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Institutional
Affiliations
Center for Strategic and International Studies: Trustee (2)
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: Member, Advisory Board (3)
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD): Distinguished Advisor (August 2002) (4)
Freedom House: Chairman, Board of Trustees (7)
Center for Security Policy: Honorary Co-Chair, National Security Advisory Council (11)
Coalition for Democracy in Iran: Supporter (12)
Committee for the Liberation of Iraq: Member (13)
American for Victory over Terrorism: Senior advisor (14)
National Institute for Public Policy: Study participant (15)
Project for the New American Century: Signed several PNAC advocacy letters (10)
Smithsonian Institution: Chairman of Executive Committee, Board of Regents (2)
American Committee for Peace in Chechnya:
Member
Government
Posts/Panels/Commissions
Defense Department: Member, Defense Policy Board (17)
Defense Department: Member, Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel (16)
National Commission on Energy Policy: Member (3)
National Commission on Terrorism: Member (1999-2000) (2)
Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Missile Commission): Member (1998) (2)
Central Intelligence Agency: Director (1993-95) (4)
Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE): Ambassador and U.S. Representative (1989-91) (2)
President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform: Member (1989) (2)
President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission): Member (1985-1986) (2)
U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START): Delegate at Large (1983-1986) (2)
Nuclear and Arms Space Talks (NST): Delegate at Large (1983-1986) (2)
President's Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission): Member (1983) (2)
Department of the Navy: Under Secretary of the Navy (1977-79) (2)
U.S. Senate: General Counsel, Committee on Armed Services (1970-1973) (2)
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT): Advisor, U.S. Delegation, Helsinki and Vienna (1969-1970) (2)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Booz Allen Hamilton: Vice President, Global Strategic Security Division (July 15, 2002) (1)
Paladin Capital Group's Homeland Security Fund Investment Committee: Principal and Member (3)
Linsang Partners, LLC: Board member (2)
BC International Corporation: Board member (2)
Fibersense Technology Corporation: Board member (2)
Invicta Networks, Inc.: Board member (2)
DIANA, LLC; Agorics, Inc.: Board member (2)
Sun HealthCare Group, Inc.: Board member (2)
Global Options LLC: Vice Chairman, Advisory Board (3)
Benador Associates: Member, International Speakers Bureau (8)
Shea & Gardner (Washington, D.C.): Former managing partner (1995-2001) (2)
Martin Marrietta: Former board member (2)
Fairchild Industries: Former board member (2)
DynCorp: Former board member (2)
British Aerospace: Former board member (2)
Titan Corporation: Former board member (2)
Yurie Systems, Inc.: Former board member (3)
USF&G: Former board member (3)
Aerospace Corporation: Former director (2)
Education
Yale Law School: L.L.B. (1968) (2)
Oxford University: M.A., Rhodes Scholar (1963-1965) (2)
Stanford University: B.A. (2)
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Highlights
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Like many of his cohorts in the hawk/neocon world, James Woolsey, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, wears many hats--he is an active member of several hardline policy organizations, he is well-connected to administration insiders and serves on an influential Pentagon policy outfit, he has advised a long line of Pentagon contractors, and he is an influential presence in the nation's media.
In a March 2003 report about the potential conflicts of interest of several members of the Defense Policy Board, the Center for Public Integrity highlighted Woolsey as a case in point: "Former CIA director James Woolsey is a principal in the Paladin Capital Group, a venture-capital firm that like Perle's Trireme Partners is soliciting investment for homeland security firms. Woolsey joined consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton as vice president in July 2002. The company had contracts worth more than $680 million in 2002. Woolsey told the Wall Street Journal that he does no lobbying and that none of the companies he has ties to have been discussed during a Defense Policy Board meeting." (17)
Woolsey served on the controversial Donald Rumsfeld-chaired Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat, whose final report, issued in 1998, argued that several "rogue" countries would be able to target the United States with ballistic missiles in a few short years. Other members of the Rumsfeld-chaired commission included William Schneider, Jr., Stephen Cambone, and Paul Wolfowitz. For more on the commission, see "What They Didn't Do" by Lisbeth Gronlund and David Wright in the November/December 1998 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (18)
Woolsey also participated in a study group that produced "Rationale and Requirements for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control," a report published by the hawkish National Institute for Public Policy in 2001. According to the World Policy Institute, the NIPP study served as a blueprint for George W. Bush's Nuclear Posture Review. Among the study participants were several current and former Bush administration officials, including Stephen Cambone, Stephen Hadley, Robert Joseph, and Keith Payne (NIPP's director). (19)
Woolsey, along with several other NIPP study participants--including Keith Payne (NIPP's director)--moved directly from the NIPP study into the Pentagon's Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel, which was tasked with implementing George W. Bush's Nuclear Posture Review.
Woolsey was a fervent supporter of U.S. intervention in Iraq, arguing during the run up to the war, "We really don't need the Europeans. Anyways, they will be the first in line patting us on the back following our success and saying they were with us all along." He also said, "Only fear will re-establish [Arab] respect for us. . . . We need a little bit of Machiavelli." (Quoted in the Glasgow Sunday Herald, April 13, 2003)
Parroting his neocon buddy and fellow Defense Policy Board member Eliot Cohen, Woolsey argued in an April 2003 speech that "the Iraq war was part of "World War IV. . . . This is going to be a long war, very long indeed. I hope not as long as the Cold War, 40 plus years, but certainly longer than either World War I or World War II. I rather imagine it's going to be measured, I'm afraid, in decades." (5)
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