Richard R. Burt

{{Short description|American diplomat}} {{redirect|Richard Burt|other people of that name|Richard Burt (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Richard R. Burt | image = Msc2012 20120204 609 Burt Frank Plitt.jpg | office = United States Ambassador to West Germany | president = Ronald Reagan | term_start = September 16, 1985 | term_end = February 17, 1989 | predecessor = Arthur F. Burns | successor = Vernon A. Walters | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|2|3}} | birth_place = Sewell, Chile | death_date =  | party = Republican | alma_mater = Cornell University<br/>Tufts University | office1 = 13th Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs | term_start1 = February 18, 1983 | term_end1 = July 18, 1985 | preceded1 = Lawrence Eagleburger | succeeded1 = Rozanne L. Ridgway | office2 = 6th Director of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs | term_start2 = January 23, 1981 | term_end2 = February 17, 1982 | preceded2 = Reginald H. Bartholomew | succeeded2 = Jonathan Howe }}

'''Richard R. Burt''' (born February 3, 1947) is an American businessman and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Germany and was a chief negotiator of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Prior to his diplomatic career, Burt worked as director of a non-governmental organization and from 1977 to 1980 was a national security correspondent for ''The New York Times''.<ref name=McLarty>{{cite web |url=http://maglobal.com/about-us/our-team/richard-burt/ |title=Richard Burt |work=McLarty Associates website |access-date=December 12, 2019 |archive-date=August 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811171435/http://maglobal.com/about-us/our-team/richard-burt/}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Burt was born on February 3, 1947, in Sewell, Chile.<ref name="appt">{{Cite web | title = Nomination of Richard R. Burt for the Rank of Ambassador While Serving as United States Negotiator for Strategic Nuclear Arms | publisher = The American Presidency Project | date = February 2, 1989 | url = http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16639 | access-date = 2009-11-14}}</ref> He attended Cornell University, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi.<ref name=among>{{Citation |title = The Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity: Among Our Brotherhood |url = http://www.alphadeltaphi.org/AboutUs/OurBrothers/tabid/73/Default.aspx |access-date = 15 February 2015 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090924073149/http://www.alphadeltaphi.org/AboutUs/OurBrothers/tabid/73/Default.aspx |archive-date = 24 September 2009 }})</ref> He earned his bachelor's degree, and earned a master's degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1971. Following graduate school, he was selected for a research fellowship at the United States Naval War College. Following this fellowship, Burt moved to London to work as a research associate and later Assistant Director of the International Institute of Strategic Studies. In 1977, he was hired by ''The New York Times'' to work as a correspondent on national security issues.<ref name="caa">{{Cite web |title=Richard R. Burt |publisher=Council of American Ambassadors |url=http://www.americanambassadors.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Members.view&memberid=65 |access-date=November 14, 2009 |url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100917153535/http://americanambassadors.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Members.view&memberid=65 | archive-date=September 17, 2010}}</ref>

==Career== [[Image:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F074438-0008, München, Strauß empfängt USA-Botschafter Burt.jpg|thumb|Richard Burt (left) with Franz Josef Strauß]] Burt began working for the United States Department of State in the early 1980s. In 1981, he was appointed Director of Politico-Military Affairs, and in 1983 Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs. In 1985, he became the United States Ambassador to Germany.<ref name="caa"/> He assisted in the 11 February 1986 exchange of nine persons including Anatoly Shcharansky and Hana and Karl Koecher across the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin.<ref name="chronex">{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1986_218497/east-west-exchange-spies-shcharansky.html |title=East, West exchange spies, Shcharansky |work=Houston Chronicle |date=February 11, 1986 |access-date=March 16, 2020 |archive-date=October 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021121954/http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1986_218497/east-west-exchange-spies-shcharansky.html |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Politico">{{cite news|last1=Schreckinger|first1=Ben|last2=Ioffe|first2=Julia|title=Lobbyist advised Trump campaign while promoting Russian pipeline|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-campaign-lobbyist-russian-pipeline-229264|work=Politico|date=October 7, 2016|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref> His tenure as Ambassador to Germany coincided with the beginning of the process that would lead to the reunification of Germany.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Richard R. Burt |publisher=Center for Strategic and International Studies |url=http://csis.org/expert/richard-r-burt |access-date=November 14, 2009}}</ref> In 1989, President George H. W. Bush appointed Burt as chief negotiator for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) between the United States and the Soviet Union, with the rank of ambassador.<ref name="appt"/><ref name="caa"/> The treaty, signed in 1991, limited the number of nuclear weapons that the two countries could have.

