Breaking: Explosion Reported at Boston Marathon's Finish Line

[Jan Klimkowski]

Maybe or maybe not reliable. Certainly no love lost between Russia and Georgia but the Russian authorities have repeatedly told the US authorities about the older brother and nothing was done. A hands off policy. It is also picked up by other media in the area including Georgia. Of course it is denied by the foundation but then it would wouldn't it? More of the Jamestown Foundation here.

Tamerlane Tsarnaev. Photo: REUTERS / Julia Malakie / The Sun of Lowell, Mass. / Handout

At the disposal of "Izvestia" has documents Counterintelligence Department Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, confirming that the Georgian organization "Fund of Caucasus", which cooperates with the U.S. non-profit organization "Jamestown" (the board of directors of NGOs previously entered one of the ideologists of U.S. foreign policy, Zbigniew Brzezinski), was engaged in recruiting residents North Caucasus to work in the interests of the United States and Georgia.

According to the reports of Colonel Chief Directorate Counterintelligence Department Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia Gregory Chanturia to the Minister of Internal Affairs Irakli Garibashvili, "Caucasian fund" in cooperation with the Foundation "Jamestown" in the summer of 2012 conducted workshops and seminars for young people of the Caucasus, including its Russian part. Some of them attended Tsarnaev Tamerlane, who was in Russia from January to July 2012.

How do you spell GEO - POL - I - TICS?

Howzabout ZBIG - NIEW - BRZE - ZIN - SKI?

Whilst we're at it, take a look at the geopolitical CVs of the current Jamestown Foundation Board:

Board Members

Matthew Bryza

Board Member

Matthew Bryza just completed a 23-year career as a U.S. diplomat, over half of which was spent at the center of policy-making and international negotiations on major energy infrastructure projects and regional conflicts in Eurasia. His most recent assignment was as U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan from February 2011 to January 2012. Between 2005 and 2009, Bryza served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, with responsibility for Eurasian Energy, the South Caucasus, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus. Bryza simultaneously served as the U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE's Minsk Group mediating the Karabakh conflict, and as U.S. mediator of the Cyprus, South Ossetia and Abkhazia conflicts. From 2001 to 2005, Bryza served in the White House as Director for European and Eurasian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff. His responsibilities included Eurasian energy, the South Caucasus, Central Asia and political Islam in Eurasia. Previous assignments include Deputy to the Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Caspian Energy, Advisor on Economic Reform in the South Caucasus and Central Asia, and Russia Desk Officer at the State Department, as well as Political Officer at the U.S. Missions to Russia (1995-97) and Poland (1989-91). Currently Ambassador Bryza resides in Istanbul, Turkey, where he also works as a consultant on business and democratic development and is a board member of several private companies.

James H. Burnley

Vice Chairman

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Willem de Vogel

Chairman

Willem de Vogel was born in 1950 in The Netherlands. After completing high school there, he spent two years at Atlantic College in Wales. He studied Political Sciences at the University of Geneva and graduated with a Licence es Sciences Politiques from the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales. From there he went to the University of Chicago from which he graduated with an MBA in 1975. After a short period working for a major bank, Willem was asked to start the Private Equity activity of Three Cities Research, Inc. Willem led that activity until 2004, when he became the Senior Partner and handed over the leadership to his partner. Willem has served on many corporate boards in the U.S. and in Europe. He also has served and continues to serve on a number of not-for-profit boards. Besides his remaining corporate and not-for-profit interests, he is an avid outdoorsman. He lives in upstate New York.

Carlton W. Fulford, Jr.

General, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.)

General Fulford presently consults with U.S. government and other private organizations on security matters. He served as Director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a Department of Defense regional center, from 2003-2006.

James G. Gidwitz

Board Member

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Patrick W. Gross

Board Member

Pat Gross is chairman of The Lovell Group, a business and technology advisory and investment firm he formed after stepping down as chairman of the executive committee of American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS) in 2002. AMS is a billion dollar revenue consulting and IT services firm which he founded with four colleagues in 1970. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to the firm assisting with major client engagements and relationships.

James Hauslein

Board Member

Mr. Hauslein is currently Managing Director of Hauslein & Company, Inc., a private equity firm and was previously, until May 2001, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sunglass Hut International, Inc. From 1987 to 2001 Mr. Hauslein was a principal shareholder and from 1991-2001 served as Chairman of the Board of Sunglass Hut International, Inc., the world's largest specialty retailer of non-prescription sunglasses and significant retailer of popular price point fashion watches, with almost 2,000 company-owned Sunglass Hut, Watch Station, Watch World and combination stores in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand.

