former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger was born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923, in Fuerth, Germany, to "devout Jewish middle-class parents ... the young Kissinger was forced to flee Hitler's anti-Semitic regime, settling with his family in New York City in 1938."[1] (http://www.PBS.org/wgbh/AMEX/China/peopleevents/pande02.html)

Kissinger has been labeled a conservative "realist" but can be considered a "neo-con" (Neo-Conservative). Kissinger is believed to be a member of the Council On Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderberg Group. He has been identifed as a protege of Nelson A. Rockefeller.

Kissinger has also been labeled a terrorist [2] (http://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/911/galeano.html):

He was sworn in on September 22, 1973, as the 56th Secretary of State, a position he held until January 20, 1977.

In 1975, during Gerald Ford's administration, Indonesia invaded East Timor and slaughtered 200,000 Indigenous Timorese. The Indonesian invasion of East Timor set the stage for a long and bloody occupation that recently ended after an international peacekeeping force was introduced in 1999.

Transcripts of meetings among Indonesian dictator Mohamed Suharto, Gerald Ford, and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have shown conclusively that Kissinger and Ford authorized and encouraged Suhatro's murderous actions. "We will understand and will not press you on the issue [of East Timor]," said President Ford in a meeting with Suharto and Kissinger in early December 1975, days before Suharto's bloodbath. "We understand the problem and the intentions you have," he added.

Henry Kissinger also stressed at the meeting that "the use of US-made arms could create problems," but then added, "It depends on how we construe it; whether it is in self defense or is a foreign operation." Thus, Kissinger's concern was not about whether US arms would be used offensively, but whether the act could be interpreted as illegal. Kissinger went on: "It is important that whatever you do succeeds quickly."



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