Fred Burton

Fred Burton

Fred Burton is Stratfor's Vice President for Counterterrorism and Corporate Security, and is "one of the world's foremost experts on security, terrorists and terrorist organizations."

Burton was a special agent with the Diplomatic Security Service for a few years and then left the Foreign Service to become a Civil Service analyst in DSS' Intelligence and Threat Analysis branch for the remainder of his career in the State Department.

Burton was also appointed by Washington to assist in the investigation of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He is the former deputy chief of the counterterrorism division of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service. Mr. Burton also investigated the killing of Rabbi Meir Kahane; the al Qaeda New York City bombing plots before 9/11; and the Libyan-backed terrorist attacks against diplomats in Sanaa and Khartoum. He was involved in the arrest of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.

Burton is the author of a memoir, , published by Random House in June 2008.

Burton has most recently been appointed to the Texas Border Security Council on September 11, 2007 by Governor Rick Perry. [ [http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/press/appointments/Appointment.2007-09-11.5441 Texas Governor Rick Perry - Appointment - September 11, 2007 ] ]

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* [http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/2786/documentid/2796/history/3,2359,2166,1306,2786,2796 Article by Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs]


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