Supranational society: Masterlist of 1,300 NGOs and the top 400 people in them

"The friendship Nancy and I shared with Kay Graham is one of the legacies of my government service that we cherish most. ... The Kay of the permanent establishment never lost sight of the fact that societies thrive not by the victories of their factions but by their ultimate reconciliations. Kay and I met in 1969 at the home of Joe Alsop, another member of Washington's permanent establishment."
July 23, 2001, Henry Kissinger, Eulogy for Katharine Graham of the Washington Post. |
"[Think tanks] exert definite and even considerable influence on the process of elaborating and making political decisions. It is connected with the fact that ... leaders of such centers have as a rule personal close links with the [government]. Second, the centers are created in order to prepare and adopt the major political decisions in the shade, far from public. Third, such analytical and expert centers really accumulate the best intellectual forces of the country and fourth, not always but rather often, the centers were founded simply to provide jobs to [retired] politicians."
1999, Yuri Pivovarov, 'Power Institutions in Post-Communist Russia: Official Forms and Hidden Transcrips,' p. 18 (NATO library). The influence of Russian think tanks on the executive body seems to be many times less than is the case in the United States, but the reasons for their existence seem to be the same. |
Note: The names of institutes and individuals on this page have been gathered over the course of hundreds of hours from books, newspapers, official websites (don't forget Webarchive), regular websites (names were always double checked), a number of membership lists, and the Who's Who. ISGP's membership/biography lists related to the Pilgrims, the 1001, the American Security Council, Le Cercle and other groups were used as a starting point to find all these private groups. Many sources can be found in those lists or in various articles on this website, but certainly not all - and unfortunately there's no time to include all the sources here. This page has primarily been put together to make cross referencing a hundred times easier than before.
People studying political science should have a good idea of the non-government organizations listed on this page. They vary considerable in purpose and influence, but are an integral part of the globalization process, as well as intelligence and covert operations. For an explanation of the establishments termed "Liberal", "Conservative", "Zionist" and "Vatican-Paneuropa", in which these groups are largely divided, the reader can visit the introduction page.
The names of these groups/NGOs have been collected by the author of this site over the course of eight to nine years. All really low level institutes have been left out - there are probably over a 1000 more filled with names nobody knows and which really have no influence.
What keeps this entire network afloat are funds from corporations, foundations, membership fees, fund raisers and occasional government grants is. Ban the foundations, curb corporate contributions, and the whole network will start to fall apart. I'm not necessarily saying that this is a solution.
Interestingly, back in early 2004 this author was unable to find more than six or seven of the more important organizations below on one website or in one book, even after looking for it all over the place. Often groups like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission were mixed in with the "Illuminati", the "Freemasons" and the "New World Order". Tiny bits of information on such groups as the Pilgrims, Le Cercle, the 1001 Club, the JASON Group, the Sun Valley Meetings and others were scattered all over the place and often not freely accessible. Information on mainland Europe with regard to these kind of groups was especially scarce. And in all cases no one had a clue how various groups related to each other. As the reader can see, things have changed. A lot!
Below the reader can find names of prominent individuals ranked according to the number of private groups and a number of key corporations that they have (certainly) been involved with (maintained here). Overall it appears to be a very accurate influence index when it comes to, once and for all, and in rather scientific manner, identifying the "powers-that-be". Certainly it identifies all the key players in the liberal (globalist), conservative (defense), Catholic conservative (Opus Dei/SMOM), Zionist, and to a large degree even the Russian establishments. As the reader will soon realize, most of these people know one another very well. Anyone with an interest in globalization or parapolitical issues would do well to become familar with these individuals.

It's possible to check the rankings for yourself by doing searches on this page for particular (sur)names. Ideally sources would be available with all the groups and names listed, but that just takes too much time at this point. Many names should be easy to verify through the sources just mentioned. Many names should be easy to verify through the sources just mentioned. About 330 still alive persons are listed at this point, but it's not too hard to add another few dozen "helpers" that have been involved in less than 10 NGOs.
| GREEN: | Career in banking, corporations, in economic government posts, or science. |
| YELLOW: | Congress, senate, judiciary, lower level government position, or (vice) president. |
| RED | Military career, defense secretary, CIA, national security advisor or national security scholar/scientist. |
| BLUE: | State Department. |
| GRAY: | Soviet/nationalist Russian |
The above colors have been used to give an indication of each person's professional background. The reader can count all the think tanks, foundations, and other NGOs each person in this list is involved in by going through ISGP's NGO list.
United States
Neocon or liberal establishment, virtually everyone in the list above knows one another VERY well.
U.S.: top DOD scientists Persons who hardly show up in think tanks,
but nonetheless are allied to top Pentagon people: William Perry, Dov Zakheim and especially James Woolsey. Close to the CIA also, which is deeply involved in the high tech defense industry.
While the name "superclass" comes from Kissinger Associates managing director David Rothkopf, ISGP's "Superclass Index" is completely independent from Rothkopf's "Superclass List". ISGP's list strictly deals with the amount of NGOs a person has been involved with during his or her lifetime.
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Canada
Australia
Great Britain
Germany
Belgium and France
Includes many minor individuals, more suitable for Dutch domestic research.
* Daughter married a grandson of Prince Bernhard, Prince Maurits, in 1998.
Sustainable development
Latin America
Arab
Largely synonymous with Solntsevskaya Bratva in Russia, various Russian oligarchs, past U.S. mobsters as Meyer Lansky, neocon elements in the Pentagon and CIA, and the U.S.-based Israel lobby. It's quite worrying to see the great overlap between top U.S. officials and the Zionist list.
Russia
Putin is a modern KGB/FSB elitist who has subdued the oligarchs and think tank elite. His power comes from the FSB old boys and the oil, gas, media and defense corporations he has taken control of.
Europe/Canada/Australia - DECEASED
Sustainable development - DECEASED
Synonymous with Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta.
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| American Bankers Association (ABA) Lawrence Gillespie | William Payne | Frederick Kingsbury (IAC 1962-1965) | Howard McCall | Rudolph Hecht (president) | Gabriel Hauge | Warren Burgess (chair Economic Policy Commission 1940-1944, president ABA 1944-1945, chair Commission on Public Debt Policy 1946-1947; married a granddaughter of J.P. Morgan) |
1875 |
| American Economic Association (AEA) Martin Feldstein (became president since 2004) |
1885 |
| Political Science Quarterly, Academy of Political Science Honorary members anno 2013: Albright | Brademas | Brzezinski | George H. W. Bush | Jimmy Carter | Lee Hamilton | Robert Gates | Sandra Day O'Connor | David Rockefeller | Scowcroft | Schultz | Volcker | Richard van Weizsacker. Other honorary members in 2001: LBJ and wife | Reagan | Gerald Ford | Lord Roll. Director: John J. Iselin. |
1886 |
| Mayo Clinic Trustees: Paul Volcker (since 1979, emeritus today) | Tom Brokaw | Dick Cheney | Lee Raymond | Barbara Bush | Walter Mondale | Anne Tatlock (since 2002) | Hugh B. Price. Trustee Mayo Foundation: Cyrus Vance |
1889 |
| California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Theodore von Karman (professor of Aeronautics at Caltech 1928-1949; founder JPL in 1936; director Caltech's Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory 1928-1945) | Jack Parsons (co-founder JPL with Karman at Caltech; occultist of the OTO) | James G. Boswell (trustee since April 1947) | John McCone (trustee April 1947 and during 1950s, before he became CIA director; UCLA trustee since 1965; a $2,5 million gift in 1992 to Caltech of his established a chairmanship in his name; Bechte1 business partner since 1937) | Robert Ingersoll (trustee 1961-1980s) | Thomas Watson, Jr. (long-time trustee since 1961) | Dean Wooldridge (upon retiring from TRW in 1962 became a professor here) | Si Ramo (trustee 1964-1985, life trustee since then; co-head of TRW and Bunker-Ramo) | Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. (financier; trustee 1967-1997, life trustee since then) | Robert O. Anderson (trustee 1967-1989, life trustee since then) | Ruben Mettler (Caltech Ph.D. electrical and aerospace engineering; trustee 1968-2006, chair 1985-1993; chair TRW) | William Hewitt (life trustee) | Ira Bowen | Robert McNamara (trustee 1969-1988, life trustee since then) | Lew Wasserman (trustee 1971-1987, life trustee since then) | Harold Brown (president) | Stanton Avery (chair) | J. Paul Austin (trustee since 1975) | Philip Hawley (trustee 1975-1997, life trustee since then) | Robert Galvin (trustee 1977-) | Marvin Goldberger (president 1978-1987) | Charles Townes (trustee 1979-1987, life trustee after that) | Bobby Ray Inman (trustee since 1989, senior trustee since 2003, JPL Oversight Committee) | Suzanne Woolsey (JPL Oversight Committee) | Robert Schultz (trustee 1991-2002, life trustee since then). Also: John Gardner (advisory committee JPL) | Murray Gell-Mann (faculty member) |
1891 |
| National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) Members: Lammot du Pont | Alfred Sloan, Jr. | Philip Singleton (director 1961-1963) | George Clinton Textor | Lawrence Clarkson (director 1993-1999) |
1895 |
| Carnegie Institute for Science Andrew Carnegie | Harry F. Osborn | Cleveland Dodge | Robert Bliss | Lindsay Bradford | Vannevar Bush (president) | Walter Gifford | Caryl Haskins | Charles Townes | John Macomber | Walter Page II (trustee 1971-1979) | John Cadwalader | William I. M. Turner, Jr. (vice chair) | William Hewlett (trustee) |
1895 |
| World Conservation Society Trustees: Henry F. Osborn (founder) | Fairfield Osborn (son of; head) | Mrs. Vincent Astor | George Fisher Baker II | George Fisher Baker III | Michael Bloomberg | Robert Goelet | Mrs. Edgar Cullman | Eben Pyne | Judith Sulzberger | Frederick Beinecke | Sue Erpf van den Bovenkamp | Paul Gould | John Irwin III | Ashley Schiff | David Schiff (chair) | Walter Sedgwick | Mrs. Leonard Stern | Andrew Tisch | Ogden Phipps II | Howard Phelps, Jr. (chair) | Murray Gell-Mann | Bill de Blasio |
1895 |
| Bohemian Grove (first 160-acre land purchase of the Bohemian Club) Nelson and David Rockefeller | John McCone | Richard Helms | Kissinger | Scowcroft | Bechtel family | A. W. Clausen | Myron Du Bain | Edmund Littlefield | Amory Houghton, Jr. | Andrew Knight | Philip Reed | James Baker III | Shultz | Weinberger | Seitz | William Simon | Inman | Kenneth Derr | Edward Teller | Norman Augustine | George H. W. Bush (and son) | Brady | Casey | Woolsey | J. Dennis Bonney | Thomas Gates | Lawrence Summers | Gergen | Rumsfeld | Cheney | Foley | David O'Reilly | Alexander Haig | Colin Powell | John Swearingen (Cave Man) | Vernon Walters | Newt Gingrich | Karl Rove | William Webster | Joseph Coors | William Draper III | Dwight Eisenhower | Gerald Ford | Henry Ford | Lamar Alexander | Jack Horton (Mandalay) | Evan Galbraith | Feulner | Frederick Mielke, Jr. | Samuel and Michael Armacost | Maurice Greenberg | Richard Boucher | Gen. Schwarzkopf | Thomas Jones | Lewis Coleman | Tom Killefer | Adm. Charles Larson | Kaiser family | Joseph Califano | Phillip Carroll | John Kluge | Sean O'Keefe | Henry Kravis | Gen. Victor Krulak | John Lehman | Daniel Ludwig | John Major | Edwin Mees III | Morgan family | Prince Philip | William Alton Jones | Eddie Rickenbacker | William Rogers | Fukuyama | Charles Brown | James Evans | Louis Gerstner | Philip Hawley | James Olson | Alton Ochsner (1965) | William Turner | Warner Rawleigh | Joseph Williams | Melvin Lane | Michel Rocard | Helmut Kohl | Weldon Gibson | Walter Cronkite | Gaylord Freeman | Malcolm Forbes, Sr. | Antonin Scalia | David Packard |
1899 |
| Rockefeller University / Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research John D. Rockefeller, Sr. | Frederick Osborn | David Rockefeller | Richard Rockefeller (son of David R.; trustee until 2006) | Nancy Kissinger | Greenberg | Macomber | Whitehead | William O. Baker (long-time trustee and chair) | Brooke Astor | Katherine Graham | John Gardner | Tom Killefer | Dr. Frederick Seitz (president) | Jeffrey Epstein | Gustavo Cisneros. Scientists: Detlev Bronk | Joshua Lederberg | William Nierenberg. |
1901 |
| American Political Science Association (APSA) Samuel Huntington (president 1986-1987) | Evron Kirkpatrick (executive director since 1954; husband of Jeane) | Hubert Humphrey (vice president 1954-1955) |
1903 |
| Russell Sage Foundation Trustees: Dwight Morrow | Cleveland Dodge | Lindsay Bradford | David H. Morris, Jr. | Claude Steele |
1907 |
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Nicholas Butler | Elihu Root | Dwight Morrow | John Foster Dulles | Dwight Eisenhower | Joseph Johnson | William Hewitt | Richard Debs | Leslie Gelb | Kofi Annan | Chas Freeman | Stapleton Roy | Jamie Gorelick | William Perry | John Cadwalader | Strobe Talbott | David Rockefeller | 2st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | Philip Reed | Stephen Duggan | Morton Abramowitz | David Rothkopf (visiting scholar; author of 2008 book 'Superclass') | Fukuyama (scholar) | Robert Kagan (13-year senior associate) | Fred Bergsten | Stephen Hadley | Barry Blechman | Anatoly Chubais (speech on privatization in 1999) | Robert E. White (senior associate in the 1980s) | Anders Aslund (director Russian and Eurasian program) | Oleg Deripaska (financier and speech-giver) Carnegie Middle East Center (founded in 2009) advisory council: Turki al Faisal | Khaled M. Al-Fayez (Bahrain) | Richard D. | Ibrahim Dabdoub Euro-Atlantic Initiative: Wolfgang Ischinger (co-chair) | Igor Ivanov (co-chair) | Sam Nunn (co-chair) | Robert Legvold (co-chair) | Herman Gref | Stephen H. | Tedo Japaridze | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | John Kornblum | Vyacheslav Trubnikov. (effort co-sponsored by Maurice Greenberg's Starr Foundation) |
1910 |
| Carnegie Corporation of New York Frederick Osborn (trustee) | Russell Leffingwell | Vannevar Bush | Charles Dollard (chair) | Warren Christopher (chairman) | Thomas Kean (chairman) | Condoleezza Rice | John Gardner | Caryl Haskins | William Osborn | Sam Nunn | Pickering | Warren Christopher | Vartan Gregorian (president) | McGeorge Bundy (scholar-in-residence 1990-1996) | David Hamburg (president) Carnegie Commission on Educational Television 1965-1967: James Killian (chair) Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government (1988-1994). Members: Joshua Lederberg | Sidney D. | John Brademas | Helene Kaplan | Jimmy C. | William Perry | Bobby Ray Inman | Lewis Branscomb | Norman Augustine | William T. Coleman, Jr. | Gen. Andrew G. Advisory council: Graham A. | William O. Baker | Gerald Ford | Walter Massey | David Packard | James Reston. Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (1994-1999): Vance (co-chair) | Whitehead | Abramowitz | Graham Allison | McGeorge Bundy | Sidney Drell | Eagleburger | Leslie Gelb | Gorbachev | Jimmy Carter | Lee Hamilton | Sol Linowitz | McNamara | Elliot Richardson | Shultz | Richard Lugar | Condi R. | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Richard Solomon | Javier Perez de Cuellar | Elie Wiesel | Desmond Tutu | Sam N. Contributors: Alexei Arbatov | Kokoshin | Andrei Kortunov. |
1911 |
| Rockefeller Foundation Trustees: John D. Rockefeller III | Sen. Jay Rockefeller | John D. Rockefeller, Jr. | John W. Davis | Raymond Fosdick (1920s-1940s) | John Foster Dulles | Dean Rusk (president 1952-1960) | John McCloy | Frederick Seitz (1960s-) | Thomas Watson, Jr. (1960s-) | Theodore Hesburgh (1960s-) | Arthur Houghton, Jr. | Barry Bingham | Frank Stanton | Lord Franks of Headington | C. Douglas Dillon (chair) | Roosa (vice chair) | Cyrus Vance | Vernon Jordan | Brademas | Volcker | Henry Schacht | Walter Gifford | Sandra Day O'Connor | Henry Cisneros (-1992). More: Vannevar Bush (work financed 1935-1946; Rock. Institute developed an award with his name) | Hugh B. Price (vice president for philanthropy 1988-1994) | Extra: Farzam Arbab (head Colombia branch 1974-1978; head Rockefeller Fdn.-financed Foundation for the Application and Teaching of the Sciences in Colombia 1974-1988, and director since then.) |
1913 |
| Federal Reserve System (FED) William McChesney Martin, Jr. (chair Fed system 1951-1970) | Arthur Burns (chair 1970-1978; mentor to Alan G. and Milton Friedman) | Owen Young | Allen Sproul | Philip Reed | Alan Greenspan | Roosa | Brademas | Debs | Vance | Whitehead | Volcker | Robert Knight | Marie-Josee Kravis | Lawrence Summers | William Dudley | Martin Feldstein | Emmett Rice (second black governor; father of Susan Rice) |
1913 |
| Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs Trustees: Robert J. Myers (president 1980-1995, continued as trustee; State Department; CIA) | Jonathan E. Colby (treasurer; son wof William C.). Fellows: Maurice Sonnenberg |
1914 |
| Brookings Institution Roosa (chair 1975-1986) | McNamara | Wolfensohn | Whitehead | C. Douglas Dillon | Haass | Vernon Jordan | Lee Hamilton | Sonnenfeldt | Michael Armacost (president 1995-2002) | Frank Lowy, Victor Pinchuk and Nat Rothschild (international advisory council) | Rozanne Ridgway (trustee) | Fred Bergsten | Robert Hormats | Graham Allison | Lawrence Summers | Jeffrey Sachs (economic advisor) | Richard Blum (husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Robert Kagan (senior fellow) | Stapleton Roy | Adm. Inman | Stephen Friedman | Wolfowitz (speaker and panel member) | Barry Blechman (senior fellow) | Kenneth Dam (senior fellow and director) | James Steinberg (senior fellow) | Robert Gallucci (penalist) | William Cohen (study group involvement) | John Thornton (trustee chair) | Fiona Hill (director Center on the United States and Europe) | James Cicconi | George von Furstenberg (pre-doctoral fellow mid-1960s) | Leslie Gelb (senior fellow 1969-1973) | Susan Rice (senior fellow 2002-2008) and Lois Dickson Rice (mother of Susan R.; Miriam Carliner Guest Scholar in Economic Studies since 2002) Brookings Doha Center in Qatar (2008): Strobe Talbott (co-chair). H.E. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani (co-chair) | Albright | Sandy Berger | Brzezinski | Martin Indyk. Brookings Saban Center for Middle East Policy (2008 Forum): Elliott Abrams | Sandy B. | Zbig | Nicholas Burns | Lester Crown | Tony Blair | Jane Harman | Rita Hauser | Holbrooke | Robert K. | David Ignatius | Robert Lifton | Joseph Nye | Pickering | Condoleezza Rice | Strobe T. | George Tenet | John T. | James W. | Mortimer Zuckerman | Ehud Barak | Michael Herzog (chief of staff Defense Ministry) |
1916 |
| Foreign Policy Association (FPA) Directors and honorary directors: John Foster Dulles (co-founder) | Robert Bliss | Walter Page II | Angier Biddle Duke | Robert Lindsay (chair 1986-1990) | Henry Luce III | Warren Christopher | William vanden Heuvel | John Train | John Whitehead | Henry Kissinger | George Shultz | James Baker III | Maurice Greenberg (also a major financier) | Patrick Gross | William R. Rhodes | Harold McGraw III | Theodore Roosevelt IV | Maurice Sonnenberg. Other: Thomas Pickering | William Perry (speech 1995) | Frank Carlucci (speech 1988) | John Brademas (fellow and associate) | Peter Peterson (speaker and awarded) | Bill Clinton (visitor) | Cyrus Vance (his wife was also very active for the FPA in the 1980s) | Allen Weinstein (editorial advisory board 1982-1991) |
1918 |
| Hoover Institution Directors: Glenn Campbell. Overseers: David Packard (1972-1996) | Edmund Littlefield | Jeremiah Milbank | Jeremiah Milbank III | William Draper III | Rumsfeld | Scaife | Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. | Ruben Mettler (Southern California Campaign Committee) | Peter Thiel. Also: Ronald Lehman (senior fellow) | Michael Armacost. Fellows: Shultz | Richard V. Allen | William Perry | Milton Friedman | Condoleezza Rice | Ed Meese | Robert J. Myers | John P. Dunlop | Paul Craig Roberts | Willan Van Claeve | Ed Teller | Sidney Drell | Gingrich | Ronald Reagan (honorary) | Alexander Solzhenitsyn (honorary) | Margaret Thatcher (honorary) | Anthony Sutton (research fellow 1968-1973) | Barbara Honegger (researcher) | Niall Ferguson (senior research fellow) |
1919 |
| American Petroleum Institute (API) William Alton Jones (executive director; d. 1962) | James E. Lee (director; Chevron) | Charles Fogarty | Raymond R. Wright (secretary 1959-1970) | John Swearingen (director 1970s, chair 1978-1979; chair Standard Oil Company of Indiana) | Phillip Carroll (honorary life member; chair and CEO Shell) | J. Dennis Bonney (director) | J. Dennis Bonney (vice chair Chevron 1987-1995) | Ray L. Hunt | Stephen Bechtel | Vince Murchison (advisory board) | David O'Reilly (chair and CEO Chevron) | Lee Raymond (chair and CEO Exxon) | John Watson (chair and CEO Chevron). Also: in November 1966 Jim Garrison, Sen. Russell Long and oil man Joseph M. Rault, Jr. were on their way to an API conference in New York during which Garrison became inspired to revisit the Kennedy assassination. |
1919 |
| National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Officers: Arthur Burns (protege of a co-founder, director and honorary chair anno 1981) | Robert Roosa (director anno 1981) | Peter Peterson (director anno 1981 and director emeritus anno 2013) | Martin Feldstein (president and CEO 1977-1982 and again from 1984 until beyond 2000) | Jeffrey Sachs (listed as a research associate of NBER when invited to BB in 1990) | Jacob Frenkel (director at large anno 2013). |
1920 |
| Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) John W. Davis (founding president 1921-1933, director 1933-1955) | David Rockefeller (chair) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller | Nelson Rockefeller | Kissinger | Robert O. Anderson | Greenberg (chair) | Dick Cheney (director) | William Webster | Shultz | Peter Peterson (chair) | Rubenstein (vice chair) | Volcker | Brzezinski | Haass | Carla Hills | Colin Powell | Woolsey | Marie-Josee Kravis | Wisner II | Brokaw | Scowcroft | Albright | Warren Christopher | Deutch (director) | Gustavo Cisneros (IAB) | Christine Whitman | Pickering (director) | Leslie Gelb (president) | Richard Gelb (director) | Bruce Gelb | Zoellick | Graham Allison | Richard Helms | Lewis Branscomb | Foley | William Cohen | Holbrooke | Soros (director) | Vance | Roosa | Condoleezza Rice | William Press | Caryl Haskins | Hedley Donovan | Talbott | Mondale | George Mitchell | Jeffrey Sachs | Robert Bliss | S. Dillon Ripley II | Peter Ackerman | Owen Young | Malcolm Muir | Lloyd Hand | Vannevar Bush | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Taft IV | Elliot Richardson | George H. W. Bush | Jane Harman | William R. Rhodes | Greenspan | Taggart Whipple | Gen. Peter Pace | Conrad Black | Ermarth | John T. Connor | Sidney Drell | Gorelick | Fukuyama | Grayson Kirk | Winston Lord | Eric Melby | Victor Pinchuk | Gen. Larry Welch | Samuel and Michael Armacost | Leffingwell | McCloy | Allen Dulles | Henry Catto | Rozanne Ridgway | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | Dwight Eisenhower | William T. Coleman, Jr. | Donald Gregg | Zelikow | Zuckerman | Norman Pattiz | Indyk | Mundy | Thomas McLarty | Irving Kristol | William Casey | Lee Raymond | David O'Reilly | Sandra Day O'Connor | Walter Page II | John Diebold | Kenneth Dam | Stapleton Roy | Lewis Coleman | Felix Rohatyn | David Gergen | Robert Pastor | Paul O'Neill | Franklin Miller | Dr. Jacquelyn Davis | John Thornton | Neil Goldschmidt | Robert Knight | Joseph Gorman | C. Boyden Gray | William Simon | Stephen Schwarzman | Arthur Burns | Philip Odeen | Seitz | Walter Gifford | Lawrence Summers | Robert Strauss | Agnelli | Eli S. Jacobs | Kirkpatrick | John P. White | Inman | Carrington | Rifkind | Gabriel Hauge | Lord George Robertson | Sutherland | Desmarais | Davignon | Paul-Emmanuel Janssen | Stephen Hadley | James Baker III | Rockefeller, IV | Bruce Jackson | Raymond E. Mabus | Morris Amitay | Nicholas Rostow | Adm. William Crowe | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Amory Houghton, Sr. and Jr. | Richard Burt | William A. M. Burden | Huntington | Adm. David Jeremiah | Weinberger | William Schneider, Jr. | MacArthur II | Eagleburger | Philip Hawley | Tempelsman | Robert Gates | McNamara | C. Douglas Dillon | Augustine | John McCone | Robert R. Bowie | Abramowitz | Perle | Klutznick (1980s) | Ikle | McCain III | Clinton | James Schlesinger | Carlucci | Ronald Asmus | Robert Kagan | Lawrence Clarkson | Rudman (chaired two task forces) | Rumsfeld | Vernon Jordan | Solarz | Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | Chuck Hagel | Teller | Neil deGrasse Tyson (published by) | Hayden | Kean | John Lehman and brother Ronald | Sandy Berger | Gerald Curtis | Gary Hart | Claiborne Pell | Rusk | Buffett | Kampelman | Frances Townsend | John Negroponte | J. Paul Austin | Wolfensohn | Richard V. Allen | Haig | Brademas | Patrick Gross | Wolfowitz | Goss | Gen. James L. Jones | Norris Darrell, Jr. | James Billington | Adm. Giambastiani | Nunn | Col. John Nagl | Sonnenfeldt | Macomber | Winthrop Aldrich | Clare Boothe Luce | Dwight Morrow | Maxwell Rabb | Philip Lader | Gingrich | Gen. James Cartwright (speaker) | Perry | Debs | Maurice Sonnenberg | Ross Perot | Walter Slocombe | Zakheim | Paul X. Kelley | Al Roming, Jr. | Sergei Karaganov (IAB) | Yevgeny Primakov | Potanin (IAB/GAB) | Mikhail Fridman (IAB) | Anatoly Chubais (IAB/GAB) | Oleg Deripaska (important financier) | Georgy Arbatov | Stiglitz | Maurice Strong (1970s) | Ruckelshaus | Bremer | Walther Kiep | Abshire | Rothkopf | Richard Pipes | Richard Falk | John Gardner | Robert Hormats | Wesley Clark | Douglas Feith | Fred Bergsten | Chuck Robb | Bolton | Count Otto Lambsdorff | Evan Galbraith | Sen. Jon Kyl (2004 speech) | Sen. Lieberman (2010 speech) | Berezovsky (1997 speech) | Igor ivanov (published in 2000) | Ruud Lubbers (2001 speech) | Turki al Faisal (2006 speech) | Peres (speech) | Netanyahu (speech) | Cynthia McClintock (published in Foreign affairs) | Rita Hauser | Bruce Tarter | Paul Bracken | Montbrial | Trichet (speaker) | Tony Blair (speaker) | Pauline Neville-Jones (speaker and has been published) | Ogden R. Reid | Joseph Choate | Whitelaw Reid II | David Kirkpatrick | Kofi Annan (speech) | Desmond Tutu (speech) | Romano Prodi (speech/conversation) | Michel Rocard (chair Strengthening Palestinian Public Institutions) | Niall Fitzgerald (international advisory board) | Brian Mulroney | Lester Crown and Rupert Murdoch (members anno 2013) | Lord Charles Powell (global advisory panel) | William Hewitt | Hamid Karzai (speaker) | Jacob Frenkel (speaker) | Peter Mandelson (talk) | Thomas Schmidheiny | Al Gore | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | Fiona Hill | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Daniel Moynihan | Malcolm Hoenlein | Eliot Cohen | Elliott Abrams | Elie Wiesel | Carl Bildt | Frank Barnett | Joschka Fischer ("distinguished visiting diplomat" in 2006) | Vartan Gregorian | Zalmay Khalilzad | Dianne Feinstein | Bill Moyers | Robert Gallucci | Susan Eisenhower (involved in studies) | Richard Lugar | Robert Pfaltzgraff | Spencer Kim | Jeffrey Epstein | Michael A. Callen | Murray Gell-Mann | Adolph Schmidt (Mellon) | John Bryan, Jr. | Steve Forbes | Valery Giscard d'Estaing (speaker) | Edward Luttwak | Jeffrey Bergner | David Braunschvig | John Podesta | Norman Cousins | Federica Mogherini (speech) | Morton Halperin | William vanden Heuvel | McGeorge Bundy | Robert Wolf | Walter Mead (Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy) | Nina Rosenwald | Susan Rice |
1921 |
| Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) Originally the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR). Klutznick (worked on international affairs 1970s-1980s) | Kenneth Dam (director) | John Bryan, Jr. (chair) | Lester Crown (president since 2004) | Michelle Obama (until 2008; the Crown family has been a huge donor to Barack Obama) | James Bindenagel (vice president of programs) | Albright (speech 2012) | Thomas Pickering (speaker) | Jeb Bush (speaker) |
1922 |
| Sentinels of the Republic Fascist/Nazi group. Leading members: Thomas Cadwalader (executive chair) | Raymond Pitcairn (national chair) | Harold Frederick Pitcairn | Rev. Theodore Pitcairn | Pierre S. du Pont | Irenee du Pont | Henry du Pont | A. B. Echols (du Pont) | Alfred Sloan, Jr. | Edward T. Stotesbury (partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. and Drexel & Co) | Horatio Lloyd (partner of J.P. Morgan & Co.) | J. Howard Pew. |
1922-1944 |
| International House, New York City John McCloy (chair 1954-1971, honorary chair 1971-1989) | John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (financier/founder) | David Rockefeller | Volcker (chair) | Kissinger (chair) | Whitehead (chair) | Wisner II (chair) | George W. Ball (chair) | John J. McCloy (chair) | George Marshall (chair) | Henry Stimson (chair) | George Wickersham (chair) | Gerald Ford (chair) | Frederick Osborn | Daisy Soros (George's sister-in-law) | John Robert Halsey Blum (life trustee) | John French III | Walid Ahmed Juffali. IH's Marshall Visitor Program: Jeffrey Sachs | Robert Hormats | Richard Holbrooke |
1924 |
| Institute of World Affairs (IWA), Washington, D.C. Norman MacKenzie (director 1950s) | John McCone (director 1950s) |
1924 |
| Institute of Pacific Relations (closed in 1961) | 1925 |
| Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller (long-time chairman) | John Hay Whitney | Paley | Agnelli | C. Douglas Dillon | John de Menil | Peter Peterson (life trustee) | Duke Franz of Bavaria (honorary) | Maurice Greenberg (honorary) | Jerry Speyer (chair) | Marie-Josee Kravis (president) | Clarissa Alcock Bronfman | Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (wife of Gustavo) | Philip Niarchos | Richard Parsons | David Rockefeller, Jr. | Sharon Percy Rockefeller | William A. M. Burden (chair) | Vartan Gregorian | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay; employee for 3 years, then international council) |
1929 |
| Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University Marvin Goldberger (director 1987-1991) | Wolfensohn (chair 1986-2007) | Charles Simonyi (trustee 1998-2008; chair 2008-) | Sidney Drell | Toru Hashimoto | Helene Kaplan | Marie-Josee Kravis | Nathan Myhrvold | Michael Bloomberg | Vartan Gregorian | David Rubenstein | Nancy Peretsman. Jeffrey Epstein (financier). Faculty members: Noam Chomsky | Paul Dirac | Freeman Dyson | J. Robert Oppenheimer | George Kennan | John von Neumann | Marvin Goldberger. |
1930 |
| Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation (Macy Foundation) Board: Kate Macy Ladd (founder; good friend of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., whose family bought her family's oil business) | Colonel Marlborough Churchill (founding executive secretary 1930-) | John Dewey (1930-1944) | Harry Fosdick (founding director 1930-1961; pastor of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; brother Raymond a trustee of the Rockefeller Fdn. 1920s-1940s) Frank Fremont-Smith (medical director, executive secretary and in charge of the Macy Conference Program 1936-early 1960s; faculty member neuropathology department at Harvard Medical School). Clarence G. Michalis (chair 1941-1969, director until 1976; reportedly affiliated with Montagu Norman)| Clarence F. Michalis (chair 1969-2005; son of Clarence G.) | Willard Rappleye (director 1933-1976, president 1941-1965) | George Packer Berry (director 1943-1981; dean Harvard Medical School) | Charles S. McVeigh (1943-1960) | John Z. Bowers (president 1965-1980, revived the Macy Conference Program in 1965, after a stop in 1960; staffer at the Rockefeller Fdn. in 1964) | James G. Hirsch (president 1981-1987; staffer Rockefeller University for 31 years, dean of graduate studies 1972-1980) | Louis S. Auchincloss (1968-1997) | William N. Rothschild Jr. (1974-1992) | Harold Amos (1974-1990; professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Harvard Medical School) | Mary Patterson McPherson (director 1977-2010; vice president Mellon Fdn.) | S. Parker Gilbert (1985-late 2000s) | John Jay Iselin (1989-2007) | Arthur H. Hayes, Jr. (1991-2008) | William H. Wright II (director 2000-, chair; managing director Morgan Stanley). Cerebral Inhibition Meeting (May 1942) and the Cybernetic Conferences (1946-1953) participants (cross-expertise conferences to try and understand the human mind): Harold Abramson (reporting secretary of two conferences) | Gregory Bateson | Kurt Lewin | Margaret Mead | Oskar Morgenstern | John von Neumann. Group Process Conferences (1954-1960) participants (in April 1959 there was an LSD conference): Gregory B. | Margaret M. | Robert Lifton | Jean Piaget. The Macy Foundation was used as an CIA MKULTRA conduit for about two years, apparently in the mid-1950s. |
1930 |
| The Business Council Averell Harriman (chair 1937-39) | Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr. (chair 1958-59 and 1987-88) and later Riley B. | David Packard (chair 1973-74) | Ruben Mettler (TRW; chair 1985-86) | Joseph Gorman (TRW) | James Gorman (chair Morgan Stanley) | Donald Graham (chair and CEO Washington Post) | Henry Kravis | Harold McGraw III | Rupert Murdoch | David Rubenstein | Charles Scharf (CEO VISA) | Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone) | Dick Cheney | David O'Reilly | Daniel Burnham | Niall FitzGerald | John Bryan, Jr. (CEO Sara Lee 1975-2000, chair 1976-2001; director Goldman Sachs, BP, Amoco, GM); |
1933 |
| American Liberty League (ALL) Fascist. Founding directors: John W. Davis (J.P. Morgan attorney) | Grayson Murphy (treasurer) | Alfred Sloan, Jr. (GM/du Pont representative). Contributors: Pitcairn, Pew, Rockefeller and Mellon families. |
1934 |
| The Crusaders Fascist. National advsiory board: Sewell Avery (director Morgan-controlled U.S. Steel) | Thomas Alexander (linke to Order of '76) | Francis B. Davis, Jr. (Morgan and du Pont man) | Cleveland E. Dodge | Alfred Sloan, Jr. (GM/du Pont man) | John W. Davis (Rockefeller/Morgan man). |
Early 1930s |
| National Policy Association (NPA) Carlucci | Hushang Ansary |
1934-2003 |
| H. Smith Richardson Foundation (CIA/Pilgrims/conservative-linked) Eugene Stetson, Jr. | Frank Barnett | Woolsey | Rumsfeld | Brzezinski | Huntington | Ikle | Devon Gaffney Cross | Roger Kaplan (program officer) |
1935 |
| Ford Foundation Henry Ford II (president 1943-50) | Paul Hoffman (president 1950-53) | Rowan Gaither (president 1953-56) | John McCloy (chair 1958-64) | Julius Stratton (chair 1964-71) | McGeorge Bundy (president 1966-79) | Richard Bissell | Hedley Donovan | McNamara | Philip Reed | William Simon | Vernon Jordan | Henry Schacht | Bethuel Webster | Roy Larsen | Brzezinski (six months in Japan on Ford Fdn. fellowship in 1971) | Vartan Gregorian (foreign area training fellow) | Francois Duchene (fellow) |
1936 |
| Rockefeller Brothers Fund Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller | Laurance Rockefeller | John D. Rockefeller III | Winthrop Rockefeller | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | Gen. Lucius Clay | James Killian | Henry Luce | Dean Rusk | James Wolfensohn | David Sarnoff | Edward Teller | John Gardner | Kissinger | Wisner II | Arthur Burns | Thornton Bradshaw | Richard Rockefeller (son of David R.; chair and later advisory trustee) | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay) | Anne Bartley |
1940 |
| Committee for Economic Development (CED) Trustees 1952/1957 (always consists of about 200 members): Stephen D. Bechtel | Clark Beise. Trustees 1966: Roy Larsen (chair) | James Allen | Robert O. Anderson | Paul Austin | William Hewitt | C. Douglas Dillon | Harold Geneen | Katharine Graham | Gabriel Hauge | H. J. Heinz II | Paul Hoffman (founding chair) | Philip Klutznick | John McCone | Neil McElroy | David Packard | Peter Peterson (until well post-9/11) | Philip Reed | Allan Sproul | Charles Tillinghast, Jr. | Sidney Weinberg, Jr. | Frank Altschul | Robert Lovett | Malcolm Muir. Trustees on leave for government service: George McGhee | William Roth | James Webb. Research advisory board: George Shultz (later life trustee). Since the mid-1990s names that could be added as trustees were: John Diebold | Carlucci | Brademas | Patrick Gross | Joseph Kasputys | Hugh B. Price. Also: Ruben Mettler (honorary trustee) |
1942 |
| United States Council for International Business John Negroponte (until 2001) | Maurice Greenberg (trustee until 2005) | Harold McGraw III (chair anno 2013) |
1945 |
| Stanford Research Institute / SRI International Originally the Stanford Research Institute. It split off from the university in 1970 and changed its name to SRI in 1977. Most officers were BG visitors with many advisors having been invitd to the 1001. Directors: Stephen D. Bechtel (director 1940s to about 1980) | Edgar Kaiser (director 1940s to about 1980) | John McCone (director before and after term as CIA director 1961-1965) | David Packard (late 1960s) William Perry (director 1981-1983 period, while out of government) | A. W. Clausen. (director emeritus by early 1980s) | Philip Hawley | Frederick Mielke, Jr. (until 1993) | Edmund Littlefield (chair at some point) | Roy Anderson (director early 1980s; CEO Lockheed) | Myron Du Bain (chair 1985-1989; in 1981 he had taken over a company of Wally Hilliard, a later owner of the primary 9/11 terrorist flight school) | Samuel Armacost (chair) | Adm. Vernon Clark (chair). Advisory board 1970s: Kamel Abdul Rahman | Adnan Khashoggi | Paulo Ayres Filho (Brazil; CIA) | Gianni Agnelli | Nik Kamil (Shell; Rothmans Malaysia) | John Loudon | Shantanurao Kirloskar (India) | Sukum Navapan (Thailand) | Harry Oppenheimer | Julius Tahija | Marcus Wallenberg. JASON Group: throughout the 1970s located at SRI, after which it moved to MITRE. 1970s-1990s employees: Alfred Webre (senior policy analyst in 1977 at SRI's Center for the Study of Social Policy late 1970s; later prominent new age exopolitics promoter) Richard Hoagland (first became interested in Cydonia here in 1982). Project Stargate was largely carried out at SRI from the 1970s-1995, in coordination with SAIC. Those involved: Hal Puthoff (program director) | Russell Targ | Ingo Swann | Joseph McMoneagle | Ed Dames | Edgar Mitchell studied Uri Geller here. Also: Willis Harman (director of the Educational Policy Research Center and the Center for the Study of Social Policy; involved in LSD research; worked for Mitchell) | Alfred Hubbard (hired by Willis H.; 1960s-1970s; ''Johnny Appleseed of LSD'') | Peter Schwartz (director of the Strategic Environment Center) |
1946 |
| National Petroleum Council (NPC) John Swearingen (chair 1974-1975). Anno 1996: Robert O. Anderson | Kenneth Derr (chair and CEO Chevron) | Ray L. Hunt (chair Hunt Oil) | Kenneth Lay (Enron) | T. Boone Pickens | Lee Raymond (chair and CEO ExxonMobil). Anno 2013: David O'Reilly (vice chair at some point; chair and CEO Chevron 2000-2010) | Lee R. | Ray L. H. | John Deutch | Riley Bechtel | John Hamre | John Watson (chair and CEO Chevron) |
1946 |
| Committee for the Marshall Plan to Aid European Recovery Executive committee: Henry Stimson (national chair) | Robert Patterson (executive chair) | Dean Acheson | Winthrop Aldrich | Frank Altschul | Allen Dulles | Alger Hiss | Herbert Lehman | Philip Reed | John Ferguson (executive director). Members: Charles Adams IV | Barry Bingham | Henry Davison | William Donovan (OSS) | Rudolph Hecht | H. J. Heinz II | Richard K. Mellon | Mrs. Dwight Morrow | Malcolm Muir | Nelson Rockefeller | Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt | Elmo Roper | David Sarnoff | Arthur Sulzberger | Thomas Watson, Sr. | John Hay Whitney | Owen Young | Sam Zemurray. Funds that were left over in 1949 were donated to the U.N. Association and the first Committee on the Present Danger. |
1947-1949 |
| United World Federalists (UWF) Cord Meyer, Jr. (founding president 1947-1949; CIA) | Alan Cranston (president 1949-1952) | Norman Cousins (founding vice president 1947-1952, president 1952-) | |
1947 |
| World Affairs Council of Northern California John L. Simpson (president; director Bechtel) | William Draper III (chair) | William Perry (advisory co-chair) | Shultz (advisory co-chair) | A. W. Clausen | Brzezinski (speaker) | Stapleton Roy (moderator) | Chas Freeman (speaker) | Peter Galbraith (speaker) | McNamara (speech in 2005) Los Angeles World Affairs Council, founded in 1953: John McCone (founding president and later chairman in the 1950s) | Thomas Jones (life director) | Warren Christopher (director) | Michael Eisner (director) | Buzz Aldrin (director) | Robert Van Dine (director) | Walter Coombs (executive director 1953-1967). Speakers/panel members: William Colby (speech 1973) | McCain | Shultz | Nunn | Perry | William Webster (1989) | Albright | King Hussein and Queen Noor | Benjamin Netanyahu | Ryutaro Hashimoto | Margaret Thatcher | the Dalai Lama | Kissinger | Colin Powell | Wolfensohn | Lee Kuan Yew | Jack Valenti | Strobe Talbott | Ehud Barak | William Cohen | Kofi Annan | Jack Kemp | Joseph Lieberman | Jean Luc Dehaene | Deutch | Muhamed Sacirbey Project: Global Philanthropy Forum (2001): Pamela Omidyar | Vartan Gregorian | Stephen Heintz | Teresa Heinz Kerry | Wyclef Jean | Peter Gabriel | William Draper III | Desmond Tutu | Muhammad Yunus | William Gates (father Bill G.). |
1947 |
| Kaiser Family Foundation Henry Kaiser (founder) | Joseph Califano (director) | Timothy Leary. Financed UCLA, Harvard, John Hopkins. Until 1985 associated with Kaiser Permanente and Kaiser Industries. |
1948 |
| World Affairs Council of Boston Christian A. Herter (co-founder) | Christian A. Herter, Jr. (founding president) | Elliot Richardson (president in the 1960s) | Henry Cabot Lodge (chair) | Charles Adams IV. Speakers/awarded: George H. W. Bush, James Baker III, Dick Cheney, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Paul Volcker. |
1949 |
| American Assembly Trustees: Volcker | Henry Cisneros | Eisenhower | Clifton Wharton Jr. | Inman | Gergen | Frank Weil | Bill Bradley |
1950 |
| 1st Committee on the Present Danger (to promote containment) | 1950 |
| Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Founded with a Ford Fdn. grant. Dr. Herbert Kelman (fellow 1954-1955, Spring-Summer 1967). Officers: Caryl Haskins (trustee 1960-1975) | George Shultz (fellow 1968-1969) | Dr. Joly West (fellow 1966-1969) | Edmund Littlefield | Claude Steele (executive vice chancellor and provost of UCLA Berkeley) | Daniel Dennett (fellow). |
1954 |
| Suite 8F Group | Early 1960s |
| Council for a Livable World (CLW) Gary Hart (director and former chair) |
1962 |
| Atlantic Richfield Foundation (ARF) Robert O. Anderson (founder and head) | Thornton Bradshaw (co-founder; worked under Anderson at ARCO) |
1963 |
| George C. Marshall Foundation Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (chair) | Sen. Harry Byrd, Jr. | Paul Nitze | Cyrus Vance | Bernard Rogers | Dick Cheney | Edward Meyer (chair) | Warren Rudman | Abshire | Colin Powell | C. Boyden Gray | Gen. Paul Gorman | Melvin Laird | Scowcroft | John Whitehead | Thomas Pickering |
1964 |
| Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs (WIFA) Monroe Leigh (president) | Charles W. Whalen Jr. (vice president) | Robert Knight | Thomas Pickering (chair) | Philip Wilcox | McCloy | Patrick Gross | Philip Kaiser | Lee Hamilton (speech in 1998) | Rozanne Ridgway (director) | Wesley Egan (director) | Chas Freeman (speech 2007) | Elliot Richardson |
1964 |
| David and Lucile Packard Foundation One of the largest U.S. foundations with an endowment of about $6 billion. David Packard (founder and chair, interrupted by a tenure as Nixon's deputy defense secretary 1969-1971) | William Reilly (trustee; president WWF until 1989, later chair; EPA administrator 1989-1993; chair ClimateWorks Foundation; director and counsel of the secretive Sustainable Markets Foundation; executive director NY-PIRG) |
1964 |
| International Industrial Conference, San Francisco Co-sponsored by the Conference Board and the Stanford Research Institute. Participants: David Rockefeller | Peter Peterson | George Ball | Henry Ford | John McCone | |
1965 |
| Committee for an Effective and Durable Peace in Asia (CEDPA) Helped sell the Vietnam War to the public through the New York Times. 48 member committee: Arthur Dean (chair) | Dean Acheson | Eugene Black | John Cowles | Arthur Dean | Roswell Gilpatric | John McCloy | David Rockefeller | James Conant | C. Douglas Dillon | Oveta Culp Hobby | James Killian, Jr. | Benjamin Mays | Lewis Powell. |
1965 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Lynne Cheney (chair 1986-1993) |
1965 |
| William and Flora Hewlett Foundation William Hewlett (founder; president HP 1964-1977) | Hal Harvey (environmental program director 2002-2008; founding president Energy Foundation 1991-2002; founder and CEO ClimateWorks 2008-2011) | Larry Kramer (president; director ClimateWorks) |
1966 |
| Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts David Packard. 1999: Hillary Clinton | James Underhill | Marcia Carlucci (wife of Frank C.) | Patrick Gross | Earle Williams. 2014: Michelle Obama. |
1966 |
| Sunnylands Walter Annenberg (founder). Visitors: Dwight Eisenhower | Richard Nixon (1974) | Ronald Reagan (annual visitor on New Year's) | George H. W. Bush with Japanese PM Toshiki Kaifu (1990) | Shah of Iran (fled here) | Queen Elizabeth II (lunch) | Prince Charles (occasional visitor) | Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping (2013) | Bill Gates | Condoleezza Rice. Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands (founded in 2013 for promoting free trade around the Pacific): Jon Huntsman (co-chair) | Thomas McLarty (co-chair) | Albright | Chas Freeman | Lee Hamilton | Kissinger | John Negroponte | Pickering | Zoellick. |
