26-02-2018, 01:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 26-02-2018, 05:39 AM by Anthony Thorne.)
Just a couple of extra links.
Major General Shlomo Gazit, mentioned above, attended the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism in July 1979. Other high profile figures from Israeli military intelligence also attended - Chaim Herzog, Meir Amit, Aharon Yariv, to name a few. Shlomo Gazit had earlier reformed Israel's spy and intelligence unit, known as Unit 8200. A long list of worldwide hawks and intelligence figures attended the same conference. The conference was briefly discussed by Nafeez Ahmed in his WAR ON TRUTH volume, with quotes from Philip Paull's 1982 thesis on the event. Brian Bogart's 2006 article below, discussing the same thesis, gives a longer attendee list and mentions numerous names. Scroll down to footnote 15 in Bogart's piece for the long list of security figures from the UK, the US and other regions. Several figures were later examined by Edward Herman in his OOP book THE TERRORISM INDUSTRY.
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/fear-fear-...an-bogart/
Immediately after the conference, Gazit moved to Boston. Gazit became a visiting fellow at Harvard's Centre for International Affairs. In October 1979, the Harvard Crimson reported Gazit's explanation for the move.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1979/1...-presence/
During his time in Boston, Gazit gave a Visitor's Seminar at the Belfer Center (April 2nd, 1980), discussing 'Security Considerations' surrounding Middle East negotiations. The Belfer Center notes that the Visitor Seminars are limited to 20-30 individuals, "providing a forum suitable for in-depth discussions with the visiting experts". A week earlier, Gary Samore had given a talk on regional threats to Saudi Arabian oil supplies. Twelve days after Gazit's talk, future Zelikow co-author Joseph Nye gave a Harvard talk discussing "Energy as a Security Problem." Future Rumsfeld Missile Commissioner Barry Blechman is also an attendee, engaging in 'informal discussions' through the period. Security considerations, energy and oil are a recurring theme.
https://www.belfercenter.org/node/89558
Gazit returns to Israel near the end of 1980. In 1986, Gazit co-founded Transtech Control Ltd., a company which makes control and monitoring software for airports. Transtech, with Gazit as Vice President, will later sign a multi-billion dollar contract with Lockheed Martin for guidance control systems.
http://www.tornado-insider.com/radar/com...ompID=9427
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-738197
Intelink, mentioned earlier, was approved in November 1993, and declared operational in December 1994. James Woolsey would leave the CIA that same month. Victor DeMarines, the MITRE CEO who talked about Intelink just prior to Zelikow's work, and who then worked with Zelikow on the Catastrophic Terrorism Study Group - was also a financial supporter of Ashton Carter's Preventive Defence Project, the parent body that oversaw projects like Zelikow's. From page xii of Ashton Carter's 2001 book KEEPING THE EDGE: MANAGING DEFENSE FOR THE FUTURE
John Hamre, who helped give 'key inputs and inspiration', had taken over management of the Pentagon renovation project in early 1997. Hamre's renovation would ultimately focus on the wing of the Pentagon that was hit on the morning of 9/11.
http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Docume...ch2000.pdf
In Philip Shenon's correspondence with Zelikow about the 9/11 Commission, Zelikow is very guarded in his comments about the Catastrophic Terrorism Study Group, but notes that he met with some Clinton era officials, including Hamre. Hamre had been made Deputy Secretary of Defence just a few months before Zelikow's Study group started. Hamre's successor, Rudy De Leon, was Deputy Secretary of Defence from March 2000 till March 2001, while Pentagon renovations were still ongoing. In July 2001, a few months before the 9/11 attacks, De Leon left his government position to become a senior Vice President at Boeing.