After negotiation of the START I treaty, Burt left government service and entered the private sector. He served as John McCain's top national security adviser during McCain's 2000 and 2008 Presidential campaigns.<ref name=Nation2008-10-01>{{cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/mccains-kremlin-ties/|title=McCain's Kremlin Ties: He may talk tough about Russia, but John McCain's political advisors have advanced Putin's imperial ambitions|date=October 1, 2008|work=The Nation|last1=Ames|first1=Mark|last2=Berman|first2=Ari|access-date=December 5, 2018|archive-date=May 21, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100521021253/https://www.thenation.com/article/mccains-kremlin-ties/}}</ref>

===Private intelligence firm (2000–2007)=== In 2000, he, Lord Powell of Bayswater and others founded the Washington, D.C.–based private intelligence and risk-assessment and management firm Diligence with Diligence Europe headed by Michael Howard.<ref name=IHT2006-06-19>{{cite news|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/18/bloomberg/bxshake.php|title=Shakers: Former Tory leader to head risk firm|date=June 19, 2006|work=International Herald Tribune|last=Vina|first=Gonzalo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202125640/http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/18/bloomberg/bxshake.php|archive-date=December 2, 2008|access-date=November 28, 2018}}</ref> While he chaired Diligence, Nathaniel Rothschild, a close friend of Oleg Deripaska, purchased a large stake in Diligence.<ref name=Nation2008-10-01/> While Deripaska was banned from entering the United States from 1998 to 2010,<ref name=WSJ202009-10-30>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125685578903317087|title=FBI Lets Barred Tycoon Visit U.S.|date=October 30, 2009|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|last1=Perez|first1=Evan|last2=White|first2=Gregory L.|access-date=December 5, 2018 |archive-date=February 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210217022833/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125685578903317087}}</ref> he hired Diligence for corporate intelligence gathering, visa lobbying through its considerable GOP connections and, crucially, helping to obtain a $150 million World Bank/European Bank for Reconstruction and Development loan for the Komi Aluminum Project at Sosnogorsk, Komi Republic, a Deripaska subsidiary of Rusal.<ref name=Nation2008-10-01/><ref name=KomiSUAL>{{cite news|title=Operating Locations|publisher=SUAL Group|url=http://www.sual.com/company/locations/|access-date=March 15, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070131010612/http://www.sual.com/company/locations/|archive-date=January 31, 2007|language=en}}</ref> Through the support from Diligence, Deripaska received a multiple entry visa to the United States in December 2005.<ref name=Nation2008-10-01/> From the spring to October 2005, Diligence performed Project Yucca for BGR{{efn|Founded by Haley Barbour, BGR was hired by Alfa Group through its subsidiary Altimo. The IPOC International Growth Fund, which controls several Russian telecoms, is closely associated with Leonid Reiman.<ref name=StAR>{{cite web |url=https://star.worldbank.org/corruption-cases/node/19024 |title=IPOC International Growth Fund beneficial owner |work=Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR) of the World Bank and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) |author=Anonymous |date=May 24, 2012 |access-date=March 16, 2020 |archive-date=January 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114011710/http://star.worldbank.org/corruption-cases/node/19024 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=Bloomberg20070225>{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2007-02-25/spies-lies-and-kpmg |title=Spies, Lies & KPMG: An inside look at how the accounting giant was infiltrated by private intelligence firm Diligence |work=Bloomberg |last=Javers |first=Eamon |date=February 25, 2007 |access-date=December 12, 2019 |archive-date=July 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704042250/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2007-02-25/spies-lies-and-kpmg}}</ref><ref name=Telegraph2008-06-22>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/2792008/BP-antagonist-has-Altimo-ambitions.html|title=BP antagonist has Altimo ambitions|date=June 27, 2008|work=The Telegraph|last=Hotten|first=Russell|access-date=December 12, 2019|archive-date=November 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111195407/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/2792008/BP-antagonist-has-Altimo-ambitions.html}}</ref>}} in which the auditing firm KPMG was infiltrated by Diligence in order to obtain KPMG's audit of the Jeffrey Galmond and Leonid Reiman associated firm '''IPOC International Growth Fund''' for the benefit of Alfa Group's telecom subsidiary Altimo.<ref name=Duplicity>{{cite web |url=http://web.nacva.com/JFIA/Issues/JFIA-2014-1_11.pdf |title=Duplicity and Diligence: An Ethical Forensic Case Study of International Espionage |work=Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting |last1=Knapp |first1=Michael C. |last2=Knapp |first2=Carol A. |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=272–283 |date=January–June 2016 |access-date=December 12, 2019}}</ref> During Project Yucca, the shareholders of Diligence were CEO Nick Day who was a former British agent, the Chairman of Diligence Richard Burt, the Exxel Group which is a Buenos Aires private equity firm, and Edward Mathias from The Carlyle Group which is a private equity company from Washington D.C.<ref name=Bloomberg20070225/><ref name=Telegraph2008-06-22/> The Bermuda government had accused the IPOC International Growth Fund, which is a Bermuda registered owner of Russian telecoms,{{efn|In 2006, the beneficial owner of IPOC International Growth Fund was found to be Leonid Reiman according to a Zurich ruling by the International Chamber of Commerce.<ref name=StAR/><ref name=RoyalGazette09052008>{{cite news |url=http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20080509/BUSINESS/305099948 |title=The rise and fall of IPOC |work=Royal Gazette |last=Kent |first=Jonathan |date=9 May 2008 |access-date=14 March 2020 |archive-date=7 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807083001/http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20080509/BUSINESS/305099948}}</ref><ref name=Finrosforum2013>{{cite news |url=https://finrosforum.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/russian-minister-laundered-millions-in-finland/ |title=Russian Minister Laundered Millions in Finland? |work=Finrosforum |date=2013 |access-date=March 14, 2020}}</ref><ref name=HelsinginSanomat1>{{cite news |url=https://www.hs.fi/a1381454237444/ |title=KRP tutki venäläisministerin rahavirtoja Suomessa |trans-title=KRP investigated the Russian Minister's cash flows in Finland |work=Helsingin Sanomat |date=11 October 2013 |access-date=14 March 2020 |language=fi}}</ref><ref name=HelsinginSanomat11102013>{{cite news |url=http://www.hs.fi/paivanlehti/11102013/talous/Krp+tutki+ven%C3%A4l%C3%A4isministerin+rahavirtoja+Suomessa/a1381455417032 |title=Krp tutki venäläisministerin rahavirtoja Suomessa: Suuri rahanpesuepäily alkoi entisen venäläisministerin epäillystä rikoksesta |trans-title=KRP investigated the Russian Minister's cash flows in Finland: A major suspicion of money laundering began with a suspected crime by a former Russian minister |work=Helsingin Sanomat |last=Sajari |first=Petri |date=October 11, 2013 |access-date=March 14, 2020 |language=fi}}</ref><ref name=24Suomi11102013>{{cite news |url=https://keskustelu.suomi24.fi/t/11779750/albany-invest-ipoc-international-growht-fund-saarijarvi |title=Albany Invest, IPOC International Growth Fund, Saarijärvi |work=Suomi 24 |date=October 11, 2013 |access-date=March 14, 2020 |language=fi}}</ref>}} of money laundering and also accused Diligence of impersonating secret service personnel.<ref name=Bloomberg20070225/><ref name=Telegraph2008-06-22/> KPMG successfully sued Diligence for fraud and unjust enrichment and received a settlement of $1.7 million from Diligence on June 20, 2006.<ref name=Bloomberg20070225/>

