Sec. of State Anthony Blinken’s father was Sam Pisar:
It was an unusual sight: An American advocating on behalf of Soviets in the Soviet legal system.
But, in a sense, Pisar was the perfect man for the job. For years, he’d pushed for greater Western engagement with the Soviet Union and other adversarial nations, saying that through increased connections, chiefly trade, East and West could reduce the risk of a catastrophic military clash and improve the lives of people living under oppressive regimes. He encapsulated his ideas in a 1970 book titled Coexistence & Commerce as well as other writings, and his work informed U.S. presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
Pisar’s life story is remarkable on many levels. He was one of the youngest survivors of Adolf Hitler’s death camps, whisked to freedom by U.S. troops; he went from European black marketeer to receiving doctorates in law from Harvard and the Sorbonne; he advised French and American presidents and was granted U.S. citizenship through a special act of Congress; he served as a lawyer for Hollywood stars, corporate bigwigs, UNESCO and the International Olympic Committee; he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize; he wrote new text for Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3 (“Kaddish”) that shared his story through a conversation with God; and to his final days he worked to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.
Samuel Pisar at the Auschwitz Memorial in front of a map showing different locations from which people were deported to Auschwitz.Pisar, who died in 2015, also left a lasting imprint on the man tapped to be America’s next secretary of State: his stepson, Antony Blinken. A suave, self-assured diplomat, Blinken has often spoken of how Pisar’s Holocaust survival story instilled in him the importance of maintaining America’s status as a beacon of freedom on a planet where too many remain in shackles.”
And even more interestingly, Pisar was the lawyer of fraudster and Mossad operative Robert Maxwell.... and thus a friend of sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, his daughter and long-time lover and pimp of pedophile and Mossad-operative Jeffrey Epstein.
Tweet (Jaak Waller):
“Curiously left out of this family history was the fact that his biological father founded private equity firm Warburg Pincus with Eric Warburg, nephew of Paul Warburg architect of the Federal Reserve System. Totally normal Americana stuff.”
Tweet (Mark Ames):