1966 |
| The Nation Institute Hamilton Fish V (president; aide to George Soros, who has provided grants to the institute) | Victor Navasky (trustee) | Katrina vanden Heuvel (trustee). The Nation magazine (first issue in 1865) editors: Katrina vanden H. (since 1995) | Marcus Raskin | Richard Falk | Robert Borosage |
1966 |
| Rockefeller Family Fund Laurance Rockefeller (founding trustee 1967-1977) | David Rockefeller (honorary trustee anno 2013) | Richard Rockefeller (son of David R.; president) | Emily, Renee, Wendy are among today's trustees | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay; investment committee) | Anne Bartley | Donald Ross (trustee 1985-1999; earlier a Ralph Nader attorney; chair Greenpeace 2002-2010; founding partner M+R Strategies). |
1967 |
| Urban Institute Trustees, often for decades: Warren Buffett | John Deutch | Robert McNamara | Philip Hawley | Suzanne Woolsey (researcher 1975-77; others have been life trustees) | Cyrus Vance | Vernon Jordan | Henry Schacht | Jack Kemp | Ruckelshaus (chairman) | Katharine Graham | Gorelick | Rockefeller Fdn. (financing) |
1968 |
| National Alliance of Business (NAB) LBJ an Henry Ford II (co-founders) | Lloyd Hand (president and CEO 1978-1979) |
1968 |
| Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies John Diebold (founder and chair) |
1968 |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center) William Hewitt | James Billington (director 1973-1987) | James Baker III (trustee 1977-1985) | Lee Hamilton (director/head early 2000s) | Jane Harman (director, president and CEO). Public members: Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton. Council: Bruce Gelb (president), Carla Hills, George Shultz | Cynthia McClintock (expert). Members/penalists: Zbigniew Brzezinski | Robert Kagan | Graham Allison | Janet Napolitano | Michael Chertoff | David Horovitz | Kissinger | J. Stapleton Roy | Norman Augustine | Brent Scowcroft | Eli S. Jacobs | Allen Weinstein (fellowship) | Lyoma Usmavov (involved in a Chechen project) | Dr. Herbert Kelman (fellow 1980-1981). Visitors due to corporate citizenship award: Ray Hunt | Ted Turner | Adm. Inman | Peter Munk | Hushang Ansary | Paul Desmarais | Lee Raymond | David Koch | Vagit Alekperov | Frank Lowy | Lester Crown | Leslie Wexner | Peter Peterson | Ross Perot. Jr. | Niall Fitzgerald | David O'Reilly | T. Boone Pickens. Wilson Center's Strengthening America's Global Engagement (SAGE) project (2010): Condoleezza Rice (co-chair) | William Perry (co-chair) | David Abshire | Paula Dobriansky | John Marks |
1968 |
| Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC) Trustees/councellors: Chas Freeman (chair) | David Abshire (president and CEO) | David Gergen | Wayne L. Berman and Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone) | C. Boyden Gray | Sen. Chuck Robb | Max Kampelman | James Moffett | Thomas Pickering (chair) | Thomas McLarty III | Edwin Meese III | Tom Ridge | Egil Krogh (senior fellow; Watergate) | Nicholas Burns (JFK School, Harvard) | Norman Augustine | Carla Hills | Richard McCormack | David Walker | William Webster | Sen. Bill Brock National council of advisors: John Brademas | Susan Eisenhower | Adm. Richard Mies | John D. Marks | Robert Pfaltzgraff | David Rothkopf. Scholars: Graham Allison | Lewis Branscomb. Aznar (visitor and partner) | Adm. Michael Mullen (known visitor) | J. Stapleton Roy (vice chair U.S.-Asian task force). Afghanistan Study Group Report (2007-2008): Gen. James L. Jones (co-chair) and CSPC leadership. |
1969 |
| Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Paul Mellon (founder and life-long trustee) | Mary Patterson McPherson (vice president) | William O. Baker (chair emeritus by the mid-1990s) | John Whitehead (trustee chair until 1997) | Anne Tatlock (trustee since at least the mid-1990s, appointed chair in 2005) | Taylor Reveley III (trustee 1990s and later president) | Walter Massey | Stephanie Bell-Rose (counsel and program officer). |
1969 |
| United Way of America (UWA) Kenneth Dam (president and CEO) | Bill Gates (trustee co-chair emeritus) |
1970 |
| Common Cause John Gardner (founder and chairman) |
1970 |
| Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (KCPA) David Rubenstein (chairman) | Stephen Schwarzman (chair) | Maurice Greenberg (director) | Vladimir Potanin ($5 million grant) | Henry Catto | James Billington | Condoleezza Rice (ex officio trustee during her tenure as secretary of state) |
1971 |
| Business Roundtable Philip Hawley | Ruben Mettler (chair 1982-1984) | Joseph Gorman (co-chair 1998-2001) | Riley Bechtel | David O'Reilly | Walter Shipley | John Watson (chair and CEO Chevron) |
1972 |
| National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) Hans Morgenthau | Anthony Drexel Duke | Volcker | Pickering | Richard Pipes | Wesley Clark | George Kennan | Maxwell Rabb | Anthony Drexel Duke | Kirkpatrick | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. | Nina Rosenwald |
1974 |
| Monroe Institute Founded and headed (1974-1995) by out of body researcher Robert Monroe. Began to work with Army Intelligence in 1977. Participants: John Alexander | Joe McMoneagle | Gen. Albert Stubblebine. |
1974 |
| Miller Center of Public Affairs (MCPA) Philip Zelikow (director/head 1998-2005). Governing council: Slade Gorton | Bob Woodward. Heads of various commissions: Jimmy Carter | Cyrus Vance | William Rogers | James Baker III | Warren Christopher. Also: Schwarzenegger (debate) |
1975 |
| John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation John MacArthur (director 1970-1978) | Paul Doolen (director 1970-1979, chair 1979-1984) | Elizabeth McCormack (director since 1970, chair 1986-1995; advisor Rockefeller Family & Associates and Rockefeller family in general) | Jonathan Fanton (chair 1999-2009; protege of McCormack) | Paul Harvey (director 1970-2002; since 1952 friend of FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, whom Harvey often asked for comment and approval before broadcasts; close friend of the extremist Senator Joseph McCarthy, as well as Rev. Billy Graham; long-time conservative ABC Radio broadcaster) | Gaylord Freeman (director 1979-1986) | Murray Gell-Mann (director 1979-2002) | Thorton Bradshaw (director 1985-1986, chair 1986-1988; chair RCA; Rockefeller friend)| Margaret Mahoney (director 1985-2002) | William Simon (director 1979-1981) | Walter Massey (director 1989-1991; Bush 41's National Science Foundation director; chair Bank of America; BP) | John Holdren (director 1991-2005; one of Clinton's science advisor 1994-2001; Obama's chief scientist since December 2008) | Jamie Gorelick (director 2001-2013) | Mary Graham (director 2001-2013) | Robert Gallucci (president 2009-2014) | Claude Steele (director anno 2014; National Science Foundation) | Ronna Tanenbaum (advisor to president 2003-2004) | Morton Halperin (fellow 1985-1991) The foundation has supported NPR (early on), Bill Moyers, James Randi (received a five-year grant in 1986 of $272,000 to help debunk spiritual issues; Gell-Mann is a known benefactor of Randi's work) and the National Security Archive Fund ($3.4 million 2002-2015). |
1975 |
| American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) Robert Galvin | Kenneth Lay (ENRON) | Shultz | Volcker | Whitehead | Ruckelshaus | Robert Strauss |
1975 |
| Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPS) Dr. Robert Pfaltzgraff (president since at least the 1980s) | Dr. Jacquelyn Davis (executive vice president from at least the 1980s until today) | Gen. John Galvin | Frank Carlucci | Charles Perry |
1976 |
| Tides Foundation Founders: Drummond Pike (founder; president 1976-2010; also founded Tides Canada in 2000) | Jane Bagley Lehman (R.J. Reynolds tobacco company heir). Extremely popular with West Coast liberals who did not want to set up their own foundations. For example, through the Advocacy Fund it has financed the National Wildlife Federation Action Fund, the National Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club. Openly supported the Occupy Wall Street movement and linked to its beginning through financing of Adbusters. Financiers/partners: George Soros | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill Gates) | Ford Fdn. | Hewlett Fdn. | Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Directors: Joanie Bronfman (chair) |
1976 |
| CATO Institute Edward H. Crane and Charles Koch (founders) | David Koch | Peter Ackerman | Paul Craig Roberts (distinguished Fellow 1993-1996) | Penn and Teller (fellows) | Theodore Forstmann | Rupert Murdoch | George Shultz (advisory board Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies) | Thomas McLarty (advisory board Inter-American Dialogue). |
1977 |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MIPR) Previously: International Center for Economic Policy Studies (ICEPS) Trustees: William Casey (co-founder) | Sir Anthony Fisher (co-founder and first chair) | Roger Hertog | Maurice Greenberg | William Kristol | Jon Bolton | Walter Wriston | Henry Kissinger (Alexander Hamilton Award dinner in 2008) | David Gelernter (adjunct fellow; major Yale computer scientist; prominently predicted the arrival of the WWW in January 1991 in the NYT; Unabomber victim in June 1993) |
1978 |
| General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Founding board members: Laurance Rockefeller | William O. Baker | Charles Townes. |
1978 |
| Partnership for New York City (PNYC) David Rockefeller (founder) | Jeffrey Greenberg | Michael Cherkasky | Henry Kravis | Jerry Speyer | Rupert Murdoch | Richard Parsons | Stephen Schwarzman | Timothy Geithner | Mortimer Zuckerman |
1979 |
| Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) Gen. Carl Stiner | McCain III | Carlucci | Sam Nunn |
1980 |
| World Affairs Council, Washington, D.C. Patrick Gross (founding vice-chairman, chairman and still an executive) | Philip Odeen (chair) | James Roche (president) | Henry A. Dudley, Jr. (treasurer). Speakers: Lawrence Summers, William Cohen, Wesley Clark, Richard Haass, Perle, Sonnenfeldt, Wolfensohn, Woolsey. |
1980 |
| Foreign Policy Institute, SAIS Fellows: Wolfowitz, Fukuyama, Brzezinski (long term), Joshua Muravchik. |
1980 |
| Center for National Policy (CNP) Albright | Panetta (chair) | Brademas | Vance | Maurice Tempelsman | Tim Roemer |
1981 |
| Sundance Institute Robert Redford (founder) | George Soros (important financier since the 1990s) |
1981 |
| Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE) Directors in past and present: David Rockefeller | Conrad Black | Michael Blumenthal | Zoellick | Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Shultz | Greenberg | Peter Peterson | Volcker | Carla Hills | Greenspan | Jacob Wallenberg | Victor Pinchuk | David O'Reilly | Jacob Frenkel | Jean-Claude Trichet | Geithner | Lee Kuan Yew | Paul O'Neill | David Rubenstein | Edward Scott | Fred Bergsten | Lawrence Summers | Stephan Schmidheiny. Advisory board: Stiglitz | Montbrial | Jeffrey Sachs. Also: Anders Aslund (senior fellow) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (speech) |
1981 |
| Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) Alan Greenspan | Jim Kolbe | Paul O'Neill | Leon Panetta | Peter Peterson | Lawrence Summers | Paul Volcker | Sen. Chuck Robb | Robert Strauss |
1981 |
| Renaissance Weekends Philip Lader (founder) | Bill Clinton | Wesley Clark | Gerald Ford | William Perry | Strobe Talbott | Buzz Aldrin | David Gergen | Sen. Bob Graham | Gorelick | Robert Hormats | Nye | Kampelman | Viguerie |
1981 |
| Council for Excellence in Government (CEG) Paul O'Neill (chair) | Volcker | Whitehead | Suzanne Woolsey | Elliot Richardson | Draper III | Kasputys | Patrick Gross | Frank Weil | Lee Hamilton | Macomber | John P. White | Ford | Carter | George W. Bush | Clinton. Ordinary member: Catherine Austin Fitts. |
1982 |
| Bretton Woods Committee (BWC) Wolfensohn (co-chair) | Volcker (co-chair) | Richard Debs (chair, exec. committee). Honorary co-chairmen: George H. W. Bush, Ford (also regular member), Carter. Members: Morton Abramowitz | Robert O. Anderson | James Baker III | Michael Blumenthal | Nicholas Brady | Brzezinski | Henry E. Catto | Cheney | Katharine Graham | Maurice Greenberg | Haig | Inman | Philip Klutznick | Linowitz | McNamara | Ruben Mettler | Colin Powell | John B. Rhodes | Ruckelshaus | Scowcroft | William Simon | Sonnenfeldt | Taft IV | Lew Wasserman | Whitehead | Augustine | A. W. Clausen | Eagleburger | Leslie Gelb | C. Boyden Gray | Carla Hills | Hormats | Melvin Laird | Macomber | Gen. Edward C. Meyer | Robert Mosbacher | Peter Peterson | William R. Rhodes | Irving Shapiro | Shultz | George Soros | Robert Strauss | Cyrus Vance | Zuckerman | Fred Bergsten | Brademas | Henry Fowler | Lee Iacocca | Kissinger | Rudolph A. Peterson | Condoleezza Rice | Lawrence Summers | David Rockefeller | Rumsfeld | Frank Weil | Albright | Bill Archer | David Boren | Carlucci | William Cohen | Richard Gardner | Lee Hamilton | Yves-Andre Istel | Vernon Jordan | Thomas Kean | Henry Kravis | Bill McCollum | McFarlane | Thomas McLarty III | Walter Mondale | George Pataki | Ross Perot, Jr. | Felix Rohatyn | Talbott | Gov. Bill Richardson | Marcus Wallenberg. International council: Etienne Davignon, Sutherland, Sir David Walker. |
1983 |
| Sun Valley meetings Herbert Allen | Herbert Allen III | Bill Bradley | Tom Brokaw | Vernon Jordan | Rupert Murdoch | Gordon Brown | Michael Eisner | Donald Graham | Christie Hefner | Steve Jobs | Michael Bloomberg | Edgar Bronfman, Jr | Buffett | Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen | Oprah | Steven Spielberg | Richard Parsons | Niall Fitzgerald | George Tenet. |
1983 |
| Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSIIS) Perry | Whitehead | Volcker | Shultz | Draper III | Stephen Bechtel, Jr. | Thierry de Montbrial | Warren Christopher | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Lee Kuan Yew | Richard Lugar | Andrei Kokoshin | Helmut Schmidt | Michael Armacost (senior fellow) | Lord Howe of Aberavon | Susan Rice |
1983 |
| Eisenhower Institute Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (chair) | Fred Fielding (chair) | Chuck Hagel (director) | Susan Eisenhower (director) |
1983 |
| Council of American Ambassadors (CAA) Abshire (vice chair) | Albright | Anne Armstrong | George H. W. Bush (hon. chair) | Henry Catto | Adm. William Crowe | Thomas Foley | Bruce Gelb | Donald Gregg | Averell Harriman | Holbrooke | Philip Kaiser | Clare Boothe Luce | Richard McCormack | Lloyd Hand | Paul Nitze (hon. chair) | Felix Rohatyn | Robert Strauss | William vanden Heuvel (chair) | Richard Gardner | Rumsfeld | Mark Brzezinski | William Farish | Philip Lader | George H. Walker |
1983 |
| American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD) Carlucci (chair) | Linowitz (chair) | Eagleburger (chair) | Kampelman (chair) | Pickering (chair) | Chas Freeman | Richard Gardner | Stapleton Roy | Bruce Gelb | Albright | Armitage | James Baker III | Sandy Berger | Warren Christopher | Adm. William Crowe | Haass | Haig | Lee Hamilton | Holbrooke | Averell Harriman | Michael Armacost | Carla Hills | Martin Indyk | Kissinger | Henry Cabot Lodge | Winston Lord | Clare Boothe Luce | McNamara | Walter Mondale | John Negroponte | Sam Nunn | Joseph Nye | William Rogers | Felix Rohatyn | Hal Saunders | Dean Rusk | Rumsfeld | Colin Powell | James Schlesinger | Scowcroft | Cyrus Vance | Whitehead | Wisner II | Wolfowitz | Philip Kaiser | Shirley Temple Black | Raymond Seitz | C. Douglas Dillon | Robert R. Bowie | Rozanne Ridgway | |
1983 |
| Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) Adm. Hyman Rickover (co-founder) | Joann DiGennaro (co-founder and president). Past and present honorary trustees: Colin Powell | Sen. Joseph Lieberman | Sen. Bill Frist | Jimmy Carter | Sen. Lindsey Graham | Sen. Bill Nelson. Past and present trustees: Frank Carlucci | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Adm. Bill Owens | Pickering. |
1983 |
| Private Sector Council (PSC) David Packard (founder) | Carlucci (chair) | Norman Augustine | Thomas Foley | Chuck Hagel | Paul O'Neill | John Hamre |
1983-2004 |
| Center for Democracy Board: Allen Weinstein (founder and president and CEO 1985-2003, until merger with IFES) | Robert Livingston (co-chair) | Sen. Joe Lieberman | Richard Lugar | Sen. Chuck Robb | Jim Nicholson (chair RNC) | Henry Kissinger (2002-2003) | Thomas Pickering (2002-2003) |
1985-2003 |
| United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Allen Weinstein (founding member) | John N. Moore (chair 1986-1991) | Richard Solomon (president 1993-2012). Max Kampelman (vice chair until 2000) | Elspeth Rostow (vice chair 1990; wife of Walt Whitman R.) | Stephen Hadley (director 1990, chair anno 2013) | William Kinter (director 1990) | Evron Kirkpatrick (director 1990; husband of Jeane) | W. Scott Thompson (director 1990s) | Ronald Lehman II | Eric Edelman | Ron Silver. Listed "ex officio" members over the years: Albright | Douglas Feith | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Rumsfeld | Hillary Clinton | Walter Slocombe | John Kerry | Chuck Hagel. Also: Shultz (attended a conference) | Bill Richardson (senior fellow). Advisory council: Pickering | Peter Ackerman. |
1984 |
| Institute for the Study of American Wars Advisory council: Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Gen. Alexander Haig | Dean Rusk | Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. | John Harkanson (DuPont) |
1984 |
| Santa Fe Institute George Keyworth (trustee 1986-1989) | Murray Gell-Mann (co-chair science board) | Pierre Omidyar | Stewart Brand (trustee 1989-2004) | Jeffrey Epstein (financing) |
1984 |
| International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG) Linowitz | Gustavo Cisneros | Paul Volcker | A. W. Clausen | Stephan Schmidheiny |
1985 |
| Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) Dick Gephardt | Chuck Robb | Sam Nunn | Bill Clinton | Joe Lieberman |
1985 |
| Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation / Reagan Foundation 1985 trustees and governors: Ronald and Nancy Reagan (founders) | Neil, Maureen, Ron, Michael and Patricia Reagan | W. Glenn Campbell (founding chair) | Edwin Meese (founding vice chair) | William Clark (treasurer) | Billy Graham | Joseph Coors | Malcolm Forbes | Barry Goldwater | Paul Laxalt | Joe Allbritton | Thomas Jones (Northrop) | Jay Pritzker | David Rockefeller | David Packard | Robert O. Anderson | Thornton Bradshaw | Rawleigh Warner (Mobil) | Roger Smith (GM) | William Clay Ford | Ross Perot | Clare Boothe Luce | Robert Strauss | Jane Weinberger (husband of Caspar W.) | J. Willard Marriott | . 2016 trustees: Steve Forbes | Rudolph Giuliani | Jon Huntsman | Rupert Murdoch | T. Boone Pickens | George Shultz | |
1985 |
| Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) Past and present honorary directors/members: William Rogers | Haig | Cyrus Vance | Eagleburger | Warren Christopher | Hillary Clinton | Condoleezza Rice | Colin Powell | Albright | James Baker III | Shultz | Kissinger | Richard Lugar. Advisory council: John Whitehead. Former directors: Adm. William Crowe | Ogden R. Reid |
1986 |
| Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) Honorary patrons: Albright | James Baker III | Kissinger | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Shultz. Also credits Reagan, the Bush family and Clinton for crucial support. |
1986 |
| World Affairs Councils of America (WACA) Chairman: Paula Dobriansky |
1986 |
| Council on Competitiveness Ruben Mettler | Peter Peterson | Robert Gates | Steve Ballmer | Sen. David Boren | Raymond Gilmartin (chair) | Richard T. Clark | Joseph Gorman (executive) | Robert Dynes (executive) | Louis Gerstner | Patrick Gross | Tom Ridge | |
1986 |
| Roosevelt Institute William vanden Heuvel (president; chair emeritus) | Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (chair). Directors: William Brody (presiden John Hopkins 1996-2009) | Nancy Roosevelt Ireland | Paul Rudd | Katrina vanden Heuvel. Governors: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (chair) | John Brademas | Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | Meera Gandhi (early Mother Teresa protege) | David A. Roosevelt | James Roosevelt, Jr. | Laura D. Roosevelt. Jonathan Soros (senior fellow) | Robert Borosage (advisory board) Roosevelt Institution (founded in 2005; merged with the Roosevelt Institute in 2007) Initial press release: "Stanford students have launched The Roosevelt Institution, the nation's first student think tank..." Advisory board 2005-("people who help us and/or think we're cool"): Dee Dee Meyers (Clinton press secretary married to the national editor of Vanity Fair and the LA bureau chief of the NY Times) | William Perry | John Podesta | John Prendergast (at George Soros' Int. Crisis Group) | Anne, Jim and Kermit Roosevelt | Katrina vanden Heuvel (the Nation editor since 1995) | William vanden Heuvel. Senator Richard Lugar | David Rothkopf | Andrea Batista Schlesinger (deputy director of U.S. Programs at the Open Society Foundations). Also: |
1987 |
| International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) Clifton White (founder) | Allen Weinstein (senior strategist) | Bill Sweeney (president since 2009) | Robert Livingston | Ken Blackwell |
1987 |
| Congressional Economic Leadership Institute (CELI) Robert Galvin (director in the 1990s) | Lloyd Hand (since 1990s; executive committee) | Maurice Greenberg (early 2000; executive committee) | Elizabeth Schwartz (Boeing) | Raymond Garcia |
1987-2007 |
| California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) Bruce Tarter | John S. Foster, Jr. (director) |
1988 |
| Senior Living Foundation of the American Foreign Service (SLF) Honorary co-chairmen: Albright | James Baker III | Carlucci | Kissinger | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Shultz. Advisors: Shirley Temple Black. Directors: Marc Grossman (chair) | Pickering. |
1988 |
| Rebuild Together 2006 national advisory council (from annual report, not on the site): Bill Bradley | Henry Cisneros | Vernon Jordan | Thomas Kean | John McCain III. |
1988 |
| Henry L. Stimson Center Directors: Barry Blechman (co-founder and chair) | Condoleezza Rice (director in 1990s) | Gen. Larry Welch (director in 1990s and 2000s) | Thomas Pickering (vice chair) | Philip Odeen | Adm. Kevin Cosgriff. Financing : Carnegie Corp., MacArthur Fdn., Peterson Fdn., Smith Richardson Fdn., Tides Fdn., etc. |
1989 |
| Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) (DLC-affiliated) Will Marshall (founder and president) | Bill Clinton (chair) | Sen. Dick Gephardt (chair) | Al From (chair) | Sen. Joseph Lieberman (chair) | Jay Rockefeller (task force member). Has co-founded a task force on Iran with Freedom House. |
1989 |
| Center for Public Integrity Advisory board: Rev. Theodore Hesburgh | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. | William Schneider | Paul Volcker. Directors: Arianna Huffington. Financed by: Carnegie, Ford, MacArthur, Omidyar, Tides, Threshold, Soros/Open Society foundations. |
1989 |
| Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Directors emeritus: Kissinger, Shultz |
1990 |
| Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC) Directors: Cyrus Vance (co-founder and chair) | John Whitehead (co-founder and chair) | Henry Kissinger | Paul Volcker (chair) | Kenneth Dam | Carla Hills | John Thornton |
1990 |
| George Bush Presidential Library Foundation (GBPLF) Trustees (2014): Jeb, Jonathan, Neil, William H. T. and Marvin B. | Dorothy Bush Koch | Hushang Ansary | James Baker, III | Nicholas Brady | Andrew Card | James Cicconi | William Draper, III | Laurie Firestone | C. Boyden Gray | Ray Hunt | John Lindsey | John Macomber | Brian Mulroney | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Brent Scowcroft (also president) | Steve Wynn. Trustees (2001): Joe Allbritton | Walter Annenberg | Dick Cheney | William Farish, III | Max Fisher | Richard Gelb | Kenneth Lay | Robert Mosbacher | Dan Quayle | Arnold S. | Robert Strauss | Jack Valenti | Jerry Weintraub | George W. Bush Presidential Center: Craig Stapleton (director). George W. Bush Institute: Joshua Muravchik (fellow 2012-2013) |
1991 |
| Concord Coalition Peter Peterson (founder) | Warren Rudman (founder) | Volcker | Sam Nunn (co-chair) | Sen. Chuck Robb | John P. White |
1992 |
| Forum for International Policy (FFIP) Eagleburger | Scowcroft | Robert Gates | Carla Hills | Haass | Condoleezza Rice | Colin Powell | Deutch |
1993 |
| Virginia Neurological Institute (VNI) Robert Gates | Scowcroft | Eagleburger | Carla Hills | Gen. Paul Gorman | Edgar Bronfman | John Kluge |
1993 |
| Warren Buffett's annual classic golf tournaments, Omaha, Nebraska Adm. Hank Chiles (known to have went in 1995 and 1996; Stratcom commander at Offutt 1994-1996) | Adm. Richard Mies (hosted the 2001 tournament breakfast at Offutt; Stratcom commander at Offutt 1998-2001) | Col. Bob Smith (went in 1995; general manager, Officers Club at Offutt) | Dan Chao | Anne Tatlock. Visitors consist of leading U.S. businessmen, but not necessarily politically connected. |
1993 |
| Republican Leadership Council (RLC) Christine Whitman (founder and long-time chair) | Eisenberg (co-founder and chair) | Jon Kyl | Henry Kravis (co-chair) | Bob Dole (co-chair) |
1993 |
| Character Education Partnership (CEP) David Abshire | Norman Augustine | Brzezinski | Barbara Bush | William Webster |
1993 |
| Center for the National Interest (CFTNI) Henry Kissinger | James Schlesinger | Maurice Greenberg | Brent Scowcroft | Peter Peterson | Brzezinski | Kristol | Perle | Conrad Black | Daniel Pipes | Abramowitz | Josef Joffe | Martin Feldstein | Fukuyama | Richard Burt Nixon Center: Henry K. (hon. chair) | Maurice G. (chair) | Peter P. | Brent S. | James S. (adv. council chair) | C. Black | Jonathan Aitken | Julie Eisenhower | Robert Ellsworth | Joseph Lieberman | McCain III | Walter Annenberg | Robert Blackwill | Paula Dobriansky | John Deutch | David and Susan Eisenhower | Rita Hauser | Charles Krauthammer | Evan Greenberg | Lee Hamilton | Robert McFarlane | Joseph Nye | Dov Zakheim | Robert Zoellick | Leslie Gelb | William V. Roth, Jr. | Richard V. Allen | David Abshire | Fritz Ermarth (director of national security programs since 2002) |
1994 |
| Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP) Warren Christopher | George Shultz | Brent Scowcroft | McCain III | Condoleezza Rice | William Ruckelshaus | Gen. John Shalikashvili | Paul Wolfowitz | David Gergen | Leslie Gelb | Dianne Feinstein | Rita Hauser | Robert Hormats | Norman Pattiz | Bruce Tarter | Ronald Lehman |
1995 |
| New Democrat Network (NDN) Thomas McLarty (advisory council) |
1996 |
| New York-Presbyterian Hospital Life trustees anno 2000: C. Douglas Dillon, Maurice Greenberg (later chair and chair emeritus), Ogden Phipps, Laurance Rockefeller. Trustees: Edward H. Auchincloss | George F. Baker | Joseph Califano, Jr. | Michel David-Weill | Jeffrey G. | Ogden Mills Phipps | William R. Rhodes | Sidney Weinberg. Anno 2003 trustee: Jerry Speyer. David Koch |
1997 |
| The Constitution Project Members Task Force on Detainee Treatment: Gen. David Irvine | Thomas Pickering | William Sessions | Lee Hamilton (outside supporter) | William Taft IV (outside supporter). Members Liberty and Security Committee: Gen. Wesley Clark | Thomas P. | John Podesta | William S. | William T. IV | Col. Colby Vokey | Walter Cronkite | William Rogers | Paul Weyrich | Kate Martin. Also: Mondale ( Right to Counsel Committee) | Morton Halperin (board and Liberty and Security Committee) |
1997 |
| Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) Co-founders and honorary co-chairs: David Rockefeller, Paul Volcker and John Whitehead. Henry Schacht (vice chair) | Walter Shipley (vice chair). Members: Raymond Gilmartin | Louis Gerstner | Maurice Greenberg | Harold W. McGraw III | Charles R. Schwab | Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. | Robert Wolf |
1998 |
| Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ) Self-described as "anti-imperialist" and "anti-capitalist". Raised several hundred thousand dollars for Occupy Wall Street. George Soros (financier). |
1998 |
| MoveOn George Soros (important financier). Created the Occupy Wish List website in support of Occupy Wall Street. |
1998 |
| New America Foundation (NAF) / New America Began life as Vision Trust, financed by the Schuman Foundation of Bill Moyers. Ted Halstead (founding president and CEO 1999-2007) | Walter Mead (founder)| Eric Schmidt (chair; chair and CEO of Google) | Peter Peterson (senior policy analyst and major financier) | Christine Whitman | Francis Fukuyama (founding director) | Rita Hauser | Jonathan Soros (son of) | John Whitehead (chair Leadership Council) | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Bill Gates (financier: $6,500,000 in 2009-2013 period) |
1999 |
| Goldman Sachs Foundation John Whitehead (founding chair; became a partner in Goldman Sachs in 1956, co-chair 1976-1984, became a limited partner in 1989) | Stephanie Bell-Rose (president) | John Thornton (director; president and co-COO Goldman Sachs). Also: Sir Peter Sutherland (chair international board Goldman Sachs since 1995). |
1999 |
| Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) George Shultz | Frank Carlucci | Paul Volcker | George Soros | Deepak Chopra | Walter Cronkite | Sting | Richard Branson | Ethan Nadelmann |
2000 |
| Financial Services Forum (FSF) James P. Gorman (Morgan Stanley) |
2000 |
| Diplomacy Center Foundation (DCF) Honorary directors: Kissinger | Shultz | James Baker | Albright | Colin Powell | Rice. Directors: Carlucci | Bruce Gelb | Leslie Gelb | Lee Hamilton | Pickering |
2000 |
| Fortune's Brainstorm technology conferences David Kirkpatrick (founder and host). Visitors: Bill Clinton (three times) | Larry Page and Sergei Brin (Google founders) | Jack Valenti | Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks) | Barry Diller | Bill Joy (Sun Microsystems co-founder) | Nancy Peretsman | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild | Mrs. H.J. Heinz II | Bandar bin Sultan (Saudi Arabia) | Nabil Fahmy (Egypt) | Ted Turner | Shimon Peres | Jack Kemp | Sen. John McCain III | Robert Mueller (FBI) | Paul Ehrlich and Amory Lovins (ecologists) | Paul Wolfowitz | Sandra Day O'Connor. |
2001-2005 |
| Partnership for Public Service (PPS) Norman Augustine | Gergen | Paul Volcker | James Baker III | Sen. Bill Bradley | Jonathan Bush, Sr. | Michael Eisner | Foley | Gen. Paul X. Kelley | Sen. Lieberman | McCain III | Sen. George Mitchell | Philip Odeen | Whitehead | Christine Whitman | Sean O'Keefe | Panetta | Lawrence Summers | Hugh B. Price | Susan Rice |
2001 |
| Reform Institute David Boren | John McCain | Sen. Lindsay Graham |
2001 |
| American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) Advisory council: Gen. Wesley Clark | C. Boyden Gray | Robert McFarlane | Roger Ballentine | James Woolsey | Adm. Dennis McGinn |
2001 |
| Democracy Coalition Project International advisory board: George Soros (primary financier) | Madeleine Albright | Michel Rocard | congressman John Lewis | Sergey Kovalev (Russia) | Samira Omar (Kuwait). Advisory board: Morton Halperin | Fiona Hill. |
2001 |
| OpenDemocracy Foundation Contributors OpenDemocracy.net: George Soros (also financier) | Ayan Hirsi Ali | Colin Greer | Gabrielle Rifkind (most likely related to Malcolm Rifkind). Financiers: Ford Fdn., RBF, etc. |
2001 |
| Common Good Peter Peterson | John Whitehead | Gingrich | Jeb Bush | Robert Kagan | Christopher DeMuth | Sen. Howard Baker | Thomas Kean |
2002 |
| America Abroad Media (AAM) Advisory board: Abshire | Albright | Hushang Ansary | Michael Armacost | Armitage | Norm Augustine | Sandy Berger | Brzezinski | Chertoff | Elliott Cohen | Lester Crown | Paula Dobriansky | Draper III | Robert Gates | Bruce Gelb | Leslie Gelb | Gergen | Boyden Gray | Haass | Chuck Hagel | Lee Hamilton | Carla Hills | Huntington | Martin Indyk | John Kerry | Kirkpatrick | McLarty III | McNamara | Pickering | Rohatyn | Stapleton Roy | Scowcroft | Talbott | Whitehead | Woolsey | Philip Zelikow | Marc Grossman | Zalmay Khalilzad. |
2002 |
| Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS) Gen. Bill Reno (chair) | Adm. Giambastiani | Michael Hayden | Eric Hotung | Robert McFarlane | Ed Meese | Sen. Chuck Robb | |
2002 |
| Center for American Progress (CAP) Left-leaning alternative to the Heritage Fdn. and AEI. Disliked by the Zionist right-wing. John Podesta (founder; Clinton chief of staff; helped form the Obama administration) | Morton Halperin (senior vice president and director of fellows) | Van Jones. Major financiers: George Soros | Peter Lewis | Steve Bing | Herb and Marion Sandler | Ford Fdn. | Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn. (Bill Gates) | Walmart | Citigroup. |
2003 |
| Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy (CRFP) Gary Hart | Stephen Walt. Signers: John Mearsheimer |
2003 |
| Spirit of America Jim Hake (founder and CEO). Advisory board since 2003: Gen. Mike DeLong | Adm. Jeremiah Denton | Gen. Tommy Franks (hon. co-chair) | Kimberly Kagan (sister of Robert K.) | Gen. Jack Keane | Sen. John McCain (hon. co-chair) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Col. John Nagl | George Shultz |
2003 |
| Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) David Abshire | Chertoff | William Sessions | Richard V. Allen | Ed Meese | Chuck Robb | William Webster |
2003 |
| New American Strategies for Security and Peace Congress Advisory committee of the 2003 congress: Albright | Sandy Berger | Brzezinski | Warren Christopher | Gen. Wesley Clark | Adm. William Crowe | Leon Fuerth | Gary Hart | Holbrooke | Walter Mondale | Perry | Bill Richardson | Felix Rohatyn | Arthur Schlesinger | Gen. John Shalikashvili | George Soros | Rabbi David Saperstein |
2003 |
| Initiative for Global Development (IGD) Founders: Bill Gates, William Ruckelshaus, John Shalikashvili. Leadership council: Madeleine Albright (co-chair) | Colin Powell (co-chair) | Lee Hamilton | Richard Blum (husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Jim Kolbe | Carla Hills | Ted Turner | James Wolfensohn. Steering committee: Adm. Bill Owens. Members: Adm. Thomas Pickering | Bill Ayer | Richard Gardner |
2003 |
| World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (WTCMF) David Rockefeller | John Whitehead | Peter Peterson | Brian Mulroney | Maurice Greenberg | Sir John Bond | Tatlock | Giuliani | George Pataki | Henry Kravis | Ford | Carter | George W. Bush | Clinton. |
2004 |
| GenerationEngage Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay; founder). Notable participants: Barack Obama | Bill and Hillary Clinton | Colin Powell | Newt Gingrich | Al Gore | Nancy Pelosi | Chuck Hagel | John Whitehead |
2004 |
| Global Leadership Foundation (GLF) Pickering (chair) | Lord Chris Patten | Michel Rocard | Hans van den Broek | Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan |
2004 |
| Truman National Security Project (TNSP) Rachel Kleinfeld (founder and president). Robert Hunter Biden (board; son of vice president Joe B.). Advisory board: Madeleine Albright | Leslie Gelb | William Perry | Gary Hart | John Podesta | Janet Napolitano | Anne-Marie Slaughter. Senior advisors and trustees: David Rothkopf. |
2004 |
| Our Military Kids (OMK) Advisory board: William Perry | Gen. Peter Pace | Rozanne Ridgway | Walter Slocombe | James Woolsey | Dov Zakheim |
2004 |
| Media Matters for America (MMfA) Analyses U.S. news sources and very anti Fox News. David Brock (founder). John Podesta provided office space at his Center for American Progress. Hillary Clinton (early advisor) | George Soros ($1 million donation in 2010, but his groups have been backing MMfA since its inception). |
2004 |
| Democracy Alliance Consists of 100+ largely secret liberal financiers who donate $200,000 or more annually. Anne Bartley (co-founder; trustee of 4 Rockefeller fdns) | George Soros (co-founder) | Rob Stein (co-founder and initial CEO; former Bill Clinton Treasury official) | Drummond Pike (founding member and treasurer) | Tim Gill (co-founder) | Peter Lewis (co-founder) | Kelly Craighead (president; Hillary Clinton aide) | Gara LaMarche (president since 2013; close to George S.) | Jonathan Soros (son of George S.). |
2005 |
| The American Interest magazine Spin-off of the National Interest. Founders: Zbigniew Brzezinski | Eliot Cohen | Francis Fukuyama | Josef Joffe. Contributor: Dov Zakheim | Niall Ferguson | Robert Kaplan |
2005 |
| Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) Warren Rudman (main founder) | Gary Hart | Brzezinski | Shultz | Albright | Berger | Whitehead | Wisner II | John Lehman | Lee Hamilton | Slade Gorton | Thomas Kean | Pickering | Nunn | William Perry | McFarlane | Carla Hills | Paula Dobriansky | William Cohen | Warren Christopher | Rita Hauser | Frances Townsend |
2005 |
| Terror Free Tomorrow (TFT) Thomas Foley | Slade Gorton | John McCain III | Lee Hamilton | Thomas Kean | Chuck Rob | Bill First | William Koch |
2005 |
| Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) Leadership: John L. Petersen | Woolsey | McFarlane | Gen. Paul X. Kelley (co-chair) | Adm. Vernon Clark | Maurice Greenberg | John Lehman (co-hair) | Robert Hormats. |
2005 |
| National Security Network (NSN) Leslie Gelb | Richard Clarke | Sandy Berger | Wisner II | Wesley Clark |
2006 |
| Project on National Security Reform (PNSR) Abshire | Augustine | Wesley Clark | Giambastiani | Gingrich | Adm. Mike McConnell (DNI) | Jessica Tuchman Mathews | Tom Ridge | Pickering | Scowcroft | Gen. James L. Jones | James Steinberg. |
2006 |
| Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University George H. W. Bush | Brent Scowcroft. Advisory board: Robert Gates | Kissinger | Eagleburger | Brzezinski | Inman | Deutch | Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones | Marine Corps Gen. Bernard Trainor | Cindy Williams | Sen. Howard Baker |
2007 |
| American Security Project (ASP) Board: Gary Hart | John Kerry | Chuck Hagel | Augustine | Christine Whitman. Members Consensus for American Security: Morton Abramowitz | Sandy Berger | Sidney Drell | Inman | Adm. Bill Owens | Shultz | Talbott. |
2007 |
| Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Col. John Nagl (president) | Robert Kaplan | Joseph Nye | Albright | Armitage | Augustine | William Perry | John Podesta |
2007 |
| Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Founders: Senators Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, George Mitchell | Sen. Chuck Robb | Norman Augustine | Jane Garvey (chairman) | Walter Isaacson. Task Force on Turkey: Abramawitz (co-chair), Paula Dobriansky. |
2007 |
| American Corporate Partners (ACP) Advisory council: John Hamre | Vernon Jordan | William Kristol | Richard Myers | Peter Pace | Petraeus | Shultz | Wolfowitz |
2008 |
| Peter G. Peterson Foundation Shultz | Volcker | Bill Gates | Ted Turner | Oprah | Leslie Gelb |
2008 |
| Invictus Foundation Tries to help PTSD victims the traditional way. Board of advisors: Gen. Robert Dees | Sen. Slade Gorton | Sen. Mike Gravel |
2010 |
| Institute for America's Future (IAF) Robert Borosage (founder-president) | George Soros (founding grant of $500,000). Other financing: Tides Fdn. Runs the Campaign for America's Future. Finances liberal website TomPaine.com. |
2009 |
| Progressive Congress Co-founder/directors anno 2012: Robert Borosage | John Cavanaugh | Katrina vanden Heuvel. |
2009 |
| Good Club David Rockefeller | Buffett | Bill Gates | Ted Turner | Oprah |
2009 |
| The Giving Pledge (annual meetings) Michael Bloomberg | Charles R. Bronfman | Edgar M. Bronfman | Buffett | Bill Gates | Ted Forstmann | Peter Peterson | T. Boone Pickens | David Rockefeller | David Rubenstein | Ted Turner | Vladimir Potanin |
2009 |
| Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) October 27, 2009, INET initial press release: "George Soros Backs New Institute With $50 million Pledge... INET's founding Advisory Board members include Nobel laureates George Akerlof, Sir James Mirrlees, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E Stiglitz, Willem Buiter, Markus K. Brunnermeier, Robert Dugger, Duncan Foley, Thomas Ferguson, Roman Frydman, Ian Goldin, Charles Goodhart, Anatole Kaletsky, John Kay, Axel Leijonhufvud, Perry Mehrling, Y.V Reddy, Ken Rogoff, Jeffrey Sachs, John Shattuck, William R. White and Yu Yongding." William Janeway (co-founder and financier; vice and later advisor to Warburg Pincus) |
2009 |
| Robertson Foundation for Government (RFFG) Brent Scowcroft | Sen. Chuck Robb |
2010 |
| Consensus for American Security | 2010 |
| Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Senior fellows: Woolsey | Wolfensohn | Gen. Stanley McChrystal |
2010 |
| United States Energy Security Council (USESC) Woolsey | Shultz | McFarlane | Wesley Clark | Augustine | John Lehman | Greenspan | William Perry | Gary Hart | C. Boyden Gray | James Roche |
2011 |
| Americans Elect Peter Ackerman | Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Will Marshall | Christine Whitman |
2010 |
| Berggruen Institute on Governance Founding members BIG: Nicolas Berggruen (founder and chair) | Francis Fukuyama (council member) | Joseph Stiglitz (council member) | Pierre Omidyar (advisor-at-large). 2011 Think Long Committee: Willie Brown | Condoleezza Rice | George Shultz | Arnold Schwarzenegger (guest) | Jerry Brown (guest) |
2010 |
| World Affairs Institute /
World Affairs Journal Editors anno 2011: Peter Collier (once of the left-wing Ramparts) | Christopher Hitchens | Robert Kagan | Joshua Muravchik | |
2010 |
| Advanced Energy Economy Institute (AEEI) George Shultz |
2011 |
| McCain Institute for International Leadership Sen. John McCain (founder). Trustees; Lynn Forester de Rothschild | John Lehman | Sen. Joe Lieberman. |
2012 |
| Freedom of the Press Foundation Daniel Ellsberg (co-founder) | John Perry Barlow (co-founder) | Rainey Reitman (co-founder; Bradley Manning Support Network; Internet Defense League) | Edward Snowden (director since Feb. 2014) | Glenn Greenwald | Laura Poitras | John Cusack | Micah Lee (The Intercept). Provides funds to Wikileaks. Itself financed by the Foundation for National Progress, the publisher of Mother Jones magazine, which has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from George Soros' Open Society Foundations. The MacArthur Foundation is another important financier. A minor grant of $25,000 was received from Rockefeller Brothers Fund "for voting rights coverage of the 2014 election." |
2012 |
| New York Leadership for Accountable Government (NY-LEAD) Members/board: David Rockefeller | Jeffrey Sachs | Sen. Bill Bradley | Sen. Bob Kerrey | Frank Weil | Jonathan Soros | William vanden Heuvel | Theodore Roosevelt IV | Jerome Kohlberg | Charles Kolb |
2012 |
| Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security (Atlantic Council) Founding chair: Gen. James L. Jones |
2012 |
| USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy Advisory board: Shultz | Christine Whitman |
2012 |
| Progressive Agenda NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio | Jonathan Soros | Katrina Vanden Heuvel | Van Jones | Joseph Stiglitz |
2015 |
| Order of the Garter Sir Evelyn Baring | Lord Thomas Bingham | Philip Edward Bonn | Lord Carrington | 13th Marqess of Lothian (Kerr) | Cecil family | Dukes of Devonshire | Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor | Lord Peter Inge | Lord Robert Leigh-Pemberton | Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne | Prince Philip | Duke of Kent |
1348 |
| Privy Council | 16th century |
| Order of the Thistle (Scottish version of the Order of the Garter) 13th Earl of Airlie | Lord George Robertson | 11th Marquess of Lothian (Kerr) | Lord David Ogilvy | Prince Philip |
1687 |
| United Grand Lodge (Scottish Rite) | 1717 |
| Venerable Order of Saint John | 1831 |
| Crown Agents | 1833 |
| Corps of Commissionaires | 1859 |
| Society for Psychical Research (SPR), London Research group into the paranormal (with a lot of rather questionable figures involved). Sir William Crookes (president 1896-1899) | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1901-1903) | Arthur Balfour (president 1893) | Gerald Balfour (president 1906-1907) | William McDougall (president 1920-1921; president U.S. chapter 1921-1922) | Sir Alister Hardy (president 1965-1969; founder Religious Experience Research Unit at Oxford in 1969) | Joseph Banks Rhine (president 1980) | Louisa Ella Rhine (president 1980) | Ian Stevenson (president 1988-1989) | Archie Roy (president 1992-1995) | Gordon Creighton (member) In 1884 an American chapter was founded, actually by skeptics of the paranormal in this case. |
1882 |
| Fabian Society (foundation of today's Labour Party) | 1884 |
| Anti-Socialist and Communist Union (Economic League during Cold War) Lord Walter Runciman (vice president; major Nazi appeaser) | 1st Baron McGowan (director; chair ICI and major Nazi appeaser) | Sir David Barran (president) | Sir Harry Brittain (director; appeaser) | 1st Baron Iliffe | John Dettmer (chairman) |
1908 |
| Carnegie United Kingdom Trust | 1913 |
| Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA or Chatham House) Lord Robert Cecil | Waldorf Astor | Sir Henry Philip Prince | Sir John Wheeler-Bennett | Sir Roderick Jones | Christopher Woodhouse | Sir Duncan Oppenheim | Lord Humphrey Trevelyan | Sir David Ormsby-Gore | Lord Greenhill | Lord Shackleton | Sir Frank Roberts | Sir John Birch | Lord Paddy Ashdown | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | Lord Hurd (co-president 2002-2009). Donors: Lord Howe | Sir Philip Goodhart | Sir Joseph Hotung | John Major. Ordinary members: Carrington | Sir Peter Sutherland (speech) | Niall Fitzgerald (speech) | Jack Straw (speech) | Peter Mandelson (speech) | Jaakko Kooroshy (research fellow). Panel of senior advisors, established in 2008: Andre Hoffmann | Nicholas Burns | Victor Chu | Lord Hurd of Westwell | Lord George Robertson | John Whitehead (also has a lecture named after him). U.S. members: Kissinger (speech 1982) | Brzezinski (speech) | Volcker | Sir Evelyn and Lynn Forester de Rothschild | John Major (speech) | James Baker III (speech) | Joseph Nye (speech) | Strobe Talbott (speech) | Madeleine Albright (speech) | Richard Haass (speech) | C. Douglas Dillon (annual speech named after him). Global Commission on Internet Governance (2014-2016): Carl Bildt (chair) | Michael Chertoff | Joseph Nye |
1929 |
| British United Industrialists (BUI) Funneled money to the Economic League and Aims of Industry. 1st Baron Renwick (founding chair) |
1962 |
| International Financial Services, London (British Invisibles) | 1968 |
| Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) Margaret Thatcher (co-founder) | Keith Joseph (co-founder) | Lord Thomas of Swynnerton (chair 1979-1990). Directors: Lord Blackwell | Niall Ferguson | Tessa Keswick (deputy chair; wife of Sir Henry K.) | Andrew Knight | Marquess of Salisbury (Cecil) | Lord Brian Griffiths (chair 1991-2000). Advisory board: Lord Charles Powell. |
1974 |
| Tory Reform Group Rifkind (patron) | Michael Heseltine (patron) | Lord Chris Patten (patron) |
1975 |
| Halo Trust Trustees: Cindy McCain (wife Sen. John McCain) | Angelina Jolie (resigned in protest) |
1988 |
| Centre for Defence Studies, King's College, University of London Robert J. O'Neill (chair 1991-1996) | Audrius Butkevicius (published 'The Baltic region in the new Europe chapter' at CDS in 1993; Far West director) Anton Surikov (published 'Crime in Russia: The International Implications' at CDS in 1995; Far West founder) | |
1990 |
| Prince of Wales' Business and Sustainability Programme (BSP) Lord Alan Watson (member) |
1994 |
| Club of Three Founders: Lord Weidenfeld | Jacob Rothschild | Lord Alexander. Later incorporated in the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. |
1996 |
| Multinational Chairman's Group Sir John Bond | Martin Broughton | Lord John Browne | Sir Christopher Hogg | Sir Niall FitzGerald |
1997 |
| Policy Network Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (primary financier to set up the think tank) | Peter Mandelson | Tony Blair (visitor of a founding conference). International council: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Michiel van Hulten, Will Marshall. |
2000 |
| The Children's Investment Fund Foundation Jamie Cooper-Hohn (founder) and billionaire husband Sir Chris Hohn (founder | Mark Malloch-Brown (acting chair; major Soros agent) | Graeme Sweeney (chair Climate Change Advisory Board; shell; major global warming activist) |
2002 |
| European Reform Forum (ERF) Committee members: Lord Waddington (chair) | Lord Tebbit | Lord Weatherhill | Lord Rees-Mogg | Lord Blackwell | Sir Oliver Wright. Provided evidence: Lord Howell. |
Jun.-Dec. 2005 |
| Institute for Strategic Dialogue Trustees: Lord Weidenfeld (president) | Sir Ronald Grierson | Lord Guthrie | Lord Simon of Highbury | Andre Hoffmann (co-chair). Policy board: Wolfgang Ischinger | Jonathan Powell (brother of Lord Charles Powell) | Louis Schweitzer. Scholarship advisory board: Niall Ferguson. |
2006 |
| Institute for Government Governors: Lord Sainsbury of Turville | Lord Heseltine | Lord Simon of Highbury | Lord Currie of Marylebone | Dame Sandra Dawson |
2008 |
| Rothschild birthday parties (40th birthday of Nat Rothschild - confidentially agreements had to be signed by personnel) Tony Hayward | Peter Munk | Milo Djukanovic | Niall Ferguson and wife Ayan Hirsi Ali | Peter Mandelson | Sasha Volkova (Russian model) | Sawiri family | King Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi | Roman Abramovich | Oleg Deripaska |
2011 |
| Conference on Inclusive Capitalism Co-hosted by the City of London and E.L. de Rothschild. Co-financed by the Rockefeller Fdn., Ford Fdn., and Tony Elumelu Fdn. Speakers: Prince Charles | Bill Clinton | Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild. |
Jun. 26, 2015 |
| Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap (Zwanenbroeders) Willem of Orange | Queen Wilhelmina | Queen Juliana | Prince Bernhard | Queen Beatrix | King Willem Alexander. Families: van Egmont | de Merode | de Croij | de Roy van Zuidewijn | de Roy van Zuidewyn | van Tuyll van Serooskerken | van Nassau | van Oranje / Orange | van Lanschot | Fentener van Vlissingen | de Vos van Steenwijk | Michiels van Kessenich. Also: A.F. Philips (Anton Philips, Philips founder) | F.F. Otten (Frans Otten, son-in-law of Philips founder) | |
1318 |
| Haagsche Club Extremely private. Virtually no names are known, although they come from high nobility, the royal family circle, diplomacy, and key corporations and banks. Still doesn't allow women. Baron W.O. Bentinck van Schoonheten (president; ambassador to Spain and London); Baron Andre van Heemstra (director; director Unilever); Aarnout Loudon | Joseph Luns (speech in 1986) | Baron Coen Schimmelpenninck van der Oije (his High Council of Nobility has been organizing diners here) Kikkoman Foods Europe diner in 2012: Mitsuo Someya (Kikkoman chair) | Paul van der Heijden (chair Leiden University) | Jaap Rost Onnes | Max van den Berg Bernard Wientjes | Maxime Verhagen | Yvonne van Mastrigt | Sibrand Poppema |
1748 |
| Hoge Raad van Adel / High Council of Nobility Chairmen: Baron Rudolph van Hoëvell van Nijenhuis (fungerend) 1866-1893 | Count Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck van Nijenhuis 1893-1907 | Baron Alexander Schimmelpenninck van der Oye 1908-1934 | Baron Jan Arend de Vos van Steenwijk 1947-1956 | Jonkheer Frans Beelaerts van Blokland 1956 - 1960 | Jonkheer Matthias Adriaan Beelaerts van Blokland 1960-1966 | Baron Albrecht Nicolaas de Vos van Steenwijk 1984-1986 | Baron Frank Wolfaert van Lynden 1986-1991 | Baron Coen Schimmelpenninck van der Oije 1991-. Other council members: Johan Philip de Monté ver Loren (secretary 1930-1942) | Jonkheer F.K.M. van Nispen tot Pannerden (sinds 2002) | Egbert Jan Wolleswinkel (secretary since 2003) | Baron H.C.R.M. de Wijkerslooth de Weerdesteijn (sinds 2005) | Baroness R.M. van Pallandt (sinds 2010) | Baroness C.J.A. Snouckaert van Schauburg-Buchwaldt (sinds 2012). |
1814 |
| Minerva fraternity, Leiden University Modern name since 1973. December 11, 2010, Volkskrant (mainstream Dutch newspaper): "Minerva, one of the foundations of our ruling elite. At least two-thirds of influential Holland has been a member of a fraternity... Ten percent [of Minerva], followed by Rotterdam fraternities (6%), the Utrecht fraternities (5%), and Groningen fraternities (4%)...." Minerva: Queen Beatrix of Orange | Queen Juliana | King Willem Alexander | Prince Constantijn | Prince Floris | Prinsess Margriet | Crown Prince Alexander der Nederlanden | Princess Anita | Princess Aimee | Princess Prinses Astrid of Belgium | Pieter van Vollenhoven | Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst | Joris Demmink | Oscar Hammerstein | Benk Korthals | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer | Ivo Opstelten | Alexander Pechtold | Alexander Rinnooy Kan | Rutger Schimmelpenninck | Max van der Stoel | Erica Terpstra | Maxime Verhagen | Paul Verhoeven | Gijs de Vries | Nout Wellink | Cees van Lede | Jan Wicher van Heerde | Pieter Bakker Schut Extra: Volkenrechtelijk Dispuut "Professor mr B.M. Telders", linked to Leiden University: honorary chairmen: Frans Alting von Geusau \ Laurens Jan Brinkhorst | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer | Ernst van der Beugel | Pieter Kooijmans | |
1839 |
| Dutch Red Cross Baron Guup Kraijenhoff (20 year chairman) | Elco Brinkman (president/chair until 2012) | Pita Schimmelpenninck (legal advisor) | Prince Pieter van Vollenhoven of Orange Nassau (director) | |
1864 |
| Vereniging Rembrandt Patron: Queen Beatrix of Orange. Management board: Jan Boll (chair) \ Jonkheer Aarnout Loudon (vice-chair). Advisory council: Elco Brinkman | Baroness Marion Lambert | John Leighton | Jonkheer G.E. Loudon | Cees Maas | Baron Coen Schimmelpenninck van der Oije | Baron C. van Tuyll van Serooskerken. |
1883 |
| Dutch Carnegie Foundation and the Peace Palace Baron Samuel John van Tuyll van Serooskerken (trustee 1953-1981) | Jonkheer Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer (chair 1958-1963) | Jan de Quay (chair 1963-1966; continued as a director into the 1970s) | Ernst van der Beugel (became a trustee in 1975) | Max van der Stoel (chair 1989-1990s) | Pieter Kooijmans (trustee 1980-1993; chair 1995-1997) | Hans van den Broek (chair 2000-2007) | Ben Bot (chair) | Ewald Kist (deputy supervisory chair DSM) | Frans Weisglas (trustee) | Geert Corstens (trustee since 2008) |
1904 |
| Netherlands-America Foundation Paul Bremer | Thomas Watson | William vanden Heuvel | Gerard Peijnenburg (friend of Cees van den H.) | Rudolf Bekink | Ewald Kist (deputy supervisory chair DSM) |
1921 |
| Nederlandsche Unie (collaborist with the Nazis) Founders: Jan de Quay | Louis Einthoven | Johannes Linthorst Homan. Wim Fockema Andreae (employee) |
1940-1941 |
| Prince Bernhard Cultuurfonds Board: Ivo Opstelten | Alexander Rinnooy Kan (chair) | Baron Coen Schimmelpenninck |
1940 |
| Nederlands Genootschap voor International Zaken / Netherlands Society for International Affairs / Dutch Association for International Affairs Dr. Jan Rood (chair) | Anthony Ruys (b. 1943) |
1945 |
| Nationale Federatieve Raad van het Voormalige Verzet Nederland, formed (National Federal Council of the Former Resistance in the Netherlands) Borghouts (chair 1959-1965) | Cees van den Heuvel (joined in 1961 after retiring from Dutch intelligence; chair since 1965) |
1947 |
| Tie Club Prince Bernhard's secret private action group for a coup in pre-WWII Dutch-owned Indonesia. Involved as far as we know: Gen. Walter Bedell Smith | J.W. Beijen (Unilever) Frans Otten (Philips). |
1948 |
| Sociaal-Economische Raad (SER) / Social-Economic Council Wim Kok (vice chair 1980s) | Jan van Walsem (alternate 1990-1994) | Klaas de Vries (chair 1996-1998) | Herman Wijffels (chair 1999-2006) | Alexander Rinnooy Kan (chair 2006-2012) Wiebe Draijer (chair 2012-) | Victor Halberstadt | Bernard Wientjes (vice chair) | Ferdinand Grapperhaus, Jr. (crown member) | Elco Brinkman | Paul van der Heijden (alternate) |
1950 |
| Netherlands Atlantic Association Rio Praaning (appointed director in 1978, then a 26-year-old law student; left in 1990) | Cees van den Heuvel (member; information officer since the 1970s; retired in 1986; handler of Rio P.) | Hannie van Leeuwen (president since 1979; former Christian Democrat MP). Key note speakers at its second Round Table Conference in 1985: Lord Carrington, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Frits Bolkestein (chair 1990-1991) | Gijs de Vries (chair 1991) | Frans Weisglas (vice chair) |
1952 |
| Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Pieter Kooijmans (trustee 1979-1993, also chair) | Frans Weisglas (trustee) | Professor Hans van Ginkel (chair anno 2014) |
1952 |
| Nederlands Arabische Kring (Netherlands Arabic Circle) Willem "Bib" van Lanschot (involved from the 1950s to the 1970s) | Mahmoud Rabbani (involved in the 1970s) |
1955 |
| Instituut voor het Moderne Nabije Oosten (Institute for the Modern Near East), University of Amsterdam Nicolaas Posthumus (founder) | Kees Wagtendonk (lecturer and scientific head in the 1960s) |
1956 |
| Stichting voor Onderzoek van Ecologische Vraagstukken (Foundation for the Investigation of Ecological Problems, SOEV) Copy from the CIA's MKULTRA foundation, the Human Ecology Fund. Cees van den Heuvel (founder and head). Funds came from Prince Bernhard's friends at AKU (later AKZO), Philips, Shell (headed by John Loudon) and Unilever. |
1960 |
| Stichting ter Voorlichting over de Oost-West Verhouding (SVOWV - Institute for Information on East-West Relations) | 1962 |
| International Documentation and Information Center (Interdoc) Cees van den Heuvel (founding head) | Louis Einthoven (co-founder) | Herman Jan Rijks | J. M. Hornix. German founding members: Professor Hans Lades, Dr. C. D. Kernig and Dr. Norman von Grote. Initial financing came from Shell, head by John Loudon. British founding consultative council members (certainly still on board in 1969): Brian Crozier | Walter Bell (MI5) | Dick Ellis (MI6, co-founder OSS/CIA and Australian SIS). Others British consultative council members: Neil Elles (Common Cause) | John Dettmer. Italy: Luigi Gedda (medical advisor Pope Pius XII) |
1963-1986 |
| Oost-West Instituut (East-West Institute) Merger of the SOEV and SVOWV. Cees van den Heuvel (head) | Rio Praaning (joined the staff in 1974 and became assistant director to Cees in 1976) | The institute's Conferentie voor Veiligheid en Samenwerking in Europa: Frans Alting Von Geusau (co-founder) | Max van der Stoel (high commissioner 1993-2001) | Maarten van Traa (delegation head 1992-1994) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (temporary chair) |
1965 |
| SNV Netherlands Development Organisation International advisory board: Jeffrey Sachs | Mohammad Yunus |
1965 |
| Nederlands Palestina Komitee (Dutch Palestine Committee) Co-founders: Kees Wagtendonk | Piet Nak | Mahmoud Rabbani |
1969 |
| Stichting Geestelijke Weerbaarheid (Institute for Psychological Defense) Cees van den Heuvel |
1969 |
| Nederlands Instituut voor Vredesvraagstukken Frans Alting von Geusau |
1969 |
| 1001 Club - Dutch members only Prince Bernhard of Orange | Queen Juliana of Orange | Willem "Bib" van Lanschot | Ernst van Eeghen | Ferdinand Grapperhaus, Sr. | Baroness Gabrielle Bentinck van Schoonheten | F. W. Brenninkmeijer (and family) | Anton Dreesmann | Pieter Dreesmann | Jan van den Brink | Rudolf van den Brink | Hans Melchers | Leon Melchior | Bob Schreiner | John Loudon | Frederik Loudon | George Loudon | Angela Loudon | Ruud Lubbers | Jacques Schoufour | Anton Pannenborg (Philips) | Frits Philips | Feyo Sickinghe | Allard Jiskoot | Jan Lodewijk Pierson | Wim Fockema Andreae | Van Beuningen | Fentener van Vlissingen | Cees van Lede | Marcel van Poecke | Anthony Ruys and Lucien Ruys | Johannes Kraayevelt van Heemert | Jonkheer Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer | Baron Guup Kraijenhoff | Dik Wessels | Hans Merkle | Baron Freddie van Tuyll Van Serooskerken and son | Baron van Welderen Rengers | Joke van Dieten Maasland. |
1970 |
| British Atlantic Committee, Amsterdam conference Brian Crozier (important co-founder) | Prince Bernhard (chairman). Speakers/participants: Frank Barnett | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Dean Rusk | Cyrus Vance | Alfred Wohlstetter | Shephard Stone. Interdoc hardly involved. |
March 1973 |
| Stichting Solidariteit en Verbondenheid Nederland-Verenigde Staten (Foundation for Solidarity and Alliance Netherlands-United States) Cees van den Heuvel (founder) | Henk Hergarden (head) |
June 1973 |
| International Secretariat for Atlantic Youth (ISAY) Rio Praaning (founder) |
1975 |
| Jong Atlantisch Samenwerkings Orgaan Nederland (JASON) Rio Praaning (founder, management chair, and still on the advisory board anno 2014) | Ben Bot (director 1970s) | Cees van den Heuvel (advisory board 1970s to at least the 1990s) | Wim van Eekelen (chair advisory board 1970s; still on the board anno 2014) | Alexander Alting von Geusau (chief editor and director since about 1985); Victor Halberstadt (advisory board since about 1990; still today) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (advisory board since about 1987) | Harry Hoefnagels (advisory board since about 1987). Appeared in magazine: Wim Couwenberg (1977), Peter Kooijmans (1977-1978), Max van der Stoel (1980). Participants in JASON's 1982 Committee on Future Dutch-American Relations in the United States and its counterpart in the Netherlands: Richard Perle | Eugene Rostow | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Norman Bailey | Adm. Dennis Blair (NSC at the time and old friend Ollie North) | Frans Alting von Geusau | Anton Pannenborg |
1975 |
| Phoenix Foundation NL Promoted extreme libertaranism: the absence of any government. Robert Jan Doorn (founding chairman; secretary; magazine editor; also: major money launderer) |
1977 |
| 15th International Towing Tank Conference, Netherlands Honorary committee: Prince Claus of Orange (conference chair, probably due to Prince Bernhard's involvement in the Lockheed Affair) | Wim van Eekelen (former defense secretary) | Piet Kleyn van Willigen (Smit International) | Wim Kok | Johannes Kraaijeveld van Hemert (Boskalis) | B.E. Ruys (Nedlloyd) |
1978 |
| Komitee Kruisraketten Nee (Cruise Missiles No) Prominent anti-nuclear-tipped cruise missiles placement protest group. Maarten van Traa (secretary) |
1981-1987 |
| Nationaal Comite Verzetsherdenkingskruis Cees van den Heuvel (secretary) | Hans Teengs Gerritsen | Willem "Bib" van Lanschot | Adm. E. Roest |
1981-1988 |
| Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael) Governors: Max van der Stoel (1990s) | Ruud Lubbers (president) | Hans van den Broek (president) | Ben Bot (president) | Gen. Marcel Urlings | Rob de Wijk (director Security and Conflict Program) | Ida Haisma (director of Training & Development; TNO) | Dr. Jan Rood (head of the Research Department 1997-2004, head of the European Studies Program 2005-2009, head of strategic research 2010-, chief editor Internationale Spectator, and editor Peace and Security / Vrede & Veiligheid) Governors Stichting Fonds Instituut Clingendael and its Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP): Willem O. Russell. |
1983 |
| Stichting 40-45 (Stichting Dienstencentrum 1945-2000 from 1984-1987) Club for veterans of the Dutch resistance during WWII. Founders: Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Bernhard | Louis Einthoven | Cees van den Heuvel | Hans Teengs Gerritsen | Willem "Bib" van Lanschot (chair in the 1980s) | Sen. Erik Jurgens (chair) |
1984-1987 |
| International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) Prince Bernhard of Orange (trustee until his death). Jozias van Aartsen (chair). International advisory board: Ingrid Hagen | Jan Pronk |
1996 |
| Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW) Employers federation, representing virtually all large corporations and 80% of the smaller ones. Cees van Lede (VNO chair until 1991) | Jos van Kemenade | Bernard Wientjes (chair 2005-2014) | Hans de Boer (chair 2014-) |
1996 |
| Adviesraad voor International Vraagstukken (AIV) / Advisory Council on International Affairs (ACIA) Dr. Jan Rood (member Commission on European Integration) |
1997 |
| War Trauma Foundation / Stichting War Trauma Committee of recommendation: Ruud Lubbers | Morris Tabaksblat | Alexander Rinnooy Kan | Herman Wijffels | Bernard Wientjes |
1997 |
| Het Genootschap de Nalatenschap van Hendrik VIII Jan. 1, 2014 meeting (meets once a month - little info): Leo van der Kant (chairman) | Hans van den Broek | Elco Brinkman | Gerd Leers | Hans Hillen | Jan Kamminga | John-Patrick Broekhuijsen (director Van Lanschot Bankiers 1998-2008; head BNP Paribas netherlands 2008-2011; executive director Bank J. Safra Sarasin Ltd. of the Edmond Safra family 2011-) | Pierre Cnoops |
1999 |
| Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) Klaas Groenveld (chair) | Jos van Kemenade (president) | Ben Bot (chair) | Bert Koenders | Sharon Dijksma | Zoltan Szabo (Hungarian minister of Defense) | Jan van Laarhoven | Ingrid van Engelshoven | Wim Derksen | Uri Rosenthal |
2000 |
| Commissie van Toezicht Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten (CTIVD) / Commission of Oversight Intelligence and Security Services Bert van Delden (chair) |
2003 |
| Den Haag Centrum voor Strategische Studies / The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) Grew out of a joint TNO-Clingendael project. Independent since 2007. Rob de Wijk (founder; member Senior Steering Group van het NATO Special Forces Headquarters, also founded in 2007; columnist Trouw) | Michel Rademaker (deputy director; program manager TNO) | Erik Frinking (RAND) | Jaakko Kooroshy (Chatham House) | Roel Janssen (senior advisor; NRC editor and Rep. Soc.) |
2003 |
| The Hague Process Board: HRH Prince Constantijn of Orange (chair) | Jozias van Aartsen (Secretary) Club of The Hague: Jacques Delors | Jan Pronk | HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Erik Brenninkmeijer | Joris Demmink | Ernst Hirsch Ballin | Ruud Lubbers | Herman Wijffels | Peter Sutherland | Shimon Shamir |
2003 |
| Bouwend Nederland / Building Netherlands Elco Brinkman (chair 1995-2013, including predecessor) | Maxime Verhagen |
2004 |
| Netherlands Afghanistan Business Council (NABC) Ehsan Turabaz (founder and president) | Jan Wicher van Heerde (chair; enjoys running companies without websites) | Arno van Dijken (director; ING and Commerzbank) |
2006 |
| Round Table of the Worldconnectors Initial board: Ruud Lubbers (founding chair 2006-2009) | Paul Rosenmoller (leader Red Dawn strike group and leader GreenLeft) | Ad Melkert (leader Labor Party) | Peter Bakker (TNT) | Roel Janssen (editor NRC) | Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven (Labor Party/Red Women veteran) | Herman Wijffels (co-chair anno 2014) | Sylvia Borren (Oxfam). Later: Alexander Rinnooy Kan (co-chair since 2013). |
2006 |
| Kofi Annan Business School Foundation Prof. Hans van Ginkel (chair). Honorary patrons: Ben Bot, Viscount Etienne Davignon, and Baron Paul de Keersmaeker. Honorary advisor: Rio Praaning |
2007 |
| Denktank Nationale Veiligheid / National Security Think Tank Tightly linked to the HCSS. Rob de Wijk (chair since 2008) | Jaakko Kooroshy |
2008 (+/-) |
| The Rights Forum (pro-Palestinian) See details further down. |
2009 |
| The Hague Security Delta (HSD) Rob de Wijk (general manager of the HSD Foundation) | Twynstra Gudde (co-founder) | Jozias van Aartsen (chair; BB) | Henk Geveke (TNO Defence, Safety & Security) | Ab van der Touw (chair Siemens NL; TNO) | John van Vianen (director KPN) | Richard Franken (Hoffmann Corporate Detectives, Commercial Director Trigion) |
2010 |
| The Hague Institute for Global Justice Madeleine Albright (founding chair) | Lord Chris Patten | Jozias van Aartsen (co-founder) | Igor Ivanov |
2011 |
| Dutch Centre, London Princess Irene of the Netherlands (patron) | Ms Laetitia van den Assum (ambassador to London) | Robert Brooke (Chair Anglo-Netherlands Society) | Antony Burgmans (Unilever/BP) | Jonkheer G.E. Loudon | Geraldine Mitchell – barones van Heemstra | Jeroen van der Veer (Shell) | other aristocratic names. |
2013 |
Two peculiar opposition groups to the Dutch Bilderberg establishment:
| Republikeins Genootschap / Republican Society Founders: Ben Knapen (BB 1991) | Pieter Korteweg (BB steering committee) | Roelof J. Nelissen (BB 1979) | Martin van Amerongen | Ad Dunning | Han Kleiterp | Lense Koopmans | Sjeng Kremers | Henny de Ruiter | Albert Schuitemaker (commissioner Elsevier 1979-1997) | Loek van Vollenhoven (commissioner Elsevier since 1982; also Heineken) | Pierre Vinken | Frits Visser | Guus Zoutendijk (OBE; Order of Oranje-Nassau; Order of the Dutch Lion) ) Members: Hedy d'Ancona (the Rights Forum) | Pim Fortuyn (neocon party; assassinated) | Theo van Gogh (friend of Fortuyn; also assassinated) | Femke Halsema (Green Left party leader) | Harry van Bommel (Socialist Party; only BB critic in congress) | Tomas Ross (neocon; associate of van Gogh; disinformer on Fortuyn case) | Gerard Aalders (anti-BB author) | Hans Blom (boss of Aalders) | Rene Zwaap (anti-BB author) | Willem Oltmans (once invited a former Lee Harvey Oswald handler) | Pamela Hemelrijk (anti-establishment author) | Jan Mulder (famous tv personality; columnist Volkskrant 1996-2006) | Frits Barend (famous tv personality) | Youp van ´t Hek (famous comedian) | Hans Teeuwen (famous comedian) | Jort Kelder (famous journalist and 13 year chief editor of Quote, the Dutch version of Forbes) | Roel Janssen (NRC editor, author and national security expert) | Eberhard van der Laan (labor party leader; director NPO and De Groene Amsterdammer) | Martijn Lindt (co-founder anarchist and anti-monarchist Provo movement in 1965 with Roel van Duijn; turned psychology professor) | Anthony Mertens (De Groene Amsterdammer) | Adriaan Morriën (Nederlandse Leeuw) | Nelleke Noordervliet (columnist Volkskrant, Trouw and Historisch Nieuwsblad) | Herman Philipse (arch-atheist who turned Ayan Hirsi Ali from Muslim to Atheist) | Leo Platvoet (cooperated with the Radicals and Communists in the late 1980s; co-founder Groenlinks and senator 1999-2007; Oxfam Novib) | (communist; professor East Europe Institute, Amsterdam University) | Tom Rooduijn (editor NRC) | Ite Rumke (editor NRC; worked with Rita Kohnstamm, whose husband was Dolph Kohnstamm, a cousin of top TC and BB member Max Kohnstamm) | Hendrik Jan Schoo (MA in education and child development, Erikson Institute, part of the Jesuit Loyola University, Chcago; chief editor magazine Psychologie; chief editor Elsevier 1990s; child with Xandra Schutte, chief editor of De Groene Amsterdammer) | Fred van der Spek (major socialist leader 1960s-1980s) | André Spoor (chief editor NRC 1970-1983 and of Elsevier 1986-1988; bypass operation in 1987; NRC correspondent in Austria 1987-1996 on the advise of Ben Knapen) | Kees Tamboer (columnist Het Parool) | Bart Tromp (columnst Het Parool and Elsevier) | Jan van Walsem (minor D66 politician) | Wout Woltz (editor Algemeen Handelsblad in the 1970s; editor NRC 1983-1990) | Nanda van der Zee (historian; married to anaesthetist Bob Smalhout, a friend of Pim Fortuyn) | Sytze van der Zee (foreign correspondent NRC; deputy chief editor Elsevier; chief editor Het Parool 1988-1996; brother Henri was a lifelong foreign correspondent of De Telegraaf and president van de Foreign Press Association) | Piet Akkermans (dean Erasmus University 1993-2001) | Lize Alink (publisher Wolters Kluwer 1993-1996; publisher of Vrij Nederland, Psychologie, and other magazines 1996-2000; chief editor Kluwer Nederland 2000-2007) | Garmt Stuiveling (chair Rep. Soc.;) Hans van den Bergh (chair Rep. Soc.; columnist for NRC, Het Parool, Vrij Nederland and Algemeen Dagblad) | Lily van den Bergh (cousin of Sidney and Hans van den Bergh; freelancer for Vrij Nederland and De Groene Amsterdammer; also active for VPRO and VARA) | Joep Bertrams [cartoonist working for Het Parool and NOVA] | Conny Braam [founder Anti-Apartheidsbeweging Nederland in 1971; wrote how Dutch corporations circumvented UN trade embargos on Rhodesia; met many ANC members] | Martin Bril [freelancer for Het Parool, Vrij Nederland, NRC Handelsblad, VPRO (radio) en De Morgen] | Remco Campert (columnist Volkskrant 1996-2006) | Paul Cliteur (atheist; anti-Islam; columnist Trouw) | Ton Crijnen [deputy chief editor HP/De Tijd magazine; editor for religion and philosophy Trouw 1991-2006; author 1976 book De Baader Meinhofgroep ad the 1999 Nieuwe moslims] | Maarten Doorman [editor Hollands Maandblad and KRISIS; writer NRC and Volkskrant] | Cisca Dresselhuys [journalist for Trouw; editor in chief feminist magazine Opzij 1981-2008] | Thomas von der Dunk [Labor Party member; columnist HP/De Tijd and Volkskrant] | Friso Endt [editor Het Parool 1945-1972; met JFK at the White House; 2 m from Oswald when he was shot by Jack Ruby; freelancer Newsweek, Time/Life, Daily Mirror and NRC after that] | Emile Fallaux (New York-based program creator for VARA and VPRO TV network 1982-1990; editor in chief Vrij Nederland 2005-2008) | Paul Frentrop (journalist Financieel Dagblad and NRC; secretary Pierson, Heldring & Pierson; wrote a bio of Reed Elsevier chairman and Rep. Soc. founder Pierre Vinken] | Ineke van Gent [congresswoman Groenlinks 1998-2012] | Anneke Goudsmit [congresswoman D66 1967-1974; pro-emancipaton and abortus activist] | Andre Haakmat [anti Desi Bouterse Surinam politician] | Jaap van Heerden [professor of psychology and close associate of Theo van Gogh] | Theodor Holman [journalist Propria Cures, de Volkskrant en Nieuwe Revu; anno 2005 a daily columnist for Het Parool and De Groene Amsterdammer] | Antoon van Hooff [director Burgers' Zoo, Arnhem, followed up by his son] | Britta Bohler [attorney for Fortuyn murderer Volkert van der Graaf and the terrorist Hofstad Group who murdered Theo van Gogh] |
1996 |
| Het Grote Complot: De Wereld Verklaard' ('The Grand Plot: The World Explained'), Dutch televison program broadcasted on Nederland 3 in January 2004. Interviewed: Micha Kat (major conspiracy activist and disinformer) | Ben Knapen (BB 1991; Republican Society), Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven | Dries van Agt | Bram Peper | Hans van den Broek (BB; major NGO elitists; daughter married a grandson of Prince Bernhard) | Jean Pierre van Rossum (questionable entrepeneur) | Oscar Hammerstein (questionable lawyer) and a group of professors. |
2004 |
| Klokkenluidersonline.nl (.net and .is) Foundation Campaigns against Joris Demmink. Jan Poot (financier, secret for the first 10 years) | Micha Kat (chair foundation; site operator) | Pamela Hemelrijk (secretary/treasurer of the foundation until her death in 2009) |
2003 |
| Bakker Schut Foundation / Bakker Schut Stichting Campaigns against Joris Demmink. Pieter Bakker Schut (died in 2007, but already involved in the Joris Demmink affair) | Adele van der Plas (wife of Bakker Schut) | Klaas Langendoen (chief suspect IRT affair) |
2010 |
| The Rusty Nail Foundation / Stichting De Roestige Spijker Campaigns against Joris Demmink. Adele van der Plas (inspiration to Robert R.) | Jan Poot (inspiration to Robert R. and financier) | Robert Rubinstein (founder and financier - close to Jack Abramoff, certainly in '12-'13) | Ben Ottens (secretary) |
2012 |
| American Society in London | 1895 |
| Oxford: Rhodes Trust scholarships (Rhodes scholars) Lord Nathaniel Rothschild | Cecil Rhodes | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (trustee 1997-2010) | Frank Barnett | Dean Rusk | James Woolsey | Walter Slocombe | Robert Roosa | Brademas | Harold Anderson (Buffett friend) | Hedley Donovan | Malcolm Forbes, Sr. | Philip Kaiser | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Gen. Peter Dawkins | W. Scott Thompson | Sen. David Boren | Richard Dolan | Charles J. Hitch | Joseph Nye | William Y. Elliott | Prof. Robert J. O'Neill (scholar & trustee 1995-2001) | Walt Whitman Rostow | Strobe Talbott | Bob Peck | Adm. Bill Owens | Gen. David Fadok | Richard Gardner | Nicholas Kristof (trustee) | Dr. George H. Estabrooks |
1902 |
| Pilgrims Society Almost the entire Morgan family over three decades | Andrew Carnegie | Cornelius Vanderbilt III | John D. Rockefeller | Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller | Sir Harry Brittain (co-founder and chair) | Sir David Barran | S. Dillon Ripley II | Marshall Field | Cleveland H. Dodge | Cleveland E. Dodge | 1st Baron Iliffe | Joseph Choate | Ogden R. Reid | Sir Philip Sassoon | Percy Pyne II | Morris Jesup | William Taft (visitor) | Robert Bliss | Gen, Joseph Wheeler | William Hewitt | Charles Adams IV | Daniel Gilman | Dulles brothers | William Paley | William Rehnquist (guest) | Paul Peabody and many other peabodies | Raymond Fosdick | Foster Stearns | Nicholas Butler | Frank Pace, Jr. | H. J. Heinz II | Langbourne Williams | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | Warren Burgess | Henry Davison | John Cadwalader | Thomas Lamont | John W. Davis (president) | William Alton Jones | Henry Cabot Lodge | Caryl Haskins | Gabriel Hauge | Walter Bedell Smith | David McAlpin | John McCloy | Roy Larsen | Dean Acheson | Grayson Kirk | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (exec.) | Eisenhower | Shultz | Weinberger | Brzezinski | Kissinger | Haig | William Simon | Volcker | Robert Roosa | Whitehead | Peter Peterson | Vance | Rusk | Robert Knight | Detlev Bronk | Macomber | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Debs | David Sarnoff | Arthur Sulzberger | George Franklin, Jr. | George Ball | Allen Sproul | George F. Baker, Sr., Jr. and III | Arthur Balfour | William Osborn | Elmo Roper | Philip Singleton | Philip Reed | Amory Houghton, Sr. and Jr. | John Beckwith Madden | Lord Nathaniel Rothschild | Anthony G. de Rothschild | James A. de Rothschild | Edmund de Rothschild | Warburg and Schiff families | Cecils | Sir Anthony Fisher | Sir John, Tony and Henry Keswick | Robert Blum | Lord Weidenfeld | 1st Viscount Monckton | Lord Harold Caccia | Sir Evelyn Baring | Lord Peter Inge | Henry Luce and Henry L. III | Sir Antony Acland | Lord 1st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | John French III | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | Sir Michael Palliser | Sir Anthony Cleaver | Edward Streator | Richard Boucher | Sandra Day O'Connor | Richard Patterson, Jr. | Alfred Sloan, Jr. | Maurice T. Moore | John Drexel III and IV | Harry Kern | Arthur Burns | John T. Connor | Walter Page II | Norris Darrell, Jr. | Taggart Whipple | Walter Gifford | Henry Schacht | Myron Taylor | George Clinton Textor | Lawrence Clarkson | Owen Young | Felix Rohatyn | Edmund Hawley | Winthrop Aldrich | Lord Arthur Salter | John Olin | Charles Horn | David H. Morris, Jr. | Lindsay Bradford | Edward Harkness (Standard Oil) | Dwight Morrow | Thomas Coolidge | James Evans | Lord Howe (exec.) | Lord Cobbold | Adm. William Crowe | William A. M. Burden | C. Douglas Dillon | Charles Tillinghast | Clarke Gilmore | Henry Catto | Russell Leffingwell | John Hay Whitney | John Train | Sir Frederic Bennett | James Day Hodgson | James Gerard | Frank Polk | Barry Bingham | Bishop James de Wolf Perry | Carrington | Lord Roll | Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly | Grierson | Sutherland (dinner) | Haass (speaker) | Woolsey (speaker) | Rees-Mogg (speaker) | Gen. David Petraeus (invited to UK luncheon before becoming USCENTCOM commander) | Rifkind | Brademas | Seitz | Philip Lader | John W. Hanes, Sr. | Patrick Gross | William vanden Heuvel | Viscount De L'Isle | Helms (older brother and uncle of Richard) Thomas Watson, Sr. and Jr. | Arthur Watson | George von Mallinckrodt | Charles Adams IV | Sir David Ormsby-Gore | Viscount Harcourt | Sir David Nicolson | Sir Peter Tennant | Lord Alan Watson | Lord Brian Griffiths | John Gardner | Frank Altschul | Alger Hiss | Malcolm Muir | Lawrence Gillespie | William Payne | Frederick Kingsbury | Howard McCall | Charles Fogarty | Malcolm Forbes, Sr. | Christopher Forbes | Norman Cousins |
1902 |
| English Speaking Union (ESU) Sir Evelyn Wrench (founder) | Lord Arthur Balfour (founding president) | John W. Davis (president 1921-1938) | Henry Fisher (U.S. chair 1936-1947) | Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (chair U.S. national board) |
1918 |
| Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies Set up after Hitler threatened UK and cooperation was impossible due to FDR and public opinion in England. Nicholas Butler (Morgan) | Thomas Lamont (Morgan) | John W. Davis (Morgan and Rockefeller) | James Gerard | Frank Polk (Vanderbilt) | Bishop James de Wolf Perry |
1940 |
| Ditchley Foundation U.K. members: 1st Baron Sherfield (Makins; first chair) | Lord Carrington | Sir John Keswick | Lord Harold Caccia | Sir Evelyn Baring | John Major | Sir Antony Acland | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (chaired a 2004 panel discussion) | Sir Malcolm Rifkind | Lord Tugendhat | Sir Christopher Hogg | Sir Peter Mandelson | Sir Michael Palliser | Edward Streator | Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne | Robert Worcester | Pauline Neville-Jones | Andrew Knight. Also named: Etienne Davignon (reported governor around 2000). Ernst van der Beugel (since 1978) U.S. members: Malcolm Muir (chair) | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | George Franklin, Jr. | Philip Reed | Brademas (U.S. chairman) | Nicholas Burns (vice chair) | William Farish | Philip Kaiser | Vance | Volcker | Lewis Branscomb | Robert Hormats | Kampelman | Scowcroft | Sonnenfeldt | Seitz | Weinberger | Strobe Talbott (chair) | Jami Miscik (vice chair) | Jack Straw | Sen. John Warner | Joseph Califano, Jr. | Richard Gardner | Philip Lader | Pickering | Robert J. O'Neill (australia) | Rita Hauser | Elspeth Rostow | Klutznick (1980s). Participated in one or more conferences: Fiona Hill | Stephen Kaplan |
1958 |
| International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Francois Duchene (director 1969-1974) | Caryl Haskins | Sonnenfeldt | Kissinger | Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Philip Odeen | Haass | Ikle | Joseph Johnson | Guthrie | Chalfont | Patrick Gross | Sir Robert Wade-Gery | Pauline Neville-Jones | Zakheim | Bremer | Robert J. O'Neill (exec. director 1982-1987, chair 1997-2001) | Turki al Faisal (participated/speech) | Lord Makins | Rita Hauser | Pickering | William Schneider, Jr. (member) | Peter Ackerman | Zuckerman | Mikhail Kasyanov (presentation in 2006) | Dr. Jacquelyn Davis | Hubertus Hoffmann (member) | Ashton Carter (member) | Richard Burt (rose to chair US committee) | Ronald Lehman (member) | Robert Gallucci (fellowship) | Dr. John Chipman (director general and CEO) | James Steinberg (senior fellowship 1985-1987) | Lord Charles Powell (trustee) | Frank Barnett | Leslie Gelb |
1958 |
| Atlantic Council Warren Burgess | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | Malcolm Muir | George Franklin, Jr. | David Packard (vice chair 1972-1980) | Adolph Schmidt (Mellon) | Roosa | Haig | William Simon | McNamara | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Woolsey | Kissinger | Shultz | Scowcroft (chair) | Eagleburger | Chuck Hagel (chair) | Albright | Holbrooke | George Tenet | Zbigniew and Ian Brzezinski | Lawrence Summers | Warren Christopher | McNamara | Lynn de Rothschild | James Baker III | William Draper III | C. Boyden Gray | William Nitze | Paul Kaminski | Mansoor Ijaz | Donald Kerr | Henry Catto (chair 1999-2007) | Macomber | 2st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | Lord George Robertson | Rozanne Ridgway (president) | Rupert Murdoch | Kampelman | Patrick Gross | Inman | Jacob Wallenberg | Colin Powell | James L. Jones (chair) | Franklin Miller | Tom Killefer | Sonnenfeldt | Klutznick (1970s-1980s) | Abshire | Philip Lader | Armitage | Paula Dobriansky | Hayden | Philip Odeen | Pickering | Taft IV | John Whitehead | Zakheim | Carlucci | Robert Gates | Sean O'Keefe | William Perry | Gen. Russell Dougherty | Condoleezza Rice | Eric Melby | Judith A. Miller | James Schlesinger | William Webster | Chas Freeman | Alan Lee Williams | Sergei Rogov | Rita Hauser | Talbott (speech 1997) | Stapleton Roy (panel/discussion member) | Aznar | Wolfgang Ischinger | William A. M. Burden | Wesley Clark | Gen. James Cartwright (member) | Ronald Lehman | Stephen Schwarzman | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Damon Wilson | Rob de Wijk (Strategic Advisors Group) | Susan Rice |
1961 |
| British-North American Committee (BNAC) U.K. members: Sir Anthony Cleaver | Sir Anthony Cleaver | George Mallinckrodt | Members: Niall Fitzgerald | Sir Richard Sykes. U.S. members: Richard Burt | Henry Catto | Gen. Wesley Clark | Boyden Gray | James Schlesinger |
1969 |
| Trades Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding | 1976 |
| British-American Project Carrington | Lord George Robertson | Brademas | Diana Villiers Negroponte | Jonathan Powell (brother of Lord Charles Powell) |
1985 |
| Train Foundation (formerly the Northcote Parkinson Fund) John Train (founder and chair) | Edward Straetor (president) | Midge Decter (founding treasurer) |
1987 |
| British American Security Information Council (BASIC) Advisors: Thomas Pickering (financiers Carnegie and Ford Fdns and Rockefeller Family Associates). |
1987 |
| Transatlantic Business Dialogue Niall Fitzgerald (EU chair 2004-2005). Few or no top 100/200 names. |
1995 |
| Australian Institute of International Affairs Robert J. O'Neill (fellow 2008; also active in England) |
1933 |
| American-Australian Association Officers: Sir Keith Murdoch (founder; father of Rupert M.) | Russell Leffingwell (co-founder) | Juan Trippe (co-founder) | Rupert Murdoch | Frank Lowy | Wolfensohn | Maurice Greenberg | David Rockefeller | William Simon | Riley Bechtel. |
1948 |
| Reserve Bank of Australia State-owned, in contrast to the U.S. Federal Reserve. Frank Lowy (director 1994-2005). |
1960 |
| Australian Strategic Policy Institute Robert J. O'Neill (founding chair; also active in England) |
2001 |
| Lowy Institute for International Policy (LIIP) Frank Lowy (founder chair; co-owner WTC on 9/11) | Ambassador Chan Heng Chee | Robert Ferguson | David Gonski | Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston | Martin Indyk (founding member) | David Lowy | Peter Lowy | Steven Lowy | Ian Macfarlane | Mark Ryan | Judith Sloan | James Spigelman | Michael Thawley (Australia's ambassador to the U.S. 2000-2005). International advisory council: Rita Hauser | Rupert Murdoch | James Wolfensohn | Sir Lawrence Freedman | Francois Heisbourg | Prof. Lord Robert May (director UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory). Founding director: Professor Robert J. O'Neill. Family members all active for Westfield Holdings Limited. In 2001 Lowy leased the WTC with Larry Silverstein. |
2003 |
| Industrieclub (basically national) | 1912 |
| Ruhrlade Fritz Thyssen | Albert Vogler | Ernst Poensgen | Gustav Krupp | Frederick Springorum | Fritz Winkhaus of Hoechst AG | Martin Blank |
1928-1939 |
| Atlantik-Brucke Max Warburg (founder) | McCloy (co-founder) | Kissinger | Nelson Rockefeller | Walter L. Kiep (chair 1984-2000, honorary chair since 2004) | George H. W. Bush | Gen. James L. Jones | Richard von Weizsacker | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | Hubertus Hoffmann (scholar) |
1952 |
| American Council on Germany (Atlantik-Brücke's sister organization) Volcker (director since 1975, chairman) | McCloy | Debs | Kissinger | Holbrooke | Brzezinski | Cheney | George C. McGhee | Robert Ellsworth | Walter Slocombe | Hagel | McCloy II | Scowcroft | Marie Warburg | Zoellick | Gen. Lucius Clay | John Diebold (vice chair) | Richard Burt (vice chair) | Christopher Emmet (founder and director) | Alan Greenspan (speaker) | Gen. John Galvin | James Cicconi | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg |
1952 |
| American-German Young Leaders Conference (AB-ACG project) Once every two years until 1988. After that biennial. For 50 people of the ages between 28 and 38. Founders: John Diebold and Christopher Emmet. |
1959 |
| Munich Security Conference (MSC) ISGP analysis of participant lists from 1999 to 2013. Founder: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist (longest surviving member of the group that tried to assassinate Hitler). U.S. visitors: William Cohen (heads the US delegation since 1985) | William Clark (1999) | Gen. Montgomery Meigs (annual visitor until 2002) | Gen. Wesley Clark (annual until 2003) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt (annual until 2006) | Walter Slocombe (regular since the 1990s) | Brent Scowcroft (virtually annual until 2009) | Bruce Jackson of Lockheed (virtually annualy since the 1990s) | Robert W. Helm of Northrop Grumman (annual since 1990s) | John Kornblum (occasional visitor since the 1990s) | Zoellick (regular since the 1990s) | Paula Dobriansky (2000) | Porter Goss (2000) | Sen. John Warner | Gen. James L. Jones (regular since at least 2000) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (2000, 2004) and his son Ian (2002, 2003, 2004) | Henry Kissinger (2001, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 50th anniversary panel) | Richard Perle (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2013) | Wolfowitz (1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2013) | Rumsfeld (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006) | Robert Pfaltzgraff (2001-2002) | Bolton (2002) | William Kristol (2002) | Strobe Talbott (2002, 2009, 2010) | David Ignatius (occasional visitor since 2002) | William Safire (2003-2004) | Niall Ferguson (2007) | Jamie McIntyre (2002-2007) | Andrew Krepinevich (2002, 2003, 2005, 2008) | James Steinberg (2002, 2003, 2006, 2010) | Jim Kolbe (2004) | Zakheim (2013) | Chuck Hagel (2000-2005, except for 2003) | Eliot Cohen (occasionaly visitor since at least 2000) | Robert Kagan (2002, 2008) and his brother-in-law Frederick (2007, 2010) | Jon Huntsman, Jr (2007) | James Woolsey (regular since at least 2003) | Sandy Berger (2003, 2005, 2006, 2009) | Adm. Giambastiani (2004-2005) | John Lehman (2006, 2009, 2010) | David Petraeus (2009) | Madeleine Albright (2010) | Eric Edelman (2010) | Sen. George Mitchell (2011) | Randy Scheunemann (virtually annual since 2001) | Richard Burt (regular since the 1990s) | Evan Galbraith (regular 2002 until his death in 2008) | Frank Wisner II (2011, 2013) | Shultz (2010) | Col. John Nagl (2010) | Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (2010) | George Soros (2011-2012; June 16-17, 2015 "core group" meeting) | Pickering (2006) | William Perry (2009, 2010) | Jeane Kirkpatrick (2004) | Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin (2004) | Sam Nunn (2010, 2011, 2012) | Joseph Nye (2012) | Lynn Forester and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (2013) | Hillary Clinton, secretary of state 2009-2013 (2005, 2011, 2012) | John Kerry (2012) | Holbrooke (annual from 2003 until his death in 2010) | Sen. John McCain III (regular since at least 2001) | Sen. Jon Kyl (regular since at least 2000) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (regular since at least 2000) | Sen. Lindsey Graham (regular since 2003) | Richard Haass (1999, 2010) | Ashton Carter (regular since 2001) | Stephen Hadley (regular since 2009) | Sean O'Keefe (2012) | Michael Chertoff (2013) | Leon Panetta (2012) | Robert Gates (2007, 2008) | James Thomson (2012) | Sen. Joe Biden (2000, 2009, 2013) | Richard A. Clarke (2013) | Michael Hayden (2012, 2013) | Jane Harman (regular since 2003) | Robert Blackwill (regular since the 1990s) | Fiona Hill (2013) | Ian Robertson of BMW and Rolls Royce (2013) | Nicholas Burns | Robert Hunter | Ralph Crosby, Jr. | Terry Graham (Lockheed) | William Swanson, Robin Beard, Daniel Burnham and Matthew Riddle (Raytheon). British visitors: Lord Guthrie (1999, 2000) | Lord Charles Powell (annual since 1990s) | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (2010, 2012, 2013) | Lord Inge (2003, 2004, 2006) | Lord George Robertson (2000-2001) | Sir Henry Grierson (2012) | Lord Weidenfeld (2012) | Malcolm Rifkind (2012, 2013) | Dr. John Chipman (regular) | Tony Blair (2011) | David Cameron (2011) | William Hague (2011) | John Weston (CEO British Aerospace/BAE) | David Miliband (2009) | Pauline Neville-Jones (2009, 2010) German visitors: Gerhard Schroder (1999, 2001) | Wolfgang Ischinger (regular visitor since the 1990s, later chair) | Joschka Fischer (regular since the 1990s) | Jose Joffe (regular since the 1990s) | Dr. Edmund Stoiber (annual since 2002) | Angela Merkel, PM since 2005 (regular since 2002) | Walter Kiep (2009) | Count Alexander Lambsdorff (2010, 2012, 2013) | Gabriela von Habsburg, a daughter of Otto (observer in 2013) | Hubertus Hoffman (2009, 2010, observer in 2013) | Karl Kaiser (2010) | Josef Ackermann, head of Deutsche Bank (2012) | Max M. Warburg (2012) | Helmut Schmidt (2014 50th anniversary panel) | Dr. Manfred Bischoff and Dr. Wolfgang Piller (DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG) | Dr. Horst Teltschik (BMW). Great many more Germans from the government, business and the military visited. Liechtenstein: Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein (June 16-17, 2015 "core group" meeting) French visitors: Francois Heisbourg (regular) | Thierry de Montbrial (regular) | Nicolas Sarkozy (2009) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing (2014 50th anniversary panel). Israeli visitors: Gen. Yaakov Amidror (2013) | Ehud Barak (2013) | Martin Indyk (2003, 2013) Arab visitors: King Abdullah II of Jordan (2004) | Prince Ali Bin al Hussein of Jordan 2004) | Prince Faisal bin al Hussein of Jordan (2012) | Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib, a leader of the Syrian opposition against Assad (2013) | Hamid Karzai (2009-2011) | Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan (2012) | Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the foreign minister of Pakistan (2009) | Sheikh Hamad Al Thani of Qatar (2013) | Prince Turki al Faisal of Saudi Arabia (2010, 2013; June 16-17, 2015 "core group" meeting) | Prince Turki bin Mohammed bin Saud Al-Kabeer of Saudi Arabia (2011, 2012, 2013) | Hikmet Sami Turk, minister of defense of Turkey. Former Soviet republics: Tedo Japaridze, a Georgian security chief (regular) | President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012) | Viktor Yushchenko, prime minister of Ukraine (2007) | Prince Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech ambassador (regular) | Gabriela von Habsburg (a daughter of Otto), ambassador of Georgia to Germany | Elmar Mammadyarov, foreign minister of Azerbaijan since 2004 (2008). Russian visitors: Igor Ivanov, Russia's foreign minister 1998-2004 and Security Ouncil seretary (regular visitor) | Sergei Ivanov, the Russian minister of defense 2001-2007, deputy prime minister and chief of staff after that (regular since 2001) | Oleg Deripaska (2007, 2013) | Putin (speech in 2007) | Sergei Prikhodko (2007) | Aleksey Ostrovskiy, Duma member of the party of Vladimir Zhirinovsky (2008) | Sergei Rogov (2009) | Anatoly Antonov ('13) | German Gref (2010, 2013) | Vyacheslav Trubnikov, former head of the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency (2011) | Eugene Kaspersky (2012) | Dmitri Trenin (2012). Other countries: Carl Bildt of Sweden (regular since 2008) | Zhijun Zhang, Chinese politician (2006, 2012) | Yesui Zhang, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. 2008-2010 (2007) | Masahiko Kōmura, Japanese foreign minister 1998-1999 and 2007-2008 (2008) | Ban Ki-moon (2011) | Hans Binnendijk (2011) | Hans van den Broek (1999) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (2004-2008) | Armand de Decker (2004) | Herman van Rompuy (2011). |
