponsored Infrastructure Funds.

The AIG-Blackstone-Kissinger Associates venture recently completed its first advisory assignment on behalf of a New York Stock Exchange listed U.S. company.” (source) (note: “M&A” means “Mergers and Acquisitions”)

Indeed: “In 1998, American International Group ("AIG") acquired a 7% non-voting interest in The Blackstone Group for $150 million and committed to invest $1.2 billion in future Blackstone-sponsored funds.” (source) And Maurice Greenberg sits on Blackstone’s Domestic Advisory Board.

In 1999 Kissinger Associates signed on SGV & Co “Asia's largest accounting and consulting firm” to “further expand its reach”. On June 6th 2002 SGV became an affiliate of Ernst & Young – prior to that it was “a member firm of Arthur Andersen”

Kissinger McLarty has also worked / still works with Princeton Video Image to aid its expansion into Latin America:

“Eduardo Sitt, Director of Presencia en Medios and member of Princeton Video Image's Board of Directors, said, "Publicidad Virtual has demonstrated to Latin America that Princeton Video Image's technology is a viable means to generate revenue and gross profit dollars through virtual advertising, and we have just scratched the surface. We are taking our successful experience in Mexico and expanding into Latin America's other key markets. To help us in these efforts, we have retained the services of Kissinger McLarty Associates, whose strategic expertise will help us in our expansion.” – 15^th December 2000 (source)

And provides/d similar services for GlobalNet:

“GlobalNet, Inc., a fast growing telecommunications firm, today announced it has retained the strategic consulting firm of Kissinger McLarty Associates to help execute its further expansion into Latin America. GlobalNet currently provides customers in the United States and Latin America with high-quality voice, fax, and other value-added services through its growing internet-protocol based network. Bob Donahue, GlobalNet CEO, said, "as we quickly continue to build our network and customer base in Latin America, Kissinger McLarty Associates, with its political savvy and contacts, will help us establish relationships and avoid pitfalls as we enter new markets.''” - 31^st July 2000 (source)

“GlobalNet is leveraging its partnership model to expand into new areas of Latin America. It recently has contracted with the strategic consulting firm of Kissinger McLarty Associates to help establish alliances in new markets.” – January 2001 (source)

There was also some speculation of a deal with Excite:

“Kissinger McLarty Associates […] has approached Excite@Home about buying a majority stake in the company, The Wall St. Journal reports. The firm has been in discussions with Excite@Home since May, according to the report.” - August 29, 2001 (source)

Another company is Prescott Enterprises (which is affiliated with the Business Strategy Group):

“[a] DC-based hospitality management and trade consulting practice that provides strategic, technical, political counsel, and support services to help clients achieve their near and long-term political and economic objectives. Founded in 2001 by Tom Prescott, an experienced policy advisor with roots in both the hospitality industry and government, the firm specializes in addressing hospitality sector business challenges and provides international trade policy services in agriculture, other commercial trade, and general services. Prescott Enterprises facilitates and enables market expansion and provides specialized representation in the federal legislative and regulatory processes. The firm maintains a relationship with Kissinger McLarty Associates and has developed extensive relationships in the United States, particularly on Capitol Hill and within the executive branch, as well as in similar sectors of the European Union and a number of Asian nations.”

To fulfill the reciprocal relationship, McLarty sits on the board of advisors for Prescott.

Another curious company is Zemi Communications. Kissinger serves as its Chairman Emeritus, and the company cites `strategic relationships’ with both Kissinger Associates & Kissinger McLarty Associates. The company develops and manages “communications programs for clients--major corporations and governments--from around the world, particularly those who raise capital, sell goods and services, or are affected by developments in the United States.” It’s founder and President, Alan Stoga, used to be a managing director of Kissinger Associates and still serves as a director there. “He is currently Vice Chairman of the Americas Society and served as acting president and CEO from November 2001 through June 2002.” – That good old Council of the Americas strikes again! More on Stoga below.

Of all of these associations, the most `troubling’ is the relationship between Kissinger Associates, the Blackstone Group and the American International Group (under the auspices of financial giant JP Morgan Chase and lobbying entity The Council of the Americas.) Indeed, as I intend to later show, the power brokers behind and within these five entities crop up so frequently it appears as one giant behomoth. This is not to ignore the role the companies have outside of the American trading bloc, but the total liberalisation of trade between North and South America is a jewel in the crown of Kissinger, Peter Peterson & Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone, Maurice Greenberg of AIG, the ubiqutous David Rockefeller and others. Members of all also bathe in the corporate and governmental weight of The Council on Foreign Relations and The Trilateral Group.

