Constantine C. Menges (September 1, 1939[1] – July 11, 2004[2]) was an American scholar, author, professor, and Latin American specialist for the White House's US National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Menges was born in Turkey on September 1, 1939, the day that Germany invaded Poland to start World War II. His parents sent him to the United States in 1943. Menges attended college in Prague.[3] He earned a bachelor's degree in physics and a doctorate in political science from Columbia University.[4][5] He helped German refugees escape over the Berlin Wall and organized civil resistance after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 during the Prague Spring[6]
Menges worked to ensure equal voting rights in Mississippi and marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.[citation needed][when?][where?] During the Nixon and Ford administrations, he was deputy assistant for civil rights in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.[7]
From 1981 until 1983, he worked for the director of the CIA as the national intelligence officer for Latin America. From 1983 until 1986, he served as special assistant to President Ronald Reagan.[8] He helped plan Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada and supported the Nicaraguan Contras and the Salvadoran rebels. Friends and foes gave him the nickname "Constant Menace".[9] He wrote a critical account of his experiences as a government official in his 1988 book, Inside the National Security Council: The True Story of the Making and Unmaking of Reagan's Foreign Policy
In September 2002, Constantine Menges sent a letter to Olavo de Carvalho in which he agreed with the Brazilian philosopher's analysis of the current political situation in Brazil.[citation needed][10]
He died of cancer on July 11, 2004, in Washington, D.C., where he had been a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.[11]
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the return of a free media. Former students from Prague, including ConstantineMenges, and Czech refugees from the crisis, who were able to escape or resettle...
Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs ConstantineMenges cited "the very effective public outreach staff headed by Ambassador...
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, replacing ConstantineMenges as Senior Director of Latin American Affairs on the National Security...
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Huiyao apparently distinguishes the Kang(ju) from the Kangheli (aka Kangly). Menges saw in Kang-ar-as the plural-suffix -as, and Klyashtorny the Turkic numerus...
architecture of Rome: an architectural history in 400 presentations. Edition Axel Menges. p. 43. ISBN 978-3-930698-60-8. "Capua, Porta di", Mario D'Onofrio, Federiciana...
Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2010-07-20. Constantine Christopher Menges (1 January 1997). Partnerships for Peace, Democracy, and Prosperity...
Neue Deutsche Biographie 11 (in German). pp. 29–30. Retrieved 19 May 2023. Menges, Franz (1987). "Lossow, Otto von". Neue Deutsche Biographie 15. pp. 204–205...
located on the territory of the current commune of Béni Hamidane in the Constantine Province of eastern Algeria. Tiddis was built by the Romans as a "vicus"...
(2004). The Architecture of Paris: An Architectural Guide. Edition Axel Menges. ISBN 9783930698967. Baghdiantz-MacCabe, Ina (2008). Orientalism in Early...
the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1889 and the Constantine Medal of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society in 1898. Animals named...
Architectural History in 400 Individual Presentations, Ulrich Fürst, Edition Axel Menges, 1998, ISBN 3930698609, p.199-200 Chiesa di Santa Bibiana, rome-roma.net...
Andrew (2004). The Architecture of Paris. Stuttgart; London: Edition Axel Menges. ISBN 9783930698967. Blondel, Jacques-François (1752). Architecture françoise...
Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart (2001), ISBN 3-17-016604-2, p. 508. Menges, Franz: Joseph Freiherr von Linden. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume...
architecture of Rome: an architectural history in 400 presentations. Edition Axel Menges. ISBN 978-3-930698-60-8. Gagarin, Michael; Fantham, Elaine, eds. (2010)...
Reference Róna-Tas1991, p. 35; Golden, Reference Golden1992, pp. 124–127; Menges, Reference Menges1995, pp. 16–19)." Golden, Peter B. (2011). Studies on...
constituted the majority of the population of Lower Pannonia. Karl Heinrich Menges (1953). An Outline of the Early History and Migrations of the Slavs. Department...
Tales from the Gimli Hospital Ramón Menéndez – Stand and Deliver Chris Menges – A World Apart Mira Nair†♦ – Salaam Bombay! Yousry Nasrallah – Summer Thefts...
Meehan Republican 7th January 3, 2011 – April 27, 2018 Resigned. Franklin Menges Republican 22nd March 4, 1925 – March 4, 1931 Ulysses Mercur Republican...
Individual Presentations (2nd Revised ed.). Stuttgart and London: Edition Axel Menges. pp. 123–125. ISBN 978-3-936681-16-1. Archived from the original on 22 November...
1961: Via Mala 1961: Un nommé La Rocca 1961: The Phony American 1961: Constantine and the Cross 1961: Degenduell 1961: Taras Bulba 1962: Terror After Midnight...
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