Gary Sick
Gary G. Sick (born 1935) is an American academic and analyst of Middle East affairs, with special expertise on Iran, who served on the U.S. National Security Council under Presidents Ford, Carter, and for a couple weeks under Reagan as well. He has authored three books, and is perhaps best known to the wider public for voicing support for elements of the October Surprise conspiracy theory regarding the Iran hostage crisis and the 1980 presidential election.
Biographical profile
Sick is a retired captain in the U.S. Navy. He received a BA from University of Kansas in 1957, a Master of Science degree at George Washington University in 1970, followed by a PhD in political science at Columbia University in 1973.
Sick served on the staff of the National Security Council under President Carter, and was the principal White House aide for Persian Gulf affairs from 1976 to 1981, a period which included the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis.
After leaving government service, Sick served as Deputy Director for International Affairs at the Ford Foundation from 1982 to 1987, and is the executive director of the Gulf/2000 Project at Columbia University (1993–present), which has published five books and numbers many of the leading scholars on the Persian Gulf among its global membership. He is an adjunct professor of International Affairs and a senior research scholar at Columbia's School of International & Public Affairs, where he has been voted one of the top professors. He is emeritus member of the board of directors of Human Rights Watch, and serves as founding chair of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch/Middle East.
'Gary Sick' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
StuxNet: Cyberwar (2011)
Actors: Ali Abbasnejad (actor), Mehdi Aroom (actor), Luis Corrons (actor), Mohsen Mehdi-Behesht (actor), Dennis Monner (actor), Alireza Salehi (actor), M. Mehdi Shobeiri (actor), Gary Sick (actor), Ismael Zabihi (actor), Elnaz Amiri (actress), Hesam Dehghani (producer), Hesam Dehghani (writer), Saeed Mahdavi (composer), Hesam Dehghani (director), Hesam Dehghani (editor),
Plot: Documentary about StuxNet, the smartest computer virus ever known, which was designed to destroy industrial machines in Bushehr nuclear facility. What's StuxNet? How does it work and Who designed it? Computer security experts around the world answered to these questions plus describing their point of view about the future of computer malwares.
Keywords: computer, cyber, cyber-attack, cybercrime, cyberwar, esther, iran, israel, jew, purimGenres: Documentary, Short,
Taglines: War in the 5th Domain
Sick, Gary Filmography
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2011, role: actor , character name: Himself - Senior Research Scholar, Middle East Institute, Columbia University
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2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
Podcasts:
Corsica
L'éternité, c'est Zonza !
Les tours génoises ont vu passer
De la birème aux plaisanciers
Beaucoup d'hommes qui ne savaient pas
Que si tu t'offres, on te prend pas
Ma liberté, c'est Zonza !
Un bout de terre au fond du sud
Où s'évanouit ma lassitude
Comme un rêve qui ne revient pas...
O Corsica bella Corsica,
Fleur de montagne posée sur l'eau
Où la mer s'abreuve aux ruisseaux Pour éclairer son bleu-marine.
Corsica, ma belle Corsica,
Si je pouvais choisir l'endroit
Où la mort me recouvrira
De son manteau de cornaline,
J'aimerais qu'elle m'endorme chez toi.
L'éternité, c'est Zonza !
Elle a protégé les brigands
Quand ils étaient bandits d'honneur,
Comme on l'est tous du fond du cœur.
Lorsque le joug est trop pesant
Ma liberté, c'est Zonza !
Les tours d'en bas m'avertiront
Quand tout au fond de l'horizon
Mon dernier matin paraîtra...
O Corsica bella Corsica,
Fleur de montagne posée sur l'eau
Où la mer s'abreuve aux ruisseaux Pour éclairer son bleu-marine.
Corsica, ma belle Corsica,
Si je pouvais choisir l'endroit
Où la mort me recouvrira
De son manteau de cornaline,
J'aimerais qu'elle m'endorme chez toi.
O Corsica bella Corsica,
Corsica, ma belle Corsica,
Si je pouvais choisir l'endroit
Où la mort me recouvrira
De son manteau de cornaline,
Alors qu'elle m'endorme chez toi.
L'éternité, c'est Zonza !