Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI) and the Search for Ground Truth
About its Activities and Nature
An Independent Assessment by Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield Jr.
Ambassador Bloomfield is a former U.S. official who is a part-time consultant to Akin Gump. This study was prepared at the request of the firm, which represents a group of American citizens interested in removing the MEK/PMOI from the U.S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
LINCOLN P. BLOOMFIELD, JR.
Senior Advisor, Washington D.C. Office
Ambassador Bloomfield was the President’s Special Envoy for MANPADS Threat Reduction from 2008-09, and Assistant
Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs as well as Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State for Humanitarian Mine Action from 2001-2005. He previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1992-93), Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs (1991-02), Member, U.S. Delegation to Philippine Bases Negotiations (1990-91), Member, U.S. Water Mediation in the Middle East (1989-90), and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1988-89), among other positions in the Department of Defense (OSD/ISA) beginning in 1981.
In addition to his work for Akin Gump, Mr. Bloomfield is President of Palmer Coates LLC, Operating Advisor at Pegasus Capital Advisors L.P., Senior Advisor at ZeroBase Energy LLC, and Chairman of the Board of Bell Pottinger Communications USA LLC.
He is Chairman of the Stimson Center in Washington, DC, a nonpartisan security think tank.
Education
M.A.L.D. Fletcher School Tufts University, 1980
A.B. Harvard University, cum laude, 1974
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