“Dr. Pieczenik has great contacts in the American intelligence community.”
I doubt it. His bestsellers were all fiction.
“Dr. Pieczenik has great contacts in the American intelligence community.”
I doubt it. His bestsellers were all fiction.
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Eh, Tho Dr. Pieczenik did write fiction**, actually he has a lot more on his resume...There is more, but I think you get the point...He is pretty smart guy, and he probably does have connections. He has controversies too...Go to Wikipedia if you wish to read further...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik
Pieczenik is a classical pianist and wrote a full-length musical at the age of eight.[4]
Pieczenik is a Harvard University-trained psychiatrist and has a doctorate in international relations from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[3]
Pieczenik’s autobiography notes that he attended Booker T. Washington High School in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Pieczenik received a full scholarship to Cornell University at the age of 16.[3] According to Pieczenik, he received a BA degree in Pre-Medicine and Psychology from Cornell in 1964, and later attended Cornell University Medical College. He attained his PhD in international relations from MIT while studying at Harvard Medical School.[4] Pieczenik claims to be the first psychiatrist ever to receive a PhD focusing on international relations.[5]
While doing his psychiatric residency at Harvard, he was awarded the Harry E. Solomon award for his paper entitled: “The hierarchy of ego-defense mechanisms in foreign policy decision making”.[3]
An article written by Pieczenik, “Psychological dimensions of international dependency”, appears in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 132(4), Apr 1975, 428-431.[6]
Professional life
Pieczenik was DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance and James Baker.[3] His expertise includes foreign policy, international crisis management and psychological warfare.[7] He served the presidential administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the capacity of deputy assistant secretary.[8]
In 1974, Pieczenik joined the US State Department as a consultant to help in the restructuring of its Office for the Prevention of Terrorism.[2]
In 1976, Pieczenik was made Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for management.[2][5][9][10]
At the US State Department, he served as a “specialist on hostage taking”.[11] He has been credited with devising successful negotiating strategies and tactics used in several high-profile hostage situations, including the 1976 TWA Flight 355 hostage situation and the 1977 kidnapping of the son of Cyprus’ president.[2] He was involved in negotiations for the release of Aldo Moro after Moro was kidnapped.[12] As a renowned psychiatrist, he was utilized as a press source for early information on the mental state of the hostages involved in the Iranian hostage crisis after they were freed.[13] In 1977, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Mary McGrory described Stephen Pieczenik as “one of the most ‘brilliantly competent’ men in the field of terrorism”.[14] He worked “side by side” with Police Chief Maurice J. Cullinane in the Washington, D.C. command center of Mayor Walter Washington during the 1977 Hanafi Siege.[15] In 1978, Pieczenik was known as “a psychiatrist and political scientist in the U.S. State Department whose credentials and experiences are probably unique among officials handling terrorist situations”.[2]
On September 17, 1978 the Camp David Accords were signed. Pieczenik was at the secret Camp David negotiations leading up to the signing of the Accords. He worked out strategy and tactics based on psychopolitical dynamics. He correctly predicted that given their common backgrounds, Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin would get along.[3]
In 1979, he resigned as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State over the handling of the Iranian hostage crisis.[4
....more at Wikipedia
**Fiction authors have noted that it is actually easier to get background source information when writing a novel as opposed to a non-fiction work...Many true facts are incorporated into fiction based on off-the-record contacts with alphabet agencies, etc.