Brent Scowcroft
Where each worldview places it
"A Kissinger 'yes man'" and "gofer", head of the Washington office of Kissinger Associates, placed by George Bush as National Security Advisor so that "Henry Kissinger was behind the scenes, too, in the form of Brent Scowcroft"[1]. A Rhodes Scholar and member of the CFR, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg[2].
- Controls / directs
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- Answers to / controlled by
- Dates
- 1974 (NSSM 200)[3]
- Key events
- 1974: supervises National Security Study Memorandum 200 with Kissinger[3]
- Undated: sits on the Tower Commission that whitewashed Iran-Contra, then is appointed National Security Advisor by Bush as a pay-off[4]
- Before the 1990 invasion of Kuwait: carries the pre-invasion Bush–Gorbachev non-intervention deal with Webster, urges intervention in the Gulf and announces "the beginning of a new world order out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms"[5]
- Bosnian war: with Lawrence Eagleburger, one of "two of Kissinger's cronies" with a cash nexus to the Serbs[6]
- Author's claims · 4
- 01He is director of the National Security Council and the Kissinger Associates Washington office at once[7].
- 02The Queen made him an Honorary Knight of the British Empire[8].
- 03The Tower Commission he sat on whitewashed the Iran-Contra affair, the guns-for-drugs operation in which the Knights of Malta were "almost certainly involved"[9].
- 04James Baker, Bush's long-time buddy, signed the US Army 352nd Civil Affairs Command report on the "New Kuwait" a month before the Gulf War[5].