He has served on U.S. and international task forces investigating terrorist attacks, including as a member of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security under President Clinton, as advisor to the National Commission on Terrorism, and as senior advisor to the
president of RAND. From 1989-1998, Mr. Jenkins was deputy chairman of Kroll Associates, an international investigative and consulting firm. Before that, he was chairman of RAND’s Political Science Department, where he also directed RAND’s research on political violence.
On March 13, 2018, it was reported that Duff & Phelps Corp. would buy Kroll, Inc. The company was acquired five years later, in 1989, in a $146 million management buyout. The buyout was backed by Freeman, Spogli & Co., a private equity firm, which controlled approximately two-
thirds of the company, and management and employees owning the remaining third of the company's equity. On December 30, 2012, Duff & Phelps, announced that it had entered into a definitive merger agreement under which a consortium, comprising controlled affiliates of or funds
managed by The Carlyle Group, Stone Point Capital LLC, Pictet & Cie and Edmond de Rothschild Group.
After the acquisition of Kroll, Inc. in 2018, on 24 February 2021, Duff & Phelps announced plans to change the company name to Kroll. Certain Duff & Phelps businesses will operate as “Duff & Phelps, A Kroll Business,” for a period of time during the transition. “Companies are
working in a borderless world,” said Jeremy Kroll, a co-founder of K2 Intelligence, about online security threats. In December 2012, K2 Intelligence acquired Thacher Associates, which oversaw the cleanup of the World Trade Center site. Helped Harvey Weinstein cover up various
sexual assault allegations and worked with Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr. to protect Weinstein's reputation and at the same time silence and smear his victims character. Vance graduated from Kent School in 1935[6] and earned a bachelor's degree in 1939 from
Yale College,[6] where he was a member of the secret society Scroll and Key. He also earned three varsity letters in ice hockey at Yale. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1942.[6] While there, his classmates included Sargent Shriver, William Scranton, Stanley Rogers Resor,
and William Bundy, with all of whom he would later work. In 1957, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson asked Vance to leave Wall Street to work for the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, where he helped draft the National Aeronautics and Space Act, leading to the creation of
NASA.
In 1961, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recruited Vance to become General Counsel of the Department of Defense. Vance served as a deputy to W. Averell Harriman during the Paris Peace Accords, which were a failure due to the duplicity of the South Vietnamese.
Vance served as a deputy to W. Averell Harriman during the Paris Peace Accords, which were a failure due to the duplicity of the South Vietnamese. When revolution erupted in Iran in late 1978, the two were divided on how to support the United States' ally the Shah of Iran.
Vance argued in favor of reforms while Brzezinski urged him to crack down – the 'iron fist' approach. Unable to receive a direct course of action from Carter, the mixed messages that the Shah received from Vance and Brzezinski contributed to his confusion and indecision as he
fled Iran in January 1979 and his regime collapsed. His attempt to surreptitiously negotiate a solution to the Iran hostage crisis with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini through the Palestine Liberation Organization failed badly. Believing that diplomatic initiatives could see the
hostages safely returned home, Vance initially fought off attempts by Brzezinski to pursue a military solution. Vance, struggling with gout, went to Florida on Thursday, April 10, 1980, for a long weekend.[8] On Friday, the National Security Council held a newly scheduled
meeting and authorized Operation Eagle Claw, a military expedition into Tehran to rescue the hostages.[8] Deputy Secretary Warren Christopher, who attended the meeting in Vance's place, did not inform him.[8]
Furious, on April 21[10] Vance handed in his resignation on principle,
calling Brzezinski "evil". The only Secretaries of State who had previously resigned in protest were Lewis Cass, who resigned in the buildup to the Civil War, and William Jennings Bryan, who resigned in the buildup to World War I.
It's not possible to verify Mr Whelan's account as even defence lawyers here have to sign a non-disclosure agreement in spy trials and the court hearings themselves were closed and top-secret.
But Paul Whelan was led to believe that Russia wanted to trade him from the start.
He says two names were always mentioned: arms dealer Victor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko, convicted on a drug smuggling charge - Russians in prison in the United States. Elizabeth Whelan has created photoshopped images of her next to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov while
holding a sign that says "Free Paul Whelan"
She's been trying to nudge things along, posting flash drives to the Russian foreign ministry stamped with the hashtag #freepaulwhelan. They were posted back.
Once a globe-trotting security adviser, Paul Whelan now spends his days
sewing prison uniforms in the camp "workhouse", his fate deeply entangled in the dire relationship between Moscow and the Wes
He started as an IT project manager for a company called Kelly Services in the early 2000s, but deployed with the marines within a couple of years on the first of two tours to Iraq, in 2004 and then 2006. He left the company in 2016, moving to become director of global security
for US-based automotive components supplier BorgWarner.
Russia's FSB state security agency says he was "caught spying" in Moscow.
