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Pieczenik was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance and James Baker.[2] He served the presidential administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush as deputy assistant secretary.[6]

In 1974, Pieczenik joined the United States Department of State as a consultant to help in the restructuring of its Office for the Prevention of Terrorism.[1] In 1976, he was made Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for management.[1][4][7][8]

At the Department of State, Pieczenik served as a "specialist on hostage taking".[9] He has been credited with devising successful negotiating strategies and tactics used in several high-profile hostage situations, including the 1976 TWA Flight 355 hostage situation and the 1977 kidnapping of the son of Cyprus's president.[1]

Pieczenik was often used as a press source for early information on the mental state of the hostages in the Iran hostage crisis after they were freed.[10] He worked "side by side" with Police Chief Maurice J. Cullinane in the Washington, D.C. command center of Mayor Walter Washington during the 1977 Hanafi Siege.[11]

In 1978 Pieczenik was a special envoy for President Carter to Italy to assist in the search for Italy's Prime Minister Aldo Moro. As an international crisis manager and hostage negotiator in the State Department, Pieczenik was sent to Italy on March 16, 1978, the day Moro was kidnapped, and was involved in the negotiations for his release. He was part of a "crisis committee" headed by Francesco Cossiga, the interior minister. Moro was held for 54 days. Pieczenik said the committee was jolted into action by the fear that Moro would reveal state secrets in an attempt to free himself. Moro's widow, Eleonora, later said Henry Kissinger had warned her husband against his strategy of Historic Compromise (Compromesso storico). "You will pay dearly for it," he is alleged to have said. A false statement attributed to the Red Brigades was leaked saying that Moro was dead. Pieczenik claimed that this had a dual purpose: to prepare the Italian public for the worst, and to let the Red Brigades know that the state would not negotiate for Moro and considered him already dead. Moro was shot and placed in the back of a car in central Rome, midway between the headquarters of the Communist Party and the Christian Democrats. In a documentary Cossiga admitted the committee had made the decision to release the false statement. Pieczenik said that Moro had been "sacrificed" for Italy's "stability".[12]

On September 17, 1978 the Camp David Accords were signed. Pieczenik claims to have been present at secret Camp David negotiations leading to the signing of the Accords, working out strategy and tactics based on psychopolitical dynamics.[2]

In 1979, he resigned as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State over the handling of the Iranian hostage crisis.[3]