William Burns

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Person.png Bill Burns   KeywikiRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(diplomat)
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Born1956-04-04
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, U.S.
NationalityUS
Alma materLa Salle University, St John's College (Oxford)
Children2
SpouseLisa Carty
Member ofMacro Advisory Partners/Board, WEF/Global Future Council on Geopolitics
Poly Bilderberger US diplomat, US/Deputy Secretary of State

Employment.png CIA/Director Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
March 19, 2021 - Present

Employment.png US/Deputy Secretary of State Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
July 28, 2011 - November 3, 2014
BossJohn Kerry
Succeeded byWendy R. Sherman

Employment.png Acting US/Secretary of State Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
January 20, 2009 - January 21, 2009
Preceded byCondoleezza Rice
Succeeded byHillary Clinton

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In office
May 13, 2008 - July 28, 2011
Succeeded byTom Shannon

Employment.png United States Ambassador to Russia

In office
November 8, 2005 - May 13, 2008

Employment.png United States Ambassador to Jordan

In office
August 9, 1998 - June 4, 2001

William Joseph Burns is an American retired diplomat who was appointed Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Biden administration on 19 March 2021.[1]

Bill Burns was previously United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2011 to 2014, and in 2009 he was Acting Secretary of State before the Senate confirmation of Hillary Clinton. He retired from the United States Foreign Service in 2014 after a 32-year diplomatic career.[2]

From 2014 to 2021, Bill Burns was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.


 

A Document by William Burns

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)Description
Document:Nyet means Nyetdiplomatic communication1 February 2008NATO
Russia
The Great Game
Ukraine
2014 Ukraine coup
February 2008 classified diplomatic cable from US ambassador to Russia William J Burns to the State Department about how Russia views NATO involvement in Ukraine

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/201511 June 201514 June 2015Austria
Telfs-Buchen
The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria
Bilderberg/20169 June 201612 June 2016Germany
Dresden
The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany.
Bilderberg/20222 June 20225 June 2022US
Washington DC
Mandarin Oriental Hotel
The 68th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Washington DC, after an unprecedented two year hiatus during which a lot of the Bilderberg regulars were busy managing COVID-19
WEF/Annual Meeting/202021 January 202024 January 2020World Economic Forum
Switzerland
This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.

 

Related Document

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:How America Took Out The Nord Stream PipelineArticle8 February 2023Seymour HershUnder Secretary of State Victoria Nuland told Senator Ted Cruz: “Like you, I am, and I think the Administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea” (Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 26 January 2023).


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