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...powerful policymaking apparatus that eclipsed the State Department. When Kissinger became Secretary of State in 1973, he took power with him to Foggy Bottom: his hand-picked successor as National Security Adviser, retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, was strictly a scrupulous administrator. During the Carter Administration, Zbigniew Brzezinski in his turn built a Kissinger-style policy machine that competed for influence with State...
...Central America, as well as the implicit threat of direct U.S. military intervention, give spine to American diplomatic and economic initiatives. By cutting even the modest aid requests that the Administration has made, Congress runs a risk of pushing American policy into the trap warned against by Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter. Said Brzezinski, of foreign ventures generally: "We are forever in danger of getting just enough involved not to succeed, yet still to be responsible for failing." Unhappily, the Administration's bungling and Congress's rebuff last week have made that risk in Central America...
...contrast to his flashy and intellectually potent predecessors, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, Clark regards his role as that of an expediter of policy rather than an implementer. He says he relies on instinct and consensus in a job Kissinger called "the most exciting and dangerous in Government." Clark has won praise for his ability to prod a slow-moving bureaucracy and get decisions on track. Impatient and eager to please his boss with quick results, Clark sometimes acts without fully weighing the consequences, as he did when he allowed the fleet to set out for Central America...
Ironically, although the Ayatullah and his followers are violently anti-Israel, one of the countries that has violated the U.S. boycott most blatantly is Israel. When Iraq invaded Iran, the Tehran regime urgently needed U.S. supplies. Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski confirmed in his recently published memoirs that the Carter Administration clandestinely offered to supply spare parts to Iran in return for the hostages' freedom. "We learned, much to our dismay," he wrote, "that the Israelis had been secretly supplying American spare parts to the Iranians, without much concern for the negative impact this was having...
...camp with inside information about the Paris peace talks, then being conducted by the Johnson Administration. At the same time, Hersh claims, Kissinger was also offering to turn over damaging files on Nixon that had been compiled by the Rockefeller campaign staff, for whom Kissinger had worked, to Zbigniew Brzezinski, then Hubert Humphrey's foreign policy coordinator. Kissinger has written in his memoirs that he was approached by both campaigns for advice. But Hersh, quoting some former Nixon campaign officials, paints Kissinger as a double-dealing job seeker. Last week Kissinger angrily denied these specific charges as "a slimy...