Steve R Pieczenik was born on December 7,1943 and is a Cuban-American psychiatrist, author, publisher, and conspiracy theorist.
21 Facts About Steve Pieczenik
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Steve Pieczenik was later a consultant of the United States Department of State.
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At the age of 16, Steve Pieczenik received a scholarship to Cornell University, where he graduated with a BA degree in pre-medicine and psychology in 1964.
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Steve Pieczenik is fluent in five languages, including Russian, Spanish and French.
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In 1974, Steve Pieczenik joined the United States Department of State as a consultant assisting in the restructuring of the Office for the Prevention of Terrorism.
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At the Department of State, Steve Pieczenik served as a "specialist on hostage taking".
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Steve Pieczenik was credited with devising successful negotiating strategies and tactics, which were used in several high-profile hostage situations, such as the 1976 TWA Flight 355 hostage situation and the 1977 kidnapping of the son of Cyprus's president.
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On March 16,1978, Steve Pieczenik was a special envoy in Italy for President Carter to assist in the search for Italy's former Prime Minister Aldo Moro.
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The role Steve Pieczenik played in these negotiations is said to have been fraught with controversy.
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Steve Pieczenik said the committee was jolted into action by the fear that Moro would reveal state secrets in an attempt to free himself.
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Steve Pieczenik stated that this had a dual purpose: to prepare the Italian public for the worst and to let the Red Brigades know that the state considered Moro dead, and therefore would not negotiate for him.
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Steve Pieczenik said that Moro had been "sacrificed" for Italy's "stability".
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In 1979, Steve Pieczenik resigned as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State over the handling of the Iranian hostage crisis.
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In 1982, Steve Pieczenik was mentioned in an article in The New York Times as "a psychiatrist who has treated CIA employees".
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In 2001, Steve Pieczenik operated as chief executive officer of Strategic Intelligence Associates, a consulting firm.
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Since 1979, Steve Pieczenik has consulted with the United States Institute of Peace and the RAND Corporation and lectured at the National Defense University.
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Steve Pieczenik has made a number of ventures into fiction, as both an author and as a business partner of Tom Clancy.
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Steve Pieczenik received credit as co-creator for two of Tom Clancy's best-selling novels Op-Center and Net Force.
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Steve Pieczenik has been credited under the pseudonym Alexander Court for writing the novels Active Measures, and Active Pursuit.
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Steve Pieczenik has written two articles published in the American Intelligence Journal, a peer-reviewed journal issued by the National Military Intelligence Association.
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Steve Pieczenik has appeared multiple times on InfoWars, the flagship radio program of Alex Jones, where he has made numerous statements, including that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a false flag operation.