Scowcroft,Brent

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In November 2001, a high-level presidential commission plans to recommend that the Pentagon's three largest intelligence-collection agencies be transferred to the director of central intelligence in a major restructuring of the intelligence community, according to sources familiar with the panel's findings. Leader of that proposal was Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, the new chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Bush created the panel in May 2001, when he charged CIA Director George J. Tenet (->) with conducting a comprehensive review of the intelligence system. The panel was asked to produce plans for a reorganization of the system to meet the challenges of new threats and technologies. Compare: http://elitewatch.netfirms.com/Scowcroft_group.html

Brent Scowcroft was formerly President Bush's father's National Security Advisor. In 1998, he supported an alliance of Amoco, British Petroleum, Chevron, Exxon, Mobil and Unocal, leading a multi-billion dollar contract to extract oil reserves from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, the three countries that surround the Caspian together with Russia and Iran. Profiting from that oil deal was Azerbaijan president Heydar Aliyev, former Communist Party Secretary and KGB chief in Baku; Turkmenistan president Saparmurat Niyazov, the former chairman of the Supreme Soviet in Ashkhabad; Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev, a former member of Soviet Politburo; as well as Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, former Soviet foreign minister and Politburo member. Other dealmakers in that year had been James Baker (->, former Secretary of State), Dick Cheney (at that time chief executive of UNOCAL-contractor Halliburton ->), John Sununu (former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser, Secretary of Defense), Lloyd Bentsen (former Treasury Secretary under President Clinton and shareholder in Frontera Resources, an oil services company working in Azerbaijan), Zbigniew Brzezinski (->, former National Security Adviser under President Carter and that time consultant to Amoco), Tim Eggar (former British Energy Minister and chief executive of Monument Oil) and Malcolm Rifkind (former British Foreign Minister under the Conservatives and on the board of Ramco Oil). Brent Scowcroft earned US$130,000 dollars for advising Pennzoil and the multinational Azerbaijan consortium. In Summer 2002, Scowcroft, Henry Kissinger (->) and Brzezinsky criticised President Bush on his war plans against Iraq.