Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Person.png Jeane Kirkpatrick   Amazon C-SPAN History Commons NNDB Powerbase Sourcewatch WikiquoteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(neoconservative, “terror expert”)
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BornJeane Duane Jordan
November 19, 1926
Duncan, Oklahoma, U.S.
DiedDecember 7, 2006 (Age 80)
Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
NationalityUS
Alma materStephens College, Barnard College, Columbia University, University of Paris
Children • Douglas Jordan Kirkpatrick
• John Evron Kirkpatrick
• Stuart Kirkpatrick
SpouseEvron Maurice Kirkpatrick
Founder ofEuropean Foundation for Democracy
Member ofAction Council for Peace in the Balkans, American Enterprise Institute, Balkan Action Committee, Center for Security Policy/National Security Advisory Council, Committee for the Free World, Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Committee on the Present Danger/Members, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Freedom House, International Republican Institute/Board and Staff, Le Cercle, PIAB, PRODEMCA, Resistance International
PartyDemocratic, (until 1980), Republican, (1980–2006)
Neocon "terror expert", US Ambassador to the UN, Washington Conference on International Terrorism...

Employment.png United States Ambassador to the United Nations

In office
February 4, 1981 - April 1, 1985
Succeeded byVernon A. Walters

Jeane Kirkpatrick was a professor at Georgetown University for many years, a "terrorism expert" and during the Reagan administration was US Ambassador to the UN. She died on 8 Dec 2006.[1]

Activities

Kirkpatrick was an early neocon and ultra-rightwinger. She gained notoriety during the 1970s for attacking Jimmy Carter's "human rights" agenda in foreign policy [1]

She was an advisor of the Endowment for Middle East Truth.

Promoting the "War On Terror"

She attended the 1984 Washington Conference on International Terrorism.

Deep political Connections

She attended Le Cercle. She was a member of the ultra conservative National Security Advisory Council (NSAC) of the Center for Security Policy, together with Cercle attendees Ed Feulner and Donald Jameson.

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/198115 May 198117 May 1981Switzerland
Palace Hotel
Bürgenstock
The 29th Bilderberg
Washington Conference on International Terrorism24 June 198427 June 1984US
Washington DC
A key conference in establishing the "War On Terror", 5 years after the seminal Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
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References

  1. a b Harold Jackson, Jeane Kirkpatrick Obituary The Guardian,9-December-2006, Accessed 14-March-2009