That said, the Kissinger-Blackstone-AIG combo may indeed have some far darker sides to its story. All have provided a home for Republican `Cold-War Warriors’, who have long been tight with the highest echelons of both United States government and its intelligence community. Many, many questions arise about foreknowledge of 9-11. Fingers pointed at this group may not simply be an erroneous product of a paranoid imagination. When 7, World Trade Center fell, it was dwarfed by the far greater tragedy and suffering that occurred on that fateful day. But slowly some curious truths are emerging about that building. The Blackstone Group acquired the mortgage to the property back in 2000. The building housed the CIA, the New York Office of Emergency Management and the Secret Service Electronic Crime Fighting Task Force. Citigroup `lost’ key documents relating to its dealings with Worldcom. The Greenberg family of business’ profiteered greatly from selling insurance against terrorist acts – which, if deemed `an act of war’ by Bush, they will never have to pay up anyway.

Did any of the people have foreknowledge of 9-11? Did they Let It Happen On Purpose? Or could there have been more intimate knowledge and even planning?

(* in the course of researching this web page I came across the following references for old news stories. If anybody has access to a library that holds back copies I would be eternally grateful for an electronic copy: Washington Post, Aug, 29, 1989; New York Times, Apr. 30, 1989; Wall Street Journal, Sept. 15, 1989)

Who’s Who in Kissinger Associates

Chairman – Henry A Kissinger

Vice Chairman - Thomas F. (Mack) McLarty, III

Vice-Chairman – Alan R Batkin

Vice-Chairman – William D Rogers

Senior Managing Director – Bill Richardson

Managing Partner - Richard W. Fisher

Managing Director – Nelson W Cunningham

Managing Director - Stephen Donehoo

Managing Director - Richard L. Huber

Managing Director - J. Stapleton Roy

Senior Director - Maria Luisa Mabilangan Haley

Director - Alan Stoga

Director - Etienne Davignon

Investing Principal - Ranch C Kimball

Board of Counselors - Gordon D Giffin

Director (unconfirmed) - Pehr Gyllenhammar

The Rt Hon Lord Carrington and Lord Roll are also rumored to be directors, but I am yet to find confirmation of this.

Alan R. Batkin

Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.

President & CEO, Orama Partners

“[the Orama Group is] an investment bank that is the private placement arm of the IDB Group -- arguably the largest business enterprise in the private sector of the Israeli economy, comprising IDB Holdings, a stake in Israel Discount Bank, IDB Development, Discount Investment Corporation, Clal Israel (including Clal Industries and Investments, Clal Insurance, etc.) and more -- Orama can call on significant clout, both within and without the extensive IDB family.

"In addition to the many IDB companies and institutions with whom we work on a regular basis, Orama has strategic partners throughout the world who do

not merely cooperate with us they are minority owners in Orama," explains Gil Weiser, active vice chairman of Orama Ltd., the firm's Israel-based operation. Orama consists of Orama Ltd., headquartered in Tel Aviv, and subsidiary Orama Partners, incorporated in the US and based in New York.

Among the prominent names that own minority interests in Orama are Compaq, Intel, Lucent, McCaw Cellular, Softbank, Silicon Graphics, Siemens, Silicon Valley Bank and the TDF agency of the government of Singapore.” [source]

Director of Hasbro

Director of Diamond Offshore Drilling (along with Bill Richardson)

Director of Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc

Director of Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc

Corporate Advisory Board of the Pacific Council on International Policy (the Western Partner of the Council on Foreign Relations)

Steering Committee of the Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations

Member of the Inter-American Dialogue

He was a managing director of Lehman Brothers.

L. Paul Bremer

Managing Director, Kissinger Associates, Inc

Nelson W Cunningham

Managing Director, Kissinger McLarty Associates, Washington

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Etienne Davignon

Director, Kissinger Associates (he WAS in 1997 – haven’t been able to confirm beyond that date)

In 1959, Mr. Davignon joined the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was Head of the Cabinets of Ministers Spaak and Harmel. From 1969 he was responsible for the Political Department of the Ministry until his departure in 1977 when he joined the EEC.

During his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was directly involved with Belgium's policies in Africa, the independence of Ruanda and Burundi and the solution to the Belgium and Za�re conflict.

