För er som ifrågasätter hans kompetens så kommer här en samling med tidningsurklipp från hans tid i tjänst:
"One of the most “brilliantly competent” men in the field of terrorism was in the picture in Washington. He is Dr. Stephen Pieczenik, a psychiatrist with degrees from Cornell and Harvard. He is a deputy assistant secretary of state for management. To the relief of his many admirers at State and at the White House, he was at Mayor Walter Washington’s command center from Wednesday night, working side by side with Police Chief Maurice Cullinane."
"Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, deputy assistant secretary of state for management, who is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and an MIT-trained political scientist, recently traced the growing application of psychology to politics since Freud. … …Ruth Benedict’s book, “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword,” by focusing on face-saving needs of the defeated Japanese, was instrumental in molding Gen. Douglas macArthur’s occupation strategy, Pieczenik said…"
"…For Dr. Pieczenik, a psychiatrist, has for the last years been doing the most delicate and secret terrorist negotiating work for the State Department. The story of why he suddenly resigned (along with the No. 2 man) only days after the American hostages were taken in Iran is one of the most fascinating untold stories of the lengthening ordeal. For Pieczenik, who speaks five languages and has a genius for inter-cultural analysis and predictions, has successfully negotiated more than 500 hostage releases, often at considerable danger to himself. ….. When the Iranian hostage crisis began, Pieczenik, who should have been one of the first persons to be called in, was not even contacted. “I had to walk into the operations center on my own after 72 hours,” he related calmly. “It was like a Chinese fire drill — totally chaotic. All the top men in the State had no experience with this sort of thing. “Then, first, I was told to go with Ramsey Clark. I said, ‘Sending him shows you don’t understand Khomeini. The plane will never land. He’s not on Khomeini’s level — Khomeini perceives him as a clerk.’ They asked me, ‘How do you know better than we do?'” He smiled. Psychology makes it all clear. ….. I was talking with Pieczenik regularly by phone during this period, and the fact is that his judgements always turned out to be precisely right, while virtually all of the diplomatic judgments that were applied did not. He was right in predicting that, within 48 hours, there would be another embassy takeover — and there was. Again, it was not hard. There always is. He was right in predicting that Bani-Sadr would initially fall as foreign minister; that the Pakistani arms deal would not work out; that President Carter would back down from his state of the Union message (again, not hard) because it is simply part of his consistent pattern. “Every one of these things is predictable,” he says, “as was Jonestown. Remember when Idi Amin held 200 Americans hostage? Andy Young had just called him ‘crazy’ and I predicted, ‘within 24 hours, he’ll hold people hostage.'” …"
- https://sheeppee.wordpress.com/2011/...ys-newspapers/
"One of the most “brilliantly competent” men in the field of terrorism was in the picture in Washington. He is Dr. Stephen Pieczenik, a psychiatrist with degrees from Cornell and Harvard. He is a deputy assistant secretary of state for management. To the relief of his many admirers at State and at the White House, he was at Mayor Walter Washington’s command center from Wednesday night, working side by side with Police Chief Maurice Cullinane."
"Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, deputy assistant secretary of state for management, who is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and an MIT-trained political scientist, recently traced the growing application of psychology to politics since Freud. … …Ruth Benedict’s book, “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword,” by focusing on face-saving needs of the defeated Japanese, was instrumental in molding Gen. Douglas macArthur’s occupation strategy, Pieczenik said…"
"…For Dr. Pieczenik, a psychiatrist, has for the last years been doing the most delicate and secret terrorist negotiating work for the State Department. The story of why he suddenly resigned (along with the No. 2 man) only days after the American hostages were taken in Iran is one of the most fascinating untold stories of the lengthening ordeal. For Pieczenik, who speaks five languages and has a genius for inter-cultural analysis and predictions, has successfully negotiated more than 500 hostage releases, often at considerable danger to himself. ….. When the Iranian hostage crisis began, Pieczenik, who should have been one of the first persons to be called in, was not even contacted. “I had to walk into the operations center on my own after 72 hours,” he related calmly. “It was like a Chinese fire drill — totally chaotic. All the top men in the State had no experience with this sort of thing. “Then, first, I was told to go with Ramsey Clark. I said, ‘Sending him shows you don’t understand Khomeini. The plane will never land. He’s not on Khomeini’s level — Khomeini perceives him as a clerk.’ They asked me, ‘How do you know better than we do?'” He smiled. Psychology makes it all clear. ….. I was talking with Pieczenik regularly by phone during this period, and the fact is that his judgements always turned out to be precisely right, while virtually all of the diplomatic judgments that were applied did not. He was right in predicting that, within 48 hours, there would be another embassy takeover — and there was. Again, it was not hard. There always is. He was right in predicting that Bani-Sadr would initially fall as foreign minister; that the Pakistani arms deal would not work out; that President Carter would back down from his state of the Union message (again, not hard) because it is simply part of his consistent pattern. “Every one of these things is predictable,” he says, “as was Jonestown. Remember when Idi Amin held 200 Americans hostage? Andy Young had just called him ‘crazy’ and I predicted, ‘within 24 hours, he’ll hold people hostage.'” …"
- https://sheeppee.wordpress.com/2011/...ys-newspapers/
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Senast redigerad av Frihetsministeriet 2016-12-11 kl. 22:22.
Senast redigerad av Frihetsministeriet 2016-12-11 kl. 22:22.
