Read Herb’s Testimonials

Because of the catastrophic attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11^th, Herb was asked to give his input and has attended numerous meetings at the State Department and Pentagon.
(Un-Classified memo to President Bush, September 18, 2001.)

In February 2001, he wrote a memo, The Reality of Adversarial Negotiations, to the new Secretary of State, analyzing the Mideast Peace Negotiations.
(Letter to Colin Powell, February 2001)

With the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, he gave a number of interviews to the media about the danger of international terrorism.
(Jerusalem Post piece of March 1993).

When Saddam Hussein engaged in unprovoked aggression against Kuwait, he again gave his insights to the Administration about the problems of coalition building, stationing American forces on the Arabian Peninsula and our ultimate military objectives.
(Gamble In the Gulf, August 1990)

Still concerned with this growing problem and the media’s role in unknowingly abetting the terrorists achieve his objectives he wrote an Op-Ed piece for the Wall Street Journal.
(Terrorism and the Media, August 1986)

Since then his counsel has frequently been sought by the White House and Executive Branch on the issue of combating the threat of international terrorism.
(Memorandum to President Reagan dated July 10, 1985.)

During the 444 days of the Iranian Hostage Crisis Herb Cohen served as an advisor to President Carter and then candidate Ronald Reagan.  Indeed, he has been credited with shaping the latter’s strategy that would result in the release of the Americans held captive on Inauguration Day.
(Jack Anderson’s syndicated column of February 12, 1981.)

(Read memo to Gov. Reagan, 1980, "The Mishandling of the Iranian Hostage Crisis", which led to Jack Anderson’s article.)