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US intelligence officer, writer
Paul B. Henze
Born Paul Bernard Henze
(1924-08-29 ) August 29, 1924Died May 19, 2011(2011-05-19) (aged 86) Occupation
intelligence officer
Paul Bernard Henze (29 August 1924,
Redwood Falls – 19 May 2011,
Culpeper ) was an
American broadcaster, writer and
CIA operative. He was involved with
Radio Free Europe and wrote The Plot to Kill the Pope which advocated the view that the
Bulgarians were involved in an assassination attempt on
John Paul II in 1981.
[2]
Henze encouraged
Zbigniew Brzezinski in the formation of the
Nationalities Working Group in 1978, of which Henze was appointed head.
[3] Influenced by his friend
Alexandre Bennigsen , this group advocated the promotion of
islamism as a tool for undermining Soviet hegemony in
Central Asia .
Works
Henze has published 156 works, including:
[4]
Layers of Time : A History of Ethiopia (35 editions, 1999–2004)
ISBN
1137117869
The Plot to Kill the Pope (18 editions, 1983–1985)
ISBN
068418060X
The Horn of Africa : From War to Peace (18 editions, 1991–2016)
ISBN
9781349214563
References
^ Brown, Emma (June 2, 2011).
"Paul B. Henze, former CIA and national security specialist, dies at 86" .
The Washington Post . Retrieved 2023-06-23 .
^ Golden, Jill; Yamada, Rachel.
"Inventory of the Paul B. Henze papers" . Online Archive of California . California Digital Library. Retrieved 16 October 2018 .
^ Kalinovsky, Artemy M. (2015).
"Encouraging Resistance: Paul Henze, the Bennigsen school, and the crisis of détente" . Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies During the Cold War .
doi :
10.4324/9781315758619-8 . Retrieved 16 October 2018 .
^
"Henze, Paul B. 1924-2011" .
WorldCat Identities .
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