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Maximilian Kolbe - Wikipedia

on 16 October 1917, Kolbe organized the Militia Immaculatae (Army of the Immaculate One), to work for conversion of sinners and enemies of the Catholic Church, specifically the Freemasons, through the intercession of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilia…

Founded by St. Maximilian Kolbe, specifically for priests and pastoral workers, it is now the official publication of the International Center.

Kolbe is now a fellow at the German Marshall Fund think tank and a consultant at Kissinger McLarty Associates.

The firm was founded in 1982 by Henry Kissinger. In 1999 Mack McLarty joined Kissinger to open Kissinger McLarty Associates, the firm's office on Eighteenth and Pennsylvania streets in Washington, D.C.[1] McLarty was White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton. Kissinger

McLarty is a corporate member of the Council of the Americas, the New York-based business organization established by David Rockefeller in 1965. Kissinger Associates is located in River House on Park Avenue at Fifty-first Street, in a building also occupied by Peter Peterson's

Blackstone Group.[4] It was established in July 1982 after loans had been secured from Goldman Sachs and a consortium of three other banks.

Kissinger Associates has had strategic alliances with several firms, including:
•APCO Worldwide,[7] (October 12, 2004)
•The

Blackstone Group,[8][9] an investment and advisory firm
•Hakluyt & Company,[10] a strategic intelligence and advisory firm
•Covington & Burling,[11] international law firm (2003)
Prominent staff
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•L. Paul Bremer, former managing director and former Iraq Director of

Reconstruction
•Nelson Cunningham, political advisor and managing partner at Kissinger McLarty
•Lawrence Eagleburger, former U.S. Secretary of State[12]
•Richard W. Fisher,[13] President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
•Timothy F. Geithner, former U.S. Secretary of

Treasury

•Jami Miscik, President and vice chairman, former CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence
•Joshua Cooper Ramo, Managing Director, former senior editor of Time Magazine
•Bill Richardson, former senior managing director, former U.S diplomat, past Governor of New

Mexico, past Energy Secretary, past UN Ambassador
•J. Stapleton Roy, vice-chairman and former senior U.S. diplomat
•Brent Scowcroft, former vice-chairman and former U.S. National Security Advisor
•John O. Brennan, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,

world affairs consultant

•Lord Carrington,[15] former NATO Secretary-General (from 1982)
•Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, Volvo Chairman (from 1982)
•William D. Rogers, former Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs (from 1982)
•Eric Roll,[16] S. G. Warburg & Co

Chairman (from 1984)
•William E. Simon,[16] former U.S. Treasury Secretary (from 1984)
•Saburo Okita,[17] former Japanese Foreign Minister
•Étienne Davignon,[18] former European Commissioner
•Gary Falle, Falle Strategies

A selected list of the more notable

companies (from over two dozen in total) since 1982;[19] his directorships where applicable; and some countries where known advice/contacts were used:
•American Express - Director (Hungary, Japan)
•American International Group - Director, International Advisory

Committee (Argentina, China, South Korea)
•Atlantic Richfield
•Chase Manhattan Bank (now JPMorgan Chase) - Chairman, International Advisory Committee
•Coca-Cola (Malaysia)
•Fiat

•Freeport-McMoRan - Director (Burma, Indonesia, Panama)
•Heinz (Ivory Coast,

Turkey, Zimbabwe)
•Hollinger, Inc. - Director
•Lehman Brothers Kissinger McLarty Assoc. is listed as a creditor in the Bankruptcy Filings.
•Merck
•Rio Tinto Group[21]
•Volvo
•Warburg

Heinz was being advised in the transaction by Lazard and Kraft by Centerview Partners.
Offices and management
3G Capital has offices in Rio de Janeiro and New York City and the firm is run by managing partner Alex Behring in New York.

Behring then became a partner in the largest private-equity firm in Latin America, GP Investimentos, from 1994 to 2004. There he learned about investing and mergers and acquisitions from his mentor, the billionaire Brazilian financier and the principal of 3G Capital, Jorge Paulo

Lemann. Lemann is a board member of Lojas Americanas S.A. and was a former board member of Gillette (where he first worked with Warren Buffett); chairman of the Latin American Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange; founder and board member of Fundação Estudar, which

provides scholarships for Brazilian students; and a member of the international advisory board of DaimlerChrysler.
Lemann is a co-founder of Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital, which owns brands such as Burger King, Anheuser-Busch and Heinz.[23] In September 2010, 3G launched

a $4 billion bid, at a 45% premium over market, for all the stock of Burger King. "3G was advised in the BK offer by Lazard, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays Capital and the law firm Kirkland & Ellis. In 1909, two attorneys, Stuart G. Shepard and Robert R. McCormick, formed the

Chicago-based partnership that would eventually become Kirkland & Ellis. Ken Starr – Whitewater special prosecutor and former Solicitor General under President George H. W. Bush

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