He was also a key figure behind the report on the future of the Atlantic Alliance (Harmel report) and he presided the committee, which prepared the first proposals regarding political cooperation between EEC members (Davignon report): 1974- 1975.

Following the oil crisis in 1973, Mr. Davignon chaired the International Conference, which established an oil sharing treaty. From 1974 to 1977, he was the first President of the International Energy Agency created November 18, 1974.

After leaving the civil service in 1977, Mr. Davignon was appointed Vice President of the EEC, in charge of industry, research and energy up until the end of 1984. During this period he was active in the restructuring of European industry (steel, textiles, synthetic fibres) and promoting new research cooperative ventures in Information Technology and Telecommunication (Esprit, Race). He negotiated on behalf of the EEC, key agreements with the US, Japan and China.

In the beginning of 1985 he joined Soci�t� G�n�rale de Belgique, Belgium's leading holding company of which he became Chairman on the 11th April 1989. He serves as Vice- Chairman since 28th February 2001.

Mr. Davignon is a member of the Board of Suez, BASF, ICL, Anglo American, Sofina, Solvay, Royal Sporting Club of Anderlecht and several S.G.B. group companies and is Vice- Chairman of Fortis and Tractebel.

He became Chairman of the Association for the Monetary Union of Europe on May 30, 1991.

He is a Chairman of the Paul-Henri Spaak Foundation, the Royal Institute for International Relations, the "Palais des Beaux-Arts" and the Bilderberg Meetings.

He is Chairman of the “Advisory Board” of “CSR Europe”.

Etienne Davignon is Chairman of Compagnie des Wagons- Lits,Sibeka,Socit Gnrale de Belgique and Union Minire (each of Belgium).He also serves as Vice President of Accor (France),Petrofina (Belgium),Fortis AG and Tractebel (both of Belgium)and Arbed (Luxembourg).He is a director of Sofina SA,Solvay SA and Compagnie Maritime Belge (each of Belgium);ICL (United Kingdom); Gilead,IDG and Foamex International (each of the United States).He is also a member of the supervisory board of BASF (Germany) and of Suez Lyonnais des Eaux (France).He can be contacted at 30,rue Royale,1000 Brussels (Belgium).

Stephen Donehoo

Managing Director, Kissinger McLarty Associates

He is an associate of the Inter-American Dialogue

Richard W. Fisher

Managing Partner, Kissinger McLarty Associates

Richard Fisher is the managing partner of Kissinger McLarty Associates, an international consulting firm. He previously was managing partner of Fisher Family Fund, LP, a diversified fund invested in a wide range of securities, real estate, and oil and gas properties. He served during the Clinton administration as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador and with primary responsibility for Asia, Latin America and Canada. During this period, Ambassador Fisher was the chief operating officer of the U.S. government for NAFTA. As such, he negotiated numerous high-profile issues throughout the hemisphere. Throughout his tenure as Deputy Trade Representative, Ambassador Fisher also served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

Earlier he was managing partner of Value Partners Ltd. and Fisher Capital Management; senior manager of Brown Brothers Harriman and Co.; and executive assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter Administration. Ambassador Fisher is currently an adjunct professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and was Texas' Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1994. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is a trustee of the Brookings Institution and a director of Stolt-Nielsen, S.A. He is a former chairman of the Institute of the Americas in San Diego and founding chairman of the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations.

He is a director of the Pacific Council on International Policy

He is a director of the Atlantic Council of the United States..

“Former deputy U.S. trade representative and 1994 Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Richard Fisher is taking on several new projects. He is the new managing partner of Kissinger McLarty Associates, a firm headed by former Nixon Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Clinton White House chief of staff

Mack McLarty. Fisher and McLarty are also ponying up $50 million in personal funds to start an investment firm called Fisher McLarty Capital. Finally, Fisher is joining the Latin American strategy board of the Dallas investment firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst.” June 14^th 2002 (source)

Gordon D Giffin

Board of Counselors of Kissinger-McLarty Associates

Ambassador Gordon Giffin is the vice chairman and managing partner of Long Aldridge & Norman’s D.C. office and heads the firm’s International Transactions and Trade practice.

Utilizing international trade, business and foreign affairs expertise, Ambassador Giffin assists clients in negotiating and managing international expansion and government affairs issues, with a particular focus on continental and hemispheric matters. He also practices in the administrative, regulated industries, government procurement and energy fields.