1962 |
| Carl Duisberg Society (CDS International since 1987) Partnered with Atlantik-Brücke and Robert Bosch Foundation, while also cooperating with the German Marshall Fund | Kissinger (speech in 1987) | Mohammed Atta (scholarship holder and tutor 1995-1997) |
1968 |
| Robert Bosch Foundation (controls 90% Robert Bosch GmbH shares) Hans Merkle | Kissinger (member international advisory board of Roberth Bosch GmbH 1980s-today) |
1969 |
| German Marshall Fund (GMF) David Rockefeller | C. Douglas Dillon | Robert Ellsworth | Gabriel Hauge | John McCloy | Willy Brandt | James Conant | 2st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | Suzanne Woolsey | Zoellick | Holbrooke | Rozanne Ridgway | Ronald Asmus, Jeffrey Bergner and Robert Kagan (Transatlantic fellows/associates) | Walther Kiep | Ian Lesser (executive director Transatlantic Center). 2011 conference: Davignon | Paula Dobriansky | Count Alexander Lambsdorff | David Ignatius | Bruce Jackson | Jim Kolbe | David Kramer | Pascal Lamy | Wilfried Martens | Randy Scheunemann | Robert Zoellick | Marc Grossman | Enders Wimbush (senior director for foreign policy and civil society) | Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer (transatlantic fellow and Paris bureau chief; daughter of Jaap) | Federica Mogherini (fellow) |
1972 |
| American Institute of Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) Chairmen's council: Helmut Sonnenfeldt. Trustees: Lawrence Clarkson (1997-1999) | Wolfgang Ischinger | Karl Otto Pohl | Jon Huntsman | John Kornblum | Michael Bloomberg | Robert Zoellick | James Baker III (long-time honorary trustee) | Ralph Crosby, Jr. |
1983 |
| Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management Founded by Kissinger, Hans Merkle (CEO Bosch Group) and Richard M. Cyert (president Carnegie Mellon). |
1990 |
| American Academy in Berlin (AAB) Holbrooke (primary founder) | Kissinger (co-founder and chairman) | David Rockefeller (personal donor $10,000-$50,000) | Richard von Weizsacker (co-founder and chairman) | Wolfgang Ischinger (trustee) | Niall Ferguson (trustee) | Josef Joffe (trustee) | Wolfgang Marchow (Robert Bosch) | Christopher von Oppenheim (trustee) | C. Boyden Gray (trustee) | Haass (distinguished visitor) | Zelikow (fellow). Major financiers: DaimlerChrysler AG, Allianz AG, General Motors-Adam Opel AG, Siemans AG, John W. Kluge Foundation, Robert Bosch Stiftung, etc. | Julie Finley |
1994 |
| Transatlantic Forum U.S. advisory board: Kenneth Dam | Richard Burt | Edward Djerejian | Richard Holbrooke | Henry Kissinger | Sen. Joseph Lieberman | John McCain III | Condoleeezza Rice. German advisory board: Hans D. Barbier | Roland Berger | Klaus von Klitzing | Hans-Ulrich Klose | Norbert Reithofer | Hermann Otto Solms | Lothar Späth | Dieter Stolte | Matthias Wissmann. |
1995 |
| Council on Public Policy (CPP), Bayreuth, Germany Trustees: Count Alexander Lambsdorff (founding chair 2001-2009) | Roman Herzog (chair since 2009) | Wolfgang Ischinger (since at least May 2004) | Lee Hamilton (since at least May 2004) | John Kornblum (until 2007; worked under Henry Kissinger; director Bayer AG, Thyssen-Krupp, chair Lazard Freres Germany). Directors: Michael Zoller (founder and chair) | Sebastian Biedenkopf (son of Kurt B.) |
2001 |
| Atlantic Initiative Count Alexander Lambsdorff (co-founder) | Jan Techau (co-founder; Carnegie Europe) | Walter Kiep | Lord Wallace | Mark Brzezinski |
2004 |
| German-American Hall of Fame, New York Trustees: Siegfried & Roy | Louis Freeh | Donald Trump | Wolfgang Ischinger | Frederick W. Hoffman (Chrysler). Inducted: Walter Cronkite (2007) | John Kluge (2007) | Walter Chrysler (2007) |
2004 |
| Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Bertrand Russell | Paul M. Doty | McNamara | Kissinger | Alexander Nikitin | Sergei Oznobishchev | Georgy Arbatov (since 1969) | Primakov |
1957 |
| Dartmouth Conferences Americans: Norman Cousins (1960) | Paul M. Doty (1961-1992) | Walt Rostow (1960-1988) | David Rockefeller (1962-1988) | Harold H. Saunders (1981-2010; Kiss. protege from 1973 to 1981) | George Kennan (1960) | Gabriel Hauge (1961) | Robert R. Bowie (CIA; 1961) | John Brademas (1972) | William Ruckelshaus (1972) | Brzezinski (1972-1976) | Vernon Jordan (1977) | Hedley Donovan (1972-1979) | Milton Eisenhower (1971) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt (1972-1977) | Stephen Solarz (1979-1989) | Scowcroft (1981-1988) | Cyrus Vance 1985-1987) | Sam Nunn (1986) | Morton Abramowitz (1989) | Holbrooke (1989) | Albright (1989) | Mortimer Zuckerman (1988-1989) | Ted Warner (RAND; 1986-1992) | Philip Klutznick (1994) | Robert Kaiser (Washington Post; 2000-08). Russians: Oleg Bykov (1960-1989) | Mikhail Kotov (1964-1977) | Vladimir Gantman (1972-1984) | Yuri Fedorov (1972-1992) | Georgy Arbatov (1971-1992) | Alexei Arbatov (1972-1992) | Oleg Kharkhardin (1975-1992) | Aleksandr Kislov (1975-2000) | Andrei Kokoshin (1983-2000) | Viktor Kremenyuk (1984-2000) | Alexander Medvedev (1985) | Alexander Nikitin (1986-1992) | Andrey Kortunov (1986-2000) | Sergei Karaganov (1989-2000) | Yevgeny Primakov (1971-2008) | Sergei Rogov (1984-2000) | Gennady Chufrin (1988-2008) | Air Force Major-General Boris Surikov (1988) | Maj.-Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin (1992) | Victor (father) and Anton Surikov (1992) | Sergei Oznobishchev (1992) | Igor Chubais (2008; older brother of Anatoly) |
1960 |
| U.S.-USSR Trade and Economic Council David Rockefeller | George Shultz | Michael Forrestal | William Hewitt | David Packard (committee on science and technology 1975-1982) | Harold B. Scott | Primakov | Georgy Arbatov |
1973 |
| Task Force on International Conflict (TFIC) William Rogers | Harold H. Saunders | Yevgeny Primakov |
1980s-1990s |
| U.S.-Ukraine Foundation December 1, 2011, 20th anniversary celebration, Washington, D.C.: George H. W. Bush (honorary co-chair; video greeting) | Brent Scowcroft (speaker; accepted the award on behalf of George B.). Secretaries of State Host Committee: Hon. Madeleine Albright, Hon. James Baker, Hon. Colin Powell, Hon. Condoleezza Rice. Friends of Ukraine Host Committee: Anders Aslund, Ariel Cohen. |
1991 |
| European Action Council for Peace in the Balkans Mabel Wisse Smit (founder) | Margaret Thatcher | Simon Wiesenthal | Valery Giscard d'Estaing |
1994 |
| Committee on Eastern Europe and Russia in NATO (CEERN) William Colby | Teller | Ira Straus | Alan Lee Williams | Gen. Geliy Batenin | Mihajlo Mihajlov |
1992 |
| Russian-American Bankers Forum (RABF) David Rockefeller | Vance | Whitehead | Debs | Gerald Corrigan | John Opel |
1992 |
| International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) Aimed at Russia, Afghanistan and other CIS countries. Thomas Pickering (co-chair) | George Shultz (honorary co-chair) | Paul Volcker (honorary co-chair) |
1993 |
| U.S.-Russia Business Council Robert Strauss (chair) | Pickering (director) | Maurice Tempelsman (director) | John Watson (chair and CEO Chevron) | Frank Wisner II | William R. Rhodes. Has organized meetings with: Boris Berezovsky | Anatoly Chubais | Sergei Stepashin | Vladimir Potanin | Boris Nemtsov | Yuri Luzhkov | Gennadi Zyuganov | Gen. Alexander Lebed | Kasyanov | Putin | Igor Ivanov |
1993 |
| Russian-American Committee on Defense Industry Conversion Co-chairs: William Perry and Andrei Kokoshin |
1994-97 (+/-) |
| American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee (CUAC) Brzezinski | Kissinger | Carlucci | George Soros | Steve Forbes | Jimmy Carter (chair) |
1994 |
| Project Syndicate, Prague, Czech Republic Contributors: Brzezinski | Stiglitz | Haass | Nye | Karaganov | Wolfensohn | Anders Aslund | Ana de Palacio | Soros (also a financier) | Kofi Annan | Gorbachev | Jeffrey Sachs. |
1995 |
| American Friends of the Czech Republic (AFOCR) Directors: Thomas Dine | Michael Rokos. Advisory board (long term): Zbigniew Brzezinski | Henry Kissinger | Richard Lugar. Others on advisory board: Michael Novak | Craig Stapleton. Received awards: Maurice Greenberg | James Wolfensohn (as World bank chief). Albright (speech; Czech born) |
1995 |
| Congress of Chechen International Organizations (CCIO) Founders: Graham Fuller (CIA) and Ruslan Tsarni (uncle of the Boston bombers) |
1995 |
| E.U.-Russia Industrialists' Roundtable Anatoly Chubais (long-time co-chair since 2000) | Gerard Mestrallet |
1997 |
| U.S.-Russia Investment Symposium (US-RIS) Set up by Harvard's Belfer Center. Overseen today by IEA by the same people running this symposium. |
1997 |
| United States-Chechen Republic Alliance (USCRA) Alvi Tsarnaev (registered at his home; brother of the father of the 2013 Boston Bombers) | Lyoma Usmanov (manager; official Chechen ambassador to the U.S. under Aslan Maskhadov 1997-2005; brought to the U.S. by Zbigniew Brzezinski). Extra: Address: 8920 Walden Road, Silver Spring, Maryland 20901. Incredibly, next door neighbor of this address used to be a young John Walker Lindh, the American captured as a Taliban soldier during the Afghanistan invasion. It can be argued that the propagandist Homeland miniserie is loosely based on the John Walker Lindh affair. |
1999 |
| Balkan Action Committee (BAC) Abramowitz | Brzezinski | Carlucci | Paula Dobriansky | Philip Kaiser | Kampelman | Kirkpatrick | Perle | Eugene Rostow | Rumsfeld | Solarz | Sonnenfeldt | Taft IV | Elie Wiesel | Wolfowitz | Zumwalt |
1999 |
| American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus (ACPC - pro-Chechnya) Co-founders: Brzezinski, Alexander Haig, Kampelman. Others: John Dunlop (pre-2001) | Brademas | Richard V. Allen | Decter | Gaffney | Barbara Haig | Thomas Kean | Ledeen | William Kristol | McFarlane | Perle | Weinberger | Woolsey | Richard Pipes | Sonnenfeldt | Abramowitz | Dobriansky | Taft IV | Solarz (co-chair) | Robert Kagan | Bruce Jackson | Richard Burt | William Schneider | Elliott Abrams | Muravchik. |
2000 |
| Open Russia Foundation (ORF) Jacob Rothschild | Kissinger | Khodorkovsky | Mikhail Piotrovsky | Ilya Ponomarev (fellow) |
2001 |
| Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI) International advisory board: Madeleine Albright | Elie Wiesel | Dennis Blair | James Woolsey | Michael Novak | Robert Pfaltzgraff | H.R.H. Prince El Hassan bin Talal | Karel Schwarzenberg | Dorothy Stapleton (wife of Craig). Executive committee: Frank Gaffney | Dick D'Amato |
2002 |
| International Economic Alliance (IEA) (set up by Harvard's Belfer Center) Graham Allison | Thomas Pickering (co-chair) | Volcker (co-chair) | Tim Colton | William Perry | Maurice Greenberg (founding member) | Peter Peterson | James Baker III | Jack Kemp (co-founder) | Robert Mosbacher, Sr. (founding chair) | Robert Wussler (co-founder CNN) |
2003 |
| Alliance for a New Kosovo Officers: Samuel Hoskinson (founding president; JWI) | Kempton Jenkins (founding executive director; JWI). Founding board of advisors: Carlucci | Janusz Bugajski | Fred Fielding | Gen. Robert Gard | Behgjet Pacolli (primary founder New Kosovo Alliance party in May 2006, but at least liaised with the Alliance for a New Kosovo). Also: Helmut Sonnenfeldt (joined advisory board in 2006) Southeast Europe Economic Development Foundation, founded in 2006 (dissolved): Behgjet Pacolli (founder) | Samuel Hoskinson (founding president). |
2005 |
| Orange Circle (reference to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine) Founding dinner: Brzezinski (advisory board) | Carla Hills | Albright | Vitaly Klitschko | Viktor Yushchenko. Advisory board: Carl Bildt | Bruce Jackson |
2005 |
| International Centre for Democratic Transition (ICDT), Hungary International board: Madeleine Albright | Gustavo Cisneros | Paula Dobriansky | Gyorgy Habsburg | Andrei Illarionov | Thomas S. Rooney | HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal | George Herbert Walker III (cousin of Bush, Sr.) | John Whitehead | Governor George Pataki (honorary) | George Soros (honorary) |
2005 |
| Commission on U.S. Policy toward Russia (Belfer Center/CFTNI-sponsored) Members not on the boards of the two groups that sponsored this commission: Gary Hart (co-chair), Chuck Hagel (co-chair), Thomas Pickering, Robert McFarlane, Susan Eisenhower, Lee Hamilton, Dov Zakheim. |
2009 |
| International Advisory Group, Ukraine Sen. John McCain | Mikhail Saakashvili | Elmar Brok | Carl Bildt | Mikulas Dzurinda | Andrius Kubilius |
2015 |
| China Institute in America Trustees: Mary Rockefeller (first wife of Nelson) | H. Christopher Luce (son of Henry L. III) | John Thornton (also on the advisory committee) | Julie Eisenhower | Marie-Helene Weill. Henry Luce (speech in 1964). The Luce family, with its long history with China, has been a major financial patron of the institute. Also: Maurice Greenberg (speaker in 2013) |
1926 |
| United China Relief (UCR) Henry Luce (organizer) |
1940 |
| China-America Council of Commerce and Industry (CACCI) Thomas Watson (founding chair) | Richard Patterson, Sr. (founding president) |
1944 |
| American Council on Japan (ACJ) Harry Kern | James Lee Kaufmann | Joseph C. Grew. |
1948-1952 |
| National Committee for a Free Asia (today the Asia Foundation) Bechtel | Kaiser | Juan Trippe | Robert Knight | A. W. Clausen | Stapleton Roy | Michael Armacost | Maurice T. Moore | Caryl Haskins | Grayson Kirk | Jeffrey Bergner |
1951 |
| Japan Society John D. Rockefeller III (founder) | David Rockefeller (hon. chairman) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller (centennial speech) | Caryl Haskins | Cyrus Vance (chair 1985-1993) | Ruben Mettler | Thornton Bradshaw | Dianne Feinstein (co-chair Northern California branch). Life directors: Peter Peterson and Volcker | Greenberg | Debs | Brzezinski (speech) | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay) |
1952 |
| Asia Society Caryl Haskins | William Hewitt | Holbrooke | John Negroponte | Charles Rockefeller | Sen. Jay Rockefeller | Nicolas Rohatyn | Whitehead (honorary life trustee and chairman emeritus) | Maurice Greenberg (chairman emeritus) | Peter Peterson (financier/member) | Stephen Schwarzman (trustee) | John Thornton (trustee) | Michael Armacost (trustee) | Pickering (visitor)| Wisner II (visitor) | Cyrus Vance (visitor) | Nicholas Platt | William vanden Heuvel |
1956 |
| American Society for a Free Asia (CIA-funded to back Dalai Lamai) | 1956 |
| Korea Society Donald Gregg (chair 1993-2009; chair emeritus after that). Advisory board: George H. W. Bush | Haig. Director: Spencer Kim |
1957 |
| Japan-America Society Lawrence Clarkson (president 1993). Involved: Intel, Lockheed, CFR, Sasakawa Foundation. |
1957 |
| National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR) Robert O. Anderson | Kissinger | Greenberg | Carla Hills (chair) | Michael Armacost | McNamara | William Hewitt | James Schlesinger | Albright | Kean | Lee Hamilton | Gergen | Pickering | John Thornton | Martin Feldstein. Stapleton Roy | Sen. Chuck Robb. Speech: Zoellick. 2012 gala sponsors: honorary chairs: Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Honorary vice chairs: James Baker III | Michael Blumenthal | David Boren | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Winston Lord | John Negroponte | William Daley (vice chair) | William Perry (with member Ashton Carter co-chair of a delegation that negotiates between Taiwan and China) | Colin Powell | Brent Scowcroft | George Shultz. 2011 gala sponsors: honorary chairs: George H. W. Bush. Honorary vice chairs: Dianne Feinstein | Barbara Bush | John Kerry | Richard Lugar | Paul Volcker | John Whitehead. 2003 "contributors": Thomas M. O'Gara | David Rockefeller | Robert McNamara | William R. Rhodes. 2003 "sponsors": John Brademas | Bobby Ray Inman | Adm. David Jeremiah. 2007 dinner: Peter Peterson honored. 2007 "individual contributors": Louis Gerstner, Peter P., David R., Henry K., Maurice G., Chas Freeman, Richard Haass, Adm. David J., Bobby Ray I., Harold Saunders. |
1966 |
| Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC) Willy Wiguna (director general) |
1967 |
| Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN Regional Forum) Maurice Greenberg and William Cohen (co-chairs CSIS' US-ASEAN Strategy Commission, which presented findings at a related APEC conference) | Pak Ui Chun (North Korean foreign minister) | Condoleezza Rice (canceled in 2005 and 2007 which wasn't appreciated) | Hillary Clinton | John Kerry | Fumio Kishida (Japan's foreign minister) |
1967 |
| Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) (Singapore) George Soros (Conference speaker Jan. 2006) |
1971 |
| U.S.-Japan Business Council (USJBC) Maurice Greenberg | Joseph Gorman | Robert Galvin (vice chair) | James Robinson III | Walter Shipley |
1971 |
| California-Asia Business Council (CABC) (the former Southeast Asia Business Council) 1972 (SRI-ran): Julius Tahija | Nik A. Kamil | Roberto Villanueva | Cho Jock Kim | Sukum Navapan | Weldon Gibson. Later: Dan Chao (chair and chair emeritus; represents Bechtel) |
1971 |
| Williamsburg Conference John D. Rockefeller III (founder) | Cyrus Vance (since 1981) | Carla Hills (one of three co-convenors in the early 2000s) | Lynn Forester and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (went in 2004 as US and UK representatives). 1983 "pre-Williamsburg" team to set the tone of the meeting: Jack Kemp | Kissinger | Rohatyn | Donald Regan. |
1971 |
| U.S.-Taiwan Business Council William Cohen (chair) | Carlucci | Wolfowitz | Sen. Jay Rockefeller |
1976 |
| Canada-China Business Council Founders: Paul Desmarais, Sr. (founding chair, his son Andre is honorary chair) | Maurice Strong | Paul Lin. |
1978 |
| U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) Kissinger | David Rockefeller | Vance | Carla Hills | Joseph Gorman | Dan Chao |
1979 |
| U.S.-Japan Foundation (USJF) Kissinger | Duke | Carter | Foley | Ryochi Sasakawa | Gerald Curtis |
1980 |
| Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Originally known as the Asian Cultural Program, founded by John D. Rockefeller, III. Trustees: Steven Rockefeller | David Rockefeller, Jr. | Valerie Rockefeller Wayne. |
1980 |
| Pacific Economic Cooperation Council Lawrence Clarkson (U.S. chair 1993-2000) | Spencer Kim |
1980 |
| U.S.-Japan Advisory Committee Reagan (met with the group at the White House on June 22, 1983). Directors: David Packard (chair 1983-1985) | Albert Seligmann (executive director) | Nobuhiko Ushiba | Isamu Yamashita | Akio Morita |
Early-mid 1980s (+/-) |
| U.S.-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) Maurice and Evan Greenberg (chair emeritus and chair today). Known visitors of meetings: Kissinger, Shultz, Lee Kuan Yew. |
1984 |
| Hitachi Foundation Elliot Richardson (founder and chair until 1998) | Joseph Kasputys founding member and chair since 1998) | Patrick Gross (trustee since 2003) | David Packard (advisory council 1986-1996) |
1985 |
| Philippines-U.S. Business Council & U.S.-Philippine Business Committee Maurice Greenberg (founding chair UPBC) | President Corazon Aquino (co-founder) |
1987 |
| US–Korea Business Council (USBC) Maurice Greenberg (chairman 2002-) | William Rhodes (chair) |
1987 |
| America-China Society (ACS) Kissinger | Vance | McFarlane |
1987 |
| Tokyo Club Foundation for Global Studies (linked to G8 and G20) Kissinger | Volcker | Stiglitz | Fred Bergsten | Renato Ruggiero (WTO) | Karaganov |
1987 |
| Praemium Imperiale (Japan Art Association) David Rockefeller | S. Dillon Ripley II | Shunichi Suzuki |
1989 |
| National Bureau of Asian Research (NBAR) Gen. John M. Shalikashvili | Lee Hamilton | Sam Nunn | Zoellick | Pickering | Lawrence Clarkson (chair) | Enders Wimbush (executive director for strategy and development) |
1989 |
| Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Madeleine Albright | Colin Powell | Richard Boucher | Robert Zoellick | Fred Bergsten (chair Eminent Persons Group and Competitiveness Policy Council of APEC in the 1990s) | Andrey Kostin (chair 2011-2012) | George W. Bush (2006) |
1989 |
| Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA (SPF-USA) Ryochi Sasakawa (founder). Commission members of a partnership with CSIS (2013-1016): Richard Armitage | Joseph Nye | John Hamre. Awarded Paul Ehrlich of 'The Population Bomb' with its Environment Prize. |
1990 |
| China Institute for Reform and Development (CIRD) / China Reform Forum John Thornton | George Soros (financier and visiting fellow) |
1991 |
| China-Britain Business Council Founded as the China-Britain Trade Group with the 1991 merger of the 48 Group and the Sino-British Trade Council. Sir Michael Palliser (president). Anno 2015: Lord James Meyer Sassoon (chair; executive director Matheson & Co. Ltd.) |
1991 |
| Eurasia Foundation Trustee: Pickering | Fiona Hill. Advisory board: Albright | James Baker III | Bill Bradley | Carlucci | Tempelsman | Lee Hamilton | Michael Mandelbaum | Robert Strauss | Stiglitz. Also: Regina Yan (executive vice president and COO) |
1992 |
| Pacific Century Institute (PCI) Donald Gregg (chair) | Spencer Kim (founder) |
1992 |
| UK-Korea Forum for the Future Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (president 2007-2013) |
1993 |
| Singapore-British Business Council Lord Charles Powell (founding chair 1994-Nov. 2001) |
1994 |
| United States-Indonesia Society (USINDO) J. Stapleton Roy (trustee co-chair) | Paul M Cleveland (president; U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia and to New Zealand) | David Merrill (president; director USAID) | Roderick Hills | Paul Wolfowitz (co-chair) | Richard Owen (ExxonMobil Indonesia). Companies as BP and Freeport also represented. |
1994 |
| U.S. China Policy Foundation (USCPF) Maurice Greenberg (honorary chair) | Stapleton Roy | Chas Freeman (co-founder and co-chair) | Haig | Kissinger | Dianne Feinstein | Chuck Hagel |
1995 |
| E.U.-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation Davignon (founder and chair of its annual E.U.-Japan Business Dialogue Round Table 1999-2005) |
1996 |
| Asia House International advisory council, past and present: Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Lord Douglas Hurd | Lord David Howell | Lord Charles Powell | Sir Richard Needham | Lord Michael Heseltine | Sir Robert Wade-Gery | Sir Harold Walker | Lord Swraj Paul | Lord Colin Marshall | Nicholas Platt | Lee Kuan Yew | Lord Lamont | Lord Guthrie | Lord Leon Brittan. |
1996 |
| National Institute for South China Sea Studies (NISCSS) / until 2004 the Hainan Research Institute of South China Sea (HRISCS) Shichun Wu (advisory board) Set up the Institute for China-America Studies in Washington, D.C. in 2015: Hong Nong (executive director) | Shichun W. (advisory board) | Gordon Houlden (advisory board; China Inst., Canada). |
1996 |
| China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) Maurice Greenberg |
1997 |
| Washington-based state dinner in honor of Chinese president Jiang Zemin Many Chinese officials | Clinton | Al Gore | Albright | James Baker III | Sandy Berger | Joseph Biden | Frank Biondi | Tom Brokaw | William Cohen | Michael Eisner | Dianne Feinstein | Louis Gerstner | Katharine Graham | David Rockefeller | Maurice Greenberg | Alan Greenspan | Alexander Haig | Lee Hamilton | Jesse Helms | Steve Jobs | Lady Bird Johnson | Henry Kissinger | Winston Lord | Sen. Trent Lott | Sen. Richard Lugar | Gen. Barry McCaffrey | Thomas McLarty | Walter Mondale | Thomas Pickering | Dan Rather | Bill Richardson | Sen. Jay Rockefeller | Diane Sawyer | Brent Scowcroft | George Shultz | Steven Spielberg | Arthur Sulzberger Jr. | Strobe Talbott | James Wolfensohn | Mortimer Zuckerman |
Oct. 29, 1997 |
| Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers Craig Barrett (Intel) | Sir John Bond (Vodafone) | Andre Desmarais (Power Corp.) | Christopher Galvin (Motorola) | Maurice Greenberg (AIG) | Gerard Kleisterlee (Philips) | Gérard Mestrallet | Rob Routs (Shell) | Sir Peter Sutherland (BP) | Tasuku Takagaki (bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi) | Shoichiro Toyoda (Toyota) | Paul Volcker. |
1998-2004 |
| U.S.-China Education Trust Runs the Maurice Greenberg Scholarships | Thomas Pickering (advisory council) | Kissinger Institute (partner) Henry Luce Foundation |
1998 |
| E.U.-Japan Business Round Table Davignon |
1999 |
| World Knowledge Forum, South Korea Former speakers: Alan Greenspan | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Maurice Strong | John Howard (PM Australia) | James Wolfensohn | Frank-Jurgen Richter | Tony Blair | Yukio Hatoyama (Japan PM) | Richard Branson | Paul Krugman | Jeffrey Katzenberg | Niall Ferguson | Donald Trump | Gordon Brown | Lawrence Summers | Amy Chua | Jean-Louis Beffa | Thierry De Montbrial | Joschka Fischer | Wim Kok | Dominique Strauss-Kahn |
2000 |
| Boao Forum for Asia, China Bill Gates | George Soros | Christine Lagarde | Vincent Siew | Pascal Lamy | Hu Jintao |
2001 |
| Korea-United States Exchange Council (KORUSEC) Officers: Yong Hoo Lee | Soo Gil Park | Edward Stewart | Courtney Alexander Dodson | Henry Kissinger | Ed Feulner | Richard Walker | Otilie English |
2001 |
| E.U.-China Business Association (EUCBA) Lord Charles Powell of Bayswater (chair for the UK) | Lord James Sassoon (overall president) | Niall FitzGerald (member) |
pre-2002 |
| United States Asia Pacific Council (USAPC) Shultz (chair) | Morton Abramowitz | Fred Bergsten | Thomas Foley | Chas Freeman | Donald Gregg | Lee Hamilton | Carla Hills | Joseph Nye | Pickering | Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III | Spencer Kim |
2002 |
| Asia Security Conference / Shangri-La Dialogue, Singapore Set up by the IISS think tank. U.S.: Paul Wolfowitz | Sen. Jack Reed | Sen. Chuck Hagel | Jim Kolbe | Gen. Martin Dempsey (Joint Chiefs chair) | Donald Rumsfeld | Robert Gates | Ashton Carter | David Petraeus | Leon Panetta | James Steinberg (deputy secretary of state) | Sen. John McCain | Adm. Harry Harris (commander Pacific Command) | Adm. Timothy Keating (commander Pacific Command) | Christopher Chadwick (Boeing) | Patrick Dewar (Lockheed) | Melody Meyer (Chevron Asia) U.K.: Lord Powell | Michael Fallon (defense minister) Canada: Gen. Walter Natynczyk (chief of the Defence Staff) Australia: Kevin Rudd (prime minister) | Kevin Andrews (minister of defense) | Peter Varghese New Zealand: Gerry Brownlee (defense minister) | Mike Yardley (Air Force chief of staff) Singapore: Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam (president) | Lee Hsien Loong (prime minister) | Dr. Ng Eng Hen (defense minister) | K. Shunmagam (minister of foreign affairs) Malaysia: Gen. Tan Sri Zulkifeli Mohd Zin (chief of defense forces) China: Wang Guanzhong (deputy chief General Staff) | Shichun Wu | Admiral Sun Jianguo | Colonel Zhao Xiaozhuo (deputy director China-U.S. Defense Relations Research Center) Japan: Shinzo Abe (prime minister) | Gen. Nakatani (defense minister) | Mitoji Yabunaka Indonesia: Gen. Ryamizard Ryacudu (minister of defense) India: Rao Inderjit Singh (minister of defense) Russia: Anatoly Antonov (deputy defense minister) | Gen. Yevgeny Buzhinskiy Germany: Ursula von der Leyen (Defense minister) Also represented: Cambodia | Philippines | Papua New Guinea | |
2003 |
| China-E.U. Business Summit | 2003 |
| Kissinger Institute on China and the United States (board members kept hidden) Kiss. (founding U.S. chair) | Stapleton Roy (founding director/head) | Shultz | Greenberg | Carla Hills | David O'Reilly | Fu Chengyu (president China National Offshore Oil Corporation) | Wei Jiafu (CEO China Ocean Shipping) | Xu Lejiang (chair Baosteel Group) |
2008 |
| Sanya Initiative 2012 U.S. panel: Gen. James Cartwright (vice chair Joint Chiefs 2007-2011) | Gen. Kevin Chilton (retired STRATCOM commander) | Gen. Dave Deptula (former deputy chief of staff, U.S. Air Force) | Adm. William Fallon (former commander U.S. Central Command | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani (vice chair Joint Chiefs 2005-2007) | Adm. Bill Owens (vice chair Joint Chiefs 1994-1996). The Chinese first met with Henry Kissinger and Maurice Greenberg. Also involved in meeting Chinese officials in Washington: Sen. John McCain and Dick Gephardt. 2012 Chinese delegation: Gen. Li Qianyuan, former Commander of PLA Lanzhou Military Region Gen. Zhu Qi, former Commander of PLA Beijing Military Region Adm. Hu Yanlin, former Political Commissar of PLA Navy Gen. Zheng Shenxia, former President of the Academy of Military Sciences Lt. Gen. Wang Liangwang, former Deputy Commander of PLA Air Force Lt. Gen. Zhao Xijun, former Deputy Commander of the PLA Second Artillery Force |
2008 |
| Global Think Tank Summits (CCIEE), China Kissinger | Brzezinski (seems to be implied he visited or was at least consulted) | Lord John Prescott (British vice PM) | Li Keqiang (PM China) | Zeng Peiyan (chair; vice PM China) | Zhou Xiaochuan (governor People's Bank of China) | Huang Tianwen (chair China Steel) | Li Shaode (president China Shipping Company) | Nobuo Tanaka (director IEA) | Muhammad Yunus |
2009 |
| Middle East Institute (MEI), Washington, D.C. Kermit Roosevelt (CEO 1964-1966). Governors: Richard A. Clarke (chair) | Philip Wilcox | William Webster | Robert Pelletreau, Jr. | Richard Debs (donor) | Sen. Wyche Fowler (chair; ambassador to Saudi Arabia 1996-2001) |
1946 |
| America-Mideast Educational and Training Services (AMIDEAST) Sponsors: Saudi Aramco, Lockheed Martin, Occidental Petroleum. U.S. ambassador Theodore Kattouf (president) | Raymond Mabus (director) | John R. Hayes (chair 1990s) | Robert Pelletreau, Jr. (treasurer) | William A. Rugh (president 1990s) | Robert S. Dillon |
1951 |
| The Middle East Institute, Columbia University Rite Hauser (chair) | Leslie Gelb | Indyk | Robert Pelletreau, Jr. |
1954 |
| Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Harvard University Dr. Herbert Kelman (chair or co-chair of the Middle East Seminar since 1977) |
1954 |
| Iran-U.S. Business Council Kissinger | David Rockefeller | Volcker | Peter Peterson | Hushang Ansary |
1974 |
| U.S.-Saudi Joint Economic Commission | 1975 |
| Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), Georgetown University Advisory board: Prince Turki al Faisal (2003-) | Abdulrahman bin Saud Al-Thani | Huda Farouki | David D. Bosch (Aramco) | Alexander Ercklentz (BBH) | Raymond Mabus | Robert Pelletreau, Jr. | John M. Moore (Aramco) | Suad Juffali [widow Sheikh Admed J.] | Jafar Askari (Juffali & Brothers) | Samer Khoury (CCC) | Ibrahim Dabdoub (CEO National Bank of Kuwait 1983-) | Michael A. Callen (c. 2003-2005 |
1975 |
| Arab Thought Forum (ATF) Palestinian forum. Sasakawa Peace Foundation (among the financiers). Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (president) | Daoud Istanbuli (chair) | |
1977 |
| Institute for Middle East Peace and Development (IMEPD) Founders: Stephen P. Cohen, Vance, Shimon Peres, Moshe Dayan, Boutros Boutros Ghali. Directors: Armitage, Wisner II. |
1979 |
| Arab World Institute, France Dominique Baudis (president 2007-2009). Representatives: Sheik Faisal Al-Hegelan (Saudi ambassador to the U.S. 1979-1983) | Mohammed Ismail al-Sheikh (Saudi ambassador to France) | Shaikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa and Nasser al Belooshi (Bahrain) | Hatem Seif el Nasr (Egyptian ambassador to France 2002-2006 and since then to the UK) | Nawaf Jassim (Iraq, pre Gulf War II) and Mouafak Abboud. Maintains relations with: Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. |
1980 |
| Middle East Policy Council (MEPC) George McGovern (president 1991-1997) | Chas Freeman (president 1997-2009) | Carlucci (director 1990s-2008) | Najeeb Halaby (director 1990s-2004) | Graham Fuller (editorial advisory committee) |
1981 |
| Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) | 1982 |
| Arab Bankers Association of North America (ABANA) Ziad Abdelnour |
1983 |
| U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council Debs | Turki al Faisal (speech) |
1993 |
| U.S./Middle East Project, a CFR project Includes the CFR leadership and in general the elite of the elite. Paul V. | Zbig B. | Carla H. | Brent S. (chair) | Sen. Chuck H. | Sam N. | James Wo1fensohn | Sir Peter Suther1and | Richard D. | Thomas P. The international advisory board included: Hassan bin Talal | Hosni Mubarak | Robert Lifton (co-chair). |
1994 |
| American-Turkish Council (ATC) Scowcroft | Armitage | Carlucci | Berger | Taft IV | Mustafa Koc | Eli Whitney Debevoise II |
1994 |
| Central Asian-American Enterprise Fund (CAAEF) Solarz (chair) |
1994 |
| Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Leading organization supported by many elements of the U.S. government, but repeatedly and severely linked to jihadism and terrorism. Advisory board: Siraj Wahhaj (suspected terrorist). Financiers: Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz al Saud. Also: Tides Fdn. (financed its Interfaith Coalition Against Hate Crimes). |
1994 |
| U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce Kissinger | James Baker III and IV | Brzezinski | Scowcroft | Perle | Cheney | Armitage |
1995 |
| Qatar Foundation His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani (founder) | Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser (founder). Partner in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Director: Sir Charles Masefield (executive director BAE) | Vartan Gregorian |
1995 |
| Afghanistan-America Foundation (AAF) Brzezinski (co-chair) | Scowcroft (co-chair) |
1996 |
| American Iranian Council (AIC) Cyrus Vance (hon. chair) | Hooshang Amirahmadi (president) | Chas Freeman | Frank Wisner II | Thomas Pickering | Robert Pelletreau, Jr. | George Soros (known visitor) | Dennis Kucinich (visitor in June 2007) | Sen. Chuck Hagel (visitor in June 2007) | Nicholas Kristof (speaker in June 2007) |
1997 |
| Amman Center for Peace and Development (ACPD), Jordan Partnered with the West. Gen. Mansour Abu Rashid, former head of Jordanian intelligence (chair) | Dr. Muhammad Kheir Mustafa (director) |
1999 |
| National Iranian American Council (NIAC) Thomas Pickering (advisory council, only elitist). |
2002 |
| Afghanistan World Foundation (AWF) Sonia Nassery (official founder, chair and CEO). AWF Celebrity Ambassadors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Mohamed Ali | Tom Cruise | Shaquille O'Neil | Al Pacino. Senior board of advisors: Kissinger | Prince Albert of Monaco | Dianne Feinstein | Sen. John Kyl. Honorary chairs: Hamid Karzai (participant in meetings) | George H. W. Bush | Bill Clinton | Nancy Reagan (her husband knew Nassery from the 1980s). |
2002 |
| Foundation for the Future, Bahrain Founders: Condoleezza Rice, Liz Cheney and Shaha Riza (Wolfowitz's girlfriend and employee). Directors: Anwar Ibrahim (chair; Malaysia; close friend of Wolfowitz since the mid-1980s) | Rahma Bourqia (vice chair; Morocco) | Kamel Abu Jaber (treasurer; Jordan) | Laila al Hamad (Kuwait) | Bakhtiar Amin (Iraq) | Andreu Claret Serra (Spain) | Sandra Day O'Connor (U.S.; Halliburton) | Abdul Rahman al Rashed (Saudi Arabia) |
2005 |
| Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA) Trustee: Zbigniew Brzezinski | Mehriban Aliyeva (first lady of Azerbaijan) |
2006 |
| Iranian Freedom Institute (IFI) Richard Perle (co-founder and chair) | |
2006 |
| Arab Democracy Foundation (ADF) Trustees: H.H. Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Misnad (chair; Qatar) | Dr. Salim El Hoss (vice chair; Lebanon) | Dr. Ali Fakhro (Bahrain) | H.E. Imam Al Sadiq Al Mahdi (Sudan) | Dr. Azmi Bishara (Palestine) | Joschka Fischer. Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait, Mauritania, Yemen, England, Canada and Italy are also represented. |
2007 |
| Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) Founding trustees: Jacob Rothschild | Marie-Josee Kravis | H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani (daughter of the Emir of Qatar; powerful in art world) | H.E. Sheikh Hassan Bin Mohammed Al-Thani (another important art figure) | H.E. Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah (chair Qatar Petroleum; deputy PM Qatar) | H.E. Abdulla Bin Khalifa Al-Attiya (Qatar minister of state) | H.E Sheikh Abdul Rahman Bin Saud Al Thani (military career; sec.-gen. Qatar Olympic Committee) | Dominique de Villepin (PM france 2005-7) | H.E. Dr. Mohamed Abdul Raheem Kafoud | Mansoor Al Khater. |
2008 |
| United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) Liberal, but also Mossad and conservative-linked, most likely because Ahmadinejad proved to be so unreliable. Woolsey (CIA) | Meir Dagan (Mossad) | Dearlove (MI6) | Mark Wallace | Holbrooke | Guthrie | Pauline Neville-Jones (chair JIC) | Leslie Gelb | |
2008 |
| Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat) International advisory board: Dr. Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah (ambassador to the US; deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of Kuwait; attached to Oxford and Harvard universities) | Jaap de Hoop-Scheffer | Dominique De Villepin | Kevin Rudd. Trustees: Dr. Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar (chair; Bahrain ambassador to the UN, US, Canada, Belgium and Luxembourg) | Sheikh Khalifa bin Ali bin Rashid Al Khalifa (head Bahrain National Security Agency; ambassador and military attache to the UK and US) | Dr. Abdul-Hussain bin Ali Mirza (Minister of Oil and Gas Affairs) | Dr. Ahmed Abdullah Farhan (chief justice High Military Court) | Abdulla Abdulatif Abdulla (ambassador to the UN; Bahrain's undersecretary of state) |
2010 |
| Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Registered in Luxembourg with head offices in Pakistan and England. Involved: Agha Hasan Abedi (founder and president throughout its existence) | Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan (among the initial financiers and the major shareholder; president UAE 1971–2004) | Alfred Hartmann (major Rothschild banker and director and president of BCCI's secret Swiss subsidiary BCP, CFO BCC Holding; also a director of the related BNL bank and reportedly also involved in Banco Ambrosiano) | Khalid bin Mahfouz (director; paid a $225 million fine for his role) | Abur Sakhia (general manager BCCI New York) | Mohammed Hammoud (shareholder; borrowed over $110 million from BCCI which was never repaid (BCCI made a staggering $1,5 billion worth of loans to its own shareholders); suddenly died in 1990) | Sir Frederic Bennett (MI6-connected aristocrat who was honorary director of the BCCI in Hong Kong until 1986 and listed himself as a consultant) | Sir Julian Ridsdale (consultant) | Julian Amery (consultant) | Henry Kissinger (consultant to the BCCI through Kissinger Associates 1986-early 1989). Involved in the bank, according to the senate investigative committee: William Casey (CIA director who reportedly met every few months with Abedi at the Madison Hotel in the mid-1980s; used the bank to finance the Afghanistan Mujahideen and reportely also to launder the proceeds of the heroin that the Mujahideen produced) | Clark Clifford | Richard Helms | Adnan Khashoggi | Kamal Adham | Abdul Raouf Khalil | Manucher Ghorbanifar | Esam Ghazzawi (held money for Prince Fahd bin Salman, son of Prince Salman, a brother of King Fahd, in a BCCI branch; later hosted 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta at his home in the months before 9/11; suddenly fled the U.S. less than two weeks before 9/11; Prince Fahd mysteriously died in July 2001, followed a year later by his elder brother and two other princes). Also: Prince Turki (shareholder, who funneled over $1 billion dollars in aid to the Mujahideen and would have helped launder the heroin proceeds; reportedly met with Osama bin Laden, his old protege, just weeks before 9/11, along with a CIA officer). |
1972-1991 |
| First Arabian Corporation Founders and shareholders: Saudi intelligence chief Kamel Adham | Prince Abdullah bin Musaid bin Abdul Rahman | Sheikh Salem bin Ladin | Roger Tamraz | Ghaith Pharaon |
1973 |
| Saar Foundation Connected to Al-Taqwa. Suleiman Abdul Al-Aziz al-Rajhi (founder) | Yaqub Mirza (CEO 1984-2002) | Khalid bin Mahfouz (was suspected of being linked to the foundation). |
1970s-2002 |
| Saudi Investment Company (SICO) An international subsidiary of the Saudi Binladen Group ran by Yeslam bin Laden, a half brother of Osama bin Laden. Already in 1999 French intelligence linked the company to the financing of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. In addition, Yeslam owned Avcon Business Jets SA and is known to have sent at least one person to the same tiny Florida airport where 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta and some of his aides were trained by CIA and White House-linked individuals. Also on the board: Shakarshi family (linked to drug trafficking and money laundering). |
1980 |
| Benevolence International Foundation (BIF) Adel Batterjee (co-founder) | Mohammed Jamal Khalifa (co-founder; Saudi Arabian businessman who married a sister of Osama; killed by JSOC in 2007) | Osama bin Laden (capitalized with $50 million by him and associates of his) | Ibn al-Khattab (financed) | Sheikh Fathi Shishani (financed) |
1988 |
| Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) affair Alfred Hartmann (director; Rothschild banker also deeply involved in the BCCI affair) | Henry Kissinger (international advisory board 1985-1991 and encouraged the $4,5 billion in loans made to strenghten Iraq against the Ayatollah in Iran) | David Rockefeller (on the board with Kissinger in the same period) | Pehr Gyllenhammar (controlled Volvo at the time which was cooperation with BNL in receiving loans for Iraq-based business) |
1989 |
| Muwafaq Foundation / Blessed Relief Yassin al-Qadi (founder and chair; associate of Osama bin Laden) | Khalid bin Mahfouz (principal financier). Opened branches in Mogadishu, Somalia and Bosnia, apparently to support Muslim terrorists. Also lend support to Hamas and Abu Sayyef. |
1991-1998 |
| Al Haramain Foundation Saleh bin Abdul-Aziz Al ash-Sheikh (chair; Saudi minister of Islamic affairs and endowments since 1996; fired officers and disbanded the charity in June 2004 after reports of terrorist financing) | Aqeel Abdulaziz Aqeel al-Aqeel / Aqil Abdulaziz Al - Aqil (founder and general manager 1988- Jan. 2004) | Mansour al-Kadi (deputy general until Jan. 2004) | Wa'el Hamza Julaidan (director from at least 1997 to 2004; president Tuscon Islamic Center 1984-1985) | King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz (donor while crown prince in 2003, as mentioned by al-Aqeel in late 2003). Apparently Ruslan Saidov was the manager of the foundation's Kavkaz/Caucasus center. Saidov was a key partner in Far West Ltd., for which, among other things, he managed a 5% stake of Al Haramain. Other 5% stake holders apparently were Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al Faisal, a reported friend of Saidov, and notorious arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. U.S. partners of Far West included retired top CIA officer Fritz Ermarth, KBR Halliburton (under Cheney when it co-founded Far West in 1998) and Diligence, LLC, co-founded by William Webster and tightly linked to Carlyle and the Bush administration, and, later on, the Rothschild family. United Nations Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities: "Julaidan was a member of Al-Haramain & Al-Aqsa’s board of directors, and he opened three bank accounts on behalf of the NGO between 1997 and 2001. As at 2003, Julaidan continued to have authority to handle two of Al-Haramain & Al Masjed al-Aqsa’s bank accounts as a signatory of its two Bosnian accounts. Al-Haramain & Al Masjed al-Aqsa Charity Foundation in Bosnia and Herzegovina was linked to the Saudi Arabia-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation which presented itself as a private, charitable and educational non-governmental organization. When viewed as a single entity, Al-Haramain was one of the principal NGOs active throughout the world providing support for the Al-Qaida network. Funding generally came from individual benefactors and special campaigns which targeted selected business entities around the world. " |
1988-2004 |
| Banque Al Saoudi / Banque Francaise pour l'Orient Merged with Rafic Hariri's Mediterranee group. Directors: Prince Mohammed Ben Fahd (honorary chair) | Sheik Salem bin Laden | Sheik Bogshan | Khalid Ben Mahfouz |
1989 |
| Mercy International Relief Agency Founding directors: Waheed Almasry, Faisal Alahmadi, Abdalaziz Farsi, Dr Safar Alhawali, Dr Abdallah Aldomaiji, Dr Mohamed Said Algahtani, Dr Soliman Alsaloomi. Founded in Dublin. Forged passports for Osama bin Laden and other terrorists and served as a logistical aide for international terrorism in Kenya and the Balkans. |
1992 |
Virtually non-existent due to the importance of Arab oil. Even the AIFL was largely initiated by pro-Zionist conservative interests. Most relationships with Israel go through the conservatives, both the neocons and radical religious right.