===Consulting work after Diligence (since 2007)=== In 2007, he left Diligence to work with Henry Kissinger's consulting firm, Kissinger McLarty Associates.<ref name=Nation2008-10-01/>{{efn|Vladimir Putin is very close to and has a very warm longtime relationship with Henry Kissinger.<ref name=Politico24122016>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/henry-kissinger-a-longtime-vladimir-putin-confidant-sidles-up-to-donald-trump/ |title=Kissinger, a longtime Putin confidant, sidles up to Trump: America's pre-eminent ex-diplomat gets back in the mix. Could he help broker a deal with Russia? |work=Politico |last1=Toosi |first1=Nahal |last2=Arnsdorf |first2=Isaac |date=December 24, 2016 |access-date=19 March 2020}}</ref><ref name=WP10052017>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/10/the-strange-oval-office-meeting-between-trump-lavrov-and-kislyak/ |title=The strange Oval Office meeting between Trump, Lavrov and Kislyak |work=Washington Post |last1=Vitkovskaya |first1=Julie |last2=Erickson |first2=Amanda |date=May 10, 2017 |access-date=March 19, 2020 |archive-date=December 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213230753/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/10/the-strange-oval-office-meeting-between-trump-lavrov-and-kislyak/}}</ref><ref name=Newsweek20072018>{{cite news |url=https://www.newsweek.com/henry-kissinger-trump-russia-putin-1035017 |title=Henry Kissinger: The World Is in a 'Very, Very Grave Period' and Trump Could Mark 'End of an Era' |work=Newsweek |last=Goodkind |first=Nicole |date=July 20, 2018 |access-date=March 19, 2020}}</ref> Kissinger Associates does not disclose if it lobbies on behalf of Russian foreign policy interests.<ref name=Politico24122016/>}}

