American-Turkish Council

The American-Turkish Council (ATC) is a business association dedicated to enhancing the promotion of US-Turkish commercial, defense, technology, and cultural relations in Washington DC.

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Personnel

Board

According to its 2005 annual report, current ATC board members include:

  1. Brent Scowcroft, the board chairman and former national security adviser for George H. W. Bush (replaced in 2010 by Richard Armitage[1])
  2. George Perlman of Lockheed Martin
  3. Elizabeth Avery of Pepsico
  4. Ozer Baysal of Pfizer
  5. Andy Button of Boeing
  6. Richard K. Douglas of General Electric
  7. Sherry Grandjean of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
  8. John R. Miller of Raytheon
  9. Selig A. Taubenblatt of Bechtel

ATC's advisory board also includes representatives of a number of high-powered defense, pharmaceutical, consulting, and technology firms, including General Atomics, BAE Systems, Motorola, and the Cohen Group. Daniel Pipes is a former ATC board member.

Scandals

Growing media scrutiny of the ATC is a result of allegations made by FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds regarding suspect activities of council members in an article in the September 2005 Vanity Fair. The improprieties were alleged to be illegal contributions to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.[2]

The ATC is where former Ambassador Joseph Wilson met his future wife and CIA operative, Valerie Plame, leading some to speculate Plame's CIA front company, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, was monitoring the same alleged nuclear trafficking of the ATC as Sibel Edmonds.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.the-atc.org/
  2. ^ "The Turkish Lobby & the Congressional Black Caucus". Boiling Frogs Post. February 18, 2010. http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/02/18/the-turkish-lobby-the-congressional-black-caucus/. Retrieved July 29, 2010. 

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