As the U.S. Ambassador to Canada from August 1997 to April 2001, he managed American interests in the largest bi-lateral trading relationship in the world. In this role, Ambassador Giffin was instrumental in resolving international disputes and forging agreements, including the Pacific salmon fishing rights, a Canadian exemption from U.S. export licensing rules and agreement on a decades-long dispute on Canadian advertising in U.S. magazines. He helped facilitate U.S. participation in the 2001 Summit of the Americas, a precursor to the negotiation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Ambassador Giffin became an expert on the operation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an agreement that is the prototype for liberalized trade and is leading to further continental economic development and collaboration.

Additionally, he served for four years as Director of Legislative Affairs and Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator Sam Nunn and served on the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

Mr. Giffin is:

Director - Canadian National Railway Company

Director - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Director - Canadian Natural Resources, Ltd

Director – Metro-Atlantic Chamber of Commerce

Director - TransAtla

Chairman of the Board - Friends of the National Arts Centre

Board of Counselors - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Advisory Board - Canadian-American Business Council

Board of Trustees - Georgia Research Alliance

Board of Trustees - The Carter Center

He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Maria Luisa Mabilangan Haley

Senior Director, Kissinger McLarty Associates

Ms. Haley was nominated by the President to become a director of the Export-Import Bank Board and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 1994, filling out an unexpired term. Before accepting that position, she worked at the White House as Special Assistant to the President and Associate Director of Presidential Personnel for Economics, Commerce, and Trade. Ms. Haley played an integral part in the selection and approval of political appointments in three Cabinet departments and twelve independent agencies.

Previously, Ms. Haley had worked for the State of Arkansas in various international capacities. She was in charge of international development for the state, focusing on export development and foreign investments. Ms. Haley has worked in international business for the past 25 years in sales, marketing and operations.

The daughter of a diplomat, Ms. Haley was educated in India, Manila, Paris and Madrid. Her community interests range from the Filipino Youth Scholarship Foundation to memberships in the Sales and Marketing Executives Association both in Little Rock and Manila, the Arkansas Women Executives, and the Professional Women's Advisory Board of Worthen Bank and Trust.

She is currently a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta

Richard L. Huber

Managing Director Kissinger McLarty Associates

Mr Huber is CEO of Norte Sur, a private equity firm targeting Latin America.

Mr. Huber joined Aetna as vice chairman in February 1995 and was named a director in September 1996. He has 37 years of banking, insurance and financial services experience in the United States, Japan and Latin America. In July 1997 he was named CEO of Aetna and in 1998 he became the Chairman of the board. During his time there, he was responsible for a number of strategic acquisitions such as NYLCare, PruCare and USHealthcare, making Aetna the largest healthcare insurer in the world. He left the company in February 2000.

Immediately before joining Aetna, Mr. Huber was president and chief operating officer, Grupo Wasserstein Perella, responsible for developing investment and merchant banking activities throughout Latin America for Wasserstein Perella, a leading investment banking firm. Prior to that, in 1990 he became vice chairman and a director of Continental Bank NA, Chicago, where he worked closely with the Chairman to return the institution to financial strength and profitability and negotiate its eventual sale to Bank of America. While at Continental, Mr. Huber had direct management oversight of the capital markets, risk management, direct equity, Latin America, securities and commodities and financial institutions areas.

From 1988 to 1990, he was hired as executive vice president and head, capital markets and foreign exchange sector for Chase Manhattan Bank, charged with restructuring and restoring this sector to profitability. From 1973 to 1988 he held various senior management positions with Citibank, including institutional banking head—Brazil; country head—Japan; group executive, Asia Pacific Banking Group; and group executive, Citicorp Investment Bank, overseeing its Latin American investment bank, global corporate finance and insurance businesses.

A native of North Carolina, Mr. Huber graduated from Harvard College in 1958 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and subsequently served as an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard. He is a director of Capital Re Corp.; a member of the board of directors of the Hartford Ballet; trustee of the Mark Twain House; trustee of Trinity College; member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Chairman of Citizens’ Committee for Effective Government.