He has also worked as a partner in consulting firms McKinsey and Company and now serves as a managing partner of McLarty Associates in Washington, D.C. In addition, he has served on boards for the [https://www.atlanticcouncil.org Atlantic Council],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/board-of-directors/|title=Board of Directors|website=Atlantic Council|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-11}}</ref> Deutsche Bank's Scudder and Germany mutual fund families,<ref name=McLarty/> America Abroad Media,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://americaabroadmedia.org/user/35/Richard_Burt |title=Richard Burt |work=America Abroad Media website |access-date=December 12, 2019 |archive-date=January 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125120355/http://americaabroadmedia.org/user/35/Richard_Burt}}</ref> International Games Technology, UBS mutual funds,<ref name=McLarty/> a member of the senior advisory board of Alfa Bank in Moscow until November 2016,<ref name=McLarty/> an advisor to European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) North America’s board until November 2016,<ref name=McLarty/> and Textron Corporation. Burt is also a Senior Advisor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies<ref name="caa"/> and U.S. Chair of Global Zero.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.globalzero.org/en/who/richard-burt|title=Global Zero | A world without nuclear weapons}}</ref> He has lobbied on behalf of LOT Polish Airlines, the Capital Bank of Jordan, and Ukrainian construction firm TMM.<ref name="Politico"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tmm.ua/company|title=Все о компании ТММ: история, менеджмент, награды и философия|website=tmm.ua}}</ref> He has a working relationship with Mikhail Fridman who is closely associated with the Alfa Group.<ref name="Politico"/><ref name=AlfaGroupArsenalDiagram22032007>{{cite web |url=https://www.intelligenceonline.com/utils/imageresize?x=800&web=1&file64=SU8vUGhvdG9zLzU0M0EuZ2lm |title=Alfa Group's Arsenal to Fight Rivals in Kiev and Moscow |work=intelligenceonline.com |via=Alfa’s Worldwide Network of Consultants |last=Charles |first=B. |date=22 March 2007 |access-date=18 March 2020 |archive-date=19 March 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200319001600/https://www.intelligenceonline.com/utils/imageresize?x=800&web=1&file64=SU8vUGhvdG9zLzU0M0EuZ2lm}}</ref>

In 2014 through early 2016, Burt served as an unpaid foreign policy advisor for Rand Paul's campaign for president.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Costa|first1=Robert|title=Rand Paul building national network, courting mainstream support for presidential bid|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rand-paul-building-national-network-courting-mainstream-support-for-presidential-bid/2014/03/27/568b06de-b50d-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html|work=Washington Post|date=March 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Kirchick|first1=James|title=Is Rand Paul a Secret Hawk? Or Maybe Not a Total Dove?|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/09/is-rand-paul-a-secret-hawk-or-maybe-not-a-total-dove.html|work=The Daily Beast|date=May 9, 2014|access-date=March 14, 2020}}</ref>

During the first two quarters of 2016, McLarty Associates received $365,000 to lobby for New European Pipeline AG, a firm owned by Russian oil company Gazprom.<ref name="Politico"/> Beginning in February 2016, he and a colleague represented the five European energy companies investing in Nord Stream 2, an expansion of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which would allow Russian gas to reach Europe without going through Belarus or Ukraine. Since 2017, Burt and another lobbyist of a subsidiary of McLarty Associates have received $3.53 million from five Nord Stream 2 financing companies.<ref name="wp">{{Cite news |last=Manuel Roig-Franzia |title=How a D.C. lobbyist tried to stop Putin's pipeline before war started |language=en-US |work=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/07/11/dc-lobbyist-ukraine-nord-stream-pipeline/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

