Henry Kissinger

Biography of Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger was the Secretary of State of the United States. He was a German who later became an American citizen. He has served under Presidents Nixon and Ford. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in bringing peace to Vietnam.

Henry Kissinger Quotes
Henry Alfred Kissinger is an American political scientist, think-tank, diplomat and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Read on for some famous Henry Kissinger Quotes.

Kissinger backed dirty war against left in Argentina
Transcripts show former secretary of state urged violent crackdown on opposition. Henry Kissinger gave Argentina's military junta the green light to suppress political opposition at the start of the "dirty war" in 1976, telling the country's foreign minister:

Kissinger Approved Argentinian 'dirty War'
Declassified US files expose 1970s backing for junta. Henry Kissinger gave his approval to the "dirty war" in Argentina in the 1970s in which up to 30,000 people were killed, according to newly declassified US state department documents.

Merope Mills: Not As Young As It Was
Labour is haemorrhaging student support, while Tory youth are once again on the march. "Student politics," said Henry Kissinger, "are the most vicious kind of politics that exist, because the stakes are so low." For a long time, they were also the most predictable.

Kissinger Resigns As Chairman of Inquiry Into September 11 Attacks
Faced with a choice between his new appointment as the head of an inquiry investigating the September 11 attacks and keeping his business contacts secret, Henry Kissinger last night chose the path of discretion and resigned from the inquiry. The resignation came just over two weeks after...

Mitchell Quits Kissinger's 9/11 Inquiry
The former US senator George Mitchell resigned yesterday from a commission set up to investigate the September 11 terrorist attacks, just weeks after the controversial appointment of the former secretary of state Henry Kissinger as chairman. Mr Mitchell, who played a key role in the Good...

Henry's revenge
The vastly different reactions on each side of the Atlantic to Henry Kissinger's return to the political centre stage says a lot about the constantly widening gap in political perceptions between the US and Europe.

Kissinger, 79, Returns From the Political Grave
Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state who has been accused of war crimes by his critics, was yesterday appointed by George Bush to head the investigation into the September 11 attacks. It represents the latest in a series of moves by the president to rehabilitate previously...

Kissinger May Face Extradition to Chile
Henry Kissinger may face extradition proceedings in connection with the role of the United States in the 1973 military coup in Chile.

Kissinger Admits Possible Errors on Vietnam
Henry Kissinger yesterday responded to calls for his arrest for allegedly aiding and abetting war crimes by admitting that mistakes were "quite possibly" made by the administrations in which he served. As the former US secretary of state told an audience of British business leaders at the...

Kissinger: Mistakes May Have Been Made
As human rights campaigners demonstrated outside the Royal Albert Hall in London, the target of their protest, Henry Kissinger, today admitted inside it was possible that "mistakes were made" by the US administrations he served in. But the former secretary of state questioned whether a...

Tatchell Fails in Attempted Arrest of Kissinger
Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell today lost a court battle to have Henry Kissinger arrested in London on allegations of war crimes in Vietnam. His bid was the second request concerning the former US secretary of state to be turned down this week. Baltasar Garzon, the...

Kissinger Testimony Pleas Refused
Britain has turned down requests from judges in Spain and France to interview former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger as a witness in cases they are pursuing for genocide, terrorism, torture and murder against General Pinochet and others. The Home Office has told Spanish judge...

Plea to Britain in Kissinger Witness Case
British authorities have been asked to decide whether a Spanish and a French judge representing the victims of General Pinochet's military regime in Chile can travel to London next week to interview Henry Kissinger as a witness in a terrorism and genocide case. The unprecedented request...

Met Asked to Question Kissinger
The Spanish judge who was responsible for the arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in Britain in October 1998 is attempting to have Henry Kissinger interviewed by British police when he arrives in London next week. Judge Baltasar Garzon has told the British authorities via Interpol that he...

Pinochet Judge Asks to Question Kissinger
The Spanish judge who attempted to prosecute General Pinochet for crimes against humanity has requested permission to question Henry Kissinger, it emerged today. The former US secretary of state is wanted for questioning by Baltasar Garzon over his alleged involvement in a plot by former...

Kissinger May Face Chilean Court Over Coup Killing
The former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger may finally have to face court action over Washington's role in the overthrow of the Chilean government in 1973 and the bloody events that followed it. Mr Kissinger has been formally asked by an investigating judge in Chile to respond to...

Kissinger rated No 1 brain
There are lists of the best films and the best cricketers and the best books. There are even books of lists of lists. But the latest list to be published might prove to be one too far. A list of the world's supposed top 100 public intellectuals is provoking very uncerebral rows over the...