Richard V. Allen
Richard " Dick" Vincent Allen ( born January 1, 1936 in Collingswood, Camden County, New Jersey ) is a former National Security Advisor to the U.S., after less than one year tenure of this function on the 4 January 1982 on charges of alleged embezzlement withdrew $ 1,000.
Life
After schooling Allen studied first at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA ) from. A thereat followed postgraduate studies in political science, he finished in 1958 with a Master of Arts (MA Political Science ). He also completed guest of study at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg and the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich.
Allen, who is a member of the Republican Party, was a member of the advisory board of the Republican National Committee for National Security and International Affairs. After working as a senior staff member of the Hoover Institution from 1966 to 1968, he was the first foreign policy coordinator of the Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon, and after his election in 1969 deputy for some time National Security Advisor of the United States.
He later became the chief foreign policy adviser to Ronald Reagan. " Dick, my idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple, and some will probably say too simple: In January 1977 he said this in Los Angeles. It is this: We win and they bestowed. What do you think? " Allen agreed to this and after Reagan won the presidential election on November 4, 1980, Allen was appointed by the latter to the National Security Advisor and stepped formally appointed on 20 January 1981.
After less than one year of tenure, he resigned on January 4, 1982, after it came to internal political disagreements in the government, which impacted his relationship with the President sustainable. At this time, there were rumors that he had allegedly embezzled $ 1,000 for an interview with First Lady Nancy Reagan from a Japanese magazine, although investigation Ministry of Justice as well as the legal adviser to the White House revealed that there were no durable evidence for these claims.
In fact, this process should have taken place as follows: Allen attempted an interview with the Japanese magazine mediate, but was unsuccessful for some reason. Then some White House staff arranged the interview happened to be present at the Allen. After the interview, the Japanese journalist tried the $ 1,000 fee to the First Lady handed, but he took the money and handed this to his secretary with instructions to send the fee to the Ministry of Finance. Unfortunately, the Secretary deposited the money in Allen's office safe and forgot about this there.
Since 1988 he has worked for the Council for National Policy, a founded in 1981 by the conservative evangelicals Tim LaHaye forum to promote the political and Christian right.
In addition, he was involved in countless foreign and security affairs within governmental and non-governmental organizations and was responsible for the National Security Council, the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Defense, the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, the advisory board of the Capital Research Center, the Board the Catholic Campaign for America, the advisory board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies ( CSIS), the Committee on the Present Danger, the Council on Foreign Relations, the trustee board of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI ), the advisory board of the International Crisis Group (ICG ), the Project for the New American Century ( PNAC ), the Nixon Center and the Board of Governors of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
In addition, Allen was, who is also a member of the Order of Malta Souvernänen, Distinguished Fellow of the Heritage Foundation and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution.