Richard Melson

August, 2004

So-called "paleo-Conservatives" (old Conservatives) like the highly intelligent "Zbig" Brezinski are fundamentally blocked and co-opted by neo-cons like Woolsey, both of whom dominate the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation which started out as a pressure group on Russia and married these different strains of Conservatism under an anti-Communist banner.

This was part of the East-West era and one might remember Reagan-era officials like Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger always trying to "get rid of" Arab-Israeli issues by trying to fold or subsume them under an all-encompassing East-West Manichean struggle, the hallmark of the old Conservatives.

The split between the "paleos" (Brezenski) and the "neos" (Woolsey) began to show in the early 1980’s when Goldwater, one of the god of the paleo-Conservatives, described Begin of Israel, after Israel’s 1982 Lebanon invasion, as "a dangerous madman." Since Israel-worship is the centerpiece of neo-Conservatives ideology, Goldwater’s comment opened a breach. Reagan tried to straddle the two strands: on the one hand, he mumbled something about the Israeli settlements "not necessarily being illegal" while later trying to use political "shock and awe" to control the Zionist pressure groups by visiting Bitburg, the German war dead cemetery, in May 1985. Reagan was very tense about going up against apartheid in South Africa and flipflopped repeatedly around 1984 because he knew the neo-cons sensed that South Africa could be a precedent for pressuring Israel. The neo-cons began to break with Reagan-Thatcher over South Africa since Israel was associated with South Africa: Begin offered South Africa nuclear c-development after he became Prime Minister in 1977. One reason Sharon is building the Sharon Wall is to symbolically overturn Reagan-Thatcher’s "liberal" mistake in dismantling apartheid.

Israel under Sharon is thus the world’s ultimate "transnational crazy state" with the neo-cons worldwide providing the "relay stations" for the transnational setup. A Brezinski begins to sense that something is "off kilter" with the neo-cons but then is hamstrung by his being "in bed with" the Woolsey-types, who are basically Israeli Likud agents.

The Jamestown Foundation of Washington DC describes itself as follows:

The Jamestown Foundation’s mission is to inform and educate policy makers and the broader policy community about events and trends in those societies which are strategically or tactically important to the United States and which frequently restrict access to such information. Utilizing indigenous and primary sources, Jamestown’s material is delivered without political bias, filter or agenda. It is often the only source of information which should be, but is not always, available through official or intelligence channels, especially in regard to Eurasia and terrorism.

Origins
Launched in 1984 after Jamestown's late president and founder William Geimer's work with Arkady Shevchenko, the highest-ranking Soviet official ever to defect when he left his position as undersecretary general of the United Nations, the Jamestown Foundation rapidly became the leading source of information about the inner workings of closed totalitarian societies.

Jamestown's work has contributed directly to the spread of democracy and personal freedom in the former Communist Bloc countries. In the 1980s the foundation assisted such key experts as former high-ranking Soviet diplomat Arkady Shevchenko, and former top Romanian intelligence officer Ion Pacepa, whose revelations about their governments -- which then directly challenged the United States -- were unprecedented and singularly important.

Jamestown ensured that both men published their insights and experience in what became bestselling books. Shevchenko's Breaking With Moscow revealed the details of Soviet arms control strategy and tactics, and diplomatic moves, at the height of the Cold War. And even today some credit Pacepa's revelations about Ceacescu in his bestselling book Red Horizons with the fall of that government and the freeing of Romania.

Over the past two decades, Jamestown has developed an extensive global network of such experts -- from the Black Sea to Siberia, from the Persian Gulf to the Pacific. This core of intellectual talent includes former high-ranking government officials and military officers, political scientists, journalists, scholars and economists. Their insight contributes significantly to policymakers engaged in addressing today's new and emerging global threats, including that from international terrorists.

Jamestown Foundation’s Board looks like this:

• Zbigniew Brezinski
• Barbara D. Buchanan
• James H. Burnley
• Peter C. Cook
• Diana Denman
• Edward O. Gaylord
• James G. Gidwitz
• Marshall I. Goldman
• Patrick W. Gross
• Ralph W. Hauenstein
• James Hauslein
• Artemis A. W. Joukowsky
• Woody N. Peterson - General Counsel, Secretary
• Clinton I. Smullyan - Chairman
• Arthur Waldron
• R. James Woolsey - Vice Chairman

One sees again the ubiquitous Woolsey name. His basic curriculum vita reads as follows:

R. James Woolsey joined Booz Allen Hamilton in July, 2002, as a Vice President and officer in the firm's Global Assurance practice located in McLean, Virginia. Previously Mr. Woolsey was a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C., where he practiced for twenty-two years, on four occasions, beginning in1973; his practice was in the fields of civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

During the twelve years he has served in the U.S. Government Mr. Woolsey has held Presidential appointments in two Democratic and two Republican administrations. He was Director of Central Intelligence in 1993-95. He also served as: Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989-1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977-1979; and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970-73. He was appointed by the President as Delegate at Large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST), and served in that capacity on a part-time basis in Geneva, 1983-1986. As an officer in the U.S. Army he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969-1970.

