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68 unusual facts about Henry Kissinger


1975 world oil market chronology

January 13: Business Week publishes Kissinger interview hinting at military action against oil countries in case of "actual strangulation."

9/11 Citizens Watch

The groups played a role in forcing the resignation of Henry Kissinger, the original Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, and also called, unsuccessfully, for the resignation of the Commission's Executive Director, Philip Zelikow, based on concerns about conflict of interests.

Alistair Horne

He is the biographer of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, a work originally published (in two volumes) in 1988 and author of the authorised biography of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (author's statement, Paris, 13 June 2008).

An Lộc

In his memoirs, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger notes that the South Vietnamese Army never managed to reopen the road into An Lộc.

Arab Communist Organization

The group focused mainly on bomb attacks and extortion attempts targeting American and British civilian and economic interests in Lebanon, at times claiming that its actions were either carried out in protest for US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's 1974 diplomatic Middle Eastern Tour or to force British-owned Lebanese companies to distribute freely large amounts of food to impoverished local families.

Arnulf Baring

In 1968 he was invited by Henry Kissinger to teach at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, and the following year, he was appointed as Professor at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught until his retirement in 1998.

Artis Lane

She has made sculptures of prominent people as former President George H. W. Bush, Bill Cosby, Walter Annenberg, Michael Jordan, Gordon Getty, Nelson Mandela and Henry Kissinger.

Asheville-class gunboat

The U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger categorically turned down the Icelandic request.

B. J. Vorster

In September 1976, under pressure from US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger he pressured Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Prime Minister, to accept in principle that white minority rule could not continue indefinitely.

Bensheim

As the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps agent, Henry Kissinger was the most important representative of the occupying power, after the official town commander.

Bernard Kalb

He and his younger brother, journalist Marvin Kalb, traveled extensively with Henry Kissinger on diplomatic missions and later wrote a biography together entitled Kissinger. The two brothers also co-authored The Last Ambassador, a novel about the collapse of Saigon in 1975.

Blue box

On one occasion Wozniak dialed Vatican City and identified himself as Henry Kissinger (imitating Kissinger's German accent) and asked to speak to the Pope (who was sleeping at the time).

Boris Spassky

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger spoke with Fischer urging him to play the match, and chess was at its apex.

Carlos Arias Navarro

The report Ingersoll forwarded to the then-Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, on 18 March, stated that "appropriate steps" were being taken to ensure that "the events in Portugal did not cross the border into Spain."

Carole Feuerman

Her work is in the collections of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, the Absolut Art Collection, and Forbes Magazine, among others.

Casa Na Bolom

Casa Na Bolom evolved into a small hotel, attracting guests as notable as Henry Kissinger and Diego Rivera.

Chilean presidential election, 1970

Viaux's kidnapping plan had been supported by the CIA, although it seems that then-US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger had ordered the plans turned off.

Coleman Hicks

In summer 1971, he was posted as an instructor at the Naval Justice School in Newport, Rhode Island, but he left this position after only a few weeks when he became personal assistant to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.

David Gompert

He held several positions at the State Department from 1975 to 1983, including deputy to the under secretary for political affairs, deputy director of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs and special assistant to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Does America Need a Foreign Policy?

: Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century is a 2001 book by Henry Kissinger.

Edward Mulcahy

Two days prior to the program's approval Assistant Secretary Davis told Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State, that he believed maintaining the secrecy of IA Feature would be impossible.

Eric Parnes

Frequent political and celebrity guests included Barbara Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Andy Warhol.

Franconia

The city of Fürth in Middle Franconia historically (before the Nazi era) had a large Jewish population; Henry Kissinger was born there.

Frank Novak

He gave a memorable performance as General Douglas MacArthur in the miniseries The Korean War made for Chinese television, and played Henry Kissinger in the science fiction epic Watchmen.

Fredrik Heffermehl

Among the laureates perceived by Heffermehl as illegal are the more controversial laureates, such as Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho (1973) and Arafat, Peres and Rabin (1994), but also less controversial ones such as Mother Teresa (1979) and Elie Wiesel (1986).

