Richard V. Allen

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Richard V. Allen

Richard "Dick" Vincent Allen (born January 1, 1936 in Collingswood , Camden County , New Jersey ) is a former US National Security Advisor who resigned from this position on January 4, 1982 on charges of alleged embezzlement after less than a year in office resigned from $ 1,000 .

Life

After attending school, Allen first studied at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed a subsequent postgraduate degree in political science there in 1958 with a Master of Arts (MA Political Science). In addition, he completed guest studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Allen, who is a member of the Republican Party , served on the Advisory Board of the Republican National Committee on National Security and International Affairs. After working as a senior staff member at the Hoover Institution from 1966 to 1968, he was first foreign policy coordinator for the Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon and, after his election in 1969, he was deputy national security advisor of the USA for some time.

He later became Ronald Reagan's chief foreign policy advisor . In January 1977 the latter told him in Los Angeles : “Dick, my idea of ​​US policy towards the Soviet Union is simple, and some will probably say too simple. It is this: we win and it is awarded. What do you think about it? ”Everyone agreed, and after Reagan won the presidential election on November 4, 1980 , Allen was appointed National Security Advisor and officially took office on January 20, 1981.

After less than a year in office, he resigned on January 4, 1982 after internal political disagreements arose in the government that put a lasting strain on his relationship with the president . Rumors also emerged around the time that he allegedly embezzled $ 1,000 from a Japanese magazine for an interview with First Lady Nancy Reagan , although investigations by the Department of Justice and White House Legal Adviser revealed that there was no solid evidence to support these claims.

In fact, this process should have happened like this: Allen tried to arrange an interview with the Japanese magazine, but was unsuccessful for some reason. Then some White House official arranged the interview, which Allen happened to be there. After the interview, the Japanese journalists tried to hand over the $ 1,000 fee to the First Lady, but he took the money and handed it to his secretary with instructions to send the fee to the Treasury Department . Unfortunately, the secretary deposited the money in Allen's office safe and forgot it there.

Since 1988 he has worked for the Council for National Policy , a conservative forum founded in 1981 by Evangelical Tim LaHaye to promote political and Christian right.

Furthermore, he was involved in countless foreign and security policy matters within government and non-governmental organizations and was, among other things , the board of directors for the National Security Council , the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee of the Department of Defense , the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, the advisory body of the Capital Research Center the Catholic Campaign for America, the advisory body of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Committee on the Present Danger, the Council on Foreign Relations , the trustee body of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), the advisory body of the International Crisis Group (ICG ), the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), at the Nixon Center and on the Board of Governors of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library .

In addition, Allen, who is also a member of the Sovereign Order of Malta , became a Distinguished Fellow of the Heritage Foundation and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chip Rowe: The Long Attention Span of Richard V. Allen . In: American Journalism Review, Vol. 15, May 1993
  2. ^ Homepage of the Hoover Institution