Are all of the Left's Mouthpieces CIA?

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ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP:

SPONSORED BY CIA's FORD FOUNDATION?

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The mass-circulation weekly TEMPO accused Ford of having once played, at the urging of

the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a covert role in Indonesian political affairs byconsciously supporting the work of individuals who were deemed to be sympathetic to theanti-communist aims of American foreign policy. Chronicle of Philanthropy, 12/13/01

The Ford Foundation's history of collaboration and interlock with the CIA in pursuit of

U.S. world hegemony is now a well-documented fact...The Ford Foundation has in some

ways refined their style of collaboration with Washington's attempt to produce worldcultural domination, but retained the substance of that policy...The ties between the top

officials of the Ford Foundation and the U.S. government are explicit and continuing.

James Petras in "The Ford Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic

collaboration with the Secret Police" on 12/15/2001

The multi-billion dollar Ford Foundation's historic relationship to the Central Intelligence Agency[CIA] is rarely mentioned on Pacifica's DEMOCRACY NOW / Deep Dish TV show, on FAIR'sCOUNTERSPIN show, on the WORKING ASSETS RADIO show, on The Nation Institute's RADIONATION show, on David Barsamian's ALTERNATIVE RADIO show or in the pages ofPROGRESSIVE, MOTHER JONES and Z magazine. One reason may be because the Ford Foundationand other Establishment foundations subsidize the Establishment Left's alternative media gatekeepers /censors.

PACIFICA / DEMOCRACY NOW / DEEP DISH TV

Take Pacifica / DEMOCRACY NOW, an alternative radio network with annual revenues of $10 millionin 2000, whose National Program Director was paid $63,000 in that year. In the early 1950s--when theCIA was using the Ford Foundation to help fund a non-communist "parallel left" as a liberalEstablishment alternative to an independent, anti-Establishment revolutionary left--the PacificaFoundation was given a $150,000 grant in 1951 by the Ford Foundation's Fund for Education.According to James Ledbetter's bookMade Possible By..., "the Fund's first chief was Alexander Fraser,the president of the Shell Oil Company."

Besides subsidizing the Pacifica Foundation in the early 1950s, the Ford Foundation also spent a lot ofmoney subsidizing many other noncommercial radio or television stations in the United States.According to Ledbetter's Made Possible By..., between 1951 and 1976, the Ford Foundation "spentnearly $300 million on noncommercial radio and television."

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Pacifica relied primarily on listener-sponsor contributions to fund theoperations of its radio stations. And in the early 1970s, Pacifica also began to accept funds from theU.S. Establishment's Corporation for Public Broadcasting [CPB], according toRogue State authorWilliam Blum--who worked as a KPFA staff person in the early 1970s. But in the early 1990s, somePacifica administrators decided to again seek grants from the Ford Foundation and other Establishmentfoundations. As former Pacifica Development Director Dick Bunce wrote in the appendix to the "A

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Strategy for National Programming" document which was prepared for the Pacifica National Board in

September 1992, entitled "Appendix Foundation Grant seeking National Programming Assumptions forFoundation Fund raising":

The national foundation grant seeking arena has changed enough in recent years to makeactivity in this arena potentially worthwhile--for organizations prepared to be players andpartners in the same field as NPR, APR, maybe some others...The foundation funding ofinterest is in gifts of $100,000 or more a year, for several years...Three of America's sixlargest foundations (Ford, MacArthur, Pew) have begun to fund public broadcasting, publicradio in particular, and evidently intend to continue doing so. Pacifica requested meetingswith each of these foundations earlier this year and was treated seriously enough insubsequent meetings to give us some hope of securing funding possibly from all three. A

`Report Sheet' on this work is included in Appendix 3.

Beyond these three foundations there are no others among the country's 100 largest whichhave made substantial grants to public broadcasting. So the second tier of foundationprospects look substantially different from the first tier requiring more work on our part toopen doors, establish `standing' and find a workable `fit.'

There are nonetheless a number of interesting prospects--in some cases only because ofparticular people who are currently involved, or because of formal criteria which we couldtry to fit. The second tier list includes several from the top 100--Rockefeller, Irvine, Surdna,George Gund--Nathan Cummings--and a number of smaller foundations, but still capableof 6 figure grants: Aaron Diamond, Revson, Rockefeller Family & Associates, New World,Winston Foundation for World Peace.

Once we drop to the $35,000 to $75,000 grant range, the list enlarges, but these take as longto cultivate as the bigger ones, so it makes sense to start from the top.

Foundation fund raising at this level has extraordinary payoffs--but it takes senior stafftime, not `grant writing' but in communicating. It is therefore expensive, and notsuccessfully done as an afterthought to everything else in the day. It also requires `venturecapital visits' to the foundations to open doors and conversations that lead to partnerships.

In initiating three top level contacts in April, May and June, and attempting to capitalize onthe opportunities apparent to us, we have already been stretched beyond our capacity toreally interface effectively with these funders--although admittedly much of the problem todate has been due to the fact that we don't yet have a clear business plan for nationalprogramming.

Foundation grant making will most likely proceed as short-term funding. Funders will want

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to `fund projects, not operations.' We should presume that we can succeed in raising serious

money to launch or establish new programs, etc. but not to sustain them beyond start-up.The standard of self-sufficiency will be required for many proposals we submit, and ourown planning will be most successful if we relate to this funding source accordingly.

Short-Run Strategies for Developing a Foundation Grant seeking Program

Seek Development Committee leadership in planning for Foundation grant seeking

Pursue 3 `anchor' grants to acquire funding beginning in FY'93 from the Big 3 foundationswe've already begun to work with.

Long-Range Strategies for Developing a Foundation Grant seeking Program

Initiate an informal `feasibility inquiry' of foundation support for Pacifica's objectives byrequesting visits with the dozen top prospects to shape proposals and establishrelationships...

Foundation Grants Summary: Late this spring we began our first efforts in nationalfoundation grant seeking on behalf of national programming. We have a good chance ofsecuring six figure grants in the coming fiscal year from any or all of the 3 foundationswe're working with, but our approach is still dependent upon our own organizationalprogress toward a business plan that we are committed to following through on.

The second tier of foundation prospects is more challenging, and will require increasedstaff resources, a modest feasibility inquiry and active planning with the BoardDevelopment Committee.

By 1995, billionaire speculator George Soros' Open Society Institute had given the Pacifica Foundationa $40,000 grant. And in 1996, the Carnegie Corporation of New York gave Pacifica a $25,000 grant tolaunch its DEMOCRACY NOW show. In 1997 came a $13,000 grant from the J.M. Kaplan Fund toPacifica to provide support for DEMOCRACY NOW. And in 1998 came a $25,000 grant to Pacificafrom the Public Welfare Foundation "to report on hate crimes and related issues as part of its

`DEMOCRACY NOW!" public-affairs radio program and an additional $10,000 grant to supportDEMOCRACY NOW from the J.M. Kaplan Fund. That same year the Ford Foundation gave a $75,000grant to Pacifica "toward marketing consultancy, promotional campaign and program developmentactivities for radio program, DEMOCRACY NOW." In 1998 and 1999, two grants, totaling $22,500,were also given to Pacifica by the Boehm Foundation, to support its DEMOCRACY NOW show.

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television news series, DEMOCRACY NOW, to continue incorporating the aftermath of the September

11th attack into future broadcasts." Besides being presently subsidized by the Ford Foundation to airPacifica's DEMOCRACY NOW show, Deep Dish TV, with an annual income of $158,000 in 2000, wasalso subsidized by the MacArthur Foundation in the 1990s. Between 1993 and 1998, $190,000 ingrants were given to Deep Dish TV by the MacArthur Foundation. And one of the members of DeepDish TV's board of directors in recent years has apparently been a WBAI staff person named MarioMurillo.

Another Ford Foundation grant of $200,000 was given in April 2002 to the Astraea Foundation, whoseformer board finance committee chairperson, Leslie Cagan, is presently the chairperson of Pacifica'snational board. Three other grants have been given to the Astraea Foundation by the Ford Foundationsince 2000: two grants, totaling $75,000, in 2000; and a $200,000 grant in 2001 "for general support

and subgrants to community-based organizations addressing social, political and economic justice,especially those focused on lesbians and other sexual minorities." The former finance committeechairperson of the Ford Foundation-sponsored Astraea Foundation recently signed a $2 million "goldenhandshake / sweetheart contract" with the Ford Foundation-sponsored, soon-to-be-privatizedDEMOCRACY NOW producer (who has apparently been receiving a $90,000/year salary fromPacifica in recent years for her alternative journalism work).

