HENRY ALFRED KISSINGER

Henry A. Kissinger was born on May 27, 1923 in Furth, Germany. (Note: Furth is an ancient center for the production of gold-leaf; influenced by the Queen of Sheba, King Solomon received 666 talents of gold in one year.) His Jewish family immigrated to the US in 1938 in order to escape the Nazis and he became a naturalized citizen in 1943. After serving in the US Army during World War II, participating in Germany's post-war government instituted by the US, and receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard (where he remained to teach), Dr. Kissinger was eventually appointed by President Nixon as assistant for national security affairs in 1968. During 1969-75, he was head of the NSC and acted as secretary of state during 1973-77. Under the Nixon administration, he also helped negotiate the SALT Treaty of 1972 and during that same year, developed relations with China.

Interestingly, although Dr. Kissinger originally advocated a hard-line policy in Vietnam, he later played a major role in the disengagement of US troops. In 1973 he finally signed a cease-fire agreement that provided for the withdrawal of US forces. For resolving the controversial Vietnam conflict (which he helped manufacture), he shared the Nobel Prize for Peace with his North Vietnamese negotiator-counterpart.

According to one author, Dr. Kissinger not only had advance knowledge of the impending Arab attack on Israel (Yom Kippur War) in 1973, despite Israel's request he delayed transport of war materials until Israel was almost annihilated and began preparations to implement the Samson Option (nuclear retaliation).  Dr. Kissinger allegedly stated, "The best result would be if Israel comes out a little ahead but gets bloodied, and the US stays clean in the process." Another writer suggests that he gave his de facto approval for the invasion by informing the Egyptian and Syrian leaders that the Nixon administration would like to see the region "heat up" for awhile. The subsequent and surprise attack on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar (Yom Kippur: Day of Atonement) resulted in heavy casualties for the Israelis and led to the ouster of Prime Minister Meir for lack of preparedness. While unfairly blaming the Pentagon for the delay before Jewish and Israeli leaders, Dr. Kissinger accepted praise from the Russians and Arabs. (Whether the massive but late airlift ensured Israel's victory continues to be debated in the Israeli press, including a candid article in the October 12, 1998 edition of The Jerusalem Report.) Toward the end of the conflict, when he viewed the situation as ripe for diplomatic dialogue, his resultant method of statesmanship became widely known and remembered as "shuttle diplomacy."

Dr. Kissinger has been criticized for allegedly engineering the Arab oil embargoes of the 1970s--possibly to aid in the destabilization of the US economy through high oil prices and the subsequent high inflation of that decade. He has also been accused of being a principal architect of the globalist New World Order which has resulted in a catastrophic trade deficit and substantial erosion of manufacturing-related industry for the US. As a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderbergers, Dr. Kissinger has remained active behind the scenes as an "international consultant." His highly-secretive consulting firm, Kissinger Associates, represents major and multinational corporations in their efforts to globalize and transfer operations to cheap-labor Third World countries.