Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations 1981-1985, died on December 8, 2006, aged 80. [1]

Kirkpatrick was believed to be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and was considered to be a "neo-con" (neo-conservative). She was co-director of Empower America, founder of Social Democrats USA (SDUSA), and a member of the board of directors of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD).

Since leaving office as Ambassador to the UN, Kirkpatrick's name has been linked to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (board member); the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA); Defense Policy Studies at American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (senior fellow/board member); Freedom House (alleged to be a CFR front organization); United Nations Watch (board member); the National Security Advisory Council, and the Center for Security Policy.

She was a member of the International Council of Advisors for the International Campaign for Tibet.

Her late husband Evron Kirkpatrick was a long-time collaborator of Irving Kristol.

Profile

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was a founding member of the Afghanistan Relief Committee and "was a prominent member of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority and the Committee on the Present Danger, strongly anticommunist groups that in the 1970s came out of the conservative portion of the Democratic Party to combat the policy of detente. Kirkpatrick was on the board of the neoconservative Committee for the Free World. She also was connected with PRODEMCA (Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America). PRODEMCA used funds from Oliver North's illegal Iran-Contra support network for media campaigns in favor of aid to the Nicaraguan contras. Kirkpatrick was a scholar at the conservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, was on the 'faculty' at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS, a Georgetown University think tank), and was faculty as Georgetown University's Foreign Service School. Kirkpatrick was a member of the neoconservative Social Democrats USA and has been connected with the secretive policy formation group of the Right, the Council for National Policy." (as edited) [2]

Affiliations

• American Enterprise Institute
• International Republican Institute — Board of Directors (2004)
• Empower America, co-founder, Board of Directors
• Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) — reputed member
• Social Democrats USA (SDUSA) — founder
• Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) — Board of Directors
• Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)

External Links

• "Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ex-Ambassador, Dies," Associated Press/ABC News, December 8, 2006.
• Greg Grandin, "The Bloody "Realism" of Jeane Kirkpatrick: Mid-Wife of the Neocons", Counterpunch, December 9 / 10, 2006.