Part 2:

FAIR / COUNTERSPIN / INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY

The FAIR/COUNTERSPIN/Institute for Public Accuracy alternative media gatekeepers/censors--which

includes COUNTERSPIN co-hosts/producers Steve Rendall and Janine Jackson, Institute for PublicAccuracy/MAKING CONTACT executive director Norman Solomon, MSNBC/DONAHUE SHOWPRODUCER Jeff Cohen and WORKING ASSETS RADIO show producer Laura Flanders--have alsobeen subsidized by the Ford Foundation and other Establishment foundations in recent years.

At a June 1988 street fair in Manhattan's Union Square which marked the 35th anniversary of theRosenbergs' execution, MSNBC DONAHUE SHOW producer Jeff Cohen sat behind a table sellingcopies of his recently-created Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting [FAIR] group's journal, EXTRA!.Within a few years, Cohen's FAIR alternative media group was airing a weekly media watch showcalled COUNTERSPIN on Pacifica's WBAI station in New York City. What listeners ofCOUNTERSPIN were not told in the 1990s, however, was that around 30 percent of FAIR's fundingwas coming from foundation grants, including grants from Establishment foundations like the

Rockefeller Family Fund, the MacArthur Foundation, Bill Moyers' Schumann Foundation and the FordFoundation.

In 1991, FAIR was given a $20,000 grant from the Rockefeller Family fund "for general support." Andthen in 1992, annual grants to FAIR started to pour in from the MacArthur Foundation offices inChicago. In an early 1997 interview, the program officer who was then responsible for the MacArthurFoundation's media program, Patricia Boero, told AQUARIAN/DOWNTOWN magazine: "MacArthur



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is funding Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting. And in '96, they received $75,000 towards the cost of

operations. We've been funding it since 1992, at approximately the same level. It was slightly higher afew years ago, when the media budget was a little bigger." Boero also toldAQUARIAN/DOWNTOWN in 1997 that one reason the MacArthur Foundation began funding FAIRwas that FAIR was already being funded by other foundations such as "the Rockefeller Family Fund."

Later in 1997, more MacArthur Foundation money was thrown in FAIR's direction by a MacArthur"genius grant" program--which was then headed by a member of both the Public Broadcasting Service[PBS] board and NATION magazine's Nation Institute Board, named Catharine Stimpson. A dancerwho was the partner of one of the co-hosts/producers of FAIR's COUNTERSPIN radio show was givena $290,000 individual grant by the MacArthur Foundation program which Nation Institute and PBSboard member Stimpson directed. Since 1997, FAIR has continued to receive grants from the

MacArthur Foundation. In 1998 it was given an additional grant of $150,000 by the MacArthurFoundation. And in 2000, another MacArthur Foundation of $125,000 was given to FAIR.

Another Establishment foundation, Public Affairs TV Inc. Executive Director Bill Moyers' SchumannFoundation also began subsidizing FAIR's alternative media work in the early 1990s. In 1995, forinstance, Moyers' Schumann Foundation gave FAIR a $150,000 grant "to support promotion of bookTHE WAY THINGS AREN'T," which was co-authored by COUNTERSPIN co-host/producer SteveRendall. And in 1996, an additional grant of $15,000 from the Schumann Foundation (whose president,Public Affairs TV Inc. Executive Director Bill Moyers, was President Lyndon Johnson's press secretaryin the 1960s) was given to FAIR. Since 1996 FAIR has continued to receive grants from Moyers'Schumann Foundation, including a post-2000 grant of between $50,000 and $100,000. In addition, oneof the co-hosts/producers of FAIR's COUNTERSPIN show, Janine Jackson, sits on the board of a

group, Citizens for Independent Broadcasting [CIPB]. In 2002, Moyers' Schumann Foundation gavethe Center for Social Studies Education a $200,000 grant "for continued support for activities ofCitizens for Independent Public Broadcasting [CIPB]."

The executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy [IPA]/MAKING CONTACT alternativemedia group, Norman Solomon, was listed on FAIR's 1997 form 990 as being the "president" of FAIRand has been a FAIR associate in recent years. Like FAIR, former FAIR President Solomon's Institutefor Public Accuracy, with an annual income of $267,000, has been subsidized by Bill Moyers'Schumann Foundation. In 1997, Moyers' Schumann Foundation gave a $100,000 grant to Solomon'sIPA/International Media project "for effort to hold think tanks to high standards of accuracy."

In addition to being subsidized by the Rockefeller Family Fund, the MacArthur Foundation and the

Schumann Foundation in the 1990s, FAIR also began receiving grants from the Ford Foundation in themid-1990s. As the WORKING ASSETS RADIO web site noted in 2001: "As the founder of theWomen's Desk at the media watchdog FAIR [WORKING ASSETS RADIO producer-host Laura]Flanders received a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for a collaborative project to combatracism and sexism in the news. The resulting book, REAL MAJORITY, MEDIA MINORITY: THECOST OF SIDELINING WOMEN IN REPORTING, was published to rave reviews by CommonCourage Press in 1997." Besides the Ford Foundation's $200,000 grant to FAIR in 1996 or 1997 to help



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subsidize the alternative media work of its Women's Desk, an additional grant of $150,000 from the

Ford Foundation was given to FAIR in 1997 or 1998. And in 2001, yet another $150,000 grant wasgiven to FAIR by the Ford Foundation for "general support to monitor and analyze the performance ofthe news media in the United States."

In recent months, the Ford Foundation and Schumann Foundation-subsidized "media watchdogs" fromFAIR and the Institute for Public Accuracy--Norman Solomon and Steve Rendall--have seemed moreinterested in preventing 9/11 conspiracy researchers and journalists from receiving any airtime onPacifica's radio stations than in revealing the historical links of their funders to the CIA or the JohnsonWhite House to their alternative media listeners and readers. And WORKING ASSETS RADIO--whichis aired on San Francisco's KALW and produced by a former co-host/producer of FAIR'sCOUNTERSPIN and a former Pacifica Network News staff person--has apparently not been eager to

welcome 9/11 conspiracy researchers and journalists onto the show.WORKING ASSETS RADIO

WORKING ASSETS RADIO is a promotional/marketing tool of the $140 million/year, for-profitWorking Assets, Inc. telecommunications company. And besides funding its own alternativeWORKING ASSETS RADIO show that is aired on KALW in the Bay Area and over the Internet,Working Assets Inc. also helps fund other alternative media groups such as FAIR/COUNTERSPIN andNorman Solomon's Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA). In 1996, for instance FAIR/COUNTERSPINwas given a $59,723 grant by Working Assets Inc. Among the alternative media groups funded byWorking Assets Inc. in 2000, besides FAIR/COUNTERSPIN and Norman Solomon's IPA were FreeSpeech TV and the Independent Press Association. That same year, Working Assets Inc. also helpedfund a group with which DEMOCRACY NOW producer/host Amy Goodman has worked closely, theEast Timor Action Network, as well as the National Public Radio News and Information Fund, theAstraea Foundation, People for the American Way Foundation, the Center for Campus Organizing,United for a Fair Economy, Children's Defense Fund, the National Abortion and Reproductive RightsAction League (NARAL), MADRE, and the American Friends Service Committee.

Based in San Francisco, Working Assets Inc. is a privately-held, secretive telecommunicationscompany that discloses very little financial information about its for-profit business to either its400,000 customers or to U.S. consumers in general. One of its founders was Tides FoundationPresident Drummond Pike. A trustee of Mills College in recent years, Laura Scher, is a top executive atWorking Assets Inc. Another top Working Assets Inc. executive, Michael Kieschnick, has also beeninvolved until recently with the board of the National Network of Grantmakers, which also includes

representatives of the Funding Exchange and the board of Mother Jones magazine/Foundation forNational Progress. Kieschnick still sits on the White House Project Advisory Board between folks likePBS CEO Pat Michell and former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale. The White House ProjectAdvisory Board was set-up to promote the presidential candidacies of mainstream women politicianssuch as U.S. Senator Rodham-Clinton. Another Working Assets Inc. official in recent years, LawrenceLivak, has also been the Tides Foundation Treasurer in recent years.

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media critic Dan Kennedy, NATION editor Katrina vanden Heuvel claimed that "We have a monopoly

on weekly progressive journalism in this country." But are RADIO NATION listeners and readers ofTHE NATION magazine actually being provided with authentically progressive anti-war, anti-corporate and anti-establishment journalism each week by THE NATION editor?

THE NATION magazine, a for-profit limited-partnership, was started in 1865 by a British abolitionistnamed E.L. Godkin and in the early 20th-century it was owned by Oswald Garrison Villard, adescendant of U.S. abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. It was subsequently owned by a Wall Streetfinancier--the father of a NATION writer named Bobby Tuckman--who sold it to then-NATION editorFreda Kirchwey in the 1930s for $35,000 (which he loaned to her). NATION editor-owner Kirchweywas a former member of the early 20th-century Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) campus groupthat Jack London and Upton Sinclair had headed.