| America-Israel Friendship League (AIFL) Combination of liberal and pro-Zionist conservatives. Liberals: Nelson Rockfeller (founder) | Brademas | Eagleburger | Vernon Jordan | Kissinger | Shultz. Pro-Israel neocons: Senator Henry Jackson (founder) | Mortimer Zuckerman (president; Zionist, but not strongly neocon) | Jack Kemp (largely liberal) | Giuliani (largely liberal) | Gen. Paul Vallely | Abraham Foxman | Malcolm Hoenlein. |
1971 |
| New Israel Fund (accused of being anti-Israel) Ford Fdn. funded. |
1979 |
| Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) Co-founders: Bernard Marcus (donated $5 million for the construction of building) | Arya Carmon (founding president). Advisory council: Shultz (chair) | Kissinger | Wolfensohn | Sidney Drell | Martin Indyk | Sen. Lieberman. Fellows: Dan Meridor. |
1991 |
| Peres Center for Peace International board of governors, past and present: Israel: Shimon P. (founder; defense minister of Israel 1974-1977, 1995-1996; prime minister of Israel 1977, 1984-1986, 1995-1996; foreign minister 1986-1988, 1992-1995, March 2001-November 2002; president of Israel since 2007) | Abba Eban (since 1990s; ambassador to the U.S. 1950-1959; deputy PM 1963-1966; foreign affairs minister 1966-1974) | Yoram Dinstein (president Tel Aviv University) | Moshe Kaveh (president Bar-Ilan University) | Menachem Magidor (president Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Ephraim Katzir (president of Israel 1973-1978) | Yitzhak Navon (president of Israel 1978-1983) | Jewish international: Lester Crown (since 1990s; U.S.) | Jacob Frenkel (since 1990s; U.S.) | Charles Bronfman (since 1990s; Canada)| Edgar de Picciotto (since 1990s)| Baron Eric de Rothschild (since 1990s; owner Chateau Lafite Rothschild, France) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (since 1990s) | Isabel Maxwell (since 1990s; daughter of Robert Maxwell) | Bruce Rappaport (since 1990s) | Vladimir Gusinsky (since 1990s; Russian oligarch). U.S.: James Baker III (since 1990s) | Henry Kissinger (since 1990s) | Paul M. Kennedy (since 1990s) | Jimmy Carter | Warren Christopher | Leslie Gelb (since 1990s) | Lee Iacocca | Richard Pratt (Pratt Industries) | Sen. Arlen Specter (since 1990s) | John Whitehead (since 1990s) | Gov. Christine Whitman (since 1990s) | Mortimer Zuckerman (since 1990s) | Dwayne Andreas | Sen. Joseph Lieberman (since 1990s) | Sen. Daniel Moynihan (since 1990s) | Sen. Jay Stein (since 1990s) | John Bryan, Jr. Other: Mikhail Gorbachev (since 1990s) | Paul Desmarais, Jr. (since 1990s) | Helmut Kohl | Jacques Delors (since 1990s) | Michel Rocard (since 1990s) | Roland Dumas (minister of foreign affairs, France) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing (since 1990s) | Lionel Jospin (since 1990s) | Felipe Gonzalez Marquez (former Spanish prime minister) | Alfredo Ambrosetti | Boutros Boutros Ghali | Ruud Lubbers (since 1990s) | Ferdinand Piech (chair Volkswagen AG Austria) | Lester Pollack (since 1990s; president Siemens) | Heinrich von Pierer (chair Siemens) | Klaus Schwab (since 1990s) | Louis Schweiter (since 1990s) | Desmond Tutu (since 1990s) | Abdurrahman Wahid (president Indonesia) | John Major (since 1990s) |
1996 |
| If Americans Knew Low level anti-Zionist project, but backed by groups as the Middle East Policy Council. |
2001 |
| The Rights Forum (pro-Palestinian) Netherlands, pro-royal family circle. Dries van Agt (founder and chair) | Henri Veldhuis | Frans Andriessen | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst | Hans van den Broek | Marcel Brus | Koos van Dam | Wim van Eekelen | Hedy d'Ancona | Pieter Kooijmans | Tineke Lodders | Jan Pronk | Klaas de Vries |
2009 |
| Israel-America Academic Exchange (IAAE) Rabbi Nachum Braverman (executive director) | Thomas Pickering | Leslie Gelb | Robert Hormats | Martin Indyk | Dalia Rabin (chair Israeli board) | Yehuda Ben-Meir (Institute for National Security Studies) | David Ivry (president Boeing Israel) | Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (former chief of staff Israel Defense Force) |
2009 |
| African-America Institute (AAI) History of CIA funding and later helped train UNITA rebels: 1976 annual report: Trustees: Harold K. Hochschild (honorary chair; his son Adam was a co-founcer of Mother Jones magazine) | Dana Creel (trustee chair; president Rock. Brothers Fund 1968-1975, vice chair after that) | Maurice Tempelsman. International advisory council: Sen. Dick Clark | Ramsey Clark | Sen. Hubert Humphrey | Vernon Jordan | Philip Klutznick | Andrew Young. Individual donors among many corporations (Chevron, Exxon, Ford, Chase, Barclays, Atlantic Richfield, Alcoa, Union Carbide): Stephen C. and David Rockefeller (as their foundations) | George McGhee. The three investment advisory committee members come from the Ford Fdn. and Russell Sage Fdn. Carnegie Endowment also a financier. Kissinger present at the opening of an AAI art center in coordination with Mobutu. 1986 annual report: Same donors, including the two Rockefellers. Trustees: Maurice T. (vice chair) | John Silcox (Chevron Overseas Petroleum) | Dana C. (life trustee) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller | Maurice Strong. Advisors: John Brademas | Sen. Dick C. | Ramsey C. | William Draper III | Vernon J. | Philip K. | Stephen Solarz | Andrew Y. Discussed: meetings with Sadiq al-Mahdi (PM Sudan), Robert Mugabe (dictator of Zimbabwe), Mobutu (dictator of the Congo), and leaders from countries all over Africa. 1993 report: Maurice T. (chair) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller 1996 annual report: Trustees: Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (vice chair) (daughter of David R.) | Dana C. (life) | Dr. Mathilde Krim (life trustee; co-chair American Foundation for AIDS) | William H. Hayden | William R. Rhodes | Maurice T. | 2006 annual report: Joseph Stiglitz attended an 2006 AAI conference, organized by trustee Maurice T. September 27, 2012: IIA conference in honor of the (female) heads of state of Liberia and Malawi. At the same event Maurice T., by then a retired trustee but "AAI alumni", becomes a "distinguished trustee." |
1953 |
| Harvard AIDS Institute (HAI) International advisory council: Maurice Tempelsman (chair 1990s and still the senior co-chair anno 2013) | Mrs. William McCormick Blair, Jr. (co-chair under T. all these years). Paul Dietrich (trustee for some years since 1990). No other connected members. |
1988 |
| Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) Maurice Tempelsman (chair and CEO 1999-2002 and 2007-2008) | Frances Cook (director 2006-2012). Representatives of major corporations. |
1992 |
| Southern African Enterprise Development Fund (SAEDF) Bill Clinton (official founder) | Andrew Young (founding chair; AAI) | Maurice Tempelsman (founding director; AAI) |
1994 |
| New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Maurice Tempelsman (helped in setting it up) |
2001 |
| Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Founders: Rockefeller Fdn. and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill Gates). Directors: Kofi Annan (chair) | Judith Rodin (president Rock. Fdn.) | Sylvia Mathews Burwell (president Global Development Program of the Gates Fdn.) | Rudy Rabbinge (chair CGIAR science council). |
2006 |
| The Elders, South Africa Sir Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel (founders and advisory board) | Nelson Mandela | Mabel Wisse Smit (first CEO 2008-2012) | Martti Ahtisaari | Pam Omidyar (wife of Pierre) | Jimmy Carter | Kofi Annan | Desmond Tutu |
2007 |
| Tony Elumelu Foundation, Nigeria (TEF) Tony Elumelu (founder). Advisory board: Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Shaukat Aziz (prime minister Pakistan 2004-2007) | Stewart Paparin (executive vice president Open Society Foundations and president Soros Economic Development Fund) | Jamie Cooper-Hohn |
2010 |
| Belgian American Educational Foundation Related to Herbert Hoover. Directors: Emile Boulpaep (chair), Baron Daniel Janssen | Count Diego du Monceau de Bergendal | Francqui Foundation (1932), also co-founded with Herbert Hoover: Directors: Etienne Davignon (vice chair) | Emile Boulpaep | Baron Daniel J. Belgian Herbert Hoover Exhibit: Honorary committee: Baron Jean-Pierre Berghmans | Count Maurice Lippens | Baron Jan Huyghebaert. Official supporters: Richard Mellon Scaife and Jacques Solvay. |
1919 |
| Wilton Park conferences Jacques Jonet | Jean Violet | Alfredo Sanchez Bella |
1946 |
| European League for Economic Cooperation | 1946 |
| European Movement Winston Churchill (founder) Duncan Duncan-Sandys (founder, international exec. until 1950, kept involved) | Sir David Ormsby-Gore (chair 1969–1975) | Sir David Nicolson (chair 1985-1988) | Lord Alan Watson (vice chair 1995-2001). Patrons: Lord Haskins of Skidby | Lord Heseltine | Lord Howe of Aberavon | Lord Hurd of Westwell | Sir Michael Palliser | Lord Patten of Barnes | Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen | Lord Simon of Highbury | Lord Tugendhat. Also: Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb (Belgian chair) | Sir Peter Sutherland (honorary president for Ireland). |
1948 |
| Cercle Gaulois, Belgium Members: Viscount Etienne Davignon | Baron Albert Frere | Armand de Decker | Pierre Harmel | Gerard Mestrallet | Karel van Miert | Yves Boel | Baron Daniel Janssen | Wilhelmus Philippa | Xavier Magnee. |
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| Cini Foundation Count Vittorio Cini |
1951 |
| Action Committee for the United States of Europe (ACUSE) Jean Monnet (founder and head) | Francois Duchene | Max Kohnstamm | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Willy Brandt | Pietro Nenni | Herbert Wehner | Rainer Barzel | Mariano Rumor | Guy Mollet | Edward Heath |
1956 |
| Europa Nostra Henri J. de Koster (president 1980s-early 1990s) | Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer (executive president) | Marquess de Trazegnies (representative) | Prince Henrik of Denmark (chair until 2007) |
1963 |
| Per Jacobsson Foundation (PJF) Founding trustees : Warren Burgess (chair) | Eugene Black (chair) | Marcus Wallenberg (chair) | Lord Cobbold | Viscount Harcourt | Gabriel Hauge | Herman Abs (chair Deutsche Bank) | Marinus Holtrop (chair BIS and the Nederlandse Bank) | Lord Arthur Salter | David Rockefeller | Allen Sproul | Maurice Frere (BIS; Sofina; Banque Nationale de Belgique; family today owns Frere-Bourgeois Group, since 1970 chaired by Albert Frere; d. 1970) | Albert Janssen (chair Societe Belge de Banque, controlled by the Solvay family; seemingly an uncle of Paul-Emmanuel and Daniel Janssen) | Jean Monnet | Samuel Schweizer (chair Swiss Bank Corporation). Later trustees: Paul Volcker | Jacob Wallenberg | Christine Lagarde | Marcus Wallenberg. |
1963 |
| Club of Rome Agnelli | Peccei | Dean Rusk | Carroll L. Wilson | Lubbers | Robert O. Anderson | Thornton Bradshaw | Maurice Strong | King Juan Carlos | Queen Beatrix of Orange | Max Kohnstamm | Gorbachev | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Daniel Janssen (associate member) | Jacques Delors (honorary member) | Javier Perez de Cuellar | Ernst von Weizsacker (exec.) |
1968 |
| International Club Chateau Sainte-Anne, Brussels Patroned by the royal family. Count de Kerchove (chair 1970-1973) | Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb* (chair 2005-2008). Leading members: Paul-Henri Spaak | Aurelio Peccei | Jacques Solvay** | Etienne Davignon* | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Armand de Decker | Count Pierre Harmel. * Accused of child abuse in Belgian dossiers, often multiple times. ** Extremely close to the alleged crimes. |
1969 |
| World Trade Center Association, Chateau Sainte-Anne, Brussels [PDF] Involved in building the Brussels World Trade Center (WTC) in the 1960s: Paul vanden Boeynants* (member WTCA) | Charly De Pauw* (a "Charles de Pauw" was certainly in 2007 listed as vice president and contact point of the WTCA) | Ado Blaton*. Lunches are organized 11 times a year at Chateau Sainte-Anne, where also the International Club is located. Historical speakers: Willy de Clercq** (1980) | Wilfried Martens* (1981) | Willy Claes* (1982) | Philippe Moureaux** (1983) | Andre Damseaux** (1983) | Guy Spitaels* (1983) | Leo Tindemans (1983) | Henri Simonet (1983) | Francois-Xavier de Donnea (1984) | Jean Gol** (1984) | Melchior Wathelet* (1986) | Guy Verhofstadt (1986) | Armand De Decker (1988, 2009) | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1988, 2005) | Yann Piat (1988) | Etienne Davignon* (1988, 2002) | Jean-Luc Dehaene (1989) | Xavier Magnee** (1991) | Gerard Mestrallet (1992) | Raymond Barre (1992) | Guy Coeme** (1992) | Maurice Lippens* (1992) | Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb* (1993) | Count Pierre Harmel (1993) | Karel Van Miert* (1994) | Jacques Santer (1996) | Michel Rocard (1997) | Lord Leon Brittan* (1997) | Elio di Rupo* (1997) | Axel Vervoordt* (1997) | Marc Verwilghen** (head Dutroux commission; later director at Auchi's GMH with Jacques Delors) (1999) | Dominique Baudis* (2003) | Charles Pasqua (2003) | Dominique de Villepin (2008) | Henri Giscard d'Estaing (2008) | Alain Juppe (2009). * Accused of child abuse in Belgian, French (Baudis) or British (Brittan) dossiers, often multiple times. ** Extremely close to the alleged crimes. |
1970 |
| Doctors Without Borders (DWB) / Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) French organization. Dr. Richard Rockefeller (son of David Rockefeller; chair advisory board 1989-2010) |
1971 |
| European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) Daniel Janssen (chair 1991-1992) |
1972 |
| Paul Henri Spaak Foundation Officers (same for 2003-2013): Etienne Davignon (president since at least 2003) | Francois Danis (secretary general) | David Abshire | Michel Albert | Frank Boas | Willy de Clercq | Herman de Croo | Baron Philippe de Schoutheete de Tervarent | Jacques Delors | Baron Jean Godeaux | Alexis Jacquemin | Baron Andre Jaumotte | Sir Michael Palliser | Paul-F. Smets | Madame Antoinette Spaak | Monsieur Guy Spitaels. |
1973 |
| European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) Guy Verhofstadt (chair governing board) | Sir Peter Sutherland (governor 1991-1996) |
1981 |
| European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT) Davignon (co-founder) | Gyllenhammar (co-founder and first chair 1983-1988) | Jerome Monod (chair 1992-1996) | Gerhard Cromme (chair 2001-2005; ThyssenKrupp) | Gianni Agnelli | Daniel Janssen | Bertrand Collomb | John Elkann (Fiat) | Wilhelmus Philippa (secretary-general) | Jeroen van der Veer | Peter Sutherland | Rodolfo De Benedetti | Gerard Mestrallet | Jacob Wallenberg | Romano Prodi (known to have visited). |
1983 |
| Centre for European Policy Studies Prince Nikolaus von Liechtenstein (director 1990s-mid 2013; a younger brother of Hans Adam II) | Davignon (director 1990s-2010s) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (director) | Baron Philippe de Schoutheete de Tervarent (director) | Lord Simon of Highbury (director; former CEO of BP) | Onno Ruding (chair) |
1983 |
| The Coudenberg Group About 70 members, including: Jean-Pierre De Bandt (president) | Philippe Bodson (director Fortis 2004-2010) | Carlos Van Rafelghem (chair and CEO Sabena 1970s-early 1990s) | Jan Huyghebaert | Patrick van Ypersele de Strihou |
1984-1999 |
| Association for the Monetary Union of Europe Davignon (co-founder and president 1991-2002) |
1987 |
| European Institute Yves-Andre Istel (long-time chair and co-chair; Rothschild, Inc.) | Lawrence Eagleburger (director early 2000s) | Davignon (director early 2000s) | Sutherland (director early 2000s) | William A. Nitze (chair advisory board early 2000s) | C. Boyden Gray | Collomb | Delors | Zoellick | Nitze | Sonnenfeldt | Philippe Giscard d'Estaing | David Maxwell (chair Fannie Mae) | Eric Melby (principal Scowcroft Group) |
1989 |
| Forum Europe Daniel Janssen (speaker) |
1989 |
| European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (founding chair 1990-2004, continued as a patron) | Jean-Claude Trichet (became chair in 2005 while president European Central Bank 2003-2011) |
1990 |
| Europaeum Founders council and long time trustees: Lord Weidenfeld | Lord Ronald Grierson | Henry Kravis | Prince Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein (important financier and patron). Trustee: Lord Chris Patten | Karel Schwarzenberg. Listed as benefactors: Sir Angus Ogilvy | Mrs Robin Hambro | Fritz Thyssen Foundation. |
1991 |
| Alfred Herrhausen Society for International Dialogue Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Peter Mandelson | Lord Weidenfeld | Karaganov | Mrs. Wolfgang Ischinger |
1992 |
| Tindemans Group Leo Tindemans (founder and chair 1994-1995) | Sammy van Tuyll van Serooskerken (founder and secretary) | Ernst Hirsch Ballin |
1994-1995 |
| Belgian Kids Fund for Pediatric Research Patron: Princess Astrid of Belgium, daughter of King Albert II.* Directors: Baron Herve van Ypersele de Strihou | Prince Amaury de Merode*. Support committee: Count Jean-Pierre de Launoit* (chair) | Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer | Viscount Etienne Davignon* | Countess Maurice Lippens*. * Accused of child abuse in Belgian dossiers (or a close relative). |
1995 |
| Notre Europe Jacques Delors (chair and co-president since 1996) | Pascal Lamy (co-president, trustee and member European steering committee) | Etienne Davignon (one of five trustees and member European steering committee) | Karel Van Miert (director until his death in 2009). The European steering committee was seen as a continuation of the old Action Committee for the United States of Europe (ACUSE). |
1996 |
| Centre for European Reform Advisory council, past and present: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (chair 2004-) | Carl Bildt | Dame Pauline Neville-Jones | Sir Peter Sutherland | Lord George Robertson | Lord Simon of Highbury | Francois Heisbourg | Pascal Lamy | Wolfgang Ischinger |
1996 |
| European Policy Centre Peter Sutherland | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (vice president 2007-) | Karel Van Miert | Max Kohnstamm | Hans Blix |
1996 |
| Cercle de Lorraine More liberal-oriented continuation of Cercle des Nations. Davignon | Maurice and Leopold Lippens | Gerard Mestrallet | Albert Frere | Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer | Comte Jean-Pierre de Launoit | Jean-Pierre Laurent Josi. |
1998 |
| Bplus Tries to keep the wealthy Dutch-speaking Flanders and the poorer, aristocratic, French-speaking Walloon parts of Belgian together. Members general board: Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer | Willy Claes | Count Jean Pierre de Launoit | Paul-Emmanuel and Daniel Janssen | Wilfried Martens. |
1998 |
| Britain in Europe Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge (chair) | Lord Simon of Highbury (one of three vice-chairs). Advisory board: Niall FitzGerald | Lord Howe of Aberavon |
1999 |
| Friends of Europe Davignon (founder and president). Praesidium members: Baron Daniel Janssen (co-founder) | Carl Bildt | Giuliano Amato | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst | Jean-Luc Dehaene | Pascal Lamy. Michel Rocard (trustee). Participants 2007 dinner: Robert Cooper (director general for external and politico-military affairs, Council of the European Union) | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Mark Eyskens | Gerald Frere | Neelie Kroes | Mario Monti | Prince Laurent of Belgium | Maurice Lippens | Wilfried Martens | Gerard Mestrallet | Jacques Santer | Karel Van Miert | Jean-Paul Votron. |
1999 |
| European Business Summit Jan Peter Balkenende (among a long list of speakers) |
2000 |
| European Financial Services Round Table Gyllenhammar (founding chairman) |
2001 |
| Academy of Business in Society (ABIS) Supervisory board 2014: Viscount Etienne Davignon (chair) | Baron Andre van Heemstra. 30 board members plus chairman in total. Others are unknown to ISGP. |
2001 |
| Public Advice International Foundation (PA International) Rio Praaning (secretary general and executive director) | Willy Wiguna | Mark Eyskens | Baron Paul De Keersmaeker | Dries van Agt | Alexander Rinnooy Kan | Frits Bolkestein | Gijs de Vries | Wim van Eekelen | Chantal Gill'ard | Frank de Grave | Gen. Torgeir Hagen | Dr. Ratna Rosita Hendardji | Dr. Jiang Mingjun | Cao Baijun | Qin Zhenkui | Wakako Hironaka | Younis Al Balushi | Alexander Bessmertnykh | Charles Perry |
2004 |
| Bruegel Jean-Claude Trichet (chair) | Jean Pisani-Ferry (executive director 2005-2013) |
2005 |
| Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) Advisory council: Brzezinski | Hans Binnendijk. Also: Peter Doran (director of research) |
2005 |
| Business for a New Europe Founding advisory council member: Niall FitzGerald, Peter Sutherland, Christopher Tugendhat. Anno 2013: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard. |
2006 |
| Berggruen Institute on Governance's Council for the Future of Europe Council members: Nicolas Berggruen | Tony Blair | Jacques Delors | Niall Ferguson | Pascal Lamy | Alain Minc Mario Monti | Romano Prodi | Gerhard Schroder | Joseph Stiglitz | Peter Sutherland | Guy Verhofstadt |
2011 |
| Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House or RIIA) | 1920 |
| Council on Foreign Relations | 1921 |
| Chicago Council on Foreign Relations | 1922 |
| Institute of Pacific Relations (shut down in 1961) | 1925 |
| Canadian Institute of International Affairs | 1928 |
| Australian Institute of International Affairs Robert J. O'Neill (fellow 2008) |
1933 |
| South African Institute of International Affairs | 1934 |
| Swedish Institute of International Affairs | 1938 |
| Institute of Jewish Affairs (now Institute for Jewish Policy Research) | 1941 |
| Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) | 1944 |
| Royal Institute for International Relations (Egmont), Belgium Officers, past and present: Davignon (chairman) | Francois de Kerchove d'Exaerde (director general) | Willy Claes | Willy De Clercq | Guy Spitaels | Baron Daniel Janssen | Baron Philippe de Schoutheete (director of European affairs). Participants in meetings: Jacques Delors | Guy Verhofstadt | Jean-Claude Trichet | Jean Pisani-Ferry | Jean-Herve Lorenzi | Didier Reynders | Mario Monti | Philippe Lagayette (Barclays) | Erik Nielsen (Goldman Sachs) | Herman Van Rompuy. |
1947 |
| Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs | 1949 |
| German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) Karl Kaiser (head 1974-2003) | Count Hagen Lambsdorff (managing board) | Wolfgang Ischinger (steering committee) | Baron Christopher von Oppenheim (steering committee) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (member) |
1955 |
| Prague Institute of International Relations | 1957 |
| Norwegian Institute of International Affairs | 1959 |
| Japan Institute of International Affairs | 1959 |
| Finnish Institute of International Affairs | 1961 |
| Atlantic Institute for International Affairs (Paris-based) | 1961 |
| Institute of International Affairs, Rome / Istituto Affari Internazionale (IAI) Altiero Spinelli (founder, with support of the Olivetti and Ford fdns.) | Giancarlo Elia Valori (secretary-general 1960s-1980s) |
1965 |
| French Institute for International Relations (IFRI) Bertrand Collomb (chair) | Thierry de Montbrial | Vladimir Baranovsky |
1979 |
| Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael) | 1983 |
| National Democratic Institute for International Affairs | 1983 |
| Israel Council on Foreign Relations | 1989 |
| Danish Institute of International Affairs | 1993 |
| European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Council members: George Soros (financier and founding council member) | Mabel Wisse-Smit (founding council member) | Alain Minc (founding council member) | Joschka Fischer (founding council member) | Dominique Strauss-Kahn (founding council member) | Jean-Luc Dehaene (founding council member) | Etienne Davignon (2008-) | Karel Schwarzenberg (2008-) | Lord Chris Patten (2008-) | Lord George Robertson (2008-) | Pascal Lamy (2008-) | Lionel Jospin (2008-) | Wolfgang Ischinger (2008-) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | Carl Bildt (2008-) | Gijs de Vries (2008-) | Baroness Glenys Kinnock | Martti Ahtisaari | Count Alexander Lambsdorff | David Miliband | Gerhard Cromme (ThyssenKrupp) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (panel discussion) | |
2007 |
| White's (most elite men's club in terms of political discussion) Julian Amery | Astor | Carrington | McGowan | Douglas-Home | David Stirling | Prince Charles | Schroder | Tiarks | Spiro | Keswick | Mowbray | Norfolk | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | Heinz, II | Claiborne Pell | Rifkind | Guthrie | 1st Baron Renwick |
1693 |
| Society of Knights of the Round Table Leopold Amery | David Stirling | Earl of Dalhousie |
1720 |
| Boodle's | 1762 |
| Brooks's | 1764 |
| Roxburghe Club Rothschild | Cecil | Oppenheimer | Morgan | Norfolk | Devonshire | Lord Rees-Mogg |
1812 |
| Grillion's Lord Carrington | Duke of Norfolk | Dukse of Devonshire | 7th Marquess of Salisbury | Earl of Perth | Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne | Nicholas Baring | John Major |
1812 |
| Garrick Club Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
1831 |
| Carlton Club | 1832 |
| Pratt's Carrington | Hugh Astor | Sir Joseph Ball | 7th Baron Ashburton (Baring) | 1st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | Lord Mowbray | 17th Duke of Norfolk | 5th Baron Harlech (Ormsby-Gore) | Lord Gordon Richardson of Duntisbourne | Sir Malcolm Rifkind | Nicholas Soames | Sir Collin Campbell Stuart | Sir John Wheeler-Bennett | Sir Philip de Zulueta |
1857 |
| Beefsteak Club | 1876 |
| American Society in London | 1895 |
| Pilgrims of Great Britain | 1902 |
| Other Club Carrington | Cecil | Lord Rees-Mogg | Duntisbourne | Rothschild | Prince Charles | Tony Blair | Gordon Brown | Edward Heath | Denis Thatcher | Winston Churchill II | Julian Amery |
1911 |
| Buck's | 1919 |
| Union Club | 1836 |
| New York Yacht Club | 1844 |
| Century Association FDR | Allen Dulles | Gen. Dwight Eisenhower | Philip Jessup | William Shirer | Dean Acheson | James Conant | Joseph Grew | William Langer | Robert Lovett | George Kennan | Michael Bloomberg | Brooke Astor | Henry Kissinger | Taggart Whipple | Robert Morgenthau | David Rockefeller | Andy Rooney | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. | Christopher Forbes |
1847 |
| Down Town Association | 1859 |
| Union League Club | 1863 |
| Harvard Club | 1865 |
| University Club | 1865 |
| Knickerbocker Club | 1871 |
| Bohemian Club, San Francisco | 1872 |
| The Zodiac | 1872 |
| Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Neil Livingstone. Dinner together: Tom Kimmel (FBI; Pearl Harbor scholar) | Robert Wolfe (holocaust scholar) | Gregory Douglas (author allied with CIA's Robert Crowley) |
1878 |
| Corsair Club | 1882 |
| Alibi Club, Washington, D.C. Gen. Maxwell Taylor | Norman Armour | Henry Catto | Allen and John Foster Dulles | Christian Herter | Robert Lovett | Gen. George Marshall | Gen. Bernard Rogers | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | Walter Cronkite | William Paley |
1884 |
| Metropolitan Club John McCloy | Maxwell Rabb. Most other elites here are familiar with the club. |
1891 |
| Chevy Chase Club | 1892 |
| Yale Club | 1897 |
| Pilgrims of the United States | 1903 |
| The Economic Club Thomas Watson | William R. Rhodes | Peter Peterson (chair) | Jules Kroll | Robert Mueller | Henry Kissinger | George W. Bush | Alan Greenspan | Raymond Kelly | George Shultz | Paul Volcker | David Rockefeller | Catherine Austin Fitts (member 1988-2001) Washington branch was founded in 1986: Vernon Jordan (president) | David Rubenstein (president) | Tony Blair (speaker) | Bill Gates (speaker) | Christine Whitman (speaker) | Ben Bernanke (speaker) | Richard Parsons (speaker) | Eric Schmidt (speech; chair and CEO of Google) | Steven Schwarzman |
1907 |
| Piping Rock | 1911 |
| Alfalfa Club, Washington, D.C. In the early days membership lists weren't kept to protect privacy. Dwight Eisenhower | John F. Kennedy | John Foster Dulles | Richard Helms | Gen. Bernard Rogers | John D. and Nelson Rockefeller | Nixon | Goldwater | Reagan | Barack and Michelle Obama | David Abshire | Madeleine Albright | Colin Powell (president 1996-97) | Warren Buffett | Gingrich | Greenspan | Vernon Jordan | Jack Kemp | Kissinger | Mondale | Ross Perot | Dianne Feinstein | Mitt Romney | C. Boyden Gray | Sam Nunn | George H. W. Bush | George W. Bush | Barbara Bush | Jeb Bush | George Prescott Bush | Marvin P. Bush | Laura Bush | William H. T. Bush | Doro Bush Koch | John Ellis Bush, Jr. | Joe L. Albritton | David J. Albritton | Brzezinksi | Shultz | Dick Cheney | Donald Rumsfeld | James Schlesinger | Chuck Robb | William Cohen | James Wolfensohn | Robert Mueller | James Baker III | Gen. Paul X. Kelley | Gen. James L. Jones | Gen. Peter Pace | Gen. Richard Myers | Henry Kravis | Henry Paulson, Jr. (chair and CEO Goldman Sachs) | Condoleezza Rice | Sen. John McCain III | John Whitehead | Maurice and Jeffrey Greenberg | Alan Greenberg | Christine Whitman | David Petraeus | Sen. Jay Rockefeller | William Webster | Sharon Percy Rockefeller | David Ruben Stein | Gilbert M. Grosvenor (chairman Alfalfa) | Jack Valenti | Paul Laxalt | John Lehman | Sen. Joseph Lieberman | Frank Carlucci | John Macomber | William Simon | Steve Forbes |
1913 |
| Links Club, New York City 1955 list: Dwight Eisenhower | Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. (and later Jr.) | Louis S. Cates | Henry Ford II | J. Peter Grace | Augustus Long | Henry Luce | Gwilym A. Price (president of Westinghouse) | Edgar Monsanto Queeny | Walter Teagle | Thomas Watson Jr. | Winthrop Aldrich | Sen. Prescott S. Bush, Sr. (and later Jr.) | Gov. Thomas Dewey | C. Douglas Dillon | Thomas Gates Jr. | Walter Gifford | Amory Houghton Sr. (and later Jr. and III) | George Humphrey | John McCone | Jean Monnet | Winthrop Rockefeller | Sir William Wiseman | Cyrus Vance | John Hay Whitney | Gen. Lucius Clay | Robert Lovett | Paul Nitze | Walter Bedell Smith | Paul C. Cabot | E. Roland Harriman | John McCloy (and later II) | Henry S. Morgan | J. Stillman Rockefeller | David Rockefeller | William E. Boeing | James Doolittle | Robert E. Gross | Frederick B. Rentschler (chair Pratt & Whitney) | Edward V. Rickenbacker | Leon A. Swirbul (founder Grumman Aircraft) | Marshall Field | James McGraw, Jr. | Paul Mellon | Howard Phipps | Joseph Pew | J. Watson Webb (Vanderbilt) | Clifford Roberts (co-founder Augusta Golf Club) | Charles E. Wilson (apparently the General Electric president) | George Merck | Other names: Harold H. Helm | Thomas W. and Thomas Lamont | William E. Simon | Benjamin Strong | Albert Wiggin | Gabriel Hauge | Malcolm Pratt Aldrich | John F. Ball | Gustavo Cisneros | William Farish III | Thomas Foley | John Macomber | Jeremiah Milbank III | William A. Nitze | Peter Peterson | William R. Rhodes | Theodore Roosevelt IV | Walter V. Shipley | George H. Walker IV | Ogden White Jr. 1995 AP article: Laurance Rockefeller | Peter Jennings | Gerard Roche | John Whitehead. Also: Roy Larsen | Robert Knight | Lindsay Bradford |
1921 |
| Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia William Alton Jones | Riley P. and Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. | Peter Peterson | George Shultz | Donald R. Beall (Rockwell International) | Ruben Mettler | Peter H. Coors | Lawrence A. Bossidy (Honeywell) | John F. Welch (General Electric) | Ogden M. Phipps | Nicholas F. Brady | William C. Ford (Ford Motors) | Warren Buffett | Harold W. Andersen | Bill Gates | T. Boone Pickens | Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (Carlyle; IBM) | Condoleezza Rice | Sam Nunn | Walter V. Shipley. Many other oil companies and such represented. Eisenhower used to be a member. |
1933 |
| Rockefeller Center Club David Rockefeller, Jr. | Robert Hormats | Vernon Jordan | George Pataki | Richard Parsons |
1934 |
| Martha's Vineyard Gilbert Harrison (summaring since the late 1950s; editor-in-chief The New Republic) | Michael Straight (editor The New Republic)| Bill and Hillary Clinton | Sir Evelyn and Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Vernon Jordan | Thornton Bradshaw | Maurice Tempelsman | Walter Cronkite | Jack Valentis | Barack and Michelle Obama | Prince Andrew | Obama (likes to golf here). |
Over time |
| Oxford: Bullingdon Club King Edward VII | King Edward VIII | Frederick IX of Denmark | Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany | Gottfried von Bismarck | Cecil Rhodes | Nat Rothschild | David Cameron | 13th Marquess of Lothian (Kerr) | Alan Clark | 9th Earl Spencer | William Sinclair |
1780 |
| Harvard: Porcellian (largely irrelevant) | 1791 |
| Yale: Skull & Bones William Russell (founder) | Alphonso Taft (founder) | William Taft (member 1878) | Daniel Gilman (member and Russell Trust founder) | Percy Rockefeller | Averell Harriman | E. Roland Harriman | Henry Stimson | Robert Lovett | Stephen Schwarzman | Harold Stanley | Henry Luce | William P. Bundy | McGeorge Bundy | James L. Buckley | William F. Buckley, Jr. | William Draper III | James Angleton | Prescott Bush | George Herbert Walker, Jr. | George H. W. Bush (1917) | Henry Neil Mallon (1917) | George W. Bush | John Kerry | Evan Galbraith (1950) | Henry Heinz II | Malcolm Aldrich | Chauncey Depew | John Beckwith Madden (also manager Russell Trust) | Hugh Wilson |
1832 |
| Yale: Scroll & Key Chauncey P. Goss, III (his brother Richard was the father of Porter Goss) | Robert McCormick | Cornelius Vanderbilt III | James Stillman Rockefeller | Paul Mellon | Dean Acheson | Frank Polk | Cyrus Vance | J. Peter Grace | John Hay Whitney | Cord Meyer, Jr. | Frank Polk | |
1842 |
| Yale: Book and Snake Harry Gale Nye, Jr. (his daughter Julia was married to Ted Turner) | Ogden R. Reid | Whitelaw Reid | Bob Woodward | Porter Goss | Les Aspin | Nicholas Brady | Sen. Bill Nelson | Henry Ford II . |
1863 |
| Princeton: Ivy Club | 1879 |
| Yale: Wolf's Head Reeve Schley, Jr. (his daughter Eleanor was the mother of Gov. Christine Whitman) |
1884 |
| Princeton: Cap and Gown | 1890 |
| Cornell: Quill and Dagger Stephen Friedman | Wolfowitz | Sandy Berger |
1893 |
| Oxford: Piers Gaveston Society | 1977 |
| AFS Intercultural Programs Formerly America Field Service. James Woolsey (exchange student who went to Sween) | Wolfgang Ischinger (director) |
1915 |
| The Conference Board Alan Greenspan (member for five years) | Sir Peter Sutherland (trustee 1990s) Cees van Lede (trustee 1990s) | Alan Dachs (chair anno 2013; Fremont Group) | Josef Ackermann (vice chair anno 2013) | Aarnout Loudon (Dutch couselor) | Washington SyCip (Belgian counselor) | Niall Fitzgerald (British counselor; chair 2003-2005) | Bertrand Collomb (French counselor) | Marcus Wallenberg (Swedish counselor). |
1916 |
| International Chamber of Commerce Peter Peterson (chair U.S. council 1978-1979) | Thomas Watson (chair 1937-1939) | Winthrop Aldrich (chair 1944-1947) | Philip Reed (chair 1949-1951) | Marcus Wallenberg (chair 1965-1967), Peter (chair 1989-1990) and Marcus (chair 2005-2008) | Rahmi Koc (president) | Harold McGraw III (chair anno 2013) | Gerard Worms (honorary chair anno 2013) | |
1919 |
| Institute for International Education (IIE) 1954 annual report trustees: Grayson Kirk (chair) | Mrs. Henry P. Russell (vice chair) | Maurice T. Moore (executive chair) | Frank Altschul | Ellsworth Bunker | Stephen Duggan | Theodore Hesburgh | Arthur Houghton, Jr. | George McGhee | George Shuster | George Stoddard | Juan Trippe | Edward Warburg | Arthur Watson | James Zellerbach (on leave). Others in later times: Henry Kaufman | Debs | Brzezinski | Draper III | Kissinger | Maryam Ansary | Henry Fowler. |
1919 |
| League of Nations Association | 1929 |
| International Rescue Committee (IRC) Leo Cherne (chairman 1951-1991 and chairman emeritis until death in 1999) | Casey (president) | Angier Biddle Duke (president) | John Richardson Jr. (president) | William vanden Heuvel (president) | John Whitehead (president) | Albert Jolis | Kissinger | Greenberg | Albright | Abramowitz | Rohatyn | Wolfensohn | Tom Brokaw | Winston Lord | Claiborne Pell | John Train | Colin Powell | Princess Firyal of Jordan |
1933 |
| Association Royale des Demeures Historiques et Jardins de Belgique Officers: Prince Alexander de Merode (chair 1979-2002) | Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer (chair since 2003) | Viscount Etienne Davignon | Baron Albert Frere | Marquess de Trazegnies | Prince Lorenz (honorary chair) | Count Ghislain d'Ursel | Count Emmanuel de Lichtervelde. |
1934 |
| Freedom House Leo Cherne (chairman 1946-1976) | Kampelman (chair) | Woolsey (chair) | Brzezinski | Huntington | Rumsfeld | Wolfowitz | Kirkpatrick | Foley | Morton Abramowitz | Diana Villiers Negroponte | Taft IV (chairman) | Peter Ackerman (chair) | David Kramer (executive director) | John N. Moore | Paula Dobriansky | David Eisenhower | Theodore Forstmann | Otto Reich | Steve Forbes | Andrew Young, Jr. | Robert Hormats | Rita Hauser | Rubenstein | Nina Rosenwald |
1941 |
| National Committee for a Free Europe Allen Dulles | C.D. Jackson | Henry Luce | Lucius Clay | Eisenhower | J. Peter Grace | H. J. Heinz II | Henry Ford II | George C. McGhee | |
1949 |
| Aspen Institute Past and present trustees: Clifton Wharton, Jr. | Maurice Strong | Lord Weidenfeld | Robert Mosbacher | George McGhee | Robert Ingersoll | William T. Coleman, Jr. | Najeeb Halaby | Marvin Goldberger | Philip Hawley | Rita Hauser | Warren Rudman | Paul and William Nitze | Volcker | Robert O. Anderson (chair) | Lester Crown | Prince Bandar bin Sultan | Gyllenhammar (leading trustee from late 1970s to mid 1990s, vice chair) | Kissinger | McNarama | Cyrus Vance | Pickering | Brademas | Richard Gardner | Patrick Gross | Walter Isaacson (president and CEO; former chair and CEO of CNN) | Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin | Henry Catto (vice chair) | Jane Harman | Michael Eisner | Michael Armacost | 2st Baron Sherfield (Makins) (executive vice president 1989-1997) | Lord Charles Powell | Thornton Bradshaw | David Koch. MORE: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (speech/member) 1995 Aspen Study Group on the Future of the Transatlantic Relations: Pehr G. | Carrington | Sutherland | Jacques Delors | Marie-Jose Kravis | Ruud Lubbers. Annual report 2009/2010, Aspen Germany about recent Friends of Aspen Institute Germany board joiners: Josef Ackermann (CEO Deutsche Bank) | Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein | Yoram Ben-Zeev (Israeli ambassador to Germany) | Dr. Bernhard Reutersberg (CEO Ruhrgas AG) | Manfred Bischoff (chair Daimler AG) | Bill Schneider (CNN) | Bruce Hoffman (Georgetown University) | Brigitte Zypries (German minister) | Thilo Sarrazin (Bundesbank). Also a member: Josef Joffe. Aspen Institute of France, founded in 1983, officers, past and present: Raymond Barre (founder and long-time board member) | Lord Howe of Aberavon | Gerhard Cromme (ThyssenKrupp) | François Heisbourg | Jacques D. | Jean-Claude Trichet | Jacqueline Grapin | Bertrand Collomb | Gerard Mestrallet. Aspen Strategy Group (founded in 1984): 2013 members: Nye (co-chair), Scowcroft (co-chair), Graham Allison, Armitage, Cheney, Gergen, Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice, William Webster, Wolfowitz, Woolsey, Zoellick, Albright, Eliot Cohen, Deutch, Dianne Feinstein, Robert Gates, Haass, Chuck Hagel, Kagan, William Kristol, Nunn, Thomas O'Gara (Kroll), John Podesta, Talbott, Perry, Zakheim, Zelikow. 1993 members: Kenneth Dam (co-chair 1991-2001) | David M. Rowe (executive director) | David Boren | Richard G. | Leslie Gelb | Robert Hormats | Gen. David C. Jones | Sen. Richard Lugar | Sam N. | Condoleezza R. | Brent S. | Sen. John Warner | William W. | Paul W. | Robert Z. Emeritus: Les Aspin | Dick C. | John D. | Sidney Drell (full 1984-1991) | Susan Rice | David G. . Also: Gen. James Cartwright | Ashton Carter Aspen Atlantic Group: Madeleine A. | Joschka Fischer | Malcolm Rifkind | Jozias van Aartsen Middle East Strategy Group: Madeleine A., Dianne F., Chuck H., Henry K. Richard Burt, Martin Indyk, Abul Huda Farouki, Queen Noor, Mortimer Zuckerman. Aspen Institute/Rockefeller Commission to Reform the Federal Appointments Process: All names already mentioned above, except for Sen. Chuck Robb and Thomas McLarty III. Aspen Security Forum speakers: Michael Chertoff | Stephen Hadley | Adm. Dennis Blair | Michael Hayden (member Aspen Homeland Security Group) | Cofer Black | Gilles de Kerchove | Robert Gallucci | Richard Ben-Veniste | Brian Michael Jenkins | Janet Napolitano | David Cohen | John Negroponte | Raymond Kelly. Moderators: Wolf Blitzer | John King | Michael Isikoff. Also involved: Maurice Sonnenberg. Sep. 18, 2007 Aspen-financed conference at the Rome Ministry of Foreign Affairs entitled 'Italy, Europe and Israel': Edward Luttwak | Giancarlo Elia Valori | Carlo De Benedetti | Tremonti | Frattini | Massimo D'Alema |
