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According to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (March 1993, page 9, http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0393/9303009.htm). Indyk has served as Middle East adviser to the prime minister of Australia, and as an international media and communications adviser to former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in Israel.
"The route by which AIPAC employees attain policymaking positions in the U.S. government usually involves one or more intermediate stations either on Capitol Hill or in lesser-known components of the pro-Israel apparatus in the national capital.
"In Indyk's case, the waystop was the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which he co-founded in February 1985 with Barbi Weinberg of Los Angeles, a former president of the Jewish Federation in Los Angeles and wife of AIPAC Chairman Emeritus Lawrence Weinberg.
"Barbi Weinberg, who was an AIPAC director herself, became the Washington Institute's president and Indyk, an Australian by birth who was AIPAC deputy director of research, became the Washington Institute's executive director.
"For the first year, AIPAC provided office space and services to the spin-off Washington Institute. Of the Institute's 11 executive committee members, 6 serve on AIPAC's executive committee or national council (including Barbi Weinberg and two of the Institute's three vice presidents). They also are top contributors to the Institute, according to tax records.
"Starting with three research fellows, Weinberg and Indyk soon created a permanent institution with numerous visiting Israeli and American scholars, writers and military analysts. By 1990 they were managing a $1.1 million operation. "
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