By the early 1940s, however, THE NATION was an increasingly large money-loser and was in dangerof folding because of its financial difficulties. So in early 1943, Kirchwey decided on a reorganizationplan to keep THE NATION publishing. She divested herself of her individual ownership and created anew, nonprofit organization, Nation Associates, which would own THE NATION on a nonprofit basis--although Kirchwey would still determine the magazine's editorial direction by serving as its publisher.In 1955, Kirchwey retired and a health insurance industry executive named George C. Kirstein becamethe magazine's publisher and the principal financial backer of the nonprofit Nation Associates, whichcontinued to own the magazine.

In the 1970s, however, THE NATION was on the verge of bankruptcy again, until a group of investorsled by Hamilton Fish III purchased ownership of THE NATION. Although Hamilton Fish's group ofinvestors sold THE NATION in 1985 to a former Wall Street investment banker (whose real estate andutilities properties were worth about $200 million in 1991) named Arthur Carter, as recently as 2000Hamilton Fish was being paid $83,000 a year salary by the magazine's tax-exempt Nation Instituteaffiliate for being the Nation Institute's president.

After purchasing THE NATION in 1985, Arthur Carter began publishing his NEW YORK OBSERVERweekly newspaper in 1987, under the initial supervision of former New York Times Company Vice-Chairman James Goodale, a Wall Street corporate lawyer at Debevoise & Plimplton who was amember of the Democratic Party National Convention's rules committee in 1988. Although NEWYORK OBSERVER owner Carter sold THE NATION magazine in 1995 to a group of investors thatincluded Columbia University Magazine Journalism Center Director Victor Navasky, formerCorporation for Public Broadcasting Chairperson Alan Sagner, Hollywood actor Paul Newman,

novelist E.I. Doctorow and the current editor, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Arthur Carter has continued to siton the board of trustees of the Nation Institute in recent years.

NATION magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel is the daughter of International Rescue Committee[IRC] board member William vanden Heuvel. NATION editor Vanden Heuvel's father is mentioned inthe book THE CULTURAL COLD WAR by Frances Stoner Saunders in the following reference to theCIA-linked Farfield Foundation: "First president of the Farfield [Foundation], and the CIA's mostsignificant front-man, was Julius `Junkie' Fleischmann, the millionaire heir to a high yeast and gin



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fortune...He had helped finance THE NEW YORKER...`The Farfield Foundation was a CIA foundation

and there were many such foundations,' Tom Braden went on to explain...Other Farfield directorsincluded William vanden Heuvel a New York lawyer who was close to both John and Bobby Kennedy."

A short review by Michael Rogin of THE CULTURAL COLD WAR book, entitled "When The CIAWas The NEA," appeared in THE NATION's June 12, 2000 issue. It also made a reference to "smallCIA-created nonprofits, especially the Farfield foundation," yet failed to disclose to THE NATIONreaders that the father of the magazine's editor used to sit on the Farfield Foundation board.

In the 1950s, the Farfield Foundation helped subsidize the activity of the liberal anti-communistAmerican Committee for Cultural Freedom. As the book THE HIGHER CIRCLES by G. WilliamDomhoff noted in 1970: "It seems that in the mid-fifties the head of the American Committee forCultural Freedom was having trouble getting money for his project. So he wrote to Edward Lilly, a

member of a governmental agency for coordinating intelligence and psychological warfare operations,to plead his case. At the same time he wrote to [non-communist leftist Norman] Thomas, asking him toget in touch with [then-CIA Director] Allen Dulles via telephone. Shortly thereafter the AmericanCommittee for Cultural Freedom received $14,000 from the Farfield Foundation and the AsiaFoundation...Thomas then wrote to the committee head: `I am, of course, delighted that the FarfieldFoundation came through...'" The 1982 book ROOTED IN SECRECY: THE CLANDESTINEELEMENT IN AUSTRALIAN POLITICS by Joan Coxsedge also observed that: "The CIA is not socrude as to simply hand over money directly. It normally uses wealthy philanthropists such as the J.M.Kaplan Fund and foundations such as the Asia Foundation, the Farfield Foundation and the HoblitzelleFoundation."

Born in 1930, NATION editor Vanden Heuvel's father apparently served between 1953 and 1954 as theexecutive assistant to CIA founder William "Wild Bill" Donovan, when Donovan was the U.S.Ambassador to Thailand. In their 1998 book WHITE OUT: THE CIA, DRUGS AND THE PRESS,Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair make the following references to the political role that U.S.Ambassador to Thailand Donovan played around the time that IRC board member Vanden Heuvelapparently was Ambassador Donovan's executive assistant:

General Phao had been made director of Thailand's national police after the CIA-backedcoup of 1948 led by Major General Phin Choohannan. Phao's 40,000-member police force,the Police Knights, immediately engaged in a campaign of assassinations of Phin andPhao's political enemies. These troops also assumed control of Thailand's lucrative opiumtrade...Phao's control of the opium trade was directly abetted by the CIA, which had

funneled him $35 million in aid...

In the 1950s the CIA backed General Phao in a struggle with another Thai general formonopoly of control of Thailand's opium and heroin trade...Backed by squads of CIAadvisers, Phao set about the task of turning Thailand into a police state. The country'sleading dissidents and academics were jailed...Phao also cornered the country's goldmarket, played a leading role on the top twenty corporate boards in the country, charged



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leading executives and businessmen protection fees and ran prostitution houses and

gambling dens. Phao became great friends with Bill Donovan, at that time U.S. ambassadorto Thailand.

In the early 1960s, NATION editor Vanden Heuvel's father served as U.S. Attorney-General Robert F.Kennedy's special assistant. According to WHITEOUT: THE CIA, DRUGS AND THE PRESS, aroundthe time that William Vanden Heuvel was his special assistant, RFK "was obsessed with the eliminationof Castro," and "told Allen Dulles that he didn't care if the Agency employed the Mob for the hit aslong as they kept him fully briefed."

During the 1960s and 1970s, NATION editor Vanden Heuvel's father also became increasingly activein the International Rescue Committee [IRC] In addition to being a current board member of the IRC,

William vanden Heuvel has, in the past, held the posts of IRC President, IRC Vice-Chairman andChairman of the Planning Committee of the IRC.

In an essay that appeared in the Summer 1997 issue of NEW POLITICS magazine, entitled "AlbertShanker: No Flowers," Paul Buhle made the following reference to the International RescueCommittee's historical role: "Eric Chester's important recent volume, COVERT NETWORKS:PROGRESSIVES, THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE AND THE CIA, offers a well-researched perspective on one of the most interesting Cold War (and post-Cold War) operations linkedon one side to favorite causes of prominent liberals and on the other to assorted intelligence agencyprojects...The International Rescue Committee [IRC] became a central mechanism--through its spin-offAmerican Friends of Vietnam [AFVN]--for selling the impending Vietnam War to the U.S. public...Theyoung Daniel Patrick Moynihan, working as its public relations officer, had described the IRC as the

`ideal instrument of Psychological Warfare.'

"The IRC was subsequently involved directly or indirectly in a shef of other operations...As during theU.S. saturation bombing in Southeast Asia, the IRC followed U.S. trained and funded military forcesdecimating large districts of El Salvador..."

The book cited by Buhle, COVERT NETWORK: PROGRESSIVES, THE INTERNATIONALRESCUE COMMITTEE, AND THE CIA by Eric Thomas Chester, was published in 1995 by M.E.Sharpe Inc. An unsigned review of the book that appeared on the Internet described Chester's book inthe following way: "The Cold War period in American history was characterized by a seamlesscooperation among international charities, quasi-governmental organizations, major foundation,funding conduits, and the CIA...This book singles out the International Rescue Committee, and to a

lesser extent the Ford Foundation."During the 1980s, the Interhemispheric Resource Center in Albuquerque also examined the politicalrole that the IRC has played historically. Besides noting that the IRC board members in the 1980sincluded folks like Richard Holbrooke, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Lauder, Albert Shanker and Williamvanden Heuvel, the Interhemispheric Resource Center also observed:

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policy interests. It has operated in such geopolitical hotspots as Southeast Asia, Central

America, Afghanistan, and Eastern Europe, conducting programs which have bolsteredWashington's anti-communist activities...

Many of IRC's members have ties to the intelligence community, and at least one authorcalls the IRC "a long-time ally of the Central Intelligence Agency."

...In 1987, it received approximately 72 percent of its fundings from U.S. governmentcontracts and grants...

In 1987, IRC received a $1 million grant from the National Endowment for Democracy[NED], which was appropriated by the U.S. Congress through the Agency for International

development [AID], to "assist the independent Polish trade union Solidarity..." ...Recently,IRC's major focus has been on the Afghan refugees...IRC has published 10 books for theNational Endowment for Democracy-funded American Friends of Afghanistan [AFA]...

