Sean Cleary - Revision history

David: /* Notes */

2021-11-23T15:56:23Z

Notes

David: /* Notes */

2021-11-23T15:33:00Z

Notes

David: /* Notes */

2021-11-23T15:32:39Z

Notes

Melissa Jones: category

2011-05-17T12:34:48Z

Steven Harkins at 08:15, 29 June 2010

2010-06-29T08:15:06Z

Steven Harkins at 08:14, 29 June 2010

2010-06-29T08:14:35Z

Melissa Jones at 22:43, 28 June 2010

2010-06-28T22:43:03Z

Steven Harkins: /* Publications, Resources and Notes */

2010-06-25T21:52:54Z

Publications, Resources and Notes

Claire Robinson at 13:06, 10 May 2010

2010-05-10T13:06:31Z

David: /* South African Propaganda in Namibia */

2010-05-10T07:36:51Z

South African Propaganda in Namibia

@@ Line 157: / Line 157: @@
 ===Notes===
 <references/>
-[[Category:PMC People]][[Category:Apartheid Lobby]]
+[[Category:PMC People]][[Category:Apartheid lobby|Cleary]]

@@ Line 157: / Line 157: @@
 ===Notes===
 <references/>
-[[Category:PMC People]][[Cat3egory:Apartheid Lobby]]
+[[Category:PMC People]][[Category:Apartheid Lobby]]

@@ Line 157: / Line 157: @@
 ===Notes===
 <references/>
-[[Category:PMC People]]
+[[Category:PMC People]][[Cat3egory:Apartheid Lobby]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 12:34, 17 May 2011
Line 157:		Line 157:
	===Notes===		===Notes===
	<references/>		<references/>
		+	[[Category:PMC People]]

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 [[Sean Cleary]] (born 26 October 1948) was a South African military intelligence operative in the 1960s and later became a south African diplomat based, among other places, in the US.<ref>Sean Cleary, [http://www.wkforum.org/WKF/speakers/viewspeaker_2002_e.php?lecturer_code=1602&year=2002 Speakers: World Knowledge Forum 2002], ''World Knowledge Program'', Accessed 10-September-2009</ref> After leaving the diplomatic service Clearly set up a series of companies in London and elsewhere. Some of these were reported as being lobbying and propaganda fronts for the Apartheid regime. In addition Cleary acted as spokesperson for [[Jonas Savimbi]] of [[UNITA]] the US and Apartheid proxy engaged in subverting the Angolan government.<ref>Elaine Windrich, [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=6724 Angola's War Economy: The Role of Oil and Diamonds], ''HNet Book Reviews'', Accessed 11-September-2009</ref> For example, Cleary's company [[Strategy Network International]] was described by ''The Guardian'' as being a key part of "an extensive network of right-wing organizations linked to the South African government". According to their investigation the company was "set up in the 1980s by Sean Cleary, a former South African diplomat who once served in Washington. Cleary's group spearheaded the 1989 election campaign in Namibia for pro-South African politicians running against the Namibian independence movement, Swapo".
-His firm [[Strategy Network International]] was responsible for facilitating and financing the visit of Conservative MP's including [[David Cameron]] to foster sympathy for the regime in apartheid South Africa.<ref>Jane Merrick and James Hanning, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-camerons-freebie-to-apartheid-south-africa-1674367.html Cameron's freebie to apartheid South Africa], The Independent, 26-April-2009</ref> In 2003 Cleary was a non-executive chairman of security firm [[Erinys International]]'s African subsidiary. Cleary is also Chairman of [[Transcontinental Consultancy]] (Pty) Ltd, fellow of the [[World Economic Forum]], and a Trustee of the South African Foundation for Conciliation, and the Peace and Reconstruction Foundation.
+His firm [[Strategy Network International]] was responsible for facilitating and financing the visit of Conservative MP's including [[David Cameron]] to foster sympathy for the regime in apartheid South Africa.<ref>Jane Merrick and James Hanning, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-camerons-freebie-to-apartheid-south-africa-1674367.html Cameron's freebie to apartheid South Africa], ''The Independent'', 26-April-2009</ref> In 2003 Cleary was a non-executive chairman of security firm [[Erinys International]]'s African subsidiary. Cleary is also Chairman of [[Transcontinental Consultancy]] (Pty) Ltd, fellow of the [[World Economic Forum]], and a Trustee of the South African Foundation for Conciliation, and the Peace and Reconstruction Foundation.
 Cleary was a member of the Facilitating Committee and the Preparatory Committee of the National Peace Accord, and Chairman of the Working Group on the Code of Conduct for Political Parties and Organizations. He served on several national Advisory Committees in Namibia between 1985 and 1989<ref>Sean Cleary, [http://www.wkforum.org/WKF/speakers/viewspeaker_2002_e.php?lecturer_code=1602&year=2002 Speakers: World Knowledge Forum 2002], ''World Knowledge Program'', Accessed 10-September-2009</ref>. In 2009 Cleary attended a conference entitled [[Enriching the Middle East's Economic Future Confidence]]<ref>Sean Cleary, [http://www.qatar-conferences.org/enriching2009/program.php Global Conflict and Cooperation in a New Era], ''Enriching the Middle East's Economic Future Confidence, Conference'', Accessed 11-September-2009</ref>. He is also on the board of directors at the [[International Foundation for Electoral Systems]]<ref>Sean Cleary, [http://www.ifes.org/board.html Board], ''IFES'', Accessed 11-September-2009</ref>and is listed as a volunteer on the [[Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow]] website<ref>Sean Cleary, [http://www.asmasociety.org/mlt2006/volunteers.html Volunteers], Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow, Accessed 11-September-2009</ref>. Cleary attended the 2009 [[Milken Institute]] Global Conference<ref>Sean Cleary, [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS214526+06-May-2009+BW20090506 Operation HOPE Announces Continued Partnership with Premiere Radio Networks during The Milken Institute Global Conference 2009], Reuters, 6-May-2009</ref>.