1950 |
| American Club of Rome Clare Boothe Luce (honorary founding president) | Henry L. (vice president) | Ralph Folwer (president; executive of the Arabian-American Oil Company) |
1953 |
| Eisenhower Fellowships Trustees: Philip Reed (vice chair 1955-1975) | Amory Houghton | Henry Luce III | Henry Kissinger (chair and later chair emeritus) | George H. W. Bush (chair and later honorary) | Gerald Ford (chair and later honorary) | Donald Rumsfeld (chair and later emeritus) | Colin Powell (chair) | Christine Whitman (chair executive committee) | Walter Annenberg | Kenneth Derr | Kenneth Lay | Ross Perot, Jr. | Albright | David and Susan Eisenhower | Scowcroft | John Whitehead | Ernst van der Beugel (since 1979). Advisory council: Warren Christoper (chair) | Lee Hamilton | William Luers | Frank Wisner II. |
1953 |
| European-Atlantic Group Officers: Lord Carrington | Sir Frederic Bennett | Lord Chalfont | Geoffrey Rippon | Robert M. Worcester. Speeches: Lord Guthrie, Lord George Robertson, Shimon Peres, Pehr Gyllenhammar, Sir Peter Sutherland, Adm. William Crowe |
1954 |
| Bilderberg Prince Bernhard | Queen Beatrix | David Rockefeller | Sharon Percy Rockefeller | Henry Kissinger | Lord Carrington (chair) | Lord Roll (chair) | George Ball | Nicholas Brady | Heinz II | Hauge | Holbrooke | Haass | Whitehead | Davignon (chair) | John Loudon | Aarnout Loudon ('84) | Max van der Stoel | Wim Kok ('03) | Wolfensohn | Vernon Jordan | Victor Halberstadt (went since 1975, secretary general 1980-2000) | Max Kohnstamm | Conrad Black | Wolfowitz | Perle | Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg | Paul-Emmanuel and Daniel Janssen (steering committe) | Romano Prodi | Kenneth Dam | Sir Frederic Bennett | Peter Thiel (steering) | Sir Peter Sutherland | Roosa ('65, '75, '79, '82) | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst ('70, '74, '81) | Edward Heath ('63, '67, '69)| Lord Kerr of Kinlochard ('04-, steering committee) | Henry and Marie Kravis (regular since 1990s) | Edmond de Rothschild | Sen. Jay Rockefeller (1970, 1971) | Montbrial | McCloy | Agnelli | Gabriel Hauge | Bertrand Collomb (steering comm.) | Sen. George Mitchell (steering comm.) | Mustafa Koc | Grierson (4x) | Ruud Lubbers ('83, '91, '92, '94) | Count Otto Lambsdorff (1980, 1982-1984) | Walther Kiep ('74, '75, '77, '80) | Feyo Sickinghe ('77) | Rozanne Ridgway | Robert Hormats ('83, '85, '85, '10) | Dean Rusk ('57, '69) | Graham Allison (1970, 1971) | Karel Schwarzenberg | Lord George Robertson (2x) | Nunn (2x) | Deutch (3x) | Hans van den Broek (3x) | Bill Clinton (2x) | Rumsfeld (2x) | Brademas (2x) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (2x) | Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein ('85, '86, '87) | Bo Ramfors ('91) | Helmut Kohl | Rifkind ('86, '96) | Mondale ('74, '81) | Chas Freeman (1996) | Richard Pipes (1980) | Robert Pfaltzgraff ('82, '86) | William R. Rhodes (1998) | Douglas Feith (2004) | Ledeen ('05) | Lawrence Summers ('98, '02, '10) | Joschka Fischer ('08) | Martin Feldstein (2008, 2010) | Anatoly Chubais (1998, 2012) | Alexander Rinnooy Kan ('10) | Jeffrey Sachs (1990) | Fred Bergsten (1997, 2002) | Nelson Rockefeller (1974) | Rupert Murdoch (1x) | Pauline Neville-Jones (2004) | Dominique Strauss-Kahn (2000) | Jan Hommen ('07, '10) | Rijkman Groenink ('02) | Cees van der Hoeven ('01) | Ad Melkert ('01) | Lee Hamilton (1x) | Eugene Rostow ('67) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (1x) | Pickering (1x) | Joseph Nye | (1x) | Peter Mandelson | Christine Whitman (1998) | Bolton (2003) | Gen. James L. Jones (1x) | Stephen Friedman | Frans Timmermans | Cees van Lede ('89) | Maxime Verhagen | Ernst van der Beugel (secretary) | Herman Wijffels ('97) | Pieter Korteweg (steering committee) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer ('03, '05, '07, '09) | Susan Eisenhower ('01) | Dianne Feinstein ('91) | Hans van Mierlo ('82) | Gerard Kleisterlee ('02, '06) | Frits Bolkestein ('02, '04) | Hans Wijers ('04) | Jozias van Aartsen ('05) | Nout Wellink ('06, '09) | Arthur Docters van Leeuwen ('05) | Mat Herben ('02) | Neeli Kroes ('05-'11) | Jeroen van der Veer ('00, '03-'05, '07, '09) | Martin van den Bergh | Antony Burgmans ('04) | Jan Peter Balkenende ('08) | Ernst Hirsch Ballin ('09) | Karl Otto Pohl | Michel Rocard (1986) | Paul Desmarais (1982) | Lord Lamont (1995) | David Cameron ('08, '13) | Jan Huyghebaert (1999) | Trichet ('08-'10) | Gerard Mestrallet ('99) | Pascal Lamy | Cyrus Vance | Klaas de Vries ('03) | Gijs de Vries ('04) | Elco Brinkman ('93) | Aatos Erkko ('91) | John Bryan, Jr. ('95) | Gustavo Cisneros ('10) | Niall Ferguson | Eric Schmidt (since 2007; chair and CEO Google). |
1954 |
| Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) Honorary trustees since 1998: Maurice Greenberg | Lee Raymond | George Shultz | John Whitehead. Directors: Frank Wisner (vice chair) | Richard Gardner | Maurice Tempelsman. Also: senior leadership of Lockheed, Raytheon, Time magazine, Enton, etc. Removed leaership from website in 2007. |
1955 |
| Project Hope Maurice Greenberg (director until early 2000s) | Emil Mosbacher, Jr. (director until early 2000s) | Richard T. Clark (director) |
1958 |
| Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard McGeorge Bundy (oversaw the relevant faculty) | Henry Kissinger (co-founder) | Robert R. Bowie (co-founder; CIA) | Brzezinski (early recruit) | Robert Putnam | Huntington (exec.) | Joseph Nye (exec.) | Stephen M. Walt (exec.) | Gene Sharp (research appointments since 1965) | Gen. Edward B. Atkeson (fellow 1973-74) | Lawrence Summers (conference speaker at times and later Harvard president) | Karl Kaiser | Graham Fuller (2001 speech 'The Future of Political Islam') | Dr. Herbert Kelman |
1958 |
| Atlantic Institute for International Affairs (AIIA) Governors: Agnelli | Aurelio Peccei | Carlo de Benedetti | Albright | Robert A. Anderson | George Ball | Carrington | Lord Roll | Davignon | Eagleburger | Scowcroft | Rumsfeld | Oliver Giscard d'Estaing | Victor Halberstadt | Baron Paul-Emmanuel Janssen | Walther Kiep | Andrew Knight | Henry C. Lodge | George Loudon | John Loudon | Hans Merkle | Sir David Nicolson | Richard Gardner | John Macomber | 1st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | McCloy (president) | Baron Alfred von Oppenheim | Jonathan Pollard | Chuck Robb | Robert Roosa | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild | Baron Robert Rothschild | Peter Tennant | Peter Wallenberg | Frank Weil | Paul van Zeeland | William A. M. Burden | William Hewitt | Ernst van der Beugel (1975-1979) | Adolph Schmidt (Mellon) |
1961 |
| US Agency for International Development (USAID) Coordinates with the more controversial National Endowment for Democracy and the International Republican Institute. John Bolton (general counsel 1981-1982) | Laura Dietrich (deputy director external relations 1982-1983) | Richard Holbrooke | Ruslan Tsarni (uncle of the Boston bombers) and (CIA) wife Samantha Ankara Fuller | Margarita Assenova | Janusz Bugajski (consultant on eastern European affairs) |
1961 |
| Academy for Educational Development (AED) Sol Linowitz (chair) | Robert O. Anderson (director) |
1961 |
| Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Georgetown University Adm. Burke | Sam Nunn | David Abshire | Edmond de Rothschild | Davignon | Pell | Kissinger | Greenberg | Brzezinski | Woolsey | Joseph Nye | Joseph Gorman | Carla Hills | Scowcroft | Carlucci | Richard V. Allen | James Schlesinger | Scaife | Albright | William Cohen | James Baker III | Tempelsman | Felix Rohatyn | Patrick Gross | Lloyd Hand | Gen. James L. Jones | Thomas McLarty | Anne Armstrong | Lord George Robertson (done studies) | Kampelman | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Zakheim | 6th Duke of Westminster | Paul Craig Roberts (William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy 1982-1993) | Edward Luttwak (researcher international security affairs 1978-1982; senior fellow 1978-1987; Burke chair in strategy 1987-; director of geo-economics 1991-1994; senior associate anno 2015) | Ray Cline (director world power studies 1973-1986) | William Simon | Joseph Augustyn (consultant) | Janusz Bugajski (director eastern European project) | Gen. Edward B. Atkeson (senior associate) | Hubertus Hoffmann (research fellow) | Adm. Thomas Hayward (vice chair Pacific Forum) | Adm. Hank Chiles (adjunct fellow) | Lester Crown (international councillors board) | Gen. James Cartwright | Harold Brown (counselor) | Barry Blechman | Armitage (co-chair program) | Hagel (director program) | David Rubenstein | Bertrand Collomb | Sandra Day O'Connor (director program) | Robert Strauss | Robert Gates (panel member) | John Kornblum (advisor) | Norman Augustine (chair Homeland Security task force) | Adm. Michael Mullen (panel member) | Warren Rudman (panel member) | Col. Samuel Clabaugh (research fellow). Senior advisors: Gen. Wesley Clark, Adm. Giambastiani, Gen. Peter Pace, Richard Burt, Louis Freeh, J. Stapleton Roy, Walter Slocombe, William Taft IV, and James Tegnelia. 2005 summit: Montbrial | Susan Eisenhower | Hans Binnendijk | Graham Allison | Jacqueline Grapin | William Fox (co-chair Commission on Smart Global Health Policy 2009-) Lord Makins | Zalmay Khalilzad (counselor) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (''distinguished statesman'') |
1962 |
| Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba (CCFC) Adm. Burke | Claire Boothe Luce | Nicholas Duke Biddle | Paul D. Bethell (CIA) | John Fisher | Leo Cherne | Edward Teller | Hans Morgenthau | Spruille Braden |
1963 |
| International Executive Service Corps (IESC) Key founders: David Rockefeller (co-founder and chairman) | Sol Linowitz | C.D. Jackson | Frank Pace | William Paley. Directors: William Hewitt | Michael Blumenthal | Nicholas Brady | John Whitehead | William Rhodes |
1964 |
| Americas Society Officers: David Rockefeller (co-founder and chairman) | John Negroponte (chair) | Conrad Black | Sol Linowitz | Gustavo Cisneros | Steve Forbes | Andre Desmarais | Thomas McLarty III | Robert Mosbacher, Jr. | Rita Hauser. Present at the 39th Washington Conference on the Americas of 2009: Hillary Clinton | Lawrence Summers | James Steinberg. Annual Spring Party attendants: Paul Desmarais | Peter Munk (awarded) | Brian Mulroney | Princess Firyal of Jordan | William Luers | Paul Volcker | William Hewitt | James Wolfensohn | Peter Peterson. Throughout the year the society brings together the leadership of countries all over Latin America. |
1965 |
| Population Action International (PAI) (formerly the Population Crisis Committee) William Draper Jr. (founder) | William Draper III | Adolph Schmidt (Mellon) (co-founder) | Angier Biddle Duke | Robin Chandler Duke | Clare Booth Luce | Ellsworth Bunker | Henry Fowler | George McGhee | Gen. Maxwell Taylor |
1965 |
| Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Governing board: Wolfgang Ischinger | Susan Eisenhower | Vladimir Baranovsky | Hans Blix (chair in 1978) |
1966 |
| Religions for Peace International trustees: Prince El-Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | John Brademas | Thomas McLarty III | Richard Blum (co-chair;husband of Dianne Feinstein) |
1970 |
| World Economic Forum (DAVOS) Klaus Schwab (president and executive chair) | Louis Schweiter (president) | Victor Chu (foundation board) | Bill Clinton | Tony Blair | David Cameron | Angela Merkel | Shimon Peres | Colin Powell | Bill Gates | Sutherland | Victor Halberstadt | Lawrence Summers (co-chair) | John Bryan, Jr. (co-chair 1994, 1997, 2000) | William I. M. Turner, Jr. (council vice chair) | Frank-Jurgen Richter (director) | Patrick Gross | Kasputys | Condoleezza Rice | James Wolfensohn | George von Mallinckrodt | Kofi Annan | Henry Kravis | Queen Rania of Jordan | Yasser Arafat | Bono | Conrad Black | Joseph Gorman | Haass | Maurice Lippens | Victor Pinchuk | David Rockefeller | Maurice Strong | Christine Lagarde (IMF) | Howard Buffett (son of Warren) | Nat Rothschild | David O'Reilly | Fred Bergsten | Turki al Faisal | Berezovsky (1995, 1996) | Tansu Ciller | Gusinsky | Roman Abramovich | Rem Vyakhirev | Khodorkovsky | Mikhail Fridman | Vladimir Potanin | Putin | Anatoly Chubais | Gennady Zyuganov | Leonid Mikhelson | Oleg Deripaska | Martin Feldstein | Richard Gardner | Niall Fitzgerald | Peter Mandelson | John Watson | Dominique Strauss-Kahn | Carl Bildt | Spencer Kim | Larry Page (2002's Global Leader for Tomorrow) | Al Seckel. |
1971 |
| Trilateral Commission David Rockefeller (founder) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller | Kissinger | Brzezinski (founder) | Peter Peterson | Roosa | McCloy | George Ball | Haig | Maurice and Jeffrey Greenberg | David Packard (1973-1981) | Volcker (member since 1975, chairman) | Joseph Nye (chairman) | Jean-Claude Trichet (European chair) | Carl Hahn | Martin Feldstein | Elliot Richardson | William T. Coleman, Jr. | Vance | Prince Willem Alexander of Orange | Maxime Verhagen | Jeroen van der Veer | Holbrooke | Michel David-Weill | Francois Duchene (European vice chair) | Herve de Carmoy (member 1978-1989; French chair 1989-2004; vice chair European section 2004-2010; member 2010-) | Jean-Clause Casanova | Warren Christopher | Thomas Foley | George Franklin | Sutherland (chairman) | Lord Guthrie | Edward Heath (1980) | Grierson | Abshire | Maurice Strong | Walter Mondale | Russell Train | Sir Henry Keswick | Edmond de Rothschild | Brademas | Riley Bechtel | Carla Hills | Andre Desmarais | Marie Josee Kravis | William Webster | Carrington | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | Lord Simon of Highbury | Haass | 1st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | Davignon | Daniel and Paul-Emmanuel Janssen (executive) | Conrad Black | Jacob Frenkel | Maurice Lippens | Clinton | Deutch | Vernon Jordan | John Thain | Rumsfeld | Perle | Condoleezza Rice | Cheney | Carlucci | Rohatyn | Wolfowitz | Count Otto Lambsdorff | Walter Kiep (1993) | Lee Raymond | Soros | McNamara | Joseph Gorman | Rozanne Ridgway | Renato Ruggiero | Carlos Ferrer (European deputy chair) | David Rubenstein | Kenneth Lay | Gorelick | David O'Reilly | Raymond Seitz | Katharine Graham | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Gergen | Zuckerman | Paul O'Neill | Karel Schwarzenberg | Neil Goldschmidt | Philip Hawley | Maurice Sonnenberg | Lee Hamilton | Fukuyama | Michael Armacost | Greenspan | Paula Dobriansky | Chas Freeman | Albright | Gen. James L. Jones | Lawrence Summers | Pickering | Max Kohnstamm | Karl Otto Pohl | Willy de Clercq | Louis Gerstner | Toru Hashimoto | Toru Kusukawa | Shunichi Suzuki | Ruckelshaus | George Shultz | Weinberger | Michael Blumenthal | Niall Fitzgerald | Alexander Rinnooy Kan | Robert Hormats | Cees Maas (EU treasurer) | Strobe Talbott | Sol Linowitz | Paul Warnke | Sir Philip de Zulueta | Eliot Cohen | Gerald Curtis | Jane Harman | Henri Simonet | Kurt Biedenkopf | Walter L. Kiep | Wolfgang Ischinger | Collomb | Philip Zelikow | Robert R. Bowie | Ruud Lubbers | Fred Bergsten | Chuck Robb | William O. Baker | Graham Allison | Peter Mandelson | J. Paul Austin | Dianne Feinstein | Jeffrey Epstein | HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Maarten van Traa (1986) | John Bryan, Jr. Russian consultants of the 1994-95 period: Sergei Karaganov (regular in recent years), Andrei Kokoshin (visited in 1999), Alexei Arbatov. The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies (1975 TC report): Samuel Huntington | Michel Crozier | Joji Watanuki (promoted at the time by Zbigniew B.) |
1973 |
| Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, JFK School, Harvard Paul M. Doty (founder) | Graham Allison (director/head) | Lewis Branscomb | John Deutch | Joseph Nye | Nat Rothschild | James Schlesinger | Paul Volcker | Sam Nunn | Thomas Foley | Michael Chertoff | Mansoor Al-Mahmoud (CEO Qatar Development Bank, of which the chair is Sheikh Abdullah Bin Saud Al Thani) | Lawrence Summers (director) | Saad Abdul-Latif (CEO Pepsi Cola) | Aziz Syriani | Robert Blackwill (international council) | Oleg Deripaska (international council) | Martin Feldstein (expert and director) | Andrei Kokoshin (retained as a long-time expert) | Ayan Hirsi Ali i (listed as a researcher) | Gen. James Cartwright (senior fellow) | Richard A. Clarke (associate) | Fiona Hill (expert). Crown-Belfer Seminar speakers (Lester Crown partnership): Prince Turki al Faisal (2010 and 2013) | Meir Dagan (2011) | Zaid Rifai (former prime minister of Jordan) | Hussain al-Shahristani (Iran's deputy prime minister of energy). |
1973 |
| International Energy Agency (IEA) Established in the wake of the oil crisis. Etienne Davignon (first president 1974-1977) |
1974 |
| Institute for International Development (HIID), JFK School, Harvard Weatherhead Center spinoff. Dwight H. Perkins (director until 1995) | Jeffrey Sachs (director 1995-1999) | David E. Bloom (deputy director since 1995) | Andrei Shleifer (Russian project director; protege of Larry Summers, who set up the USAID project at HIID) | Jonathan Hay (assistant of Shleifer in the Russian project; Moscow director) |
1974-2000 |
| Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD), Georgetown University Max Kampelman (chair 1990s) | Robert Gallucci (dean 1990s) | Thomas Pickering (chair) | Rozanne Ridgway | Lee Hamilton (director 1990s-2000s) | Gen. William Odom (director 1990s-2000s) | Frank Wisner II (director 1990s-2000s) | Sir Peter Sutherland (director 1990s-2000s) | Stapleton Roy (director 2000s). |
1978 |
| Group of Thirty Volcker (chairman) | Jacob Frenkel (trustee chair) | Trichet (management chair since 2012) | Debs | Greenspan | Roosa | Karl Otto Pohl | Duntisbourne | Lord Richardson (chairman) | Sir David Walker | Lawrence Summers | William R. Rhodes | William Dudley |
1978 |
| Open Society Foundations (formerly Open Society Institute) George Soros | Mabel Wisse-Smit | Morton Abramowitz | Bill Moyers | Martti Ahtisaari (joint advisors' group) | Mark Malloch-Brown (vice chair since May 2007; vice president of Quantum Fund) | Morton Halperin (appointed director of the Washington office in Feb. 2002; senior advisor) Nov. 29, 2006 roundtable discussion of OSI: Robert Borosage | Katrina vanden Heuvel | John Podesta Leslie Kean (UFO author; received grants) |
1979 |
| Global 2000 (Carter's private project after his term as U.S. president) Carter | Agha Hasan Abedi | Ryoichi Sasakawa |
1980 |
| EastWest Institute George H. W. Bush (honorary chair) | Helmut Kohl (honorary chair) | Martti Ahtisaari (has been co-chair) | Berthold Beitz (chairman) | John Kluge | Alexander Voloshin | Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Mustafa Koc | Lord Weidenfeld | Ross Perot, Jr. (chair) | Sarah Perot (wife of Perot, Jr.) | Michael Chertoff | Gen. James L. Jones | Joseph Nye | John Whitehead | Wolfgang Ischinger |
1980 |
| Atlas Economic Research Foundation Sir Anthony Fisher (founder). Supporters/speakers: Friedrich von Hayek | Milton Friedman | Jose Maria Aznar |
1981 |
| Business Executives for National Security (BENS) Kissinger | Greenberg | Hayden | William Webster | Philip Lader | Adm. Vernon Clark | Gen. James. L. Jones | Gen. Peter Pace | Pickering | Whitehead | Ross Perot, Jr. | Gen. Thomas McInerney | Gen. Montgomery Meigs | Jeffrey Bergner. Membership: James Angleton, Jr. | Norman Augustine | Carlucci | Draper III | Jamie Gorelick | Patrick Gross | Peter Peterson. |
1982 |
| Search for Common Ground (SFCG) John D. Marks (founder and president) | W. Scott Thompson | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Prince Alfred von Liechtenstein | Dov Zakheim. Advisory board: Michael Murphy | John Mack.Funded by several dozen Eastern Establishment foundation, as well as governments. |
1982 |
| Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) Gene Sharp (founder; president 1983-91; from the Weatherhead Center) | Gen. Edward B. Atkeson (advisory council; CIA and Army Intelligence (Europe); co-wrote a book with Gen. Schwarzkopf and endorsed by William Colby) | Christopher Kruegler (president since 1991) | Peter Ackerman (student of Gene; director) and wife Joanne (director) | Audrius Butkevicius (contact since at least 1991; hosted an AEI symposium in 1992; joined as a visiting scholar in 1994 to help draft a "Baltic Civilian-Based Defense Mutual Assistance Treaty") |
1983 |
| National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) Mondale (chair 1986-1993) | Gephardt | Moynihan | Brademas | Tempselsman | Vance | Albright (chair) | Wolfensohn | Richard Gardner | Richard Blum (husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Sen. Chuck Robb | Susan Rice |
1983 |
| Inter-American Dialogue Sol Linowitz | McGeorge Bundy | McNamara | Theodore Hesburgh | Dianne Feinstein |
1983 |
| National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Allen Weinstein (co-founder) | Walter Raymond, Jr. | Brademas (chair) | Paula Dobriansky (vice chair) | Brzezinski | Abramowitz | Ikle | Taft IV (wife) | Wolfowitz | Holbrooke | Thomas Kean | Lee Hamilton | Carlucci | Wesley Clark | Dick Gephardt (chair) | Barbara Haig (daugther of Alexander) | Sen. Bob Graham | Sen. Jon Kyl | Fukuyama | Solarz | Richard V. Allen (conference participant and public supporter) | Julie Finley (trustee) | Zalmay Khalilzad | Christopher Cox (trustee) | Graham Fuller (attended a 2004 conference) | Elliott Abrams | Robert Zoellick | Steve Forbes |
1983 |
| Council for America's First Freedom (CAFF) Governor's honorary advisory council: Chuck Robb. National honorary advisory council: Albright | Eagleburger | Holbrooke | Sen. George Mitchell | Sandra Day O'Connor | Steven Rockefeller | Rabbi Arthur Schneier | Elie Wiesel. |
1984 |
| Interfaith consultations Founders: Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Crown Prince El Hassan of Jordan and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. Led to the 1994 Interfaith Declaration: A Code of Ethics on International Business for Christians, Muslims, and Jews. |
1984 |
| American Austrian Foundation (AAF) Co-founders: David Rockefeller | Cyrus Vance | George Ball |
1984 |
| Synergos Institute Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (founder; daughter of David Rockefeller) | Maurice Strong (advisory board) |
1986 |
| World Gold Council (WGC) About 20 gold mining corporations are members, with quite a few major ones of Russia missing. AngloGold Ashanti (Oppenheimer family) | Barrick Gold Corp (Peter Munk) | Newmont Mining. |
1987 |
| The Global Panel Directors: Allen Weinstein (chair 1993-1998) | Malcolm Rifkind | Dov Zakheim. Advisory board: Hans van den Broek | Wesley Clark | Paula Dobriansky | Pickering | Lord George Robertson | James Woolsey. Speakers: Dalai Lama | Robert Maxwell | Paul Volcker | Henry Kissinger | Albright | Colin Powell | George H. W. Bush | Jimmy Carter | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Gorbachev | Helmut Schmidt | Netanyahu | Shimon Peres | Carlos Menem | Robert Mugabe | Turgut Ozal | Ruud Lubbers | Wim Kok | Dries van Agt | Wim van Eekelen | Onno Ruding (executive director IMF; director AMRO Bank; finance minister 1982-1989; director Citibank) | Max van der Stoel | Morris Tabaksblat | Hans Wijers | Jacob Frenkel | Yasser Arafat | Yasuhiro Nakasone | Muhamed Sacirbey | Louis Schweitzer | Constantinescu | Nakasone | Fidel Castro | Robert Mugabe | Margaret Thatcher | Turgut Ozal | Graf von Lambsdorff | King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan | many other world leaders. |
1989 |
| International Institute for Democracy (IID) Board: Allen Weinstein (founding board member 1989-2001) | Heinrich Klebes (president) | Sen. Erik Jurgens (Dutch; son of an Unilever director; chair NOS 1975-1985) |
1989 |
| Points of Light Foundation (PLF) Michelle Nunn (CEO; daughter of Sam N.) | George H. W. Bush (co-founder and honorary chair) | Neil Bush (known speaker) | Vernon Jordan |
1990 |
| International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) Ronald Lehman II (international chairman) |
1992 |
| Cercle des Economistes Jean-Herve Lorenzi (president) |
1992 |
| Baker Institute for Public Policy (BIPP) Leslie Gelb | Lord Hurd of Westwell | John Major | Edward Djerejian | Shimon Peres | Joseph Stiglitz | Clifton Wharton, Jr. | Albright | James Baker III and James B. IV | Colin Powell | Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani | Hushang Ansary |
1993 |
| Interpeace Governing council: Lord Paddy Ashdown | Martti Ahtisaari | Jan Pronk (since 2004) | Mabel Wisse-Smit (2010-2012) | Sheikha Hind Bint Hamad Al-Thani |
1994 |
| International Crisis Group (ICG) McNamara | Sen. George Mitchell | Christian Schwarz-Schilling | Vernon Jordan | Jacques Delors | Martti Ahtisaari (chair) | Paddy Ashdown | Khodorkovsky | Brzezinski | Pickering | Berger | Armitage | Gen. Wesley Clark | Soros | Carla Hills | Leslie Gelb | Victor Pinchuk | Lord George Robertson | Wim Kok | Joschka Fischer | Abramowitz | Hushang Ansary | Turki al Faisal | Lord Chris Patten | Solarz | Rita Hauser | Lawrence Summers | Yegor Gaidar (trustee since 2008) | Mark Malloch-Brown | John Prendergast (special advisor to the president) | Nancy Soderberg (vice president) |
1995 |
| United Religions Initiative President's council: George Shultz |
1995 |
| Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) Francois Heisbourg (chair) | Dr. Fred Tanner |
1995 |
| New Atlantic Initiative Conrad Black (co-founder, but never listed as a member). Patrons: Jose María Aznar, Thatcher, Helmut Schmidt, Kissinger, Shultz | Radek Sikorski (exec. director) | International advisory board: Bolton, Brzezinski, Chalfont, Decter, Dobriansky, Feulner, Foley, Gingrich, Robert Hormats, Huntington, Kampelman, Jack Kemp, Kirkpatrick, William Kristol, Ledeen, Ruud Lubbers, Perle, Daniel Pipes, Podhoretz, Colin Powell, Rumsfeld, Weidenfeld, Zoellick. Khodorkovsky (listed after 2003), Rupert Murdoch, Lord George Robertson, Lord Salisbury, Daniel Moynihan. Exec. committee: Edward Streator, Peter Mandelson. Lee Raymond (trustee vice chair). Seminar attendants: Jon Kyl, McCain III, Wolfowitz. |
1996-2005 |
| Emergency Coalition for U.S. Financial Support of the United Nations Leadership council: James Baker III | Carlucci | Carter | Warren Christopher | Eagleburger | Haig | Kampelman | Kissinger | Claiborne Pell | Elliot Richardson | David Rockefeller | William Rogers | Scowcroft | Shultz | Soros | Taft IV | Vance | Volcker | Zoellick |
1996 |
| U.S. Committee to Expand NATO / U.S. Committee on NATO Bruce Jackson (president) | Ronald Asmus (co-chair) | Julie Finley (founder) | Robert Kagan | Perle | Rothkopf | Scheunemann | Albright (speaker) |
1996 |
| Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS Richard Holbrooke (president and CEO) | William Roedy (chair; of MTV). Advisory board: Victor Pinchuk | Bertrand Collomb | Raymond Gilmartin. |
1997 |
| Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba (US-Cuba Trade Assoc.) Directors: David Rockefeller | Volcker | Whitehead | Carla Hills | James Schlesinger | Carlucci | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Oliver Stone (since the 1990s; producer of the pro-conspiracy 'JFK' movie and anti-conspiracy movie 'World Trade Center'; strong "liberal" bias) | Francis Ford Coppola | William Rogers |
1998 |
| Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf (CPSG) Solarz | Perle | Elliott Abrams | Richard V. Allen | Armitage | Carlucci | Paula Dobriansky | Douglas Feith | Frank Gaffney | Fred Ikle | Robert Kagan | Sven Kraemer | William Kristol | Ledeen | McFarlane | Muravchik | Rumsfeld | Gary Schmitt | Sonnenfeldt | Weinberger | Wolfowitz | Zakheim | Bolton |
1998 |
| International Center for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) Present at founding: Hillary Clinton. Present at the London launch: Sir Richard Branson. Honorary board: Margarida Sousa Uva Barroso (wife of the President of the European Commission) | Mrs. Bernadette Chirac (wife of the French president) | HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand | Valentina Matvienko (chair Federal Council of the Russian Federal Assembly) | HRH Princess Lalla Meryem of the Kingdom of Morocco | Queen Paola of Belgium | Queen Silvia of Sweden. Directors: Dr. Franz Humer (chair Roche Holdings) | Arnold Burns (founding chair; former attorney general | Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer (became chair in 2005; later honorary chair) | Daniel Broughton (vice chair Mayo Clinic) | James A. Levine (Mayo Clinic) | Anne-Marie Lizin (president Belgian senate) | Sen. Dennis DeConcini | Victor Halberstadt | Hilmar Kopper (former chair and CEO Deutsche Bank) | Juan Miguel Petit (UN special rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution, and child pornography) | Patty Wetterling (chair NCMEC). NCMEC: national U.S. organization, founded in 1984. Child Focus: Belgian Center for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children, founded in 1997. The idea came from the father of one of the victims of the Dutroux affair, who learned about the NCMEC, after which the government created the center. Founding chair 1997-2007: Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer. |
1998 |
| PlaNet Finance Group International advisory board, past and present: Robert Hormats | Michel David-Weill | Felix Rohatyn | Etienne Davignon | Jacques Delors | Pehr Gyllenhammar | Shimon Peres | Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt) | Herve de Carmoy | Guillaume Sarkozy (older brother of French president Nicolas) | Michel Rocard (French PM) | Edouard Balladur (French PM) | Yusuf bin Alawi Bin (foreign affairs minister of Oman since 1982) | Abdou Diouf (Senegal) | Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh) | Ishrat Husain (Pakistan) | Shashi Tharoor (India) | David Li (Hong Kong) | Pedro Moreira (Brazil). |
1998 |
| Liberalization of Trade in Services (LOTIS) 14 meetings in total. Controlled the process of the WTO. Lord Leon Brittan of Spennithorne (chair) | Sir Peter Sutherland. Other names not made public by investigative journalist Greg Palast, who actually received key documents and major support from none other than close Rockefeller-intimate Joseph Stiglitz. Also: Mark Brown Vestey (extreme left-wing protestor against the WTO who coordinates a lot of the action - yet a member of an elite family. Also involved with Corporate Watch). |
1999-2001 |
| World Technology Network Organizes annual World Technology Summits. Awarded: Al Gore | Maurice Greenberg | Mark Zuckerberg | Larry Page and Serge Brin | Tony Blair. |
1999 |
| Global Forum 2000, Regent Wall Street Hotel, New York City Rupert Murdoch (founder) | Kissinger (chair) | Wolfensohn | Gorbachev | Koichi Kato | Gingrich | Sen. Bob Kerrey | Colin Powell |
2000 |
| Council for a Community of Democracies Albright | Carlucci | Whitehead | Brademas | Kampelman | Paula Dobriansky | Walter Raymond, Jr. |
2000 |
| Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, Princeton University Hans Adam II on L. (founder and advisory council) | Prince Alois von L. (advisory council) | Richard Falk (advisory council; linked to false 9/11 conspiracy ideas) | Claiborne Pell (at the opening conference, as a close family friend). |
2000 |
| Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Finance by Peter Munk |
2000 |
| Center for Dialogues: Islamic World–U.S.–The West Advisory board: John Brademas | Richard Haass | Etienne Davignon | Mortimer Zuckerman | Frank Wisner II | Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (France) | Ambassador Nassir Abdelaziz Al-Nasser (Qatar) | Hoda Badran (Egypt) | H.M. Queen Noor and HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal (Jordan) | Maleeha Lodhi (Pakistan) | Chandra Muzaffar (Malaysia) | Farhan A. Nizami (India/U.K.) | Thoraya Obaid (Saudi Arabia) | Rakhamim Emanuilov (Russia). Center's 2002 dialogue report was entitled, 'Clash of Civilizations or Clash of Perceptions?' |
2001 |
| Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Advisory board: Jim Balsillie (founder and chair) | Maurice Strong |
2001 |
| Atlantic Partnership Lord Charles Powell (chair) | Kissinger | Sen. Joseph Biden | John Major | Sam Nunn | William Cohen | Scowcroft | McCain III | Lord George Robertson | Colin Powell | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild | Paula Dobriansky | John Drexel IV | Richard Burt (trustee) |
2001 |
| Energy Future Coalition (EFC) Advisory council: James Woolsey. Steering committee: Richard Branson | Frances Beinecke | Charles B. Curtis | Tom Daschle | Susan Eisenhower | Michael Finley (Turner Fdn.) | C. Boyden Gray | John Podesta | Adm. Dennis McGinn | Steve Symms | Ted Turner. |
2001 |
| Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) Ted Turner (co-chair) | Nunn (co-chair) | Alexei Arbatov | Igor Ivanov | Sergei Rogov | Susan Eisenhower | Buffett | Perry | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Kokoshin | Malcolm Rifkind | Gen. James Cartwright |
2001 |
| Club of Madrid Wim Kok (president). Members: John Major | Jose Maria Aznar | Jacques Delors | Bill Clinton | Jimmy Carter | Carl Bildt | Mikhail Gorbachev | Amine Pierre Gemayel | Helmut Kohl | Martti Ahtisaari | Ruud Lubbers | Romano Prodi | Javier Perez de Cuellar | Jose Zapatero | Guy Verhofstadt. Includes many other former leaders from countries around the world. |
2001 |
| Center for Global Development (CGD) Edward Scott (founder; from PIIE) | Fred Bergsten (founder) | Mark Malloch-Brown | David Rothkopf | C. Boyden Gray | Robert Mosbacher, Jr. | Lawrence Summers | Paul O'Neill |
2001 |
| World Security Network (aims towards young people) Hubertus Hoffmann (founder; Fritz Kraemer protege 1978-2003) | Fritz Kraemer (founder) | Ronald Asmus | Lord Peter Inge | Sergei Rogov | Gen. Edward Rowny | Samy Gemayel (Lebanon) |
2001 |
| Project on Transitional Democracies Bruce Jackson (president) | Julie Finley (chair) | Randy Scheunemann (treasurer): Co-signers May 2006 open letter to G7 on democracy in Russia: Ian Brzezinski, William Kristol, Richard Pipes. |
2002 |
| European Economic Round Table Organizers: Jacob Rothschild & Buffett | Schwarzenegger | Nicky Oppenheimer | Wolfensohn |
2002 |
| Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC) Hans Blix | Alexei Arbatov | William Perry | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Joran |
2003 |
| CMi cmi.eu.com. Established to create better corporate directors. Listed as mentors, past and present: Sir John Buchanan | Bertrand Collomb | Viscount Etienne Davignon | Sir John Egan | Niall FitzGerald | Sir Christopher Hogg (and wife) | Wim Kok | Lord Simon of Highbury | Sir Peter Sutherland | Sir Richard Sykes |
2003 (+/-) |
| Horasis, Switzerland Frank-Jurgen Richter (founder and chair) | Jean-Claude Trichet |
2005 |
| Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual New York conferences set up through the Clinton Foundation, funded by many contributors, besides businesses names as Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Vernon Jordan | Thomas McLarty | Rahm Emanuel | Richard Holbrooke. Visitors/speakers: Victor Pinchuk (Clinton Foundation trustee and conference visitor) | Maurice Tempelsman | Lee Kuan Yew | Tony Elumelu | Muhammed Yunus | Obama | Christine Lagarde | Bill Gates | Pamela Omidyar | David Mayer de Rothschild | Michael Peterson (son of Pete Peterson) | Charlie Rose | Sheryl Sandberg (CEO Facebook) | Queen Rania of Jordan | King Abdullah of Jordan (2015) | Sir Richard Branson (2015) | George Soros (2015) | Shane Smith (2015; Vice Media). Over 150 heads of state in total. |
2005 |
| North America Forum Shultz (U.S. co-chair) | Perry (U.S. co-chair). Invited speakers: George H. W. Bush (2008) | Robert Gates (2008) | John Negroponte (2008) | Tom Ridge (2009) | Gen. Peter Pace (2009) | James Woolsey (2009). Known participants: Carla Hills | Rumsfeld | James Schlesinger | Ronald Lehman (co-founder) | Kenneth Dam | William Schneider, Jr. | Robert Pastor. |
2005 |
| Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) George W. Bush (co-founder). Members North American Competitiveness Council, founded in 2006 as part of the SPP: Paul Desmarais, Jr. U.S. members only listed as corporations: Chevron (chair and CEO David O'Reilly 2000-2009), Ford, General Electric, General Motors, Lockheed, Merck. |
2005 |
| Forum for a Responsible Globalization Conference held in Lyon on October 26 and 27. Honorary board members of the meeting included: Jacques Delors | Pascal Lamy | Michel Rocard | Bertrand Collomb | Etienne Davignon | Gerard Mestrallet. |
2006 |
| Managing Global Insecurity Joint project of Brookings, Stanford and CIC. U.S. advisory group: Armitage, Sandy Berger, Perry, Pickering, John Podesta, Scowcroft, Talbott, James Wolfensohn. Worked with representatives from Brazil, Darfur, Afghanistan, Malaysia, China, Canada, India, Nigeria, Japan, Australia and worked with the chairman of BHP Billiton. |
2007-2008 |
| Nuclear Security Project (NSP) Kissinger | Shultz | Perry | Nunn |
2007 |
| International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrope Moshe Kantor (president; chair initial organizing committee) | Blix | Nunn | Perry | Karaganov | Oznobishchev | Alexei Arbatov | Vagif Guseinov | Alexander Nikitin | Roald Sagdeev (former husband of Susan Eisenhower) |
2007 |
| Americas Business Council Foundation Emilio Azcarraga Jean Milmo (co-founder and co-chair) | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay Rockefeller; fellow). Involved in its Continuity Forum (co-financed with the Knight Fdn): Desmond Tutu | Mikhail Gorbachev | Kofi Annan (2012) | Jeb Bush (2012) | Richard Branson | Muhammad Yunus | Dr. Stephan Schmidheiny | Alexandra Cousteau (2012) | David de Rothschild (2012) | Steve Wozniak (2012) | Arianna Huffington (of the Huffington Post; 2013) | Buzz Aldrin (2013) | Larry Summers (2013) | Jane Goodall (2013) | Nicholas Kristof (2014) | |
2008 |
| Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation (TLG - inspired by the NSP) 13th Marquess of Lothian (Kerr) | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | Lord Carrington | Lord Guthrie | Lord Howe | Lord Howell | Lord Hurd | Lord Owen | Malcolm Rifkind | Lord George Robertson | Margaret Beckett |
2009 |
| Italian Institute of Strategic Studies (Instituto Machiavelli) IAC: Fritz Ermarth |
2010 |
| Global Progress Council Organized by Bill Clinton, Felipe González and Tony Blair in preparation for the Global Progress Summit in 2011, about which little is known.. |
2010 |
| NATO Defense College Foundation Senior advisory board: Gen. Wesley Clark | Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar (Bahrain) | Nabeela Al-Mulla (Kuwait) | Ghazi Al Bahar Al Rawas (Oman) | Mohammed Ali Al-Naqbi (UAE) | Sheikh Ali Bin Jassim Al-Thani (Qatar) | Dr. Ahmad Masa'deh (Jordan) | Abdulaziz Sager | Mahmoud Karem (Egypt) | Mesut Ciceker (VP Lockheed) | Ambassador Robert Hunter | Ian Lesser | Fred Tanner | Sinan Ulgen | Damon Wilson |
2011 |
| Halifax International Security Forum U.S.: Robert Gates | Chuck Hagel | Leon Panetta | Janet Napolitano | Stephen Hadley | Paula Dobriansky | Jane Harman | Condoleezza Rice | Sen. John McCain | Sen. John Barrasso | Sen. Susan Collins | Sen. Lindsey Graham | Sen. Tim Kaine | Sen. Barbara Mikulski | Sen. Jeff Sessions | Sen. Jeanne Shaheen | Sen. Mark Udall Canada: John Baird | Steven Blaney | Peter MacKay | Rob Nicholson | Vic Toews Great Britain: Pauline Neville-Jones | Liam Fox New Zealand: Wayne Mapp Latin America: Juan Carlos Pinzon Bueno (Colombia) | Rodrigo Hinzpeter Europe: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (Germany) | Wolfgang Ischinger | Pieter de Crem (Belgium) | Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (Netherlands) | Pedro Morenes (Spain) | Nicolai Wammen (Denmark) Israel: Ehud Barak | Moshe Yaalon Middle East: Abdul Rahim Wardak (Afghanistan) | Ahmed Rashid |
2011 |
| Oil Club Chairman: Lord Lamont |
Unknown |
Includes South African think tanks.