[Former IRC Chairperson] Leo Cherne [since-deceased] has a long history of intelligenceconnections. He served as a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Boardfrom 1973-1976, the chairman from 1976-1979, and most recently, served as the vice-chairon former President Ronald Reagan's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board...In 1954 Chernesent a cable to a U.S. government official about the situation in Vietnam, "If free electionswere held today all agree privately communists would win...Future depends on organizingall resources to resettle refugees, sustain now bankrupt government..." During the Reagan

Administration, Cherne was involved in private fund raising efforts coordinated by theNational Security Council aimed at disseminating propaganda supporting U.S. foreignpolicy.

William Casey [former IRC president] was one of the members of an IRC commission thatvisited Indochinese refugee camps in 1978 and advocated "a virtual open-door policy" forletting the refugees into the U.S. Under Reagan, Casey was head of the CIA until his deathin 1987...

John Richardson [former IRC president} was the Assistant Secretary of State for CulturalAffairs from 1969-1977. He served as the head of the U.S. Information Agency's [USIA]

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from 1961-1968. During those years, it was closelylinked to the CIA...

The IRC was heavily involved in supporting the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in Vietnam. Infact, the executive committee for the pro-Diem lobby, the American Friends of Vietnam,was virtually identical to that of the IRC. The strongest supporter of Diem in the group wasformer IRC official Joseph Buttinger..."



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In the late 1960s, THE NATION editor's father was the president of the IRC at the same time former

CIA Director William Casey was the chairman of the IRC's executive committee. And according to theminutes of the IRC board of directors meeting of June 15, 1967, "Leo Cherne appointed the followingMiddle East Subcommittee: William Casey, Leo Cherne, David Sher, William vanden Heuvel andEdwin Wesley" and "The Board meeting adjourned at 7:10 and was followed by the first meeting of theMiddle East Subcommittee."

Besides sitting on the IRC board next to NATION editor Katrina vanden Heuvel's father in both the late1960s and the mid-1970s, former CIA Director Casey was also one of the original investors and adirector of the Capital Cities media conglomerate that gobbled-up ABC in the 1980s--before, itself,being gobbled-up by the Disney Company media conglomerate in the 1990s. Former IRC PresidentCasey also sat on the board of directors of the LILCO utility company, which operated the Shoreham

nuclear power plant on Long Island, despite the opposition of U.S. anti-nuclear power activists in the1970s. Prior to managing Reagan's successful 1980 campaign for the GOP presidential nomination,IRC board member Casey had also worked in the corporate law firm of Rogers & Wells, where herepresented the special interests of clients like Saudia American Lines, International Crude Oil RefiningCompany and the Government of Indonesia. As Reagan's CIA director until his death in 1987, formerIRC board member Casey continued to retain control of over $3 million worth of stock in companieslike DuPont and Exxon while he simultaneously made decisions at the CIA which affected theprofitability of his personal stock holdings.

Casey was not the only IRC director who became involved in politically partisan Establishment partypresidential campaigns in the 1970s and early 1980s. During the 1976 presidential campaign, NATIONeditor Vanden Heuvel's father also chaired the New York State presidential primary campaign

committee of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. In a January 12, 1976 letter to Robert Shnayerson,the then-editor-in-chief of HARPER'S magazine, NATION editor Vanden Heuvel's father wrote:

It is my understanding that you were considering an article regarding the presidentialcandidacy of former governor Jimmy Carter in your March issue of Harper's magazine. Inthat context, I send you a copy of a telegram from Congressman Andrew Young addressedto a recent column published by the Village Voice. I hope you will find it interesting andrelevant.

If there are any questions, please call me at either 425-XXXX or 757-XXXX.

Yours sincerely, William vanden Heuvel.

The telegram referred to in IRC board member William vanden Heuvel's letter (sent by former CarterAdministration Ambassador to the UN Andrew Young to a Bardle B. at Carter Headquarters on 1/9/76)made the following reference to a column written by Alexander Cockburn: "The January 12 column byAlexander Cockburn, `The Riddle of Jimmy Carter, Can A Dark Horse Change His Spots,' is awonderful example of the creation of `The Big Lie' by a compilation of half truth and distorted facts.



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"Jimmy Carter is not and never has been guilty of the kind of implied racism of these charges. He is

one of the finest products of a most misunderstood region of our nation."

But according to A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES by Howard Zinn: "TheDemocratic candidate for President in 1976, Jimmy Carter, was a member of the TrilateralCommission...Indeed, the number of Trilateral Commission members appointed to important posts inthe Carter administration was startling. Brzezinski became his National Security Adviser...WalterMondale, the new Vice-President, was a member of the Trilateral Commission. So were Ambassador tothe United Nations Andrew Young, Secretary of the Treasury Michael Blumenthal, and Secretary ofDefense Harold Brown...The price of food and the necessities of life continued to rise faster than wageswere rising. Unemployment remained officially at 6 or 8 percent--unofficially, the rates were higher.For certain key groups in the population--young people, and especially young black people--the

unemployment rate was 20 percent or 30 percent."By 1978 it was clear that blacks in the United States, the group most in support of Carter for President,and without whose support he could not have been elected, were bitterly disappointed with his policies.He opposed federal aid to poor people who needed abortions, and when it was pointed out to him thatthis was unfair, because rich women could get abortions with ease, he replied: `Well, as you know,there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cannot.'"

On October 6, 1976 the then-executive vice president of THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sydney Gruson,also wrote the following letter to William vanden Heuvel (on New York Times Company stationary),which was apparently mailed to Carter/Mondale Headquarters at 730 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan: "DearBill: Enclosed is the resume of my brother that I spoke to you about. He is an extremely talentedfellow. Anything you can do will be deeply appreciated. How about bringing your fellow in for lunchbefore the election? As ever, Sydney."

The NATION editor's father then wrote the following letter on October 12, 1976 to one of the peoplewho apparently would be responsible for offering people jobs in a new Carter Administration--JackWatson of the King & Spalding corporate law firm. (Disclosure note: a King & Spalding lawyer inManhattan is currently representing his landlord father in a frivolous, harassment-type lawsuit against arent-stabilized tenant who is a sister of the writer of this article): "Dear Jack, Sydney Gruson is theExecutive Vice President of the New York Times. He made a special point the other evening of takingme aside and asking me to forward a resume for his brother, Edward Gruson. It would be helpful if youcould have someone review the resume--and perhaps a note from you to Sydney Gruson as well as tohis brother would be most useful. Sincerely, William vanden Heuvel."

That same day, the 1976 Carter/Mondale New York Campaign official Vanden Heuvel also wrote thefollowing letter to New York Times Executive Vice President Sydney Gruson:

Dear Sidney, I have forwarded Edward's resume with a special note to Jack Watson. IfGovernor Carter does win the election, I assume Jack will have a major transitional role,including personnel. In my next conversation with him, I will pursue the matter.



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My guess is that Governor Carter's schedule is not going to permit lunch before the

election. The debates make scheduling almost impossible because they require essentiallythree days for each event.

Hoping to see you very soon.

As ever, William vanden Heuvel

After Trilateral Commission member Carter was elected president, he eventually named Williamvanden Heuvel to be his deputy permanent representative to the United Nations. The IRC boardmember vanden Heuvel's daughter, Katrina, meanwhile attended Princeton University, majored inpolitics and apparently graduated from Princeton in 1981. According to an article by Van Wallach

which appeared in a March 20, 1996 issue of a Princeton alumni publication, Katrina vanden Heuvelbegan working "as a NATION intern for nine months after taking the `Politics and the Press' coursetaught by Blair Clark, the magazine's editor from 1976 to 1978" and "returned to THE NATION in1984 as assistant editor for foreign affairs." In 1988 she married a professor named Stephen F. Cohen,who was also a contributing editor of THE NATION in 1996. In recent years, a "Stephen F. Cohen--NYU" has also been on a POST-SOVIET AFFAIRS magazine editorial board that also includes a"James Noren--Central Intelligence Agency." In 1989, IRC board member vanden Heuvel's daughterwas then named "THE NATION editor-at-large, responsible for its coverage of the USSR" and "in1990 she co-founded LYI I MYI...a quarterly journal linking American and Russian women," accordingto the Princeton alumni publication.

After the former NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE editor-turned NATION magazine editor, VictorNavasky, organized the for-profit business partnership (which included Katrina vanden Heuvel as oneof the business partners) to buy THE NATION magazine from NEW YORK OBSERVER owner ArthurCarter, Navasky appointed Katrina vanden Heuvel as the editor, while he assumed the title of publisherand editorial director.