Gertrude Blom

Eventually, Casa Na Bolom evolved into an inn attracting visitors from all over the world, including archeologists from major American universities and guests as notable as Diego Rivera, François Mitterrand, Helen Hayes, and Henry Kissinger.

Golda Meir School

On October 3, 1969 Golda Meir revisited the school, accompanied by National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and local Aldermen Vel Phillips and Orville Pitts.

H. O. Davies

During his time at Harvard, he met with and became friends with future US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and future US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Hassan Abbasi

Abbasi also has claimed that The New York Times writes about him "every week" and that the New York Times calls him "the Kissinger of Islam" and the "THE BIG BRAIN STRATEGIC".

Heba Selim

After her capture, Henry Kissinger mediated on her behalf to former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.

Hermann Eilts

He served as an American ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, assisted Henry Kissinger's Mideast shuttle diplomacy effort, worked with Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat throughout the Camp David Accords, and dodged a Libyan hit team.

History of the United States National Security Council 1969–74

U.S. President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, dominated the making of US foreign policy during the Nixon Presidency.

Interview with History

She has interviewed many world leaders at the time, including Henry Kissinger, Indira Gandhi, Willy Brandt, The Shah, Gaddafi, Arafat, Golda Meir, Deng Xiaoping, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and many more, included in this book.

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad

On invitation of Richard Nelson Frye, Al-e-Ahmad spent a summer at Harvard University, as part of a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship program established by Henry Kissinger for supporting promising Iranian intellectuals.

James B. Pearson

The president and his national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, took that program to Moscow and negotiated the abolition of such systems.

Jornal do Brasil

In 1992 the paper published an unflattering photo of Henry Kissinger on the front page.

Joseph J. Sisco

Joseph John Sisco (October 31, 1919 – November 23, 2004) was a diplomat who played a major role in then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East and whose career in the State Department spanned five presidential administrations and numerous foreign-policy crises.

Joshua Cooper Ramo

Joshua Cooper Ramo was a former senior editor and foreign editor of Time magazine and later Vice Chairman at Kissinger Associates, the consulting firm of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

She spent seven years in the West Wing of the White House, working her way up to become a key member of Henry Kissinger's National Security Council Staff.

Mahmood Shaam

In his journalistic life he has interviewed the national and international leaders as like Yasir Arafat, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Indira Gandhi, Sheikh Mujeeb-ur-Rehman, Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, Tun Abdul Razak, Benazir Bhutto, Pervez Musharraf.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The foreign mediation team led by former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former British Foreign Minister Lord Carrington were pivotal in reaching a compromise, and convinced the IFP leader to give up the boycott of the elections.

Mário Garnero

Henry Kissinger was also a guest of his during the difficult years of Brazil's foreign debt negotiations.

Melvin Laird

He counted on the success of Vietnamization, peace talks that had begun in 1968 in Paris, and the secret negotiations in Paris between Henry Kissinger, the president's assistant for national security affairs, and North Vietnamese representatives to end the conflict.

Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story

Allen plays Harvey Wallinger, a thinly disguised version of Henry Kissinger.

Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad

MM Ahmad also played a key role in acting as a go between China and the United States, facilitating a meeting between the then U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the Chinese Leadership.

Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy

Reportedly, he was sad for the lost souls at the war when the American secretary of state Henry Kissinger announced that the president Sadat agreed to pull the main part of the Egyptian forces from the east side of the Suez Canal in exchange of the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the west side of the Suez Canal and retreat back into the depth of Sinai.

NATO School

The US Army also established a European Theatre Intelligence School, and one of the early instructors (1946 – 47) was Nobel Laureate Henry Kissinger, who was US Secretary of State between 1973 and 1977.

Nick Newton

In 1976, he joined Olympian John Carlos in an athletic delegation arranged by Henry Kissinger to the then segregated South Africa which was a step to the desegregation of athletics in that country.

On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren

Henry Kissinger is often asked to comment on the most important recent events.

Operation Popeye

The chemical weather modification program was conducted from Thailand over Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and allegedly sponsored by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and CIA without the authorization of then Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird who had categorically denied to Congress that a program for modification of the weather for use as a tactical weapon even existed.

