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 Alternative Foundation: Former Member, Board of Directors
• American Enterprise Institute Former Fellow
• American Security Council: Former Active Participant
• Center for a Free Cuba: Former Member, Board of Directors
• Civil Courage Prize, Prize Advisor,
• Committee for the Free World: Former Member, Board of Directors
• Coalition for a Democratic Majority: Former Member
• Committee on the Present Danger: Former Member
• Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); former member
• Cuban American National Fund: Former Member, Advisory Committee
• International Republican Institute Former Member, Board of Directors (2004)
• Empower America, co-founder, Board of Directors;
• Ethics and Public Policy Center: Former Chair and Member, Board of Directors
• Freedom House: Former Member, Executive Committee and Board of Directors
• Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD); Board of Directors
• Henry M. Jackson Foundation: Former Member, Board of Governors
• Institute of American Universities, Aix en Provence, France: Former Trustee
• International Committee for Democracy in Cuba Member,
• Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA); Former Member, Board of Advisers
• National Committee on American Foreign Policy: Former Member, Board of Advisers;
• New Atlantic Initiative (American Enterprise Institute): Former Member International Advisory Board
• Nicaraguan Freedom Fund: Former Vice President
• Project for the New American Century: Letter Signatory
• Social Democrats USA (SDUSA); founder
• UN Watch Former Member, Board of Directors
• U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon: Former Golden Circle Supporter

Government Service

• U.S. Representative to the UN Human Rights Commission: (2003)
• Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk Reduction: Chairperson (1991-1992)
• Defense Policy Review Board: Member (1985-1993)
• President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board: Member (1985-1990)
• U.S. Representative to the United Nations: (1981-85)
• National Security Council: Member during Reagan Administration

Education

• Columbia University: Ph.D., Political Science
• Institute de Science Politique in Paris: French Government Fellow
• Columbia University: M.A., Political Science
• Barnard College: A.B.

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.
• Richard V. Allen, "Jeane Kirkpatrick and the Great Democratic Defection," New York Times, December 16, 2006.