Michael V. Hayden

General, U.S. Air Force (Ret.)

General Michael V. Hayden (USAF Ret.) served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006 to 2009 and was responsible for overseeing the collection of information concerning the plans, intentions and capabilities of America's adversaries, producing timely analysis for decision makers, and conducting covert operations to thwart terrorists and other enemies of the United States. Before becoming Director of the CIA, General Hayden served as the country's first Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence and was the highest-ranking intelligence officer in the armed forces. Earlier, he served as Commander of the Air Intelligence Agency, Director of the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center, Director of the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005, and Chief of the Central Security Service. General Hayden graduated from Duquesne University with a bachelor's degree in history in 1967 and a master's degree in modern American history in 1969. He was a distinguished graduate of the university's ROTC program, and began his active military service in 1969. General Hayden is currently a principal at the Chertoff Group in Washington DC.

Bruce Hoffman

Board Member

Professor Bruce Hoffman has been studying terrorism and insurgency for more than thirty years. He is currently a tenured professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC. Professor Hoffman previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and was also Director of RAND's Washington, D.C. Office. From 2001 to 2004, he served as RAND's Vice President for External Affairs and in 2004 he also was Acting Director of RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy.

Frank Keating

Board Member

Governor Frank Keating took over as president and CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers in January 2003 after serving two terms as Oklahoma's 25th governor. As president and CEO of ACLI, Governor Keating is the chief representative and spokesman for the life insurance industry in Washington, D.C., and all 50 state capitals. He and his staff work as advocates for nearly 400 life insurance companies that account for 93 percent of total industry assets, 91 percent of the life insurance premiums, and 95 percent of annuity considerations in the United States.

Timothy Keating

Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.)

Admiral Timothy Keating is a highly decorated, retired Admiral in the U.S. Navy and the former Commander of the United States Pacific Command (CINCPAC), where he worked to preserve the security of our nation across the Asia-Pacific region. Previously he served as Commander of the United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM), responsible for protecting the United States homeland and providing support to federal, state and local officials in times of crisis. During this same time, he also served as Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), providing aerospace warning, air sovereignty and defense for the United States and Canada.

Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland

Board Member

Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland is a national security commentator and former top Pentagon official in the Reagan administration. She is a contributing editor with a weekly column on FamilySecurityMatters.org and is a monthly columnist for The NY Capitol newspaper. Her frequent guest appearances include: Fox News (The Live Desk, Fox & Friends, Studio B, Hannity & Colmes, The O'Reilly Factor, Your World); MSNBC (Hardball with Chris Matthews); NY1, ABC, CBS, CNN. She is also a frequent commentator on Fox News Radio, WVOX, NPR, Radio America, ABC Radio, and CBS Radio.

Woody N. Peterson

General Counsel, Secretary

Woody Peterson is a partner at Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP and is a member of the Firm's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. Mr. Peterson's practice focuses on litigation (civil and appellate) and on employment law counseling for corporations, trade associations, and non-profit organizations.

Bruce Riedel

Board Member

Bruce Riedel is a Senior Fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He retired in 2006 after 30 years of service at the Central Intelligence Agency including postings overseas. Mr. Riedel was a senior advisor on South Asia and the Middle East to four Presidents of the United States in the staff of the National Security Council at the White House. He was a negotiator at several Arab-Israeli peace summits including Camp David and Wye River. He was also Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Near East and South Asia at the Pentagon and a senior advisor at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels. In January 2009 President Barack Obama asked him to chair a review of American policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, the results of which the President announced in a speech on March 27, 2009. Mr. Riedel is the author of The Search for al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology and Future and Deadly Embrace; Pakistan, America, and the Future of Global Jihad published by Brookings Press. He teaches at Georgetown University and SAIS.

Clinton I. Smullyan

Board Member

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Robert Spring

Board Member

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Michelle Van Cleave

Board Member

Michelle Van Cleave, a member of Jamestown's Board of Directors, served as the National Counterintelligence Executive under President George W. Bush. As the head of U.S. counterintelligence, she was responsible for providing strategic direction to and ensuring the integration of counterintelligence activities across the federal government. She has also held senior staff positions in the Congress, including staff director of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information, Minority Counsel to the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, and professional staff member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations; and in the White House, where she was Assistant Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. A lawyer and consultant in private life, she is currently a principal with the Jack Kemp Foundation, helping to establish and manage programs to develop, engage and recognize exceptional leaders.

Arthur Waldron

Board Member

Arthur Waldron is the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania.