#StateDepartment
8 entries tagged StateDepartment.
People (6)
- Dean Acheson Dean Acheson was Secretary of State under Truman from 1949 to 1953 who helped design the Truman Doctrine, NATO, and the Marshall Plan, pushed through NSC-68 which militarized containment over George Kennan's objections, and managed U.S. policy through the Korean War.
- Dean Rusk Rockefeller Foundation president from 1952 to 1960 who became Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson, sealing the Foundation's pipeline into the State Department and overseeing the diplomatic side of the 1964 Brazil coup and the 1967 Bolivia operation against Che Guevara.
- George Kennan George Kennan was the U.S. diplomat and historian who originated the 'containment' doctrine for confronting Soviet power, articulated in his 1946 Long Telegram from Moscow and his 1947 X Article in Foreign Affairs, and spent his subsequent decades watching the doctrine distorted into forms he had never intended and repeatedly arguing against its militarized implementation.
- George Marshall George Marshall was the U.S. Army Chief of Staff during World War II and Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949 who proposed the European Recovery Program that bears his name, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953, and was attacked by Senator Joseph McCarthy in one of the most reckless moments of the Red Scare.
- Paul Nitze Paul Nitze was the U.S. foreign policy official who authored NSC-68 in 1950 - replacing George Kennan's political containment with a militarized framework - and remained a central figure in American arms control and nuclear strategy debates for five decades, from the Truman administration through Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
- William Burns William J. Burns is an American diplomat and intelligence official who served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, president of the Carnegie Endowment, and Director of Central Intelligence from 2021 to 2025 under Joe Biden, and whose multiple 2014 meetings with Jeffrey Epstein at the Epstein Manhattan townhouse were documented in the Wall Street Journal's 2023 review of the Epstein calendars.
Events (1)
- U.S. Government Designations of Accelerationist-Russia Nexus U.S. government formal actions identifying the Russian state-adjacent accelerationist nexus span 2020-2025 and include the State Department's first-ever white supremacist SDGT designation (Russian Imperial Movement, April 2020), ODNI's 2021 DVE assessment acknowledging transnational white supremacist connections, and the 2025 FTO debate over The Base.
Concepts (1)
- NSC-68 NSC-68 was the April 1950 National Security Council policy document authored by Paul Nitze that argued Soviet military strength required the United States to quadruple defense spending, replacing George Kennan's political containment doctrine with a militarized framework that defined American Cold War strategy for the following decade.