Mr. Huber serves as director of a number of firms and was a member of the Congressional International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission. He is also a director of Danielson Holdings Corporation and a director of OptiCare.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Alton G. Keel, Jr.

http://www.ifpa.org/staff/consultants_bott.htm

Ranch C Kimball

Investing Principal / Advisor of the legal consultant's office – Kissinger McLarty Associates

Henry A Kissinger

“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”

– Tom Lehrer

Attempting a biography on a page such as this is an impossibility. The man has an eerie omnipresence in American & Global history. Instead, I will focus on a rather staccato list of his current affiliations & salient parts of his past. In 1977 he made this comment: “The Trilateral Commission was a government in exile.” He wasn’t lying.

Brief Bio

Dr. Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, on May 27, 1923, came to the United States in 1938, and was naturalised a United States citizen on June 19, 1943. From 1943 to 1946 Dr. Kissinger served in the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Corps and from 1946 to 1949 was a captain in the Military Intelligence Reserve. He received the BA Degree Summa Cum Laude at Harvard College in 1950 and the MA and PhD Degrees at Harvard University in 1952 and 1954 respectively.

From 1954 until 1971 he was a member of the Faculty of Harvard University, both in the Department of Government and at the Center for International Affairs. He was Associate Director of the Center from 1957 to 1960. He served as Study Director, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, for the Council of Foreign Relations from 1955 to 1956; Director of the Special Studies Project for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund from 1956 to 1958; Director of the Harvard International Seminar from 1951 to 1971, and Director of the Harvard Defense Studies Program from 1958 to 1971. (He was on leave of absence from Harvard from January 1969 to January 1971).

Dr. Kissinger was sworn in on September 22, 1973, as the 56th Secretary of State, a position he held until January 20, 1977. He also served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 20, 1969, until November 3, 1975. In July 1983, he was appointed by President Reagan to chair the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America until it ceased operation in January 1985, and from 1984-1990 he served as a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

The most objective biography of Henry Kissinger to date is Walter Isaacson’s Kissinger: A Biography. That such, much has come to light since Isaacson’s book, specifically connected to Kissingers criminality. The best book dealing with this is Christopher Hitchens The Trial of Henry Kissinger.

Kissinger: War Criminal

Although there is a general sense of foreboding around anything that Henry Kissinger does, it is worth remembering the specific charges of conspiracy and criminality which are levied against him. An indictment of Henry Kissinger for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes would include (but not be confined to) the following:

VIETNAM: Kissinger scuttled peace talks in 1968, paving the way for Richard Nixon's victory in the presidential race. Half the battle deaths in Vietnam took place between 1968 and 1972, not to mention the millions of civilians throughout Indochina who were killed.

CAMBODIA: Kissinger persuaded Nixon to widen the war with massive bombing of Cambodia and Laos. No one had suggested we go to war with either of these countries. By conservative estimates, the U.S. killed 600,000 civilians in Cambodia and another 350,000 in Laos.

BANGLADESH: Using weapons supplied by the U.S., General Yahya Khan overthrew the democratically elected government and murdered at least half a million civilians in 1971. In the White House, the National Security Council wanted to condemn these actions. Kissinger refused. Amid the killing, Kissinger thanked Khan for his "delicacy and tact."

CHILE: Kissinger helped to plan the 1973 U.S.-backed overthrow of the democratically elected Salvador Allende and the assassination of General Ren� Schneider. Right-wing general Augusto Pinochet then took over. Moderates fled for their lives. Hit men, financed by the CIA, tracked down Allende supporters and killed them. These attacks included the car bombing of Allende's foreign minister, Orlando Letelier, and an aide, Ronni Moffitt, at Sheridan Circle in downtown Washington.

EAST TIMOR: In 1975 President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger met with Indonesia's corrupt strongman Suharto. Kissinger told reporters the U.S. wouldn't recognize the tiny country of East Timor, which had recently won independence from the Portuguese. Within hours Suharto launched an invasion, killing, by some estimates, 200,000 civilians.

WASHINGTON: Personal involvement in a plan to kidnap and murder a journalist - Elias Demetracopoulos - living in Washington DC.

More overall info at Christopher Hitchens own site

In late August 2002, the State Department finally released a series of documents concerning Argentina, which further implicate Kissinger’s role as the Argentina military believed that the US (primarily Kissinger) had given the go ahead to their coup to “get the terrorist problem under control as quickly as possible”.

The National Security Archive is hosting a selection of these documents: here and here. And once again, Kissinger has found himself in the news for all the wrong reasons.

See also: Regarding Henry Kissinger: The Making of a War Criminal – transcript of a roundtable forum held in Washington on February 22^nd 2001, discussing the background of Kissinger & how any criminal proceedings could begin.