Henry Alfred Kissinger was the 56th Secretary of State of the United States from 1973 to 1977, continuing to hold the position of Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs which he first assumed in 1969 until 1975. After leaving government service, he founded Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm, of which he is chairman.

Dr. Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, on May 27, 1923, came to the United States in 1938, and was naturalised a United States citizen on June 19, 1943. He received the BA Degree Summa Cum Laude at Harvard College in 1950 and the MA and PhD Degrees at Harvard University in 1952 and 1954 respectively.

From 1954 until 1971 he was a member of the Faculty of Harvard University, both in the Department of Government and at the Center for International Affairs. He was Associate Director of the Center from 1957 to 1960. He served as Study Director, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, for the Council of Foreign Relations from 1955 to 1956; Director of the Special Studies Project for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund from 1956 to 1958; Director of the Harvard International Seminar from 1951 to 1971, and Director of the Harvard Defense Studies Program from 1958 to 1971. (He was on leave of absence from Harvard from January 1969 to January 1971).

Secretary Kissinger has written many books and articles on United States foreign policy, international affairs, and diplomatic history. Among the awards he has received are the Guggenheim Fellowship (1965-66), the Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book in the fields of government, politics and international affairs (1958), the American Institute for Public Service Award (1973), the International Platform Association Theodore Roosevelt Award (1973), the Veterans of Foreign Wars Dwight D. Eisenhower Distinguished Service Medal (1973), the Hope Award for International Understanding (1973), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977) and the Medal of Liberty (1986).

He has served as a consultant to the Department of State (1965-68), United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1961-68), Rand Corporation (1961-68), National Security Council (1961-62), Weapons Systems Evaluation Group of the joint Chiefs of Staff (1959-60), Operations Coordinating Board (1955), Director of the Psychological Strategy Board (1952), Operations Research Office (1951), and Chairman of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America (1983-84).

From 1943 to 1946 Dr. Kissinger served in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps and from 1946 to 1949 was a captain in the Military Intelligence Reserve.

He married Ann Fleischer in 1949 and was divorced in 1964. There were two children, Elizabeth and David. In 1974 he married Nancy Maginnes.

UFOs

Dr. Henry Kissinger’s little known role in the UFO cover-up has been highlighted in a new book by former newspaper journalist and UFO researcher Tony Brunt.

In a free on-line publication titled, "Secret History: And Why Barack Obama Must End It," Brunt follows a UFO witness trail to the wife of the late USAF scientist, Dr. Eric Wang, who worked on reverse-engineering of captured or crashed discs at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico, prior to his death in 1960. His widow, Maria Wang, confirmed in 1984 that her husband had reported to Kissinger when Kissinger was still a relatively unknown academic and consultant to various intelligence and military programmes.

"He is deeply involved in the Flying Saucer Program," she said of President Nixon’s former National Security Advisor (1969-1975) and Secretary of State (1973-1977. "In fact, he was completely in charge of it at the time that Dr Wang was still alive and involved with it." Mrs Wang, who was a respected Albuquerque resident and president of the Albuquerque Woman’s Club, made the statement to researcher William Steinman.

Before his high profile life in powerful political circles, Kissinger was a consultant to the Operations Research Office in 1951 (a murky outfit under the control of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), a consultant to the director of the Psychological Strategy Board in 1952 (a covert arm of the National Security Council) and then to its successor organisation, the Operations Coordinating Board until 1961. The OCB was reportedly the highest policy-making board for implementing clandestine operations. Kissinger was also a consultant to the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1959-1960.

Brunt presents vigorous arguments for the end to disclosure and even tables a draft ‘disclosure speech’ for President Obama to use. The subtitle of his book is: "How the UFO Cover-up Changed from Shrewd Management to Historical Tragedy."

 

Sources:

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/kissinger-bio.html
http://www.ufodigest.com/article/dr-henry-kissingers-key-ufo-role-revealed