John Newhouse

John Newhouse    ( journalist,  government official)
Born	February 6, 1929  East Orange,  New Jersey
Died	December 10, 2016 (Age 87)  Washington D.C.
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Duke University
Spouse	•  Nancy Riley •  Elizabeth Landreth Wagley
Member of	Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Interests	Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
US journalist and also staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where he was an expert on among other things Europe, NATO and nuclear arms negotiations. Attended the 1967, 1973 and 1978 Bilderbergs

Wilfred John Newhouse was an American journalist, author and government official. A Senate Foreign Relations Committee expert on among other things Europe, NATO and nuclear arms negotiations, he attended the 1967, 1973 and 1978 Bilderbergs,

Education

Newhouse graduated from Duke University in 1950, after which he served two years in the United States Air Force.

Career

After his discharge, Newhouse took a job as a copy boy for the United Press wire service in New York.

From there he moved to the magazine Collier's. Collier's was given a place in the press corps for the king of Belgium's 1955 trip to the Congo, then a Belgian colony, and the magazine sent Newhouse on the trip. He spent six weeks in a place rarely visited by an American reporter, and filed a report on the uranium mines of the Congo that produced the raw material for America's nuclear weapons.

Collier’s ceased publication in 1957, and Newhouse started for ABC News, which sent him to Beirut to cover the military operation launched there by U.S. Marines in 1958.

He soon after joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as one of four nonpartisan professional staff members soon after Sen. J. William Fulbright became the committee chairman. Newhouse became one of the committee’s staff experts on the Middle East, Europe, NATO, foreign aid and the Vietnam War.

After five years on the committee, Newhouse was offered a grant from the Ford Foundation (a CIA cut-out) to live in Paris to study and write about European issues. He ended up living in Paris for the next seven years and wrote De Gaulle and the Anglo-Saxons (1970).

He is considered the preeminent historian on SALT I, the strategic arms limitation talks that took place between 1969 and 1972 and resulted in the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, for his book Cold Dawn. Cold Dawn led to a job offer from the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he worked from 1974 to 1979, first as counselor and then as deputy director.

Newhouse wrote nine books, plus 55 major articles for the New Yorker magazine. He wrote an article about foreign lobbying groups in the United States.

In 2004 he published one book sharply critical of the George W. Bush administration’s foreign policies.

He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1967	31 March 1967	2 April 1967	UK Cambridge University/St John's College	Possibly the only Bilderberg meeting held in a university college rather than a hotel (St. John's College, Cambridge)
Bilderberg/1973	11 May 1973	13 May 1973	Sweden Saltsjöbaden	The meeting at which the 1973 oil crisis appears to have been planned.
Bilderberg/1978	21 April 1978	23 April 1978	US New Jersey Princeton University	The 26th Bilderberg, held in the US

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