Bruce Jackson

Bruce Jackson     (spook)
Born	June 23, 1952
Parents	William Harding Jackson
Member of	Center for Security Policy/National Security Advisory Council, Committee on the Present Danger/Members
US spook. His later career focused on accelerating the integration of the Western Balkan countries, Turkey, Ukraine and Georgia into the European Union and NATO. Member of the Henry Jackson Society.

Bruce Pitcairn Jackson is a US spook. His later career has focused on accelerating the integration of the Western Balkan countries and Turkey into the European Union and NATO and on building closer relationship between European institutions and Ukraine and Georgia.

In 2002, he headed the neoconservative organization Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, where he organized the so-called "Vilnius 10", in which the leaders of 10 Eastern European countries expressed support for US plans to invade Iraq. During the Georgian presidential election, he was a "member" of Mikhail Saakashvili's election headquarters. He was also an "adviser" to Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko.

Activities

President of the Project on Transitional Democracies. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Center for Security Policy. He is the President of the U.S. Committee on NATO. Past experience includes: US Army intelligence (1979-1990), Office of the Secretary of Defense (1986-1990), chief strategist of proprietary trade operations at Lehman Brothers (1990-1993), high level management positions at Martin Marietta and Lockheed Corporation (1993-2002).

According to John B. Judis, Jackson was tapped by the Bush administration to run the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq on the basis of his experience promoting NATO enlargement:

This year Jackson was able to parlay his NATO connections into support for the administration's war plans for Iraq. As the Bush administration was desperately searching for allies, Jackson helped draw up a declaration from the foreign ministers of the "Vilnius Ten," the 10 Eastern European countries that are up for NATO membership. "The newest members of the European community agree that we must confront the tyranny of Saddam Hussein and that the United Nation must now act," the foreign ministers declared on the same day that Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the United Nations. The declaration provided ammunition for the administration, but it also created a furor in Western Europe and even in some of the Vilnius Ten countries, where the public, and even the governments, did not want to be identified as part of what one Slovenian writer termed the "war coalition."

Afflitiations

• Committee on the Present Danger
• vice president of Lockheed Martin between 1993-2001
• Project for the New American Century (PNAC) Prior to joining Lockheed, Jackson had been executive director of the PNAC and continues to sit on the board
• Project on Transitional Democracies, President
• Council on Foreign Relations, member
• International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Center for Security Policy on advisory board(CSP National Security Advisory Council)
• New Atlantic Initiative
• U.S. Committee on NATO, founder
• Cambridge University Centre of International Studies, member of the advisory board
• American Enterprise Institute
• International Institute for Strategic Studies, member of the London based group
• Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Founder & Chairman of the Board
• American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, Member

Jackson's Past experience also includes:

• US Army intelligence (1979-1990),
• Office of the Secretary of Defense (1986-1990),
• Chief strategist of proprietary trade operations at Lehman Brothers (1990-1993),
• High level management positions at Martin Marietta and Lockheed Corporation from 1993, prior to the merger of the firms in 1995 to form Lockheed Martin.
• Republican National Convention, Chair of Platform Subcommittee on Foreign Policy, for the 2000 Presidential Campaign
• Republican National Convention Platform Committee and Platform Subcommittee for National Security and Foreign Policy, 1996
• Dole for President: National Co-Chairman of Finance Committee 1995-1996 (8)

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
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/2010	26 March 2010	28 March 2010	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/2013			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
Brussels Forum/2015	20 March 2015	22 March 2015	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Cleve	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 2015 main theme was (R)evolution.

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