Mr. Woolsey is currently: the Chairman of the Board of Freedom House, the Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies. He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy. In the past he has been the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution, and a trustee of: Stanford University, The Goldwater Scholarship Foundation, and the Aerospace Corporation. He has also been a member of: The National Commission on Terrorism, 1999-2000; The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998; The President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989; The President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), 1985-1986; and The President's Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983.

Mr. Woolsey is presently a principal in the Homeland Security Fund of Paladin Capital Group and a member of the Board of Directors of four privately held companies, generally in fields related to infrastructure protection and resilience. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board of Global Options LLC. He has served in the past as a member of the Boards of Directors of a number of other publicly and privately held companies, generally in fields related to technology and security, including: Martin Marietta; British Aerospace, Inc.; Fairchild Industries; Titan Corporation; DynCorp, Yurie Systems, Inc.; and USF&G; he has also served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.

Mr. Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1941. He is married to Suzanne Haley Woolsey, who is the Chief Communications Officer of the National Academies (Science, Engineering, and Medicine) and who serves on several corporate and non-profit boards. They have three sons: Robert, Daniel, and Benjamin. Mr. Woolsey attended Tulsa public schools, graduating from Tulsa Central High School in 1959. He received his B.A. Degree from Stanford University (1963, With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1963-65), and an LL.B from Yale Law School (1968, Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal).

Mr. Woolsey is a frequent contributor of articles to major publications, and from time to time gives public speeches and media interviews, on the subjects of foreign affairs, defense, energy, critical infrastructure protection and resilience, and intelligence.

Brezinski’s basic c.v. reads as follows:

Counselor, Center for Strategic & International Studies; and Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy, the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.

From 1977 to 1981, National Security Advisor to the President of the United States. In 1981 awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom "for his role in the normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States."

OTHER CURRENT ACTIVITIES Public and Pro Bono Honorary Chairman, AmeriCares Foundation (a private philanthropic humanitarian aid organization); Co-Chairman, American Committee for Peace in Chechnya; Member, Board of Directors, Jamestown Foundation; Member, Board of Trustees, Freedom House (a non-profit institution dedicated to the promotion of freedom); Member, Board of Trustees, International Crisis Group; Trustee, Trilateral Commission (a cooperative American-European-Japanese forum); Member, Board of Directors, Polish-American Enterprise Fund and of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation; Member, Honorary Board of American Friends of Rabin Medical Center; Chairman, International Advisory Board for the Yale Project on "The Culture & Civilization of China"; Member, International Honorary Committee, Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw; etc.

Private Sector: International advisor to major U.S./global corporations; frequent participant in annual business/trade conventions; also a frequent public speaker, commentator on major domestic and foreign TV programs, and contributor to domestic and foreign newspapers and journals.

PAST ACTIVITIES U.S. Government: 1966-68, Member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State; 1985, Member of the President's Chemical Warfare Commission; 1987-88, Member of the NSC-Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy; 1987-89, Member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (a Presidential commission to oversee U.S. intelligence activities).

Public and Political: 1973-76, Director of the Trilateral Commission; in the 1968 presidential campaign, chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force; in the 1976 presidential campaign, principal foreign policy advisor to Jimmy Carter. In 1988, co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force. Past Member of Boards of Directors of Amnesty International, Council on Foreign Relations, Atlantic Council, the National Endowment for Democracy.

Academic: On the faculty of Columbia University 1960-89; on the faculty of Harvard University 1953-60. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1953; B.A. and M.A., McGill University 1949 & 1950. His most recent book is THE GRAND CHESSBOARD: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives; Also author of the best-seller THE GRAND FAILURE: The Birth and Death of Communism in the 20th Century, as well as of OUT OF CONTROL: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century; GAME PLAN: How to Conduct the U.S.-Soviet Contest; POWER AND PRINCIPLE: Memoirs of the National Security Advisor, 1977-1981; THE FRAGILE BLOSSOM: Crisis and Change in Japan; BETWEEN TWO AGES: America's Role in the Technetronic Era; THE SOVIET BLOC: Unity and Conflict; and of other books and many articles in numerous U.S. and Foreign academic journals.

Honors: In 1995, awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest civilian decoration, for his contributions to recovery by Poland of its independence; also highest civilian decorations from the governments of Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, and Slovakia. Honorary degrees from Georgetown University, Williams College, Fordham University, College of the Holy Cross, Alliance College, the Catholic University of Lublin, Warsaw University, the University of Tbilisi, the University of Vilnius, the Ukrainian Free University, the Jagiellonian University, Comenius University (Bratislava); Honorary Citizenship from the City of Lviv; Centennial Medal of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences of Harvard University; the Hubert Humphrey Award for Public Service from the American Political Science Association; the U Thant Award; the David Rockefeller International Leadership Award; as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Ford Foundation, etc. In 1969, elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1963, selected by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of America's Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Year.

PERSONAL: Born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928; son of a diplomat posted to Canada in 1938; married to Emilie Anna (Muska) Benes, a graduate of Wellesley College, sculptor; three children: Ian, Mark, Mika.