@@ Line 146: / Line 146: @@
 *Sean Cleary, 'Angola – A case study of private military involvement'in Jakkie Cilliers, Christian Dietrich, eds. ''Angola's War Economy: The Role of Oil and Diamonds''. Pretoria: [[Institute for Security Studies]], 2000. X + 370 pp. $16.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-620-26645-1.
 *Sean Cleary  & Thierry Malleret,(2007) ''Global Risk: Business Success in Turbulent Times'' (2006), Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN-10: 0230525318 ISBN-13: 978-0230525313
 ===Resources===

@@ Line 28: / Line 28: @@
 :The company also appears to be acting as a recruiting agency for the South-West African Defence Force, the Namibian contigent of the South African Army fighting Swapo guerrillas in the territory. Mr [[Daniel Hill]], an unemployed Irish citizen from Cardiff, approached the group two weeks ago and asked to join the Namibian armed forces. He said yesterday that Mr Watson had told him he would arrange for a visa and find out whether he could join the Army.<ref>Richard Dowden, 'Nambia regime blighted by propaganda feud in London / South Africa's attempts to gain international credibility for its administration', ''The Times'',  2-November-1985, Accessed via Nexis UK, 11-September-2009</ref>.
-Sean Cleary was instrumental in setting up a 1985 meeting between South African Defence Chief General Meiring and SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma. General [[Georg Meiring]] was the former chief of the South African army and the last Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF) under the apartheid regime in 1993-94 and the first chief of the South African National Defence Force from 1994-1998<ref>Hilton Hamann, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mYgWcHq8lE8C&pg=PA78&dq=%22sean+cleary%22&ei=fQDHSqLBIIayzgSDm5D5Aw#v=onepage&q=%22sean%20cleary%22&f=false Days of the Generals], Accessed via Google Books, pp 66 31-October-2001, Zebra Press, Accessed 08-October-2009</ref>. Meiring said of the brief unsucessful meeting that "My impression is it was an initiative by [[Willie van Niekirk]] and Sean Cleary and that later they knew about it in Foreign Affairs but not while it was happening"<ref>Hilton Hamann, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mYgWcHq8lE8C&pg=PA78&dq=%22sean+cleary%22&ei=fQDHSqLBIIayzgSDm5D5Aw#v=onepage&q=%22sean%20cleary%22&f=false Days of the Generals], Accessed via Google Books, pp 78 31-October-2001, Zebra Press, Accessed 08-October-2009</ref>. Meiring thought that the U.S. were involved in setting the meeting up, he said "the meeting was set up to discuss how we could come to grips with each other politically. I think it was put together through the instigation of the Americans. Sean (Cleary) had lots of contacts in the States and he put the thing together". Meiring says of the meeting:
+Sean Cleary was instrumental in setting up a 1985 meeting between South African Defence Chief General Meiring and SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma. General [[Georg Meiring]] was the former chief of the South African army and the last Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF) under the apartheid regime in 1993-94 and the first chief of the South African National Defence Force from 1994-1998<ref>Hilton Hamann, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mYgWcHq8lE8C&pg=PA78&dq=%22sean+cleary%22&ei=fQDHSqLBIIayzgSDm5D5Aw#v=onepage&q=%22sean%20cleary%22&f=false Days of the Generals], Accessed via Google Books, pp 66 31-October-2001, Zebra Press, Accessed 08-October-2009</ref>. Meiring said of the brief unsuccessful meeting that "My impression is it was an initiative by [[Willie van Niekirk]] and Sean Cleary and that later they knew about it in Foreign Affairs but not while it was happening"<ref>Hilton Hamann, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mYgWcHq8lE8C&pg=PA78&dq=%22sean+cleary%22&ei=fQDHSqLBIIayzgSDm5D5Aw#v=onepage&q=%22sean%20cleary%22&f=false Days of the Generals], Accessed via Google Books, pp 78 31-October-2001, Zebra Press, Accessed 08-October-2009</ref>. Meiring thought that the U.S. were involved in setting the meeting up, he said "the meeting was set up to discuss how we could come to grips with each other politically. I think it was put together through the instigation of the Americans. Sean (Cleary) had lots of contacts in the States and he put the thing together". Meiring says of the meeting:
 :"It was strange when I came face to face with Nujoma for the first time. There was no hatred. I didn't feel anything at all. I had this experience later with the ANC. I wasn't fighting this guy personally. I was more curious about what he was like as a person. How does he speak?... What type of person is he? He's a moron, but that's beside the point. He wasn't impressive at all. He still understood Afrikaans well. At one stage during the discussions I said "Nujoma, ''jou gat'', man!" (Nujoma, your backside, man)and he just laughed at me"<ref>Hilton Hamann, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mYgWcHq8lE8C&pg=PA78&dq=%22sean+cleary%22&ei=fQDHSqLBIIayzgSDm5D5Aw#v=onepage&q=%22sean%20cleary%22&f=false Days of the Generals], Accessed via Google Books, pp 78 31-October-2001, Zebra Press, Accessed 08-October-2009</ref>.