===Supported Donald Trump for president=== Burt claims to have contributed to Trump's first major foreign policy speech, April 27, 2016, at the Mayflower Hotel.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kirchick|first1=James|title=Donald Trump's Russia connections|url=http://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trumps-russia-connections-foreign-policy-presidential-campaign/|work=Politico|date=April 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last1=Schreckinger | first1=Ben | last2=Ioffe | first2=Julia | title=Lobbyist advised Trump campaign while promoting Russian pipeline | date=October 7, 2016 | url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-campaign-lobbyist-russian-pipeline-229264 | quote=“We have no knowledge of this,” wrote Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks in an email. “In fact, our team cannot verify his self-proclaimed contributions to Mr. Trump's speech and, I don't believe Mr. Trump or our policy staff has ever met Mr. Burt. To our knowledge he had no input in the speech and has had no contact with our policy team.” | archive-url=https://archive.today/20161007113007/http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-campaign-lobbyist-russian-pipeline-229264 | archive-date=October 7, 2016 | url-status=live }}</ref> In the speech, Trump called for greater cooperation with Russia and encouraged Trump to take a less interventionist approach to foreign affairs.{{r|Collusion|p=126}}<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hosenball|first1=Mark|title=Former Reagan aide helped write Trump foreign policy speech|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-adviser-idUSKCN0YU2I9|work=Reuters|date=June 8, 2017}}</ref> In an April 2019 interview of the Center for the National Interest's Dmitry Simes by Christiane Amanpour, Burt was the top national security adviser to the 2016 Trump campaign.<ref>Amanpour, Christiane (April 24, 2019). [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/dimitri-simes-gives-an-exclusive-interview/ "Dimitri Simes Gives an Exclusive Interview"]. ''Amanpour & Company''. pbs.org website. Retrieved May 3, 2019.</ref><ref>Rogin, Josh (May 2, 2019). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/02/dimitri-simes-flew-too-close-trump-his-think-tank-got-burned/ "Dimitri Simes flew too close to Trump, and his think tank got burned"]. ''Washington Post'' website. Archived from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190502113738/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/02/dimitri-simes-flew-too-close-trump-his-think-tank-got-burned/ original] on May 2, 2019. Retrieved May 3, 2019</ref> During the campaign, Burt also wrote white papers for Jeff Sessions on foreign policy and national security.<ref name="Politico"/>{{efn|Jeff Sessions was the national security committee chairman for Trump's 2016 campaign.<ref name="Politico"/>}}

Burt's simultaneous roles as a campaign adviser for Trump and a lobbyist for Russian interests first drew scrutiny in October 2016 following the release of the Steele dossier.<ref name="Politico"/> Burt is on both the senior advisory board of the Russian Alfa Bank and the Irina Krivosheeva headed Alfa Capital Partners Advisory Board in which Russia's Alfa-Bank is an investor.<ref name=Collusion >{{cite book|last=Abramson |first=Seth |date=November 13, 2018 |title=Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Proof-of-Collusion/Seth-Abramson/9781982116088 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1982116088 |author-link=Seth Abramson }}{{rp|126}} [https://simonandschusterpublishing.com/downloadables/proof-of-collusion/abramson_collusion_index.pdf book's Index]</ref><ref name=Felshtinsky>{{cite news |last=Felshtinsky |first=Yuri |author-link=Yuri Felshtinsky |url=https://english.gordonua.com/news/exclusiveenglish/who-is-dimitri-simes-and-why-is-he-trying-to-sink-mayflower-investigation-by-yuri-felshtinsky-316154.html |title=Who is Dimitri Simes And Why Is He Trying To Sink Mayflower? Investigation by Yuri Felshtinsky |work=gordonua.com |date=22 August 2018 |access-date=18 September 2023 |archive-date=18 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918231026/https://english.gordonua.com/news/exclusiveenglish/who-is-dimitri-simes-and-why-is-he-trying-to-sink-mayflower-investigation-by-yuri-felshtinsky-316154.html}}</ref>

===Supported Joe Biden for President===

In 2020, Burt, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.defendingdemocracytogether.org/national-security/ |title=Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden |date=20 August 2020 |website=Defending Democracy Together |access-date=26 August 2021}}</ref>

Burt is a board member of the Dmitri Simes headed Center for the National Interest.<ref name=Felshtinsky/>

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