| Zoological Society of London Charles Darwin | Dr. Geoffrey Bourne (fellow) |
1826 |
| Smithsonian Institution Government-funded. Trustees: Gen, Joseph Wheeler (regent 1886-1900) | Henry F. Osborn (elected secretary in 1906, but declined) | Dwight Morrow (regent) | William H. Taft (chancellor 1921-1930) | Charles Hughes (chancellor 1930-1941) | Foster Stearns (regent 1941-1945) | S. Dillon Ripley II (secretary 1964-1984, emeritus for years after) | Edward K. Thompson (hired by Ripley to set up and run the Smithsonian magazine; psywar expert who worked for Henry Luce and C.D. Jackson at Time Life) | Robert Bliss (vice chair Art Commission) | Clarke Gilmore (Art Commission 1940-1967) | Caryl Haskins (regent 1956-1980, emeritus after that) | Warren Burger (chancellor 1969-1986) | William Hewitt | John French III | Henry Catto | Anne Armstrong | William A. M. Burden (regent) | Patrick Gross (member Smithsonian Luncheon Group) | William Rehnquist (1986-2005) |
1846 |
| Peabody Education Fund Together with the Peabody Trust in England the first foundations in existence. Trustees: George Peabody (founder; founded Peabody, Morgan & Co. with J.P. Morgan, Sr.'s father, Junius) | Gen. Ulysses Grant | J. Pierpont Morgan (treasurer) | Joseph Choate | Morris Jesup |
1867 |
| American Museum of Natural History Theodore Roosevelt (considered a young co-founder). Trustees 1881: Morris Jesup (president 1881-1908) | J. Pierpont Morgan | Cornelius Vanderbilt | Oliver Harriman | William E. Dodge, Jr. | Percy Pyne | Joseph Choate | James Constable. Some other later trustees: Dr. Henry F. Osborn (assistant to president 1899-1901, vice president 1901-1908, president 1908-1933; since 1893 a great friend of John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club) | Madison Grant | Frederick Osborn | Cleveland H. Dodge (vice president) | Cleveland E. Dodge (trustee) | Mrs. Russell Sage (benefactor) | Clarke Gilmore | Robert Bliss | Caryl Haskins (trustee 1973-1989) | Maurice Greenberg | David Koch. Also: Andrew carnegie established the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. |
1869 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) William Osborn (president 1941-1947) | John Cadwalader | Caryl Haskins | Chauncey Depew | Thomas Lamont | Ogden Mills | Harry Morgan | David Schiff | C. Douglas Dillon | Malcolm Pratt Aldrich | Walter Annenberg | Brooke Astor | Kissinger | Michael Bloomberg | Jeffrey Greenberg (son of Maurice G.) | Michel David-Weill | Mrs. H. J. Heinz II | |
1870 |
| National Rifle Association (NRA) Clinton Gutermuth (director 1963-1973, president 1973-1975, executive council since 1975) |
1871 |
| Eugenics Movement Sir Francis Galton (founder; cousin of Charles Darwin) |
1883 |
| New York Zoological Society Trustees: William Vanderbilt (founding life member) | Andrew Carnegie (founding life member) | Vincent Astor (organized an expedition to the Galapagos Islands in honor of Darwin) | Brooke Astor | John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (besides being a trustee, made a $1,000,000 donation in 1923) | Edward Harkness ($100,000 dollar donation) | Mrs. Russell Sage ($750,000 donation) | Harry F. Osborn (executive chair 1896-1903) | Madison Grant (president) | Morris Jesup | Ogden Mills | Mortimer Schiff | George F. Baker, Sr. | Cornelius Agnew | Kermit Roosevelt | Fairfield Osborn (trustee since 1923, president 1940-1968) | Laurance Rockefeller (trustee since 1941). Also: Clinton Gutermuth. Members of the Ladies' Auxilliary of the New York Zoological Society: Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan | Mrs. George F. Baker, Jr. | Mrs. Marshall Field | Mrs. Cleveland E. Dodge | Mrs. William G. Rockefeller | Mrs. George Whitney | Mrs. J. Borden Harriman | Mrs. Percy R. Pyne. Madison Grant wrote the 1916 book Anglo-Saxon white race superiority book 'The Passing of the Great Race', with a foreword of Henry F. Osborn. Adolf Hitler later wrote back to Grant that this book had become "his bible" and replaced the term "nordic" with "aryan". |
1895 |
| Eugenics Society, London and American Eugenics Society Henry F. Osborn (vice president) | Fairfield Osborn | Frederick Osborn (president) | Margaret Sanger | Madison Grant | Charles Darwin | Charles Davenport | Julian Huxley (vice president 1937-1944, president 1959-1962) | John Maynard Keynes (director 1937-1944) | Neville Chamberlain | Arthur Balfour. |
1907 |
| Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Original financiers: Carnegie Institute, Mary Harriman (mother of Averell H.). Rockefeller Fdn. support came when the great depression hit. Charles Davenport (founder) | Reginald Harris (headed eugencis research; son-in-law of Davenport) | Harry Laughlin (director) | Alexander Graham Bell (committee member. Became a center of genetics research. Elite laboratory trustees: Norris Darrell, Jr. (director 1974-1981) | Taggart Whipple (vice chair 1986-1992) | Walter Page II (director) |
1910-1940 |
| International Congresses of Eugenics of 1911, 1921 and 1932 Henry F. Osborn (co-president) | Leonard Darwin (co-president; a son of Charles Darwin) |
1911 |
| Eugenics Research Association (ERA) Charles Davenport (founder) | Madison Grant (director). |
1913 |
| Save the Redwoods League Madison Grant (co-founder) | Henry Fairfield Osborn (co-founder) | Fairfield Osborn (director) | Caryl Haskins |
1918 |
| American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Ernest Angell (chair) | Morton Halperin (Washington director 1984-1992; head of its "National Security Archive") | George Soros (major financier). |
1920 |
| American Birth Control League (Planned Parenthood) All names gathered from NY Times articles. Margaret Sanger (primary founder). Paul Ehrlich among the board of advocates members. Early major contributors to the Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood of the American Birth Control League: John D. Rockefeller III | Felix M. and Frieda Warburg Foundation. Supporters of the 1940 national campaign of Planned Parenthood: Thomas Lamont (national treasurer) | Barry Bingham (national vice chair) | Winthrop Aldrich | John Schiff (Rothschild-related family) | George F. Baker | Edward Harkness | Dwight Morrow | Mrs. Walter N. Rothschild (Carola Warburg Rothschild) | Mrs. James Stillman Rockefeller. 1960s sponsors: Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt | Lammot Du Pont Copeland | Mrs. Robert E. Blum | Francis T. P. Plimpton | William H. Draper, Jr. (vice chairman of the Planned Parenthood Federation and special counsel to the International Planned Parenthood Federation). |
1921 |
| American Eugenics Society Leon F. Whitney (secretary; dog breeder). Whitney sent his 1934 book 'The Case for Sterilization' to Hitler, for which he received a congratulatory note. The book of his colleague Madison Grant had an even greater effect on Hitler. |
1922 |
| Lucis Trust Originally named Lucifer's Trust. In the 1980s Robert McNamara was repeatedly named as a member/director by Lyndon Larouche's group, which also talked to representatives of the trust. Of course, Larouche's groups tend to be rather cultic and skimpy when it comes to providing physical evidence, but they seldom - if ever - make up memberships. Lucis Trust has refused to answer this author regarding any questions about past directorships or financial support, but looking at this list of conservation-linked NGOs it would be almost strange if Robert M., Maurice S. and the Rockefeller Fdn. haven't been involved to a degree. |
1922 |
| Central Selling Organization De Beers diamond cartel. Oppenheimer family controlled. |
1934 |
| Pioneer Fund Founding directors: Wickliffe Preston Draper | Harry Laughlin | Frederick Osborn. Other directors: John M. Woolsey, Jr. | Charles Codman Cabot. Lost a lot of relevancy after WWII in terms of elitism, after Anglo-Saxon eugenics policies were banned. However, since the 1990s Fund director Richard Lynn has been making waves as the premier investigator of worldwide IQ differences among races. |
1937 |
| War of the Worlds broadcast A psychological warfare experiment financed by the Rockefeller Fdn. |
Oct. 30, 1938 |
| Outward Bound Trust David Schiff (director 1983-1999). Lynn Forester (a trustee) and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild organized a fundraiser in September 2002. Present: Jacob Rothschild | Prince Andrew | Arthur Sulzberger (chair of the New York Trust). Donors to the New York Trust include every major liberal establishment bank and corporation, as well as individuals as John Whitehead and Richard Holbrooke. |
1941 |
| Temple of Religion, New York World Fair William Osborn (director NYWF, president of the temple; married into Dodge family) |
1939 |
| United Nations Association (UNA) Set up just before the creation of the UN. Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford (US co-chairs national council) | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (national VP 1946-1963) | Roosa (governor) | Whitehead (US chair and director World Federation) | Elliot Richardson (US co-chair) | Vance (US co-chair) | McCloy | Greenberg | Ted Turner | Lee Hamilton | William vanden Heuvel (US trustee and (president of its World Federation) | Volcker | William Draper III | Frank Wisner II | Pickering (US co-chair) | William Hewitt | Gustavo Cisneros | H.R.H. Princess Firyal of Jordan | Maurice Strong (president of its World Federation) | Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein (prominent Austrian member of UNA's international club) | Nelson Mandela. Known visitors: Jacob Rothschild | Kissinger | David Rockefeller | Happy Rockefeller. |
1943 |
| Natural Resources Council of America (NRCA) Clinton Gutermuth (co-founder, secretary 1946-1957, chair 1959-1961, spokesperson until his death in 1987) |
1946 |
| North America Wildlife and Natural Resources Conferences Clinton Gutermuth (chair 1946-1971) |
1946 |
| Pacifica Radio / Pacifica Foundation Non-profit radio network. Financed by Ford Fdn. ($150,000 in 1951; $75,000 in 1998; $475,000 in 2000-2002 to the closely-related Astraea Foundation) | George Soros ($40,000 in 1995) | Carnegie Corp. ($25,000 in 1996 to help launch Democracy Now!) Kaplan Fund ($13,000 in 1997 and $10,000 in 1998) | Alan Watts (KPFA radio program 1953-1973 (death)) | Allen Ginsberg (Beat Generation show since 1955; worked with Pacifica in 1991 to oppose Sen. Jesse Helms) | Norman Cousins (writer) | George Carlin 1975 routine Dirty Words You Can't Say on Television broadcasted and causes years of controversy) | | Gave voice to: Korean War opponents, Vietnam War opponents (I.F. Stone and Bertrand Russell), civil rights movement (Andrew Goodman, son of Pacifica president, was murdered for it), Che Guevara (1967 interview), My Lai massacre (1969), Iran Contra coverage. Owns: Free Speech Radio News Owns/began in Feb. 1996: Democracy Now! Anti-Zionist/anti-neocon. Hosts: Amy Goodman (previously WBAI on Pacifica) | Juan Gonzalez. - Ford Foundation Annual Report 1998: "Pacifica Foundation (North Hollywood, Calif.) $75,000 For a marketing promotion and program development activities for Democracy Now!" - Ford Foundation Annual Report 2002: "Deep Dish TV, Inc. (New York, NY) $75,000 For the television news series "Democracy Now" to continue incorporating the aftermath of the September 11th attacks into future broadcasts." - Ford Foundation Annual Report 2004: "Democracy Now Productions, Inc. (New York, NY) $150,000 To produce, broadcast and distribute a series of radio, television and Internet reports on the media reform movement in the United States. |
1946 |
| Conservation Foundation Laurance Rockefeller (co-founder) | Fairfield Osborn (president 1948-1961, chair 1962-1969) | Samuel Ordway, Jr. (president 1961-1965) | Russell Train (president 1965-1969) | David McAlpin (founding trustee) | William Vogt (secretary; author on population control) | Matthew Huxley (early staff member; son of Aldous H.) | Max Nicholson (conference steering committee member anno 1965). The founding was timed to take place just after the publication of Osborn's book 'Our Plundered Planet' and was intended to expand the field of conservation beyond wildlife protection, as the Zoological Society has done. |
1948 |
| International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) The WWF was later set up with the primary intention to generate funds for the IUCN. Julian Huxley (primary founder, remained an advisor) | Sir Peter Scott (chairman Survival Service Commission 1962-1981, later honorary chair) | Luc Hoffmann (vice president 1966-1969, continued involvement and financial support) | Maurice Strong (chair at some point, director, continued involvement) | Ted Turner (involved in conferences) |
1948 |
| The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Directors: William Vogt (1950-1956) | George Cooley (director 1960-1974, vice president 1964-1966, vice chair 1966-1974) | Mrs. David Rockefeller (1972-1979) | William K. du Pont (1975-1978) | Roy Larsen (1974-1979) | Robert O. Anderson (1986-1989) | Winthrop P. Rockefeller (1986-1994) | John W. Hanes, Jr. (1988-1997, member president’s conservation council anno 2010; CIA) | John Whitehead (1991-2001) | Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf (1992-1998) | Steve McCormick (president and CEO 2001-2007) | Mary Ruckelshaus (2009-2010; daughter of William R.). Also: Clinton Gutermuth (member) | David Packard (vice chair California Nature Conservancy 1983-1990). British counterpart: Max Nicholson (head). |
1951 |
| Resources for the Future (RFF) Paley (key founder and chairman) | Fairfield Osborn | Laurance Rockefeller | Robert O. Anderson | John L. Fisher (president) | Ruckelshaus (president) | Donald Kerr | John Deutch (vice chair) | Joseph Stiglitz |
1952 |
| Population Council John D. Rockefeller III | Frederick Osborn | Detlev Bronk | John Foster Dulles | Cyril Haskins (1954-1980) | Henry King | Elizabeth McCormack | Justin Rockefeller (Sen. Jay Rockefeller). |
1952 |
| New World Foundation (NWF) Founded by the will and fortune of Anita McCormick Blaine (married to the son of Senator James Blaine, also secretary of state 1881, 1889-1892; daughter of Cyrus McCormick; a brother, Harold McCormick, married the youngest daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Edith) | Gilbert Harrison (co-founder; married into the Blaine family in 1951). Board: Vernon Jordan (1980s) | Hillary Clinton (trustee 1982-1988, chair 1987-1988) | Colin Greer (president 1985-; very close to Hillary Clinton when her husband was president). Financing: Tides Fdn., Ford Fdn., etc. Financed and finances the ultra-left, including Grassroots International (which provided funds to the PLO), Christic Institute, IPS, IMI, ACLU, conservation groups, etc. |
1954 |
| American Conservation Association Laurance Rockefeller | Russell Train | Samuel Ordway, Jr. |
1958 |
| Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands Founders: Julian Huxley and S. Dillon Ripley II. |
1959 |
| South Africa Foundation (SAF) Primary founders: Anton Rupert (Rothmans; Rembrandt; Gold Fields of South Africa; relationship with Edmund de Rothschild through Carreras Tobacco goes back to at least 1958) | Harry Oppenheimer (Anglo American Corporation) | Sir Francis de Guingand. Members: Charles Engelhard (vice president) | Donny Gordon (Liberty Life), Marinus Daling (Sanlam), Conrad Strauss (Standard Bank) | Mike Levett (Old Mutual), Julian Ogilvie Thomson (Anglo American Corporation), Clive Menell (Anglovaal) | Warren Clewlow (Barlows). |
1959 |
| Institute of Directors in Southern Africa (IDSA) Harry Oppenheimer (founder, president 1960-1968) | Bail Hersov (president 1968-2001, life honorary patron) | Johann Rupert (trustee) |
1960 |
| Temple of Understanding Juliet Hollister (founder). Founding friends: Eleanor Roosevelt | Henry Luce III | Dalai Lama | Pope John Paul XXIII | U Thant | Anwar al-Sadat. Mother Teresa (involved). Awarded: Nelson Mandela | Desmond Tutu | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. Jonathan Granoff (trustee) | Sherry Bronfman (trustee anno 2012; ex-wife of Edgar, Jr.). |
1960 |
| International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Spurred the Green revolution. Co-founder: John D. Rockefeller III. Same network set up the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in 1970. Co-founders: Raymond Fosdick (Rock. Fdn.) | George Harrar (Rock. Fdn.) | Frosty Hill (Ford Fdn.) | Paul Hoffman (Ford Fdn.) | Robert McNamara | Maurice Strong | Ingrid Hagen. |
1960 |
| Sierra Club Foundation Finances the activities of the Sierra Club, founded in 1892 by John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt. Officers: George Cooley (financier in 1965-1969 period, possibly board member) | David Brower (joined in the 1930s, editor Sierra Club Bulletin since 1946, executive director in 1952-1969, again director 1983-1988 and 1995-2000). Pusblished Paul Ehrlich's book 'The Population Bomb'. Foundation officers: Brower (official founder) | Michael McCloskey (hired by Brower in 1961, executive director 1969-1985, honorary treasurer until 2010) | Melvin Lane (trustee 1977-1984) | Robert McKinney (has been trustee, treasurer, chair, advisory council member and an important donor) Additional facts on financing: Ford Fdn.: gave $170,000 to the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund between 1979 and 1981. Atlantic Richfield of Robert O. Anderson is known to have given $30,000 to the Sierra Club Federation in 1979-1980. The Rockefeller Family Fund, of which David Rockefeller is the honorary trustee, makes annual donations between $25,000 to $55,000 to the Sierra Club Foundation, even today. Trustees generally hold mid-level positions in larger companies or control less important corporations. Important: executive director David Brower left in protest in 1969 after clashes about opposition to nuclear energy (Brower did not support it). That same year he founded Friends of the Earth with support of Robert Anderson. Also: Steven Greer has lectured the Sierra Club. |
1960 |
| African Wildlife Foundation Founders: Russell Train | Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. | Arthur Windsor Arundel. Sue Erpf van de Bovenkamp (president's council). |
1961 |
| World Wildlife Fund / World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Conservationists who played a role in the founding: Julian Huxley | Max Nicholson | Guy Mountfort | Sir Peter Scott (chair 1961-1985). They received support from: Godfrey Rockefeller (hired some of the first staff; executive director 1972-1977, director and international council 1977-2006; director Freeport McMoran mining company): Prince Bernhard (first president 1962-1976) | Prince Philip (president 1981-1996). A few others: Clinton Gutermuth (founding U.S. director 1961-1973 and later president) | John Loudon (president 1976-1981; Shell chair) | Luc Hoffmann (international vice president and president French branch; sponsor of many projects) | Ruud Lubbers (president in 2000) | Anton Rupert (founding trustee and president in South Africa) | Charles Engelhard (founding trustee for South Africa) | Gavin Relly (became trustee chair for South Africa in 1987; Oppenheimer front man through chairmanship Anglo American mining company). 1962 fundraiser in New York City of the two princes: Sir David Ormsby Gore | Mr. and Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke | Mr. and Mrs. William Paley | Richard K. Mellon | Mr. and Mrs. John R. Drexel III | Mr. and Mrs. Francis Kellogg | Gen. and Mrs. Paul E. Peabody. Also: In 2008 Shell backed off from sponsoring a prestigious wildlife photography exhibition after major protests from Friends of the Earth and WWF. The man heading the protest campaign was Mark Brown (Vestey), member of a wealthy, elite British family who coordinates much of Britain's radical left-wing protests. |
1961 |
| Esalen Institute Michael Murphy and Dick Price (founders; Stanford graduates; Price also spent time at Harvard; land owned by Murphy's family). Involved: Alan Watts (co-founder; close friend of Price since the 1950s) | Aldous Huxley (co-founder) | Laura Huxley (co-founder) | Hunter Thompson (a young security guard) | Joan Baez | Abraham Maslow | Richard Alpert/Ram Dass | Buckminster Fuller | Timothy Leary | J.B. Rhine | Linus Pauling | Carlos Castaneda | Deepak Chopra | Moshe Feldenkrais | Stanislav Grof (live-in scholar 1973-1987) | Rick Doblin (protege of Grof) | Albert Hofmann | Sam Keen | Ken Kesey | John Lilly | Terence McKenna | Rupert Sheldrake | Dean Ornish | Humphry Osmond | Arnold Toynbee | Andrew Weil | Jack Sarfatti (director of a physics program in the 1970s) | Laurance Rockefeller (provided a 3-year-grant in 1986 for the Program on Revisioning Philosophy; in 1988-1990 funded three The Body and Spirituality conferences though his Fund for the Enhancement of the Human Spirit) | Laura Rockefeller Chasin (daughter of Laurance) | Jean Lanier | Karl Pribram | Sen. Claiborne Pell | Dean Radin | Robert McDermott | Russell Targ | Charles Tart | Stephan Schwartz | Jim Tucker | Fred Wolff | Gordon Wasson | Elizabeth Kubler-Ross | Ralph Metzner | Adam Crabtree | Jacques Vallee | Esalen Institute's Soviet-American Exchange Program (1980) James Garrison (founder). Allowed him to meet with top Soviet leaders and brought over Yeltsin to the United States. Largely responsible for the top level connections of Garrison. Yeltsin (hosted). |
1962 |
| Universal House of Justice, Baha'i religion world center, Haifa, Israel First year nine-member council began operating as head on the religion. Farzam Arbab (council member 1993-beyond 2003; long time Baha'i leader in Colombia where he worked for the Rock. Fdn.) | Steven Greer (worked at this center 1978-1981 and married his wife here) |
1963 |
| Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) Co-founders: Marcus Raskin (aide to McGeorge Bundy 1961-1962) and Richard Barnet (co-director 1963-1978 and active until 1998; aide to John McCloy 1961-1962 at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; later member Council on Foreign Relations). Start-up financing: James Warburg, Philip Stern (Sears), Samuel Rubin Foundation. Later financing: Ford Fdn., Rockefeller Fdn., Rockefeller Bros Fund, Charles Stewart Mott Fdn., MacArthur Fdn., Turner Fdn. Senior scholars: Noam Chomsky, Richard Falk. Robert Borosage (director 1979-1988; advisor to Rev. Jesse Jackson and Paul Wellstone) | Katrina vanden Heuvel (director) | John Cavanagh (exec. director since 1998; anti-NAFTA) | Lisa Fuentes (director) | Harry Belafonte (director). Publisher of CounterSpy. Senior fellows (since 2002): Noam Chomsky | Richard Falk | Gore Vidal. Center for National Security Studies (CNSS): founded in 1974. Robert Borosage (founding director 1974-1975, advisory board after that) | Morton Halperin (director 1975-1992; advisory board, including chair, since then) | Peter Weiss (advisory board 1970s-1980s while IPS trustee). Board anno Nov. 2015: Kate Martin (director of ligitation 1988-1992; director 1992-) | Nancy Soderberg (vice chair; former National Security Council staffer; vice president Soros' ICG) | Vivian Schiller (chief digital officer NBC; president NPR; senior vice president NY Times and Discovery Channel) | Gen. William Smith (deputy commander NATO; president IDA). Transnational Institute (TNI): founded in 1973 in Amsterdam. Originally meant to be the international branch of IPS. People: Orlando Leletier (director of TNI in 1976; former foreign and defense minister of Chile and ambassador to the U.S.; assassinated in Sep. 1976) | John Cavanagh (founding fellow) | Phyllis Bennis (fellow) | Boris Kagarlitsky (associated fellow and coordinator of TNI's Global Crisis project; major Putin opponent) | Baker Vashee (head; marxist Rhodesian activist and Ian Smith opponent) | Eqbal Ahmad (staff; Pakistani suspected of terrorimsm) | Gretta Duisenberg (closely involved; famous pro-Palestine activist; married to European Central Bank president Wim Duisenberg) | Philip Agee (controversial CIA officer; lived at the TNI HQ before evicted from the Netherlands). Organizing Committee for the Fifth Estate (CO-5): founded in 1973 by IPS and part of CNSS. It published Philip Agee's controversial anti-CIA, anti-death squad magazine CounterSpy, published from 1973 to 1984. In 1975 issue Agee first began publishing names of CIA officers around the world. In 1978 Agee also founded CovertAction Information Bulletin, which was published until 2005. In 1992 the magazine was renamed CovertAction Quarterly. |
1963 |
| University of South Africa Foundation (UNISA) Gavin Relly (chair 1975-1996; Oppenheimer employee) |
1966 |
| World Future Society (WFS) Directors anno 2000: John Gardner | Sol Linowitz | Robert McNamara | John L. Petersen | Irving Shapiro (chair E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co) | Maurice Strong. Council members: Arthur C. Clarke. Global advisory council anno 2013: Maurice S. | John L. P |
1966 |
| California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Heavily focused on Indian philosophy. Involved: Stanislav Grof (adjunct faculty member; scholarship named after him) | Robert McDermott | Laurance Rockefeller (top financier) | Elizabeth McCormack (chair; major Rockefeller representative). Council of Sages (2011): Richard Alpert/Ram Dass | Rupert Sheldrake. More financing: Tides Fdn., Threshold Fdn., Kaiser Permanente, Kellogg Fdn., Esalen, etc. Former names (1950-1956): American Academy of Asian Studies & California Institute of Asian Studies. Involved: Dr. Frederick Spiegelberg (founder; Stanford) | Alan Watts (co-founder) | |
1968 |
| Primitive People's Fund / Survival International Edward Goldsmith (co-founder; brother of Sir James Goldsmith) | Robin Hanbury Tenison (long-time chair). |
1968 |
| The Ecologist magazine Edward Goldsmith (founder, editor until 1987, continued as publisher; brother of Sir James Goldsmith) | Zac Goldsmith (joined in 1997 and became editor; son of Sir James). |
1969 |
| Friends of the Earth Began as an anti-nuclear spin-off movement of the Sierra Club, founded by resigned Sierra Club executive director David Brower. Robert O. Anderson (co-founder; may or may not have put up finances). Advisory council in the 1970s: Aurelio Peccei of FIAT | Maurice Strong | Paul Ehrlich. Director: Ted Turner. Patron: Desmond Tutu. George Soros (financier). Great Britain: Mark Brown Vestey (supporter; elite-connected prominent activist). Dutch branch: Milieudefensie, founded in 1971. Wijnand Duyvendak (prominent radical 1970s-1980s; joined in 1993; managing director 1999-2002; Groenlinks congressman 2002-2008) |
1969 |
| Greenpeace Foundation Founding based on individual action against nuclear weapon tests. Began with a group of Canadian protestors who protested against a bomb test at Amchitka island, Alaska. One of the participants was Jim Bohlen, a Sierra Club member frustrated with the club's lack of action against nuclear bomb tests. Journalist Ben Metcalfe was another among the board members and was part of the small group that continued protests against French atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa. He became the Greenpeace Foundation's first chairman. Metcalf left when focused shifted from anti-nuclear protesting to anti-whaling actions. Significant contributors since at least the mid-1990s include: Rockefeller Brothers Fund | Ted Turner Foundation | MacArthur Foundation | Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | David and Lucile Packard Foundation | John Merck Fund. Grants anywhere from $30,000 to $450,000 were provided for specific projects. Mark Brown Vestey (supporter; more recent elite-connected prominent activist). |
1969 |
| Commission on Population Growth (CPG) John D. Rockefeller III (chair) | Sen. Alan Cranston |
1969 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Heavy Ford and Rockefeller Fdn. financing. George Soros (financier). Frances Beinecke (chair) |
1970 |
| Ecological Foundation Edward Goldsmith (founder and environmental advisor; brother of Sir James Goldsmith). |
1971 |
| Zero Population Growth Foundation (ZPGF) The movement itself goes back to 1968. President was Paul Ehrlich, author of the book 'The Population Bomb.' At least partly financed by the Rockefeller Fdn. in the 1970s-1980s. Movement evolved into Population Connection in 2002. |
1971 |
| International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Robert O. Anderson (founder) | Princess Nora von Liechtenstein | |
1971 |
| 1001: A Nature's Trust (1001 Club) Prince B. of Orange | Prince Philip | Anton Rupert | David Rockefeller | Laurance Rockefeller | Edmund and Edmond de Rothschild | Nelson Bunker Hunt | John Murchison | Sir Henry Keswick | David Keswick | Sir Francis de Guingand | 1st Baron Renwick | Peter Munk | Sir David Barran | Michel David-Weill | David Samuel Montagu | Edmond Safra | C. Douglas Dillon | John Olin and brother Spencer | Bechtel | McNamara | Astor | Robert O. Anderson | Peter Grace | H. J. Heinz II | Conrad Black | Maurice Strong | Agnelli | Henry Ford II | John Loudon | Gustavo Cisneros | Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, Jr. | Stavros Niarchos | Mrs. Charles Engelhard | Duchess of Alba | Thomas Jones | Berthold Beitz | Thurn und Taxis | Baroness Gabrielle von Oppenheim | Baron Heinrich II von Thyssen-Bornemisza (and family) | Princes of Liechtenstein | Habsburg | Herbert Batliner | Aga Khan family | John W. Hanes, Jr. | Michel Relecom | Tibor Rosenbaum | Edgar de Picciotto | Louis Bloomfield (Canada) | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan | Karim Aga Khan | Prince Hussein Aga Khan | Salem bin Laden | Agha Hasan Abedi | Ardeshir Zahedi (married the eldest daughter of the Shah of Iran) | Sheikh Ahmed Juffali | Princess Mahnaz Zahedi | Alfred Hartmann | Stephan Schmidheiny | Count Leopold and Marie Lippens | Count and Countess Rene Boel | Pierre and Denis Solvay | Baron Daniel Janssen | Luc and Andre Hoffmann | Bertrand Collomb | Manuel Fraga | Basil Hersov | Dirk Hertzog | Thomas Watson, Jr. | Arthur Watson | John F. Ball | Sir William Purves | Wallenberg family (four members) | George Cooley | Clinton Gutermuth | Baron Alain de Gunzburg (married Minda Bronfman, a sister of Edgar B., Sr.) | Edmund Vestey | Sue Erpf van de Bovenkamp | Max Nicholson | Julius Tahija | Gen. Ibnu Sutowo | Mobutu Sese Seko | Guy Mountfort | Sir Peter Scott | Jean Riboud (Schlumberger) | Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger | John Fleming Ball |
1971 |
| Stockholm Earth Summit / U.N. Conference on the Human Environment Maurice Strong (secretary general; soon became the first executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme). Present: Ben Metcalfe and wife (chair of the new Greenpeace Foundation; Ben was a board member of the Phyllis Cormack expedition; they primarily focused on measures against nuclear tests) | Paul Ehrlich (focused on overpopulation) |
1972 |
| Public Interest Research Groups (US-PIRG) Ralph Nader (founder) | Donald Ross (proposed the model and first executive director; secretary and director Rockefeller Family Fund 1985-1999 and chair Greenpeace US) | Blair Horner (executive director) |
1973 |
| National Institute for Urban Wildlife (NIUW) Clinton Gutermuth (director and president 1976-1985) | Dr. Joseph P. Linduska (vice president; Remington Arms) |
1973 |
| Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) Edgar Mitchell (founder and life-long executive committee member) | Willis Harman (president 1975-1996) | Wink Franklin (president 1996-2003) | James O'Dea (president and CEO 2003-2008) | Marilyn Mandala Schlitz (president and CEO 2008-2012). Involved: James Garrison | Maurice Strong (distinguished advisor) | Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (fellow) | Deepak Chopra (distinguished advisor) | Sam Keen | Dr. Amit Goswami (distinguished advisor) | Dr. Lynne McTaggart | Robert Radford | Dr. Fred Alan Wolf | Dr. Jim Tucker | Dr. Russell Targ (distinguished advisor) | Dr. Charles Tart (fellow) | Dr. Gary Schwartz | Dr. Steven Schwartz | Desmond Tutu (distinguished advisor) | Dr. Dean Ornish (distinguished advisor). Also: Dr. Dean Radin (director of research) | Dr Marilyn Schlitz (director of research) | Steven Greer (has lectured the board of directors) | John Mack (lecture) | Jacques Vallee (present at John M.'s speech) | Catherine Austin Fitts (interviewed) | Steven Halpern (involved, listed on site) | Van Jones (fellow anno 2013). Financing: Tides Fdn. IONS' Friendly Favors Event at June 5, 2002: Daniel Sheehan | John Mack | Joe Firmage (giving a two hour presentation together). On other occasions: Jacques Va11ee. |
1973 |
| Cornwall Nuclear Alarm Edward Goldsmith (founder and active protester against the dumping of nuclear waste; brother of Sir James Goldsmith). |
1974 |
| Worldwatch Institute Lester R. Brown (founder, president 1974-2000, chairman 2000-2001). The founding was financed by Rockefeller Brothers Fund, headed by Laurance Rockefeller from 1958 to 1980. Worldwatch launched the State of the World reports in 1984. In later years millions have been received from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Ted Turner Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. |
1974 |
| Ecoropa Edward Goldsmith (founder and vice president and president French branch; brother of Sir James Goldsmith) | Christine von Weizsacker (president; wife of Ernst and mother of Richard). |
1975 |
| Institute for European Environmental Policy Ernst von Weizsacker (director). |
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| Population Resource Center (PRC) At various times financed by the Ford Fdn., Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Fdn. |
1975 |
| Center for International Policy (CIP) Very left-wing oriented: anti-CIA and foreign coups. Robert E. White (president 1990s-2010) | Claiborne Pell (director 1990s) | Cynthia McClintock (chair since the 1990s) | Maurice Tempelsman (director since 2013) |
1975 |
| United Nations Parapsychology Society (UNPS) / Society for Enlightenment and Transformation (SEAT) One of about 50 member clubs of the United Nations Staff Recreation Council. Renamed from UNPS to SEAT in 1993. Mohammad Ahmad Ramadan (president). Known speakers: Uri Geller | Richard Hoagland ('92) | Colin Andrews ('93) | Ingo Swann ('92) | Lee Carroll (Kryon channeler, related to 2012 earth changes and Indigo children; '95, '96, '98, '05, '06, '07, '09) | Braco (2012; UN ambassador to Croatia, Ranko Vilovic, present). Executive committee: Denise Scotto (also UN Assoc. and Rotary) |
1975 |
| Urban Foundation, South Africa Primary founders: Anton Rupert | Harry Oppenheimer |
1976 |
| World Wilderness Conferences Participants: David Rockefeller | Edmund de Rothschild | James Baker III | Maurice Strong | Ruckelshaus | Michael McCloskey | Michael Sweatman |
1977 |
| Green Alliance Edward Goldsmith (co-founder; brother of Sir James Goldsmith) | Christine von Weizsacker (president; wife of Ernst and mother of Richard) | Zac Goldsmith (trustee anno 2012; son of Sir James) | Matthew Spencer (director; also campaign director Greenpeace UK and head of government affairs at the Carbon Trust). Financing: Tides Fdn., etc. |
1978 |
| American Himalayan Foundation Richard Blum (founder; husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Sir Edmund Hillary | Richard Holbrooke | Walter Mondale | Sharon Stone |
1980 |
| American Farmland Trust (AFT) Mrs. David Rockefeller (key founder and long-time board member) |
1980 |
| Christic Institute (1980-1991) / Romero Institute (since 1998) Partly financed by the New World Fdn., RI later financed by Tides Fdn. James Garrison (co-founder) | Daniel Sheehan (co-founder). Exposed the Iran-Contra drug trafficking scandal for State Department friends George Shu1tz and John C. Whitehead, as well as secretary of defense Caspar W. Weinberger. William Casey and conservative McCarthyites, as well as CIA friends as Ted Shackley, had become too influential on Reagan at the time. In addition, Garrison was close to Condi Rice. |
1980 |
| International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS) Col. John Alexander (president 1984-1986; did his Ph.D work under Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) | Jack Houck (part of a fundraiser; taught Gen. Stubblebine spoon-bending techniques) |
1981 |
| People for the American Way (PFAW) PFAW began as a project of the Tides Fdn., which provided the start-up funds. Set up to counter Moral Majority. Norman Lear (key founder and chairman; still director anno 2015) | Tony Podesta (founding president 1981-1987; brother of John P.) | Ralph Naes (president 1999-2007) | David Altschul (chair PFAW Fdn.). Directors: Eileen Growald (also director Rockefeller Family Fund) | James Hormel (U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg) | Republican congressman John Buchanan, Jr. | Alec Baldwin | Seth MacFarlane. Financing apart from Tides: Ford Fdn. (millions), George Soros (millions), Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Family Fund, Annenberg Fdn. |
1981 |
| World Resources Institute (WRI) Directors: Maurice Strong (chair) | William Ruckelshaus (chair) | Stephan Schmidheiny | Al Gore | Bill Richardson. Global advisory council, launched in 2013: Theodore Roosevelt IV (chair) | Jonathan Lash (president). Fina Financing: Tides Fdn., etc. |
1982 |
| Foundation for Gaia Trustees: Edward Goldsmith | Willis Harman |
1983 |
| Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space (ISCOS) Board: Dr. Carol Rosin (founder and president) | Daniel Sheehan (general counsel) | Alfred Webre (secretary-treasurer) | Sir Arthur C. Clarke (honorary chair) | Dr. Edgar Mitchell | Brian O'Leary ISCOS Peace in Space: Dr. Carol R. | C. B Scott Jones | Dr. Abe Kriger (Boeing engineer and business development executive) | Sen. Claiborne Pell | Paul Hellyer | Dr. Edgar M. | Commander Will Miller Follow up founded in 2001: Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS): same people. |
1983 |
| Global Sciences Congresses / Global Sciences Conferences Dean Stonier (founder, head, organizer of conferences; d. 2001). Visitors: Lindsey Williams ('87) | Steven Halpern (new age music; '90) | Al Bielek ('90, '91, '92, '93, '95) | Eustace Mullins ('90, '93, '94, '00) | Jacob Lieberman (light; '91) | David Oates ('91-'92)| Gordon Michael Scallion ('91-'92) | Dr John Coleman ('92) | Col. Bo Gritz ('92) | Stanley A. Meyer (water as fuel; '92; d. '98) | Cleve Backster (plants; '92-'93) | Bob Dratch ('92, '99, '00; later clamed he was very good friend of James Woo1sey) | Col. Wendelle Stevens ('93) | Steven Greer and Shari Adamiak ('93) | Anthony Hilder ('94) | Phil Schneider ('95) | David Icke ('96) | Alex Collier ('96, '02) | Cathy O’Brien and Mark Phillips (MKULTRA child abuse; '96) | Gene "Chip" Tatum ('97-'98) | David Adair ('97-'98) | Ted Gunderson (MKULTRA child abuse; Oklahoma; '97, '98, '01) | Brice Taylor (MKULTRA child abuse; '97, '98, '00) | Fritz Springmeier (MKULTRA child abuse; '97-'98) | Edgar Mitchell ('98) | Robert Morning Sky (Hopi prophecy; '98) | Dr. Len Horowitz ('98, '02) | Rayelan Allan (Rumor Mill News; '99) | Stewart Swerdlow ('99) \ Duncan Rhoades (Nexus Magazine; '99) | David Hatcher Childress ('99) | Linda Moulton Howe ('00) | Arizona Wilder ('MKULTRA child abuse; 00-'01) | Cisco Wheeler (MKULTRA child abuse; '01-'02) | Jon Rappoport ('01) | Skip Atwater ('02) | Mark Hazlewood (Planet X; '02). Virgil Armstrong | Phyllis Atwater | Dr. Robert Beck (d. 2002) | Mark Benza | Bob Beutlich (psychotronics; d. 2009)| Christopher Bird | Dr. Harley Byrd | Caryl Dennis | J.M. Donaldson | Ms. Sharry Edwards | Bernard Eppich | Paul Esch | Robert Flower | Jerry Fridenstine (psychotronics; d. 1992) | George Green | George Gordon | Sarah Hieronymus | Wendell H. Hoffman | Leon Hyatt | Peter Inman | Dr. Jim Jeffrey | Harry Jordan | Klark Kent | Gary and Chris Kersey | Werner Kropp | Dr. Roy Kupsinel | Gene Litwiler | Dr. Dietrich Luedtke (d. 2003) | Dr. Alvin Marks | George Merkl | Howard Metz | Dr. Norma Milanovich | Nick Nocerino | Doyle Noyes | Dr. Hazel Parcells | Don Paris | Dr. Buryl Payne | Dr. Wayne Pharr | Troy Reed | Dr. Michael Rice | Lee Ritter | Steven Rochlitz | Dr Leo Roy | Mark Rodin | H.H. Robertson | Dr. Peter Rotschild | Harry Schneiber | Connie Shaw | Norm Shealy | Ed Skilling | Dr. Eva Lee Snead | Ed Sopcak | Frank Strangers | Dr. Robert Strecker | Larry Thatcher Phil | Thomas Patricia Trinity | Tom Valentine | Richard Welch | Lori Williens |
1983-2001 |
| American Water Development, Inc. Private company looking to exploit a giant water reservoir underneath the San Luis Valley, raising worries that it would turn the valley into a desert. Major conflict of interest, especially with the 1998 World Water Commission. Maurice Strong (founder and chair) | William Ruckelshaus (director) |
1986 |
| Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Rick Doblin (founder) | Aubrey Marcus (minor donor) | Dr. Richard Rockefeller (major financier and partner; son of David Rockefeller) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller (partner). More financing: Tides Fdn., Threshold Fdn. |
1986 |
| Global Business Network (GBN) Co-founders: Peter Schwartz | Jan Ogilvy | Stewart Brand | Napier Collyns | Lawrence Wilkinson. |
1987 |
| Green Earth Foundation Ralph Metzner | McKenna brothers. Financier: Laurance Rockefeller. |
1988 |
| Albert Hofmann Foundation Albert Hofmann (Swiss inventor of LSD) | Dr. John Beresford (secretary and advisor) | Myron Stolaroff (treasurer) | Dr. Betty Eisner. Advisors: Dr. Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) | Allen Ginsberg | Dr. George Greer | Dr. Charles Grob | Dr. Stanislav Grof | Dr. Willis Harman | Laura Huxley (wife of Aldous) | Dr. Oscar Janiger | Dr. John Lilly | Dr. Dennis McKenna | Terence McKenna | Dr. Ralph Metzner | Dr. David Nichols | Dr. Humphrey Osmond | Jonathan Ott | Dr. Richard Evans Schultes | Myron Stolaroff | Dr. Charles Tart | Dr. Andrew Weil | Dr. Richard Yensen |