By 1996, NATION editor Vanden Heuvel had "moved the magazine's content into new venues througha syndicated radio program and a World-Wide web page," according to the Princeton alumnipublication article. Like Pacifica's DEMOCRACY NOW show and FAIR's COUNTERSPIN show, thesyndicated NATION magazine radio show, RADIO NATION, is also subsidized by Establishmentfoundation money. The money is granted to the non-profit division of THE NATION magazine, TheNation Institute, on whose board of trustees sits NATION editor Vanden Heuvel and the former

member of the PBS board of directors who used to head the MacArthur Foundation's "genius grant"program, Catharine Stimpson. The Dean of an NYU Graduate School in recent years, Stimpson hasalso been the treasurer of The Nation Institute in recent years. Of the $1.4 million in annual revenueswhich The Nation Institute takes in, around $88,000 is spent on producing the magazine's syndicatedRADIO NATION show, which is aired on around 100 U.S. radio stations, including Pacifica Radio'sstations. NATION magazine editors and writers who have attempted to smear and marginalize 9/11conspiracy journalists and researchers in recent months, like David Corn, have also apparently been



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using RADIO NATION as a self-promotional, radio tie-in media outlet for advancing their careers as

professional journalists in the Establishment's mainstream media world.

Part 4:

ALTERNATIVE RADIO / Z MAGAZINE / SOUTH END PRESS

Although David Barsamian's ALTERNATIVE RADIO show is aired on a number of NPR stationswhich are subsidized by both corporate underwriters and grants from various Establishmentfoundations, the Institute for Social & Cultural Change Communications Inc. (of whichALTERNATIVE RADIO is a part) doesn't appear to have yet been given grants directly from the FordFoundation or other Establishment foundations. However, one of ALTERNATIVE RADIO's mostfrequently featured guests, MIT Professor Noam Chomsky, was given a $350,000 "Kyoto Prize" by theJapanese Establishment's Inamori Foundation in 1988.

The Institute for Social & Cultural Change Communications Inc. does business as Z magazine.Ironically, although it may have taken its name from a Costa-Gavras film adaptation of the novel Z(which dramatizes the uncovering of an assassination conspiracy), Z magazine has attempted tomarginalize 9/11 conspiracy researchers and journalists in recent months on its web site and in itsprinted pages..

According to its 990 form for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2000, Z magazine takes in over$641,000 a year in gross revenues and only has annual expenses of $531,000. A big chunk of Zmagazine's annual revenues goes to three members of just one family: the Albert-Sargent family. Atleast $120,000 per year of Z magazine's total revenues ends up in the pockets of either Michael Albert,his partner Lydia Sargent or Lydia's son Eric Sargent. All three family members are each paid an annual

salary of $30,000 by Z magazine. An additional $10,000 in "rent" is paid to each family member by Zmagazine for the "office space" that the Albert-Sargent family "rents" from itself, to publish its Zmagazine and maintain its web site.

Although the left entrepreneur family that publishes Z magazine took in $120,000 in the fiscal yearending 12/31/2000, all the writers it published were only paid $38,700 during the year, for the articlesthey wrote.

Of the $38,700 which the Albert-Sargent family paid its writers in 2000, $4,400 was given toALTERNATIVE RADIO producer David Barsamian, whose book THE DECLINE AND FALLOFPUBLIC BROADCASTING, was published, with an introduction by DEMOCRACY NOW INC'sAmy Goodman, in 2000 by South End Press. Although a chart in Barsamian's book on public

broadcasting indicates that the Ford Foundation was among the PBS national programmingunderwriters who contributed more than $1 million in 2000, the book's index apparently contains noreference to the Ford Foundation's crucial role in setting up the public broadcasting system.Barsamian's book index also contains no reference to the Schumann Foundation, although it makes 3references to book passages that describe Schumann Foundation President Bill Moyers' Public AffairsTV programs in a favorable way.



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South End Press is the business enterprise of the Institute for Social &Cultural Change publishing firm

which the Albert-Sargent family started in 1984, apparently with the help of $232,956 in low-interest"loans" from various individuals and organizations, that will no longer have to be paid back. Accordingto the South End Press's form 990 for the fiscal year ending 6/30/200, the book publishing arm of Zmagazine (which markets books like PROPAGANDA AND THE PUBLIC MIND:CONVERSATIONS WITH NOAM CHOMSKY that ALTERNATIVE RADIO producer Barsamian co-authored), took in over $1 million from its book sales.

So if Z magazine/web site and South End Press were considered as one left business entity, we wouldbe talking about a business that takes in about $1.7 million a year from the cultural leftism market. Intimes of U.S. imperialist war, anti-war books by anti-conspiracy theorist Chomsky, such as 9/11, tendto sell well and even make mainstream media best-seller lists. So, even without being directly

dependent upon grants from Establishment Foundations which wish to discourage public opinion fromconsidering the evidence dug up by U.S. conspiracy journalists and researchers, ALTERNATIVERADIO/Z MAGAZINE/SOUTH END PRESS may have a vested economic interest in attempting tomarginalize anti-war journalists involved in 9/11 conspiracy research and journalism.

Part 5:

MOTHER JONES / Foundation for National Progress

Like FAIR/COUNTERSPIN/IPA, MOTHER JONES/Foundation for National Progress received a lotof money from Public Affairs TV Inc. Executive Director Bill Moyers' Schumann Foundation in the1990s. In 1995, for instance, MOTHER JONES/Foundation for National Progress was given a$500,000 grant by Moyers' Schumann Foundation "to support MOTHER JONES magazine." A second

grant of $150,000 was given to MOTHER JONES/Foundation for National Progress in 1996 "tosupport the hiring of a new senior editor at MOTHER JONES magazine." And an additional grant of$100,000 was given to MOTHER JONES/Foundation for National Progress in 1997 "to promotemoney in politics investigation by MOTHER JONES magazine." As Rick Edmunds noted in a recentessay on the Internet (entitled "Getting Behind the Media: What are the subtle trade offs of foundationsupport for journalism?"): "Though it is often buried in the fine print of the masthead...many journalsof opinion are themselves nonprofit, the better to attract foundation funding. That is true of MOTHERJONES."

MOTHER JONES magazine claims to be a non-profit "Foundation for National Progress." YetMOTHER JONES magazine took in nearly $6 million in annual revenues in 2000, including $822,358from the sale of advertising space and $176,140 from renting out its subscriber list. From this gross

income of $6 million in 2000, MOTHER JONES/Foundation for National Progress then paid out thefollowing salaries to its top alternative media executives:

1. MOTHER JONES magazine Editor-in-Chief Roger Cohn was paid an annual salary of $144,670;

2. MOTHER JONES magazine Publisher and Foundation for National Progress Board President JayHaris--a former general manager of the Washington Post Company's NEWSWEEK magazine's Pacificaoperations--was paid an annual salary of $144,379;



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3. MOTHER JONES magazine Director of Sales & Marketing Eric Weiss was paid an annual salary of

$105,004;

4. MOTHER JONES magazine Creative Director Jane Palecek was paid an annual salary of $88,197;

5. Foundation for National Progress Secretary/Treasurer and CEO Joan Catherine Braun was paid anannual salary of $85,453;

6. MOTHER JONES magazine Editor Eric Bates was paid an annual salary of $74,716; and

7. MOTHER JONES magazine Advertising Manager Eileen Ellis was paid an annual salary of $67,233;and

8. MOTHER JONES Art Director Caroline Joy was paid an annual salary of $61,187.

MOTHER JONES/Foundation for National Progress also spent $247,000 on fund-raising in 2000; andits board of directors included Anita Roddick of the Body Shop, Kadima Foundation Chair CharaSchreyer, HKH Foundation director Harriet Barlow and MOTHER JONES magazine founder AdamHochschild. Hochschild also has set up the Adam Hochschild Charitable Trust/Sequoia Fund, whosestated tax-exempt purpose is to "promote the charitable literary and educational purposes of Foundationfor National Progress." According to its 2000 report, the Adam Hochschild Charitable Trust/SequoiaFund apparently did this by contributing $2.4 million worth of stock to MOTHER JONES/Foundationfor National Progress. As a result, $1,176,617 worth of WalMart Stores stock (19,082 shares) wasapparently owned by MOTHER JONES/Foundation for National Progress in 2001.