There were uncorroborated reports he had been caught receiving a digital storage device containing a list of intelligence officials.
There was also
speculation over other possible motives for the arrest - including a suggestion Mr Whelan was detained so he could be exchanged with Maria Butina, a Russian gun rights activist, who was jailed in the US in December 2018. She was deported back to Russia in October 2019.
David
Whelan, meanwhile, has dismissed the allegations as nonsense.
"I can't imagine how someone with a law enforcement background who is also a former US Marine, and who is now working in corporate security and is also aware of the risks of travel, would have broken any law let alone
the law related to espionage," he said. Former CIA officers have stated that the CIA would not recruit an officer with Whelan's military record, nor leave an officer exposed without a diplomatic passport. They further claim that Whelan's arrest is connected to tensions between
Russia and the United States, including the detention of confessed unregistered foreign agent Maria Butina. On December 20, 2018, when discussing Butina's arrest, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia "will not arrest innocent people simply to exchange them".[1]
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr. met with Whelan on January 2, while Whelan was in Russian custody.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
The Global Health Security Index is an assessment of global health security capabilities in 195 countries prepared by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_He…
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
In 2006 (with updates in 2008, 2010 and every year since), the Economist Intelligence Unit released the Democracy Index.
The current members of the board of directors of The Economist Group are: Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman),
Zanny Minton Beddoes (editor-in-chief of The Economist), Lady Suzanne Heywood, Brent Hoberman, David Bell, John Elkann, Alex Karp, Sir Simon Robertson, Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Chris Stibbs and Baroness Jowell, Mustafa Suleyman.
OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board of Directors | OpenAI
Nakasone’s insights will also contribute to OpenAI’s efforts to better understand how AI can be used to strengthen cybersecurity by quickly detecting and responding openai.com/index/openai-a…
to cybersecurity threats.
In 2023 and 2024, OpenAI faced multiple lawsuits for alleged copyright infringementagainst authors and media companies whose work was used to train some of OpenAI's products. In November 2023, OpenAI's board removed Sam Altman as CEO, citing a lack of
confidence in him, but reinstated him five days later following a reconstruction of the board. Throughout 2024, roughly half of then-employed AI safety researchers left OpenAI, citing the company's prominent role in an industry-wide problem.
Paul Nakasone joined the board of OpenAI in June 2024.
In November 2023, OpenAI's board removed Sam Altman as CEO, citing a lack of confidence in him, but reinstated him five days later following a reconstruction of the board. Throughout 2024, roughly half of then-employed AI
safety researchers left OpenAI, citing the company's prominent role in an industry-wide problem.
On May 15, 2024, Ilya Sutskever resigned and was replaced with Jakub Pachocki to be the Chief Scientist.
At Google Brain, Sutskever worked with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Viet Le to
create the sequence-to-sequence learning algorithm, and worked on TensorFlow. He is also one of the AlphaGo paper's many co-authors.
AlphaGo and its successors use a Monte Carlo tree search algorithm.
Andy Marshall worked at the RAND Corporation in the 1950s and 1960s, a group
Europol has its origins in TREVI, a forum for security cooperation created amongst European Community interior and justice ministers in 1976. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europol
The creation of TREVI was prompted by several terrorist acts, most notably the hostage taking and subsequent massacreduring the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, and the inability of Interpol at that time to effectively assist the European countries in combatting terrorism.
The documentary film One Day in September claims that security in the athletes' Village was inadequate for the Games.
In 2006, Abu Daoud gave several personal interviews after the release of the Steven Spielberg film Munich revived discussions of the massacre.
Subculturing the particularly virulent Asibi strain from West Africa in chicken embryos, a technique pioneered by Ernest Goodpasture, the Rockefeller team sought to obtain an attenuated strain of the virus that would not kill mice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Theil…
when injected into their brains. It took until 1937, and more than 100 subcultures in chicken embryos, for Theiler and his colleague Hugh Smith to obtain an attenuated strain, which they named "17D". Animal tests showed the attenuated 17D mutant was safe and immunizing.
Theiler's team rapidly completed the development of a 17D vaccine, and the Rockefeller Foundation began human trials in South America. Between 1940 and 1947, the Rockefeller Foundation produced more than 28 million doses of the vaccine and finally ended yellow fever as a major
During the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign of Donald Trump, and subsequently, Trump aides Michael Flynn and Jared Kushner were engaged in promoting IP3 International's plan to transfer nuclear technology from the US to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP3_Inter…
Saudi Arabia, for use in a proposed joint US-Russian project, in possible violation of the Atomic Energy Act.
In January 2017, Derek Harvey, a retired Army intelligence officer, former staffer for David Petraeus, and then-staffer of the National Security Council under
Michael Flynn, advocated for the IP3 nuclear sales plan.
Notable personnel include:
•Keith B. Alexander, cofounder and director, retired Army general, former director of the National Security Agency
•James “Hoss” Cartwright, director, retired Marine Corps general,