Mavi Boncuk |Paul Henze
Paul B. Henze is a former CIA station chief in Turkey who became a National Security advisor to President Carter. After his retirement he became a terrorism expert and was one of a group of right-wing experts associated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies during the 1980s. He was a Wilson fellow at the Smithsonian in 1981-82. During recent years he has made frequent visits to the Caucasus and Central Asia. In 1992 he headed an international observer team to Chechnya and at the end of the year was a member of a team that went to Abkhazia. In 1997 he participated in the Shamil bicentenary celebrations in Dagestan. He was a member of a US NATO Association mission to China, Central and South Asia in 1998. He has made 8 extensive visits to Georgia since 1991 and is Vice President of the American-Georgian Business Development Council.
1950 -- 1952: US Department of Defense, Foreign Affairs Advisor
1952 -- 1958: Radio Free Europe in Germany[1]
1969: CIA Chief of Station Ethiopia
1974 - 1977: CIA Chief of Station Turkey
1977 - 1980:CIA representative to the NSC office in the White House
According to Edward S. Herman and Frank Brodhead, Henze was one of the peddlers of a conspiracy theory attributing the attempted assassination of John Paul II to the Bulgarian secret service. along with the journalist Claire Sterling and the neoconservative Michael Ledeen. Herman and Brodhead write that: 'The most important investigative work -- or, we should say, creative writing -- in establishing the hypothesis of the Bulgarian Connection was done by Claire Sterling, Paul Henze, and Michael Ledeen.'
[1] Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a radio and communications propaganda organization which is funded by the United States Congress. The organization exists in Europe and the Middle East. It broadcasts more than 1,000 hours per week, in 28 languages, via shortwave, AM, FM and the Internet. RFE/RL's official mission statement is "To promote democratic values and institutions by disseminating factual information and ideas."
Paul B. Henze papers are processed by Hoover Institution Archives Staff.
Hoover Institution Archives| Stanford University
OPINION APRIL 14, 2010 Russia's Encounter With Islam By PAUL B. HENZE AND S. ENDERS WIMBUSH
Interview with Paul B. Henze, August 2008
Daniel Pipes Review | Turkey and Atatürk's Legacy by Paul B. Henze
See also :The Plot to Kill the Pope by Paul B. Henze
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Scribner c1983, New York; 1st Edition. edition (January 1, 1983)
ISBN-10: 0709912846
ISBN-13: 978-0709912842
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