Besides receiving money from Bill Moyers' Schumann Foundation and the Hochschild CharitableTrust/Sequoia Fund of one its own board members, another interesting connection to the world of

Establishment foundations exists at MOTHER JONES magazine. In 1997, the wife of MOTHERJONES/Foundation for National Progress board member Adam Hochschild--University of California-Berkeley Professor of Sociology Arlie Russell Hochschild--was given a $3 million grant by the AlfredP. Sloan Foundation "to establish a Center for Working Families" at UC-Berkeley, which she nowdirects. Among the Establishment folks who presently sit on the board of trustees of the SloanFoundation which funds UC-Berkeley Professor Arlie Russell Hochschild's center is former Secretaryof the Air Force Sheila Widnall--who presently represents MIT on the board of trustees of thePentagon's weapons research think-tank: the Institute for Defense Analyses (www.ida.org). Othermembers of the Sloan Foundation board include former chairmen of the General Motors, JP Morganand Morgan Stanley corporate boards and two other MIT professors. In 1991, the wife of MOTHERJONES/Foundation for National Progress board member Hochschild also was apparently given a grant

by the Ford Foundation.

So it's probably not likely that many muckraking articles about either the Ford Foundation's historicrelationship to the CIA, Bill Moyers' Schumann Foundation and Public Affairs TV Inc., the SloanFoundation, the Institute for Defense Analyses, MIT or UC-Berkeley--or on what evidence has beendug up by 9/11 conspiracy journalists and researchers--will be published much by the MOTHERJONES magazine alternative media gatekeepers/censors.



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Part 6:

PROGRESSIVE

The editor of PROGRESSIVE magazine, Matthew Rothschild, also attempted to smear and marginalize9/11 conspiracy journalists and researchers a few months ago. Coincidentally, the Madison, Wisconsin-based PROGRESSIVE enterprise has also been receiving a lot of money from the foundations of apolitically unprogressive U.S. Establishment since the 1990s.

In 1992, for instance, a $50,000 grant was given to PROGRESSIVE by the MacArthur Foundation (onwhose board ABC News radio commentator Paul Harvey and Enron Global Power & Pipelines directorThomas Theobald have sat for many years) "to solicit and disseminate opinion pieces relevant to U.S.foreign policy and international security." That same year, "several MacArthur staff members" were"called to consult with staff members of Bill Clinton's presidential campaign," according to THECHRONICLE OF PHILANTHROPY. And, during the late 1990s, one of the top ClintonAdministration economic policymakers, Laura Tyson, became a member of the MacArthur Foundationboard of directors.

An additional $150,000 grant was also given to PROGRESSIVE by the MacArthur Foundation in1994. And in 2002, the MacArthur Foundation gave $120,000 more in grant money to thePROGRESSIVE enterprise, whose magazine anti-conspiracy theorist Matthew Rothschild edits.

Like FAIR/COUNTERSPIN and PACIFICA/DEMOCRACY NOW, the PROGRESSIVE enterprise hasalso been receiving a lot of money from the Ford Foundation since the 1990s. In 1998, for instance,PROGRESSIVE was given a $200,000 grant by the Ford Foundation (on whose board of trustees satClinton crony Vernon Jordan). And in 2000, two more grants, totaling $250,000, were given to

PROGRESSIVE by the Ford Foundation.

Besides receiving grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation, PROGRESSIVEhas also obtained funds from The Rockefeller Foundation in recent years. In 1998, for instance, a$50,000 grant was given to PROGRESSIVE by The Rockefeller Foundation.

In 2000, PROGRESSIVE Inc. took in an annual income of $1.7 million, including $69,727 from itssale of advertising space. And its editor, Matthew Rothschild, has apparently been paid an annual salaryof $44,468 in recent years--for putting out a Democratic Party-oriented magazine that rarely mentionsthe Ford Foundation's historic relation to the CIA and rarely publishes articles written by 9/11conspiracy journalists or researchers.

Part 7:

FORD FOUNDATION, THE CIA & U.S. ESTABLISHMENT CONSPIRACY part 1

In her book THE CULTURAL COLD WAR, Frances Stoner Saunders recalled how the FordFoundation collaborated with the CIA in the past--on behalf of the Ultra-Rich families of the U.S.Establishment's power elite--to perpetuate a globalized corporate economic system which deniespolitical, economic and cultural freedom and equality to the majority of humanity:



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"Incorporated in 1936, the Ford Foundation was the tax-exempt cream of the vast Ford

fortune...The foundation had a record of close involvement in covert actions in Europe,working closely with Marshall Plan and CIA officials on specific projects...On 21 January1953, Allen Dulles, insecure about his future in the CIA under the newly electedEisenhower, had met his friend David Rockefeller for lunch. Rockefeller hinted heavily thatif Dulles decided to leave the Agency, he could reasonably expect to be invited to becomepresident of the Ford Foundation. Dulles need not have feared for his future...Allen Dulleswas to become Director of Central Intelligence.

"The new president of the Ford Foundation was announced shortly after. He was JohnMcCloy...By the time he came to the Ford Foundation, he had been Assistant Secretary ofWar, president of the World Bank...In 1953 he also became chairman of the Rockefellers'

Chase Manhattan Bank, and chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. After John F.Kennedy's assassination, he was a Warren Commission appointee...McCloy took apragmatic view of the CIA's inevitable interest in the Ford Foundation when he assumed itspresidency. Addressing the concerns of some of the foundation's executives, who felt thatits reputation for integrity and independence was being undermined by involvement withthe CIA, McCloy argued that if they failed to cooperate, the CIA would simply penetratethe foundation quietly by recruiting or inserting staff at lower levels. McCloy's answer tothis problem was to create an administrative unit within the Ford Foundation specifically todeal with the CIA. Headed by McCloy and two foundation officers, this three-mancommittee had to be consulted every time the Agency wanted to use the foundation, eitheras a pass-through, or as cover. `They would check in with this particular committee, and if

it was felt that this was a reasonable thing and would not be against the foundation's long-term interests, then the project would be passed along to the internal staff and otherfoundation officers (without them) knowing the origins of the proposal,' explainedMcCloy's biographer, Kai Bird.

"With this arrangement in place, the Ford Foundation became officially engaged as one ofthose organizations the CIA was able to mobilize for political warfare...The foundation'sarchives reveal a raft of joint projects. The East European Fund, a CIA front in whichGeorge Kennan played a prominent role, got most of its money from the FordFoundation...The foundation gave $500,000 to Bill Casey's International Rescue Committee[of which NATION editor Vanden Heuvel's father was also an official], and substantial

grants to another CIA front, the World Assembly of Youth. It was also one of the singlelargest donors to the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent think-tank whichexerted enormous influence on American foreign policy, and which operated (and continuesto operate) according to strict confidentiality rules which include a twenty-five-yearembargo on the release of its records...

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his job as Special Assistant to the President in Charge of National Security, which meant,

among other things, monitoring the CIA)...The Congress for Cultural Freedom...was one ofFord Foundation's largest grantees, receiving $7 million by the early 1960s..."

THE CULTURAL COLD WAR book also recalled how the money from the J.M. Kaplan family (someof which has been thrown towards Pacifica/DEMOCRACY NOW in recent years) was used in the pastby the CIA: "In 1956...J.M. Kaplan, president of the Welch Grape Juice Company, and president andtreasurer of the Kaplan Foundation (assets: $14 million), wrote to Allen Dulles offering hisservices...Dulles subsequently arranged for a CIA `representative' to make an appointment with Kaplan.The Kaplan Foundation could soon be counted as an asset, a reliable `pass-through' for secret fundsearmarked for CIA projects, amongst them the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and an institute headedby veteran socialist and chairman of the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Norman Thomas.

"The use of philanthropic foundations was the most convenient way to pass large sums ofmoney to Agency projects without alerting the recipients to their source. By the mid-1950s,the CIA's intrusion into the foundation field was massive. Although figures are notavailable for this period, the general counsel of a 1952 Congress committee appointed toinvestigate US foundations concluded that `An unparalleled amount of power isconcentrated increasingly in the hands of an interlocking and self-perpetuating group.Unlike the power of corporate management, it is unchecked by stockholders; unlike thepower of government, it is unchecked by the people; unlike the power of the churches, it isunchecked by any firmly established canons of value.' In 1976, a Select Committeeappointed to investigate US intelligence activities reported on the CIA's penetration of thefoundation field by the mid-1960s: during 1963-6, of the 700 grants over $10,000 given by164 foundations, at least 108 involved partial or complete CIA funding. More importantly,CIA funding was involved in nearly half the grants made by these 164 foundations in thefield of international activities during the same period.

"`Bona fide' foundations such as Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie were considered `the bestand most plausible kind of funding cover.' A CIA study of 1966 argued that this techniquewas `particularly effective for democratically run membership organizations, which need toassure their own unwitting members and collaborators, as well as their hostile critics, thatthey have genuine, respectable, private sources of income.' Certainly, it allowed the CIA tofund a seemingly limitless range of covert action programs affecting youth groups, laborunions, universities, publishing houses, and other private institutions from the early 1950s."

Among the liberal-left Establishment anti-war folks sponsored by the Ford Foundation during the1960s was a former head of the CIA-subsidized National Student Association [NSA] named AllardLownestein (who was assassinated under mysterious circumstances in 1980 by Dennis Sweeney).According to the 1985 book THE PIED PIPER: ALLARD K. LOWENSTEIN AND THE LIBERALDREAM by Richard Cummings:



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"Students followed Lowenstein in his quest for a just and peaceful world. But they did not

know that his deep sense of patriotism and intense anti-Communism led him to work forthe CIA in Africa and Spain and to inform on suspected Communists in the civil rightsmovement...In 1962...according to sources with background in intelligence work, he wasformally recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency. Although the author's attempts toobtain Lowenstein's CIA file under the Freedom of Information-Privacy Act from the CIAand from his lawyer Gary Bellow proved unavailing, other evidence overwhelminglysupports these sources...Lowenstein's work in the CIA involved southern Africa, andbecause Franco supported Portugal and South Africa, it also involved Spain, whereLowenstein worked with the anti-Communist left opposed to Franco...Lowenstein came tobelieve that his greatest enemies were to his left...

"According to sources, Lowenstein was separated from the CIA sometime in 1967 (thesources say Lowenstein `was in the agency from 1962 to 1967')...During 1975, Lowensteinbecame deeply involved in the politics of Portugal because of his relationship withPortugese Socialist Mario Soares, who was foreign minister at a period when thePortuguese revolution was pushing increasingly leftward. Involving Lowenstein was hisfriend Frank Carlucci, who served as U.S. ambassador to Portugal from 1975 to 1978 andthen as Jimmy Carter's deputy director of the CIA...

"To further supplement his income, Lowenstein was to work for the Ford Foundation, aconsultancy having been arranged for him by a friend...Lowenstein's job with the FordFoundation, which, according to his diary, included a $2,500 fee, all expenses, and freedom

to decide when and where he would work (an NSA grant had been approved as well),enabled him to fly to various campuses, study the causes of the unrest, and prepare a report.He particularly focused on Berkeley where President Martin Meyerson attempted to useLowenstein as a peacemaker...A new generation of student leaders was now openlychallenging authority in more extreme ways than Lowenstein had...Their rebellion wasgrowing beyond the confines of the liberal National Student Association, which Lowensteinhad continued to monitor. It was taking dangerous and unpredictable forms...On April 1,1965, Paul Ylvisaker, the director of the Ford Foundation project on campus unrest, wroteto Lowenstein: `This will confirm the arrangements made with Mr. John Ehle for you toserve as a consultant to the Foundation for a maximum of five days between April 1 and 9to explore the possibility of involving youth and student groups in community action

programs. We understand you will make brief visits in institutions in North Carolina,Massachusetts, California and New York. "`The Foundation will provide a daily fee of $50and reimbursement for first-class round-trip air transportation to your destinations.Enclosed you will find expense report forms and certificates of time worked, which wewould appreciate your filling out, signing and returning to us. Please send yourtransportation stubs and hotel bills, and receipts for expenses of $25 or more.'"



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Former Ford Foundation Consultant Lowenstein's friend, Carlucci, later became the Secretary of

Defense under Reagan and has been a top executive at the Bush II White House and Ford FoundationBoard of Trustees-linked Carlyle Assets firm in recent years. In her 1982 book ROOTED INSECRECY: THE CLANDESTINE ELEMENT IN AUSTRALIAN POLITICS by Joan Coxsedge notedthat "the Ford Foundation" also "took over the funding of the Congress for Cultural Freedom after itsCIA cover was blown in 1966."

Eric Chester's book COVERT NETWORKS: PROGRESSIVES, THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUECOMMITTEE AND THE CIA also contains some information about how the Ford Foundation hashistorically worked with the CIA:

"The Ford Foundation...maintained a close and continuing relationship with the intelligencecommunity throughout the most confrontational years of the Cold War.

"In particular, the Foundation established in 1951 a subsidiary affiliate, the East EuropeanFund, which disbursed its considerable resources to projects oriented toward political exilesfrom the Soviet Union. Over the next few years, the Foundation and its affiliated fundworked closely with other organizations within the covert network, including theInternational Rescue Committee...

"The New York office was headed by Bernard Gladieux...After shifting to the FordFoundation in 1950, Gladieux remained a committed proponent of psychological warfareprograms targeted at the Soviet bloc countries. He continued to maintain contacts with highofficials in the Agency; while an officer of the Foundation, he also `served in a consultant

and liaison capacity with the Central Intelligence Agency involving certain highly sensitivematters.' Soon after being appointed director of Central Intelligence in February 1953,Allen Dulles reassured Gladieux that he had been kept `fully-advised of recentdevelopments' and that he wanted `to work closely with' Gladieux in the future.

"Within the New York office, John Howard had primary responsibility for screeningoverseas grant proposals. This meant that Howard was a key liaison between theFoundation and the CIA...

"[On March 5, 1958] Don Price...an associate director of the Foundation, wrote MatthewBaird of the CIA to set up a discussion on `potential ideas for future action.' Joining Price

would be John Howard, still a central figure in the oversight of overseas programs. Bairdresponded by inviting Price and Howard to a meeting at CIA headquarters with `40 or 50Agency representatives' from the Clandestine Services Division. The agenda would featurea presentation by Price and Howard in which they would `discuss informally thoseprograms of the Foundation' that they felt would `be of general interest to the Agency.'Afterward, the Ford Foundation officials would meet with smaller groups of CIA staff todiscuss specific projects.



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"The CIA and the Ford Foundation maintained close relations throughout the 1950s and

into the 1960s...

"Although the full extent of the Ford Foundation's cooperation with the CIA over the lastthree decades cannot be determined as long as the relevant files remain closed orunavailable, it is clear that the Foundation worked closely with the intelligence communityon several sensitive operations during the 1950s..."

According to Chester's 1995 COVERT NETWORKS book, a Ford Foundation grant of $150,000 wasapparently used during the 1950s to subsidize the activity of a right-wing anti-communist paramilitarygroup, the "Fighting Group" in East Germany: "The Ford Foundation was interested in funding theactivities of the Fighting Group from the start...Having approached top Agency officials, Howard and

Gladieux, of the New York office, concluded that `CIA officials were unanimous in their view thatFoundation support of the Fighting Group would be most helpful...Fighting Group commandos blew upa railroad bridge near Berlin just before an express train coming from Warsaw was due to pass overit...A bridge over a canal was damaged with explosives..."

The same book also noted how the IRC board member that NATION editor Vanden Heuvel's fatherapparently worked for, William Donovan, apparently also intervened in 1950s German domesticpolitics: "The [International Rescue] Committee established a special Redefection Commission inFebruary 1956, with William Donovan, IRC board member...as chair...Donovan and the rest of thecommission immediately embarked on an inspection tour of West German and France...Donovan wasutilizing the trip as a cover for a covert mission to provide funds for cooperative politicians...While

visiting West Berlin, Donovan arranged to have couriers give [former West German Chancellor Willy]Brandt one hundred thousand Deutschmarks in cash at a clandestine rendezvous. The cash drop, worthtwenty-five thousand dollars at the time, was employed by Brandt to strengthen his position within theSocial Democratic Party."

Part 8:


For 13 years, a former national security affairs advisor in the Kennedy and Johnson White Houseduring the Vietnam War Era, McGeorge Bundy, was the Ford Foundation's president. As JamesLedbetter recalled in his book MADE POSSIBLE BY... "The Ford effort took a new twist in 1966,when the Foundation began plotting a system that would unite satellite communication with

educational broadcasting. McGeorge Bundy, the former national security advisor who had personallyordered American bombing raids on North Vietnam in early 1965, left the government and moved tothe Ford Foundation to oversee this plan...Bundy obtained his position without being knowledgeableabout, or even comfortable with, the medium of television..."

In a September 26, 1996 press release that was issued by the Ford Foundation following its formerlong-time president's death, the Trustees of the Ford Foundation stated:



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"The Trustees of the Ford Foundation are deeply saddened by the death of McGeorge Bundy on

September 16 [1996]. Mr. Bundy served as President of the Foundation from 1966 to 1979. He forgednew lines of work in such critically important areas as civil rights, overseas development, and securityand arms control. His intellect, candor, and high standards left an indelible mark on the Foundation'sculture. The work of the Foundation today builds on Mac's legacy and we are in his debt."

Yet evidence exists that former Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy was apparently one of theWhite House officials responsible for planning crimes against humanity during the Vietnam War Era, inviolation of the Nuremberg Accords.

On May 11, 1961, for instance, former Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy signed "NationalSecurity Action Memorandum 52" which approved a program for covert action against North Vietnamthat included forming "network of resistance, covert bases and teams for sabotage and light

harassment" in North Vietnam. And on September 10, 1964, former Ford Foundation PresidentMcGeorge Bundy signed "National Security Action Memorandum No. 314," which approved theresumption of naval patrols and covert maritime operations off the coast of North Vietnam.

