Paul Seabury


Paul Seabury was an American political scientist and foreign policy consultant.

Life

Born in Hempstead, Long Island, Seabury was a native New Yorker. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1946, and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley starting in 1953. Once a national official of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, after the tumultuous era of student revolt at Berkeley, he became a leading spokesman for the first American neo-conservatives. He was part of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, which fostered intelligence studies in American universities.
In 1984, Seabury edited and contributed to "The Grenada Papers," an analysis that praised the United States invasion of Grenada and argued for U.S. action against Nicaragua and guerrilla movements in El Salvador and Guatemala. He served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board during the Reagan Administration. Seabury sat on the Board of Directors of the Committee on the Present Danger.
He married Marie-Anne Phelps; they had two sons. His papers are held at the Hoover Institution. He died in Pinole, California. Seabury was a great player of croquet, and edited a book on the game for Abercrombie and Fitch.

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