Marc Grossman

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Marc Grossman was the United States Under Secretary for Political Affairs from 2001 to 2005.

He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 23, 2001 and sworn in as Under Secretary for Political Affairs on March 26, 2001.

It was revealed on 7 January 2005 that Grossman had resigned. His resignation became effective with the confirmation of his successor, R. Nicholas Burns, on 17 March 2005.

Grossman has been a career Foreign Service Officer since 1976. He was Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources, from June 2000 to February 2001, and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, from August 1997 to May 2000. From November 1994 to June 1997, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey. Prior to this, from January 1993 to September 1994, he was Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department of State.

Before assuming these duties, Grossman served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs. He was Executive Assistant to Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead from September 1986 to January 1989.

From 1984 to 1986, Grossman was the Deputy Director of the Private Office of Lord Carrington, then Secretary General of NATO.

Other overseas assignments include tours as a political officer at the U.S Mission to NATO and in Islamabad. In Washington he also has served as Deputy Special Adviser to President Carter and in several capacities for the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.

Grossman earned a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MSc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

Contents 1 Valerie Plame Affair 1.1 Role In 9/11 Conspiracy Theory 2 Notes 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Valerie Plame Affair

Grossman played a peripheral role in the Plame Affair.

On 10 June 2003, an analyst at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) sent a memo to Ambassador Grossman outlining Ambassador Joseph Wilson's trip to Niger and mentioning that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA. Reportedly, Grossman wanted the memo as background to use at a White House meeting on criticism of President Bush for using the Niger claim in his State of the Union speech.

According to the Washington Post, Grossman has refused to answer questions about the memo. The Post says it is not clear if Grossman actually talked about the memo or mentioned Mrs. Wilson at the meeting.^[1]

On 6 July 2003, Richard Armitage asked the head of INR, Carl Ford, to send a copy of the memo to Colin Powell aboard Air Force One.

In Patrick Fitzgerald's indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on October 28, 2005, Grossman is the Under Secretary of State mentioned as giving information about Plame to Libby.

It has been suggested by Libby's legal defense that Grossman is biased because, according to Theodore Wells, Libby's defense lawyer, Grossman and Wilson went to college and came up through the ranks of the State Department together.^[2]

[edit] Role In 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

The purported 9-11 ringleader - Mohammed Atta - according to ABC news, was financed by "unnamed sources in Pakistan." According to Agence France Presse and the Times of India, an official Indian intelligence report informs us that the 9-11 attacks were funded by money wired to Mohammed Atta from Pakistan, by Ahmad Umar Sheikh, under orders from Pakistani intelligence chief General Mahmoud Ahmad. The report said: "The evidence we have supplied to the U.S. is of a much wider range and depth than just one piece of paper linking a rogue general to some misplaced act of terrorism."

General Mahmoud Ahmad was in the U.S. on September 11. He arrived on the 4th on a "routine visit." It was confirmed by news sources that Ahmad met with a number of U.S. officials including Colin Powell,Richard Armitage,Marc Grossman,CIA Director George Tenet,Senator Bob Graham, chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator John Kyl, Senate Intelligence Committee,Rep. Porter Goss, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Senator Joseph Biden, Chairman of Foreign Relations Committee.

On the morning of September 11, General Mahmoud Ahmad was having breakfast with Florida's senator, Bob Graham - chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Also present at breakfast was Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S. Maleeha Lodhi. There were other members of the Senate and House Intelligence committees present.

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

• Sibel Edmonds
• Plame affair
• Lewis Libby
• Douglas Feith
• Richard Perle
• Larry Franklin
• American Enterprise Institute
• Inter-Services Intelligence
• Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı

[edit] External links

• Marc Grossman Biography posted on the website of the United States Department of State.
• Marc Grossman, Vice Chairman of Cohen Group Biography posted on the website of the Cohen Group.
• Marc Grossman Profile posted on the website of the Center for Cooperative Research.
• Marc Grossman's statement on NATO & Kosovo, United States Senate Armed Services Committee, October 28, 1999.
• Marc Grossman's briefing on U.S. Interests and Turkey, as posted by Assaf Moghadam in the Middle East Forum, March 13, 2000.
• Photos of Marc Grossman's visit to NATO, NATO, February 27, 2003.
• Marc Grossman's connections to the Plame affair, Pakistan, and Turkey, as posted by Christopher Deliso on AntiWar.com, November 24, 2005.
• Online interview with Mathieu Verboud by Luke Ryland, speculating about Marc Grossman's possibly tipping off Turkish nationals to the CIA undercover work of Brewster, Jennings and Associates before Valerie Plame was outed by Robert Novak in July 2003, as posted in Ryland's blog for Kill The Messenger - Une Femme à abattre (documentary film about Sibel Edmonds dir. by Mathieu Verboud and Jean R. Viallett).