James Akins

James Elmer Akins (born 1926 Ohio) was the US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1973 to 1975. He is also a fellow on the Iran Policy Committee [1] Curiously, he has also been involved with the If Americans Knew, an organization critical of Israel.

Akins is reported to have been sacked as US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, following his denunciation of a plan put forward for the US occupation of the Middle East in a contemporary article "Seizing Arab Oil" [2]. This article is said to have been written by Henry Kissinger. [3]

Articles by James Akins

• The New Arabia,1991
• Why Do They Hate Us?, December 24, 2001
• The Arabists, April 16, 1994

External links

• Co-Chair Biographies, Iran Policy Committee website, accessed February 2005.
• An interview with James Akins, PBS Online, 2000.
• Robert Dreyfuss, The Thirty-Year Itch, Mother Jones Magazine, March/April 2003.
• Biography from the University of Akron