According to THE PENTAGON PAPERS, each maritime operation against North Vietnam afterOctober 1964 had to be approved in advance by former Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy.And among the maritime operations approved in advance by the now-deceased former Ford Foundationpresident were "ship-to-shore bombardment of North Vietnam radar site" and "underwater demolitionteam assaults on bridges along coastal roads, bridges and rails" in North Vietnam.

In a February 7, 1965 memorandum to Democratic Party Leader Lyndon Johnson, former FordFoundation President McGeorge Bundy next recommended that the U.S. adopt "a policy of `sustained

reprisal'" against North Vietnam; and on March 2, 1965 the Johnson White House's "Rolling Thunder"bombing campaign against North Vietnam was begun.

On April 6, 1965, former Ford Foundation President Bundy signed "National Security ActionMemorandum No. 328," in which he stated:

"We should continue roughly the present slowly ascending tempo of ROLLING THUNDEROperation...We should continue to vary the type of target, stepping up attack on lines of communicationin the near future, and possibly moving in a few weeks to attacks on the rail lines north and northeast ofHanoi.

"Leaflet operations should be expanded to obtain maximum practicable psychological effect on theNorth Vietnamese population.

"Blockade or aerial mining of North Vietnamese ports needs further study and should be considered forfuture operations...Air operations in Laos...should be stepped up to the maximum remunerative rate..."

By the time McGeorge Bundy retired as Ford Foundation president in 1979, millions of people inIndochina and over 57,000 U.S. military personnel had lost their lives, as a result of the militaristicactions authorized by the "National Security Action Memorandum" which the former Ford Foundationpresident personally signed.



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A few years before his death in 1996, the former Ford Foundation president had been named as a

"Scholar-in-Residence" by the same Carnegie Corporation of New York foundation which was to give a$25,000 grant to Pacifica in 1996 to launch the DEMOCRACY NOW! show. As the CarnegieCorporation of New York's "Scholar-in-Residence," former Ford Foundation President Bundy co-authored a 1993 book with Stanford University Professor Sidney Drell and former Chairman of theJoint Chiefs of Staff William J. Crowe (who also sat on the board of directors of a Big Oil companycalled Texaco in the early 1990s), entitled REDUCING NUCLEAR DANGER.

In the acknowledgement section of their book, Bundy and his co-authors noted that "the book is theproduct of a decision in 1990 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to invite the three of us towork as co-chairmen of a Carnegie Commission on Reducing the Nuclear Danger;" and "we mustexpress our warmest personal thanks to Dr. David A. Hamburg, the president of the Carnegie

Corporation" and "the staff of the Carnegie Corporation has helped with unfailing kindness andunderstanding."

Former Ford Foundation President Bundy and his co-authors then expressed their support for theimmoral 1991 high-technology U.S. military attack on the people of Iraq, on behalf of Big Oil's specialinterests, by writing:

"Saddam Hussein has provided a sharp reminder of a different nuclear danger--that nuclear weaponsmay come into the hands of unpredictable and adventurous rulers. We learned in Iraq that wheninternational awareness, will, and capability are all three sufficient, it is possible to take effective actionagainst such danger...The case of Saddam is unique both in the breadth of the international judgmentthat a bomb under his control would be unacceptably dangerous and in the strength of the Americanpresence and engagement created by his aggression against Kuwait. Multinational action against theIraqi bomb has been effective, at least in the short run...

"It is now evident that if Saddam's effort had not been interrupted by the war he provoked, he wouldprobably have had nuclear weapons sometime in the 1990s--quite possibly in the first half of thedecade. Knowing Saddam as it now does, the world has been shocked by this narrow escape. It is notsurprising that an effective consensus has developed, growing in strength as the process of inquiry anddismantling has continued in Iraq, that the international community should see to it that leaders such asSaddam do not get the bomb."

Yet three years after the former Ford Foundation president who was one of the U.S. Establishmentleaders responsible for crimes against humanity in Vietnam joined his co-authors in rationalizing a pro-war policy in relation to Iraq, the Ford Foundation board of trustees asserted in 1996 that "the work of

the Foundation today builds on Mac's legacy and we are in his debt."

Perhaps a brief look at some of the corporate connections of those who sit on the Ford Foundationboard of trustees--and at how the Ford Foundation operates--might indicate how "the Foundation todaybuilds on Mac's legacy" by, for instance, sponsoring alternative media groups which generally attemptto marginalize anti-war/anti-corporate 9/11 conspiracy journalists and researchers?.

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The Ford Foundation's Vice-President for Media in recent years, Alison Bernstein, was an associatedean at Princeton University between 1990 and 1992. But for most of the last twenty years she hasbeen on the Ford Foundation payroll. [A poster to the WBAI Listener's Bulletin Board a few monthsago remembered Ford Foundation Vice-President for Media Bernstein as being a family relation of thenow-deceased former conductor of the New York Philharmonic orchestra, Leonard Bernstein; and assomeone who, as a college student, claimed to be anti-Establishment in her politics. But the accuracy ofthe WBAI listener's memory of Alison Bernstein could not be confirmed.]

As the Ford Foundation's Vice-President for Media, Bernstein implements the media policy prioritiesthat are determined by committees of the Ford Foundation board of trustees and authorized by the FordFoundation president. In recent years the Ford Foundation board of trustees has included two former

CEOs and former board chairmen of the Xerox Corporation, the CEO and board chairman of ALCOA,an executive vice-president and general counsel of Coca Cola Company, the chairman and CEO of LeviStrauss & Co., the chairman of Reuters Holdings, PLC, the senior partner of the Akin, Gump,StrausHauser & Feld lobbying firm, and the president of Vassar College. Other corporations with directorswho sat on the Ford Foundation board of trustees in the late 1990s or after 2000 included Time Warner,Chase Manhattan Bank, Ryder Systems, CBS, AT & T, Adolph Coors Company, Dayton-Hudson, theBank of England, J.P. Morgan, Marine Midland Bank, Southern California Edison, KRCX Radio, theCentral Gas & Electric Corp. DuPont, Citicorp and the New York Stock Exchange. A vice-presidentand general counsel of Texaco Inc. named Deval Laurdine Patrick has also sat on the Ford Foundationboard of trustees in recent years.

The Ford Foundation's Board of Trustees' Education, Media, Arts and Culture Committee in the late1990s, for instance, included the president of Vassar College, the chairman of Reuters Holdings PLC,the former chairman and CEO of Xerox and Clinton crony Vernon Jordan--also a director of Revlon,American Express, J.C. Penney, Sara Lee, Xerox, Bankers Trust, Dow Jones, Union Carbide and RyderSystems. Clinton crony Jordan also was the chair of the Ford Foundation Board of Trustee's Audit andManagement Committee in the late 1990s.

Currently, the wife of the Bush II White House's presidential historian (Michael Beschloss] sits on theFord Foundation board of trustees. Ford Foundation Trustee Afsaneh Mashayetkhi Beschloss, a formerWorld Bank managing officer, also is the CEO/president of the Carlyle Asset Management Group.President Bush II's father George Bush, former Secretary of Defense and former Deputy CIA DirectorFrank Carlucci, former Secretary of State James Baker and Billionaire Speculator George Soros are

also involved in the Carlyle Group that Ford Foundation Trustee Mashayetkhi Beschloss manages. TheFord Foundation board-linked Carlyle Group received $1.3 billion in Pentagon war contracts in 1999,was the 11th-largest recipient of Pentagon war contracts in 2000 and invests heavily in war stock.

A former member of the board of directors of Chase Manhattan Bank, Susan Berresford has been theFord Foundation president since 1996. Ford Foundation President Berresford is presently a member ofthe North American Committee of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission--sitting next to otherU.S. Establishment figures, such as Zbigniew Brzezinski and Madeline Albright.



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Ford Foundation President Berresford is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, to which

the Ford Foundation gave a grant of $100,000 "for the development of a Council Task Force onTerrorism" in 2002. Featured on the Council on Foreign Relations web site at www.cfr.org on 9/26/02was an advertisement for "a New Council book," which stated "Invasion Is The Only Realistic Optionto Head off the Threat from Iraq, Argues Kenneth Pollack in THE THREATENING STORM." Inrecent years, the vice-chairman of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, CarlaHill, has sat on the board of directors of Chevron (as has National Security Affairs Adviser and formerCarnegie Corporation of NY Trustee Condoleezza Rice). Other members of the Council on ForeignRelations include former CIA Director John Deutch, former CIA Consultant/MacArthur FoundationConsultant and current Northwestern University President Henry Bienen, Richard Holbrooke,Billionaire Speculator Geor

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