https://fas.org/irp/news/2008/02/zelikow.pdf
Major General Shlomo Gazit, mentioned above, attended the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism in July 1979. Other high profile figures from Israeli military intelligence also attended - Chaim Herzog, Meir Amit, Aharon Yariv, to name a few. Shlomo Gazit had earlier reformed Israel's spy and intelligence unit, known as Unit 8200. A long list of worldwide hawks and intelligence figures attended the same conference. The conference was briefly discussed by Nafeez Ahmed in his WAR ON TRUTH volume, with quotes from Philip Paull's 1982 thesis on the event. Brian Bogart's 2006 article below, discussing the same thesis, gives a longer attendee list and mentions numerous names. Scroll down to footnote 15 in Bogart's piece for the long list of security figures from the UK, the US and other regions. Several figures were later examined by Edward Herman in his OOP book THE TERRORISM INDUSTRY.
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/fear-fear-...an-bogart/
Immediately after the conference, Gazit moved to Boston. Gazit became a visiting fellow at Harvard's Centre for International Affairs. In October 1979, the Harvard Crimson reported Gazit's explanation for the move.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1979/1...-presence/
Quote:Major General Shlomo Gazit says he left his post as head of Israeli Military Intelligence to come to Harvard because "I felt tired and felt in urgent need for recharging my batteries."
During his time in Boston, Gazit gave a Visitor's Seminar at the Belfer Center (April 2nd, 1980), discussing 'Security Considerations' surrounding Middle East negotiations. The Belfer Center notes that the Visitor Seminars are limited to 20-30 individuals, "providing a forum suitable for in-depth discussions with the visiting experts". A week earlier, Gary Samore had given a talk on regional threats to Saudi Arabian oil supplies. Twelve days after Gazit's talk, future Zelikow co-author Joseph Nye gave a Harvard talk discussing "Energy as a Security Problem." Future Rumsfeld Missile Commissioner Barry Blechman is also an attendee, engaging in 'informal discussions' through the period. Security considerations, energy and oil are a recurring theme.
https://www.belfercenter.org/node/89558
Gazit returns to Israel near the end of 1980. In 1986, Gazit co-founded Transtech Control Ltd., a company which makes control and monitoring software for airports. Transtech, with Gazit as Vice President, will later sign a multi-billion dollar contract with Lockheed Martin for guidance control systems.
http://www.tornado-insider.com/radar/com...ompID=9427
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-738197
Intelink, mentioned earlier, was approved in November 1993, and declared operational in December 1994. James Woolsey would leave the CIA that same month. Victor DeMarines, the MITRE CEO who talked about Intelink just prior to Zelikow's work, and who then worked with Zelikow on the Catastrophic Terrorism Study Group - was also a financial supporter of Ashton Carter's Preventive Defence Project, the parent body that oversaw projects like Zelikow's. From page xii of Ashton Carter's 2001 book KEEPING THE EDGE: MANAGING DEFENSE FOR THE FUTURE
Quote:The Project also received critical and generous support from The Simons Foundation, the Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. Public Policy Fund, and the MITRE Corporation. …The project also received key inputs and inspiration from David Baxt, Vance Coffman, Stephen Hadley, John Hamre, and Philip A. Odeen.
John Hamre, who helped give 'key inputs and inspiration', had taken over management of the Pentagon renovation project in early 1997. Hamre's renovation would ultimately focus on the wing of the Pentagon that was hit on the morning of 9/11.
http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Docume...ch2000.pdf
In Philip Shenon's correspondence with Zelikow about the 9/11 Commission, Zelikow is very guarded in his comments about the Catastrophic Terrorism Study Group, but notes that he met with some Clinton era officials, including Hamre. Hamre had been made Deputy Secretary of Defence just a few months before Zelikow's Study group started. Hamre's successor, Rudy De Leon, was Deputy Secretary of Defence from March 2000 till March 2001, while Pentagon renovations were still ongoing. In July 2001, a few months before the 9/11 attacks, De Leon left his government position to become a senior Vice President at Boeing.
https://fas.org/irp/news/2008/02/zelikow.pdf