Otis G. Pike

This piece also notes that the report describes "details of a covert CIA operation in support of Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, who were fighting for autonomy against the sinister, pro-Communist, Ba’ath regime in Baghdad" but that in their view there were distortions of "important details" and criticism of Henry Kissinger.

Peking duck

For example, Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State of the United States, met Premier Zhou Enlai in the Great Hall of the People on July 10, during his first visit to China.

Peter Allen Golden

In his 1992 book Quiet Diplomat, Golden described how, in 1975, U.S. President Gerald Ford and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked industrialist and political insider Max Fisher to help heal a diplomatic rift between the United States and Israel over relations with Egypt.

Philip Odeen

He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and worked directly under Henry Kissinger.

Prime Minister of South Africa

In 1974, under pressure from US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger he pressured Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, to accept in principle that white minority rule could not continue indefinitely.

Raymond Eddé

A believer in coexistence between Christians and Muslim, Eddé opposed plans to partition Lebanon into ethnic and sectarian statelets, plans which he accused the United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger of conspiring to foist on Lebanon, and visited France and the Vatican in an attempt to rally opposition to the purported conspiracy.

Raymond Heard

in political science at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and then spent a year at Harvard on a Frank Knox Fellowship, where his teachers included Henry Kissinger and John Kenneth Galbraith.

Robert O. Blake

During his 30-year career in United States Foreign service, Blake served as ambassador to Mali from December 10, 1970 until May 20, 1973 as a member of the Nixon administration, serving under U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Sam Pollard

The building was dedicated in 2007 as part of the Center's twentieth anniversary celebrations, which included keynotes by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen.

The Age of Uncertainty

# Weekend in Vermont (three one hour programmes in which Galbraith discusses economics, politics and international relations with guests such as Henry Kissinger, Georgy Arbatov and Edward Heath).

The Final Rip Off

#Henry Kissinger Song (extended version) (See also: Henry Kissinger)

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

Fritz is just starting his job as a courier, and he is asked by President Henry Kissinger to deliver a letter to the president of New Africa.

The Scandal of Scientology

using her typewriter and paper with her fingerprints on it; further plans included bomb threats to be sent to Henry Kissinger.

Theary Seng

The game featured former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, which brought attention to asserted American guilt in bringing the Khmer Rouge to power after the bombing.

William D. Rogers

He served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (October 1974 – June 1976) and Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs (June 1976–January 1977) under then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the administration of President Gerald Ford.

Worker–Peasant Alliance

AOC launched the slogan "Neither Kissinger, Nor Brezhnev. National Independence!" (Nem Kissinger, nem Brejnev, independência nacional!).

World Travel and Tourism Council

Henry Kissinger presented a powerful message to the leaders at the meeting confirming that they were under represented as one of the world's biggest industries and were not recognised because they were too fragmented.

Zwingenberg

Henry Kissinger, who acted as an agent in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps in Bensheim, lived for a few months at the Arthur-Sauer-Villa, which was requisitioned for him, in Zwingenberg.


Max Kampelman

Kampelman served as a motivating force behind the op-ed "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons," published on January 4, 2007, in the Wall Street Journal by George P. Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Sam Nunn and William Perry.

Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa

This was managed with the help of a foreign team led by former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington.

NHH-Symposium

Since then the conference has had many well-known lecturers, like Henry Mintzberg, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Michael Porter, Henry Kissinger and Samuel DiPiazza.

Politique étrangère

We can mention Raymond Aron, André Beaufre, Jacques Berque, Henry Kissinger, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Louis Massignon or even Jean-Paul Sartre among the authors who wrote articles for Politique étrangère.

Robert Hormats

He served as a senior staff member for International Economic Affairs on the United States National Security Council from 1969 to 1977, where he was senior economic adviser to Henry Kissinger, General Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Teodoro Benigno

It employed instead a format involving Benigno and his co-host grilling for an hour a solitary guest, normally a leading Filipino political figure of the day like Miriam Defensor-Santiago in 1992, but sometimes the occasional foreign dignitary such as Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, Willy Brandt, and Zbigniew Brzezinski .