Pieczenik was born in Havana, Cuba on December 7, 1943, to Russian-Polish parents, and spent his early childhood in France.

[5] His father, a doctor from Dombrovicz who studied and worked in Toulouse, France, fled to Poland before World War II.

[8] At the age of 16, Pieczenik received a scholarship to Cornell University,[6] where he graduated with a BA degree in pre-medicine and psychology in 1964.

[6][5][8][9][10] He also served the presidential administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush in this role.

[14][15] Pieczenik said the committee was jolted into action by the fear that Moro would reveal state secrets in an attempt to free himself.

[7] In the early 1980s, Pieczenik wrote an article for The Washington Post in which he claimed to have heard a senior U.S. official in the Department of State Operations Center give permission for the attack that led to the death of U.S.

[22] Since 1979, Pieczenik has also consulted with the United States Institute of Peace and the RAND Corporation[23] and lectured at the National Defense University.

[26] Pieczenik also received credit as co-creator for two of Tom Clancy’s best-selling novels Op-Center and Net Force.

[28] Pieczenik co-authored a paper with John Neustadt which appeared in the July 2008 issue of Molecular Nutrition & Food Research.

[7] Pieczenik has appeared multiple times on InfoWars, the flagship radio program of Alex Jones, where he has made numerous statements, including that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a false flag operation.