1988 |
| Manitou Foundation, Baca Ranch, San Luis Valley Founders: Maurice Strong and Laurance Rockefeller. Also involved: Steven Greer (Baha'i follower who organized CSETI UFO contact trainings at the Baca Ranch and surrounding areas from at least 1993 to 1998, in the same period he was cooperating with Laurance on UFO disclosure). It's a remote spiritual retreat center at the Sangro de Cristo mountains where many world religions have one or two representatives. The location is known for its past UFO activity and for being the first location where cattle mutilations were reported (1967, Snippy case). There appears to be a lot of gnostic symbolism involved and the retreat seems to have a lot in common with the globalist ideas of the Baha'i Faith, which in turn is completely, one hundred percent compatible with the United Nations ideas on world government. |
1988 |
| Human Potential Foundation (HPF) C. B. Scott Jones (president; six year special assistant to Sen. Pell) | Claiborne Pell | Laurance Rockefeller (financier to the tune of $700,000) | Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein | John Mack (abduction researcher who received $200,000 from HPF). Helped finance the Center for Treatment and Research of Experienced Anomalous Trauma (TREAT) conferences on abductions and other paranormal phenomena. Rima Laibow (founder and organizer; psychiatrist; later wife of Army Intelligence Gen. Albert Stubblebine; both major disinformers) | Victoria Lacas (abduction researcher married to Col. John Alexander, a friend of Stubblebine and Hans Adam) | Budd Hopkins (close friend of Hans Adam; both tried to find out details of the alleged alien kidnapping of UN secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar) | Lyn Buchanan (remote viewer). Laurance R. financed John Mack's 1993 Program for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER), an alien abductee support group which laid the groundwork for Mack's 1994 best-selling book 'Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens'. Allegedly provided Mack with $250,000 annually in the early 1990s. Colin Andrews: The premier British crop circle researcher (and certainly in recent years a believer in a global warming armageddon) was financed by Laurance R. in the late 1990s. Already in 1992 Greer accompanied Andrews, doing meditation experiments. 1995 HPF conference: John Mack | Zecharia Sitchin (According to Richard Hoagland on Coast to Coast AM, I believe with Sitchin critic Mike Heiser, Sitchin had an office at Rockefeller Plaza. Hoagland was discussing his/their experiences with Sitchin.) |
1989 |
| Intruders Foundation Budd Hopkins (founder and executive director) | Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein (financier). Advisory committee: Edward H. Davis, Jr. (psychologist; applied behavior specialist with autistic children) | Carol Rainey (documentary producer) | Peter Robbins (UFO researcher) | Greg Sandow (journalist who writes about UFOs) | Jed Turnbull (psychiatrist with a MA from Fordham) | Oliver von Kemenczky (global account manager Honeywell Corp.) | Dennis K. Anderson (media consultant) | Cathy Del Grosso (forensic psychologist) | Sal Amendola (comic book artist with DC Comics) 1992: Intruders movie. Running time: 2 hours and 40 minutes. Budd Hopkins is played by Richard Crenna. Several reasonable well known actors appear in this very television movie. June 13-17, 1992: MIT Abduction Study Conference: Hans Adam and Robert Bigelow (financiers) | Dr. David Pritchard (chair). Participants: John Mack | David Jacobs | Budd Hopkins | Thomas Bullard | John Carpenter | David Gotlib | Richard Hall | Pam Kasey | Joe Nyman | Mark Rodeghier | Walter Webb. Produced a 700 page book on the subject. |
1989 |
| Arlington Institute John L. Petersen (founder and chair) | Woolsey (director) | Napier Collyns (director; Shell) | Joe Firmage (director; UFO cultist) | Catherine Austin Fitts (black budget critic; invited to a meeting she said was in part about aliens living among us) | linked to Coast to Coast AM show and Steven Greer (UFOs). Hal Puthoff (speech) |
1989 |
| Psi-Tech Corporation Ed Dames (founder) | "four-star general" (founder) | 1-star General Albert Stubblebine (first chairman) | Colonel John Alexander (consulting director) | Ingo Swann (consultant) | Jim Schnabel (trained here) | Colin Andrews (trained here)|Robert Wood (reported co-founder) | Ryan Wood (sales executive) |
1989 |
| Fund for UFO Research Roswell conference, Washington, D.C. Held at the Smithsonian. Heads of FUFOR: Don Berliner and Bruce Maccabee. Financiers of the conference: Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein and Robert Bigelow. Brought together numerous witnesses of the 1947 Roswell crash. Interviews with the witnesses leads to the video 'Recollections of Roswell', which appears to be good for the most part - except for the questionable San Agustin crash witnesses. Bigelow was involved in financing part of the research into that aspect of the crash, as a picture can be seen in Stanton Friedman's book 'Crash at Corona' of Bigelow and Friedman looking out over the San Agustin plains. |
1990 |
| International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Maurice Strong (long-time distinguished fellow) |
1990 |
| Turner Foundation Same group of family members as the Captain Planet Foundation. |
1990 |
| Captain Planet Foundation Based on the cartoon 'Captain Planet and the Planeteers' of 1990-1996, co-developed by Ted Turner. Directors: Laura Turner Seydel (president and chair) | Rutherford Seydel (secretary) | Beau Turner (married into the Hunt family of Dallas) | Rhett Turner | Teddy Turner. The foundation had some challenging periods, but was relaunched at Earth Day Kids Fest in 2003. |
1991 |
| Goldsmith Foundation Sir James Goldsmith and brother Edward Goldsmith (co-founders). Sir James was deeply involved with the UK Independence Party (UKIP), ultra-right MI6-connected activists and covert SAS operations while Edward has been one of the chief green agenda promoters. Beneficiaries: Brian Crozier. |
1991 |
| International Foreign Policy Institute (IFPI) Co-founders: James Garrison | Eduard Shevardnadze | George Shultz |
1991 |
| Environmental Working Group (EWG) Directors: Drummond Pike (chair at one point) | Laura Turner Seydel (daughter of Ted Turner) | Alicia Wittink (director Mother Jones magazine) |
1992 |
| Rio Earth Summit Maurice Strong | Gorbachev | Ruud Lubbers | Queen Beatrix of Orange |
1992 |
| World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Maurice Strong (advisory council) | Dr. Stephan Schmidheiny | Bertrand Collomb (chair) |
1992 |
| Earth Council Alliance (ECA) Founding members: Maurice Strong | Ruud Lubbers | Robert McNamara | Javier Perez de Cuellar | Desmond Tutu | Princess Basma bint Talal of Jordan | Jonathan Lash. |
1992 |
| Gorbachev Foundation/USA James Garrison (founder and president) | Paul Dietrich (founding trustee) | Sen. Alan Cranston (trustee chair) | George Shultz (advisory board chair) | Victor Kuvaldin (founding executive Russian branch; still in place anno 2015; former speechwriter for Gorbachev). |
1992 |
| Green Cross International (GCI) Members: Gorbachev (founding president) | Shimon Peres | Ruud Lubbers | Javier Perez de Cuellar | Ted Turner | Princess Basma bint Talal of Jordan | Robert Redford. |
1993 |
| Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) John Stauber (founder; ran into until 2008) | Lisa Graves (executive director). Supported by the Ford Fdn., Open Society Inst. (George Soros), Rockefeller Assoc., Rockefeller Family Fdn., Threshold Foundation, Tides Fdn., Ted Turner Fdn. More than 50% of CMD's financing comes through the Schwab Charitable Fund, which preserves the anonimity of donors. Publishes: - PR Watch. - SourceWatch. - BanksterUSA: $200,000 from the Open Society Institute. - ALECExposed: American Legislative Exchange Council. |
1993 |
| Heffter Research Institute Psychedelics research. Co-founders: Ralph Metzner | Dennis McKenna. Financiers: Laurance Rockefeller | Bob Wallace (Microsoft; old Bill G. friend) |
1993 |
| Global Witness Advisory board: Alexander Soros | Bennett Freeman (chair) | Baroness Glenys Kinnock (wife of the Labour Party leader 1983-1992; ECFR) | Edward Zwick | Misha Glenny | Silas Siakor. Financiers: Open Society Fdns. | Alexander Soros Fdn., MacArthur Fdn, Ford Fdn., National Endowment for Democracy, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. |
1993 |
| Rockefeller Initiative on UFO disclosure Laurance Rockefeller (prime mover). White House: Bill Clinton (on April 14, 1993 Laurance meets Clinton at the White House over the issue) | Jack Gibbons (White House scientist briefed by Rockefeller and C. B. Scott Jones on the subject) | John Podesta (Clinton's assistant and later chief of staff; spoke out publicly in favor of disclosure) | Webster Hubbell (Clinton's associate attorney general; looked into UFOs and JFK, but got nothing). Round table discussion at the JY Ranch: representatives from Gibbons office | Richard Farley | Laurance Rockefeller | Henry Diamond | C. B. Scott Jones | John Mack | Dr. Bruce Maccabee | Leo Sprinkle | Linda Moulton Howe | Steven Greer | Keith Thompson. Bill and Hillary Clinton were also been guests of Laurance at the ranch. Eventually Laurance Rockefeller and the president back off, apparently fearing repurcussions. The only thing published is 'UFO's: The Best Available Evidence', at different times funded by Laurance Rockefeller, Robert Bigelow and Joe Firmage. |
1993-1996 |
| Disclosure Project Dr. Steven Greer (founder and CEO) | Daniel Sheehan (long-time lawyer to the project and witness) | Laurance Rockefeller (limited financial supporter) | Mary and Evan Galbraith (cooperated with Greer for some time in the 1990s in writing 'UFO's: The Best Available Evidence' - until they had a falling out). Examples of witnesses used: - Dr. Fred Bell (listed as "Dr. B.". Not mentioned: new age guru, Pleiadean contactee who believes in reptilians, that Greys eat humans dissolved in acid, that no plane hit the WTC and that 2012 was going to be the end of the world) - Jim Dilettoso (identity kept hidden, but reported as being reliable. Not mentioned: murky past and known UFO cultist. George A. Hormel II, owner of the Wrigley Mansion, invested in Dilettoso's projects.) - James Angleton, Jr. (Greer has hinted that this person gave him information. Not mentioned: Reportedly no relationship to the CI chief. However, he is an AFIO leader with the nation's CIA covert operations establishment - with people who would absolute have no interest in releasing classified information) - Sergeant Robert O. Dean, backed by L. Rockefeller and Claiborne Pell in Congress in 1996, became an important Disclosure Project witness (talking about "ACIO" and 20-something levels about top secret), but these days talks about Annunaki and reptilians to anyone who wants to hear it. In addition, an interested and moderate NATO historian rationally debunked papers he provided as being fake. - Gordon Creighton and Lord Admiral Hill-Norton are presented as reliable. In fact, both have viewed the abduction subject as being done by demons. Already in the 1970s Creighton was warning that people "have been carried off and ... certainly haven't come back again." Already back then Creighton promoted an author who in turn inspired Erich von Daniken. Without naming their names directly, Greer has claimed that General Albert Stubblebine and Colonel John Alexander have tried to recruit him into a cell that has infiltrated the civilian UFO community. Those who watched the Hans Adam-financed movie 'Intruders' can see that the same thing happened to Budd Hopkins (by an actor who plays a general who looks like the twin brother of Gen. Stubblebine). Mentioned by Greer as not having any inside knowledge: 1) General Patrick Hughes, DIA director 1996-1999, who has a major special operations background but is far from an elitist. 2) Adm. Thomas R. Wilson, J-2 intelligence chief for the joined chiefs and DIA head 1999-2002. Mentioned by Greer as having inside knowledge on the subject (true or not, he spoke to these people or persons close to them): George Shultz | the Bechtel family | David Rockefeller | Peter Peterson | Maxwell Rabb | Claiborne Pell | the Rothschild family | Pehr Gyllenhammar (indirect, but controlled Volvo until the early 1990s) | Hans Adam | Adm. Harry Train | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman. Also: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld (warned against their re-election in 2004 and that these individuals have direct knowledge of these topics - then again, Greer is politically hundred percent in line with men as Al Gore and Maurice Strong). Interesting observation: Greer most definitely had a dinner party in 1993 with then-sitting CIA director James Woolsey (who was never allowed to meet president Clinton one-on-one) and John Petersen and their wives on the subject. The participants in the dinner disagree, however, with Greer's account of it. Greer claimed the CIA director was almost in tears that he wasn't told anything about the subject. The other participants, claim, however, that they were just politely listening to his views, but did not necessarily believe in them. Strangely, James W. has incredibly deep ties to the defense industry, the liberal and conservative establishment, and the Navy at the highest levels. If he doesn't know anything about the subject, then pretty much no one does. |
1993 |
| State of the World Forum conferences Co-financiers: the major foundations and many major companies. Also: Joe Firmage (over $1 million) | Warren Buffet ($150,000 for Gen. Butler's Nuclear Weapons Initiative) | Carnegie Corp. ($400,000 in total) | Rockefeller Fdn. (over $300,000 in total). Elite participants: James Garrison (founder, chair and president) | Daniel Sheehan (founder). Co-chairs of conferences: Mikhail Gorbachev (key organizer) | Ruud Lubbers | George Shultz | Maurice Strong | Ted Turner | James Baker III | Elie Wiesel | Yasuhiro Nakasone | Queen Noor of Jordan | Sen. Alan Cranston | Tansu Ciller of Turkey. ALSO: Max Kampelman | Steven and Peggy Dulaney Rockefeller (daughter of David Rockefeller) (forum organizers) | Eduard Shevardnadze (counselor) | Alexander Yakovlev (introduced Garrison to Gorbachev) Milton Friedman | Brzezinski | David Packard | Dwayne Andreas | Rupert Murdoch | Sen. George Mitchell | Gen. Lee Butler (SAC commander against nuclear weapons) | Margaret Thatcher | Askar Akaev of Kyrgystan | Oscar Arias of Costa Rica | Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic | Brian Mulroney | Thabo Mbeki | Eduard Shevardnadze. Lower level participants: Hal Puthoff | John Mack | Sam Keen | Deepak Chopra | Thich Nhat Hanh | Carl Sagan | Alvin Toffler | Jane Goodall | Tony Robbins | Shirley MacLaine | Jane Fonda | John Denver | Rigoberta Menchu Tum. |
1994 |
| International Forum on Globalization (IFG) Edward Goldsmith (director) | John Cavanagh (director and president). Financing: Threshold Fdn. |
1994 |
| Earth Institute, Colombia University Includes the Millennium Villages Project. Jeffrey Sachs (director/head since 2002). External advisory board: Bono (U2) | George Soros |
1995 |
| Coast to Coast AM / Art Bell Show Guests: Frank Gaffney (listed as a guest, but no dates visible; CSP founder) | Richard Hoagland (in the 1980s in contact with SDI/Star Wars figure George Keyworth II, later of the CSP; Keyworth may also have had a hand in providing Hoagland with fake THEMIS IR imagery in 2002 - likely to promote interest in space adventures, military or not) | Joe Firmage | Michael Lindemann (employee of Firmage) | John L. Petersen | Steven Greer | Catherine Austin Fitts (wrote a foreword to one of Mike Ruppert's books) | Mike Ruppert | Daniel Sheehan | Bill Moore (into electric transportation; bio says he has been in contact with James Woo1sey and Gen. Wesley C1ark) | Gordon Novel | Edgar Mitchell | Alex Jones | Stanley Monteith | Dean Radin | Colin Andrews | Hal Puthoff | Russell Targ | Uri Geller | Ingo Swann | Jacques Vallee | Rupert Sheldrake | Joseph McMoneagle | Deepak Chopra | Amit Goswami | Dr. John Mack | William Jasper | Joel Skousen | Malachi Martin and Father Nicholas Gruner | Col. John Alexander | Robert and Ryan Wood | Stanton Friedman | Dr. John Gray | David Kirkpatrick | Dianne Arcangel (protege of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) | Dr. Lynne McTaggart | Dr. Fred Alan Wolf | Dr. Jim Tucker | Dr. Russell Targ | Dr. Charles Tart | Dr. Gary Schwartz | Dr. Stephan Schwartz | Mark Lane | Robert Moss (Shackley-connected CIA/MI6 operative turned dream shaman) | Zecharia Sitchin | Dr. Fred Bell | Dr. Len Horowitz | Robert O. Dean | Alfred Webre | Graham Hancock | Leslie Kean | Bev Harris Also: Ann Finkbeiner (wrote official history on the JASON Group, a year after ISGP's first article which had led to harressment by the JASONs. Ian Punnett thanked this author for a number of questions sent in, but subsequently forgot to ask a single one of them to Finkbeiner (or even one critical question). Since C2C is a show on UFOs and the paranormal, what's the purpose of bringing Finkbeiner on if there's no focus on these topics? And why would Finkbeiner target the conspiracy community if she wants to be taken seriously?) |
1995 |
| National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) Relatively low-profile UFO/paranormal investigation institute that often didn't share its research with the public. Various investigators were guests at Coast to Coast AM, however. Financed and headed by Robert Bigelow. Scientists: Colonel John B. Alexander (a close friend of Bigelow) | Victoria Alexander | Edgar Mitchell | Hal Puthoff (advisor Bigelow Aerospace) | Jacques Vallee | Colm Kelleher | Bruce Maccabee (only written papers for NIDS) | John Mack (known to have been present at one or more meetings). |
1995-2004 |
| Peace Parks Foundation (PPF) Manages the nature and wildlife parks of the WWF. Patrons include heads of state around Africa. Founders: Prince Bernhard | Nelson Mandela | Anton Rupert. Primarily financed through the Club 21. Besides many corporations, individual members of this club include: Nicky Oppenheimer | David and Laurance Rockefeller | Baron Benjamin de Rothschild and the Rothschild Foundation | Russell Train | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan | Joseph F. Cullman III. |
1997 |
| Gorbachev Foundation of North America (GFNA) Mikhail G. (president) | John Deutch (senior fellow 1990s-2010s) |
1997 |
| Meridian Institute William Ruckelshaus (chair) | Jonathan Lash (director) |
1997 |
| Earth Charter International Permanent commission members: Steven Rockefeller | Gorbachev | Maurice Strong | Ruud Lubbers | Princess Basma bint Talal of Jordan | Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp. Among the authors of the charter: Jan Pronk (Netherlands) |
1997 |
| World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality Members: Steven Rockefeller | Al Gore | Desmond Tutu | Dalai Lama | Elie Wiesel | Rupert Sheldrake | Deepak Chopra | Queen Noor of Jordan | Bono | Peter Gabriel | Michael Douglas | Robert Redford |
1998 |
| World Water Commission Set up through the World Water Council. Advised that bodies of water should be privatized to protect them. Among the 20 members: Ismail Serageldin (chair; vice president World Bank) | Robert McNamara | Maurice Strong | Jerome Monod (chair water company Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux). Honorary members: Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands | Gorbachev. |
1998 |
| United Nations Foundations (UNF) Board members: Ted Turner (founder and chair) | Queen Rania of Jordan | Kofi Annan | Emma Rothschild (half sister of Jacob R.) | Maurice Strong (early board member) | Muhammad Yunus |
1998 |
| International Space Sciences Organisation (ISSO) Joe Firmage's UFO cult website. Starts promoting the idea that human technological progress has been spurred on occasion by alien technology, as with Roswell. Through his website he releases the MJ-12 documents, including clearly faked ones of Tim Cooper. Dr. Robert and Ryan Wood are the ones who verify the documents for him. Daniel Sheehan is general counsel to ISSO. 9th Annual International UFO Congress Convention, held on March 5-11, 2000: Sheehan and Firmage are speakers at the meeting. Dr. Robert and Ryan Wood give a presentation. They are aske how much Firmage has paid them for their research, a question they refuse to answer. To this day they maintain the most prominent website on the MJ-12 documents. Obvious fakes are still listed with a 3 out of 5 star rating. |
1998 |
| Independent Media Institute / AlterNet Don Hazer (founder, executive editor, former Mother Jones publisher). Allied with Salon, The Guardian, Truthdig, Truthout, TomDispatch, The Washington Spectator, Al Jazeera English, Center for Public Integrity, Democracy Now!, Waging Nonviolence, Asia Times, New America Media and Mother Jones. Financing: Tides Fdn., Threshold Fdn., Ford Fdn., Open Society Inst. and Drug Policy Alliance (both Soros). |
1998 |
| International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA) Founders on photo website (1999 and on): John Alexander | Hal Puthoff | Russell Targ | Stephan Schwartz | Lyn Buchannan | Paul Smith | David Hathcock | Skip Atwater | Angela Thompson-Smith | Marcello Truzzi . |
1999 |
| Global Security Institute (GSI) Focused at nuclear disarmament. Sen. Alan Cranston (founder) | Kim Cranston (chair since 2000; daughter of Alan) | Jonathan Granoff (president). More board members: Jane Goodall | Gorbachev | David Hamburg | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. (nuclear treaty expert) | Ambassador Robert Grey, Jr. |
1999 |
| Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders Maurice Strong (financial backer who played an important role in organizing the summit) | Ted Turner (honorary chair; his UN Foundation provided $600,000 for the event). Brought together representatives of the "Baha'i Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shintoism, Sikhism, and Zoroastrianism, as well as indigenous religions from nearly every continent." |
2000 |
| Fluoride Action Network (FAN) Edward Goldsmith (founding member) | John Stauber (advisory board) | Dr. Mercola (donor). |
2000 |
| Institute for Media, Peace and Security (IMPS) of the Council of the University for Peace (UPEACE) Maurice Strong (founding ex officio president) |
2000 |
| Shadow Conventions 1st convention: George Soros (background-organizer; financed 1/3 of the costs) | Arianna Huffington (organizer) | Hamilton Fish V (organizer) | Sen. John McCain (opening speaker and one of the few mainstream ones) | Congressman Tom Campbell (opening speaker) | Ethan Nadelmann |
2000 |
| Earth Policy Institute Lester R. Brown (founder). Has received grants from the Earth Policy Institute and Ted Turner Foundation. |
2001 |
| Coalition for Freedom of Information (CFI) John Podesta and Leslie Kean (co-founder) | Stephen Bassett (involved) |
2002 |
| B612 Foundation Wants to build a space vehicle to protect the earth against asteroids. Strategic advisors anno 2014: Lord Martin Rees | Richard Bingham (trustee Kuhn Loeb and Lehman Brothers) | Freeman Dyson | Philip Lader |
2002 |
| Oriental Environmental Institute (OEI) Maurice Strong (honorary chair) |
2002 |
| International Environmental Forums, China Early speakers: Maurice Strong | Lester R. Brown | Dennis Hayes (Earth Day) | Allen Brewster (Yale School of Forest and Environment) |
2004 |
| Where on Earth are We Going? Symposiums The first small group of panel members included Maurice Strong (after whose book the name has been inspired), Lester R. Brown and Steven Rockefeller. The men kept involved over the years. |
2004 |
| Brenthurst Foundation, South Africa Oppenheimer family (founders) |
2005 |
| European Climate Foundation Advisory board: Jonathan Powell (brother of Lord Charles Powell) |
2008 |
| Chopra Foundation Speakers: Gen. Wesley Clark | Amit Goswami |
2009 |
| Climate Reality Project Al Gore (chair) | Theodore Roosevelt IV (secretary) |
2011 |
| World Ayahuasca Conference, Ibiza Co-financiers/organizers: ICEERS, RiverStyx Foundation, MAPS and Drug Policy Alliance (all Rockefeller/Soros-linked). Speaker: Rick Doblin | Dennis McKenna | Ethan Nadelmann | Joshua Wickerham | Adele van der Plas | Jeffrey Bronfman |
2014 |
| Committee for Scientific Inquiry and Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) Founding fellows: Paul Kurtz | Carl Sagan | Ray Hyman | James Randi (co-founder in 1976, but resigned in early 1990s during trial with Uri Geller and Eldon Byrd; tape played at trial of Randi sollicitating sex with underage boys, which appears to have only been reported in The Toronto Star; rejoined CSI as a fellow in 2010). More fellows: Phil Klass (premier UFO debunker for decades) | Kendrick Frazier (executive; editor Skeptical Enquirer; founder NMSR) | Phil Plait | Susan Blackmore | Richard Dawkins | Daniel Dennett | Elizabeth Loftus | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Murray Gell-Mann | Dave Thomas | Steve Novella | Massimo Pigliucci | Robert Carroll | Harriet Hall. |
1976 |
| Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) Founders: Anne Nicol Gaylor | Annie Lauri Gaylor. Honorary board: Richard Dawkins | Daniel Dennett | Steven Pinker | Ron Reagan | Julia Sweeney | Christopher Hitchens. |
1978 |
| Cult Awareness Network (CAN) Galen Kelly (deprogrammer; JINSA board). Taken over by Scientology. American Family Foundation advisors: Margaret Singer | Joly West (CAN speaker) | David Halperin |
1978 |
| Project Alpha hoax Project to mislead scientists into thinking that psychic powers are real. James Randi (orchestrator; conducted similar operations in later years) | Banachek (Randi's plant) | Michael Edwards (Randi's plant) |
1979-1981 |
| Southern California Skeptics (SCS) SCS cooperated with CalTech, Cal State Fullerton, the L.A. Times and the Santa Monica Monthly. Al Seckel (founder) | Murray Gell-Mann (director) | Jeffrey Lehman (president Cornell University; cooperated with the SCS to combat creationism) |
1984-1990 |
| TED Conferences (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Richard Saul Wurman (founder). First conference speakers: Stewart Brand ('84, '06, '09, '10, '13) | Nicholas Negroponte ('84, '06, '08, '14) | Benoit Mandelbrot | Steve Jobs (Apple computer demonstrated). Second conference held in 1990 and from there things grew. Chris Anderson (bought TED in 2000). In 2006 attendance cost was $4,400 and by invitation only. In 2007 annual membership fee became $6,000. Speakers: Bono ($100,000 TED Prize) | Larry Brilliant (TED Prize) | Jill Tarter (TED Prize) | Jamie Oliver (TED Prize) | Manal al-Sharif ('13) (Saudi woman who dared to drive) | Madeleine Albright ('10) | Julian Assange ('10) | Jeff Bezos ('03) | David Blaine ('09) | Richard Branson ('07) | Sergey Brin ('04, '13) | Gordon Brown ('09) | James Cameron ('10) | Jimmy Carter ('15) | Bill Clinton ('07; TED Prize) | Aubrey de Grey ('05) | David Deutsch ('05, '09) | Freeman Dyson ('03) | George Dyson ('02, '03) | Roger Ebert ('11) | Niall Ferguson ('11) | Bran Ferren ('14) | Bill Gates ('09, '10, '11, '13, '14, '15) | Melinda Gates ('14) | Jane Goodall ('02, '07) | Billy Graham ('98) | Glenn Greenwald ('14) | Sam Harris ('10) | Stephen Hawking ('08) | Jenna Jameson ('13) | Paul Tudor Jones II ('15) | Ray Kurzweil ('05, '09, '14) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal ('11, '14) | Nathan Myhrvold ('07, '10, '11) | Joseph Nye ('10) | Jamie Oliver ('10) | Larry Page ('04, '14) | T. Boone Pickens ('12) | Samantha Power ('08) | Sarah Silverman ('10) | Jeff Skoll ('07) | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('13) | Edward Snowden ('14) | Jimmy Wales ('05) | Philip Zimbardo ('08, '09, '11). Features many professional skeptics: Susan Blackmore ('08) | Richard Dawkins ('02, '05) | Daniel Dennett | Murray Gell-Mann ('07) | Steven Pinker ('03, '05, '07, '12) | James Randi ('07) | Jon Ronson ('12, '15) | Adam Savage ('11) | Michael Shermer ('06, '10) | Julia Sweeney ('06, '07, '10). Banned TED Talks: Graham Hancock | Rupert Sheldrake. |
1984, 1990- |
| Edge Foundation Focused on the promotion of science as genetics, physics, mathematics, psychology, evolutionary biology, philosophy and computer technology. Founder: John Brockman. Outgrowth of The Reality Club (John B. (founder); George Dyson and son Freeman; Stewart Brand), which was active from 1981 to 1996. Clients of Edge: David Gelernter (IT specialist at Yale; Unabomber victim in 1993) | Richard Dawkins | Michael Shermer | Seth Shostack | Freeman Dyson | Murray Gell-Mann | Al Seckel | Sam Harris | Rupert Sheldrake. Almost all of the 700 past and present Edge Foundation clients have been affiliated with major universities and promoted by major media outlets. Annual Billionaires Dinner: John Brockman | Stewart Brand | Freeman Dyson | George Dyson | Ray Kurzweil | Katinka Matson (president Brockman, Inc.) | Richard Dawkins | Daniel Dennett ('02, '06, '08, '09, '10) | Steve Case (AOL; '99, '08, '09) | Daniel Hillis (Disney; almost annually since '99) | Rupert Murdoch (Newscorp; '02) | Jeffrey Epstein ('99, '00, '02) | Sergey Brin (Google; '02, '03, '05, '07, '08) | Larry Page (Google; '03, '05, '07, '08, '09, '15) | Lori Park (Google; regular in later years) | Nathan Myhrvold (Microsoft; '99, '00, '02, '08, '09) | Charles Simonyi (Microsoft; '00, '02, '06, '10, '13) | Jeff Bezos (Amazon; almost annually since '99) | Christie Hefner (Playboy; '02) | David Rockwell (Rockwell Group; '02, '10) | Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks; '02) | Bran Ferren (national security; '99, '00, '02) | Peter Schwartz (GBN; '02, '05, '08) | Ronna Tanenbaum (Alexa; MacArthur Fdn.; regular) | David Braunschvig (Lazard; Bear Stearns; '00) | Martha Stewart ('01) | Pierre and Pam Omidyar (Ebay; '09) | Matt Groening (The Simpsons; '09, '10) | Rupert Sheldrake ('09 in London) | Sam Harris ('10) | Larry Brilliant ('10) | Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder; '12, '14) | Dave Morin (Facebook co-founder; '12) | Jacqui Safra (chair Encyclopedia Britannica; '09, '12, '13, '14) | Alain Elkann (married the daughter of Gianni Agnelli; '12 Torino) | Ginevra Elkann (daughter of Alain; host '12 Torino with the Italian Wired editor) | Peter Gabriel (regular in later years) | Salar Kamangar (YouTube, Google) | Anne Wojcicki (co-founder DNA analysis firm 23andMe; regular in later years) | Marlies Carruth (director MacArthur fellows program; '15). NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, Wired, Newsweek, Time, Economist, Huffington Post, etc. journalists all present. |
1988 |
| European Skeptics Congresses (ESCs) (since 1994 ran by the newly-established European Council of Skeptical Organisations) Board: Catherine de Jong (Dutch; chair Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij 2011-2015). Speakers: Joe Nickell. |
1989 |
| New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR) Kendrick Frazier (founder; CSICOP) | Dave Thomas (president) | Kim Johnson |
1990 |
| The Skeptics Society Publisher of Skeptic since 2010 a co-sponsor of the TAM meetings. Michael Shermer (founder TSS). Members: Julia Sweeney | Richard Dawkins | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Steven Pinker | Philip Zimbardo |
1991 |
| Center for Inquiry Formally brought together CSICOP and the Council for Secular Humanism (CSH). Paul Kurtz (founder) | Ronald Lindsay (president and CEO) | Susan Jacoby | Joe Nickell (associate dean) | D.J. Grothe (vice president and director of outreach until 2009; host Point of Inquiry). Point of Inquiry guests: Lindsay Beyerstein (host) | Josh Zepps (host) | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Richard Dawkins | Adam Savage | Christopher Hitchens | Peter Boghossian (speaker in 2014) |
1991 |
| False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) Ralph Underwager* (founder | Hollida Wakefield (wife of Underwager) | Pamela Freyd* (founding exececutive director) | Peter Freyd* (founding exececutive director). Scientific advisory board: Ray Hyman (early 1990s) | Joly West** (1990s) | Dr. Martin Orne** (wife | David Dinges** | Dr. Harold Lief** | Dr. Elizabeth Loftus | Paul McHugh** | Richard Ofshe** | Michael Persinger | James Randi* | Margaret Singer. * Accused of child abuse or outspokenly pro-pedophile. ** Linked to MKULTRA mind control research by Dr. Colin Ross. |
1992 |
| James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) D.J. Grothe (president January 2010-September 2014). Massimo Polidoro (European representative). Magazine: Skeptical Inquirer. James Randi (founder) | Banachek (head of the One Million Dollar Challenge). The Amazing Meeting (founded in 2003) speakers/performers: Phil Plait (2003, Sep. 2007, Jun. 2008, Jul. 2009, Oct. 2009, Jul. 2010) | Penn & Teller (2004, Jun. 2008) | Banachek (2004, Jan. 2007, 2012) | Ian Rowland (2004) | Lance Burton (2004) | Dr. Richard Dawkins (2005, Jul. 2010) | Christopher Hitchens (2005) | Dr. Richard Wiseman (2005, Jun. 2008) | Dr. Joe Nickell (2005, Jul. 2009) | Dr. Michael Shermer (2005, Sep. 2006, Jun. 2008, Jul. 2009) | Adam Savage and/or Jamie, Kari and Tory of Mythbusters (Jan. 2006, Jan. 2007, Jun. 2008, Jul. 2009, Oct. 2009) | Murray Gell-Mann (Jan. 2006) | Anderson Cooper (Jan. 2007) | Sylvia Browne (Jan. 2007) | Julia Sweeney (Jan. 2007) | Peter Sagal (Jan. 2007) | USAF Col. Hal Bidlack (2003, Jan. 2007, Sep. 2007; Clinton's director of global environmental affairs, NSC; TS-SCI) | Trey and Matt from Southpark (Jan. 2007) | 9/11 debunker Mark Roberts (Jan. 2008) | Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Jun. 2008, Jul. 2011) | Bill Prady of The Big Bang Theory (Jul. 2009) | Richard Novella | Steve Novella | Jon Ronson (Oct. 2009) | D.J. Grothe (Jul. 2010) | Jennifer Michael Hecht | Carol Tavris | Roy Zimmerman | Massimo Pigliucci | Robert Carroll (Skeptic's Dictionary) | Harriet Hall (2012) | Dr. Deirde Barrett (2012) | Brian Dunning (2012) | Sean Faircloth (director of strategy and policy, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science) | Peter Boghossian (2013) | Ray Hyman (2013) | John W. Loftus (2013). Ordinary visitors: Mick West (2013; Metabunk) | Jonathan Ross (Oct. 2009, 2010) |
1996 |
| World Skeptics Congress Speakers: James Randi | Joe Nickell | Kendrick Frazier | Paul Kurtz | Richard Wiseman | Jan Willem Nienhuys (Dutch mathematician; director Stichting Skepsis and editor of the magazine Skepsis) | Elizabeth Loftus | Dave Thomas | Harriet Hall Ray Hyman | Massimo Polidoro | Chris Mooney. |
1996 |
| Secular Coalition of America (SCA) Advisory board: Richard Dawkins | Daniel Dennett | Sam Harris | Steven Pinker | Todd Stiefel | Julia Sweeney |
2000 |
| Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason Directors: Richard Dawkins (founder and chair). Advisory board: Bill Nye | Julia Sweeney | Woody Kaplan | Norman Lear | Todd Stiefel. Speakers/representatives: Peter Boghossian |
2006 |
| Joe Rogan Experience podcast Joe Rogan | Eddie Bravo | Bryan Callen Professional skeptics: Mick West | Brian Dunning | Jon Ronson | Neill deGrasse Tyson | Sam Harris | Peter Boghossian | Josh Zepps | T.J. Kirk | Michael Shermer C2C AM/alternative media guests: Freeway Rick Ross (1x) | Mike Ruppert (2x) | Jan Irvin (1x) | Peter Duesberg (1x) | Amit Goswami (1x) | Graham Hancock (5x) | Amber Lyon (2x) | Abby Martin (5x) | Ana Kasparian | Cenk Uygur | Dennis McKenna (2x) | Rick Doblin (1x) | Ethan Nadelmann (1x) | Daniel Pinchbeck (1x) | Peter Schiff (1x) | Rupert Sheldrake (1x) | John Anthony West (1x) | Georgio Tsoukalos (2x) | Steven Greer (1x) |
2009 |
French speaking
| Suez Group Officers: Etienne Davignon (chair 1988-2001, after the take over of Societe Generale; director until 2010; held 10,000+ shares while other directors held 2,000-5,000 shares) | Gerard Mestrallet (chair and CEO; held 30,000+ shares) | Baron Albert Frere (vice chair) | Paul Desmarais, Jr. | Jean-Louis Beffa | Thierry de Rudder | Jacques Lagarde | Lord Simon of Highbury. The Suez Group is jointly controlled by Albert Frere's Charleroi Group in Belgium and the Power Corporation in Canada of the Desmarais family, this through a company called PARJOINTCO (50-50). PARJOINTCO owns Pargesa, which owns Groupe Bruxellus Lambert (GBL), which in turn has majority stakes in Suez, Total and Imerys and a minority stake in Bertelsmann, which owns 90% of the RTL Group, Europe's largest broadcaster. Suez controlled the Belgian Societe General de Belgique, which always controlled a huge aspect of the Belgian economy. Part of companies in this structure: Jerome Monod | Baron Paul Janssen. GBL: Albert Frere (chair) | Maurice Lippens (director since 2001). Took over Societe Generale de Belgique in 1988: Catholic nobility always held major stakes. Etienne D. (joined the board in 1985, chair 1988-2001) | Maurice Lippens (vice chair) | Herve de Carmoy (lists himself as chair supervisory board 1988-1991 - other sources say managing director/CEO) Frere Bourgeois: Surprisingly low profile and no website. Baron Albert Frere (chair since 1970, chair and CEO since 1983, today still CEO) | Gerard Frere (chair; son of Albert) | Gilles Samyn (managing director; right hand of Frere since 1983). |
1858 |
| Solvay Officers: Jacques Solvay (chair management/supervisory board 1971-1991) | Denis Solvay (director since 1997, chair Solvay North America, vice chair Solvay SA since 2006) | Yves Boel (chair of Solvay until 1998, major shareholding family) | Baron Daniel Janssen (executive chair 1986-1998, and supervisory chair since then, supervisory chair Solvay Business School, established Friends of Europe in Bibliotheque Solvay) | Etienne Davignon (director until 2003) | Karel van Miert (succeeded Davignon as director in 2003) | Guy de Selliers de Moranville | Jean-Marie Delwart (family is a shareholder). Francoise Dehaye (quality and innovation manager | Guy Spitaels (director Solvay Institute for Sociology). The Solvay family owns Chateau des Amerois. This whole network is closely linked to child abuse accusations in the Dutroux X-Dossiers. |
1863 |
| Power Corporation of Canada Officers, past and present: Maurice Strong (executive vice-president 1961-1963, president 1963-1966) | James Wolfensohn (recruited by Strong in the early 1960s to run Power Corp.'s Australian subsidiary) | PM Paul Martin (hired by Strong in the 1960s to run one of the company's subsidiaries) | William I. M. Turner, Jr. (president) | Paul Desmarais, Sr. (controlling shareholder since 1968, chair and CEO 1968-1996) | Paul Desmarais, Jr. (chair and CEO since 1996) | Andre Desmarais | Laurent Dassault (of the French airplane manufacturer). International advisory council, in existence from 1988-2005: Paul Volcker (1988-2005) | Charles Bronfman (1988-2005) | Helmut Schmidt | Lord Armstrong of Ilminster (listed as a N. M. Rothschild & Sons consultant (director); also a director of Rio Tinto) | Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani (Saudi minister of oil 1962-1986) | Gustavo Cisneros | Michael Francois-Poncet (BNP-Paribas) | Baron Albert Frere | Pierre Haas (Paribas International) | Brian Mulroney | Viscount Rothermere. PM Pierre Trudeau. |
1925 |
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| N. M. Rothschild & Sons Edmund de Rothschild (chair until 1976) | Jacob Rothschild (left in 1980) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (chair an CEO 1976-2003) | Baron David de Rothschild (chair since 2003) | Nat Rothschild (apprentice at the risk management and private banking divisions) | Pehr Gyllenhammar (vice-chair Rothschild Europe, a division of N. M. Rothschild, since 2003, chair of Rothschild pension funds and senior advisor Rothschild Group) | Lord Guthrie (director) | Felix Rohatyn (director Rothschild Continuation Holdings AG and advisor to Baron David de R.) | Lord Lamont (bankker 1968-1979, director Rothschild Asset Mgt in 1978, director 1993-1995) | Alfred Hartmann (director and president of Rothschild Bank AG of Zurich) |
1811 |
| American International Group (AIG) Strategic partner Kissinger Associates and Blackstone since 1980s. Richard Helms (all round consultant, possibly until his death in 2002) | Maurice Greenberg | Kissinger (chair advisory board since 1987 for at least two decades) | MacArthur II (director early 19802-1997) | David Cohen (CIA) | Sir Richard Dearlove (MI6) | Carla Hills (director 1993) | Holbrooke (became a director in early 2001) | Martin Feldstein (director 1987-2008) | Stephan Schmidheiny (reportedly) Starr Foundation, founded in 1955: Cornelius Vander Starr (founder AIG and the foundation; top level OSS veteran and mentor to Maurice) | Maurice G. (chair) According to "CIA sources", Maurice has teamed up with Adnan Khashoggi in exploiting oil and natural gas resources in (ultra-corrupt) Uzbekistan and in the Ural neighborhood of Russia. What is certain is that Maurice and his allies have great interest in Russia, eastern Europe and Central Asia as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed. |
1919 |
| JPMorgan Chase (date of IAC founding) Past and present members international advisory council Chase Manhattan, renamed in 2001 the international council: David Rockefeller | John Loudon (Shell) | William Hewitt | Gustavo Cisneros | Henry Ford II | Gyllenhammar (since 1973) | Gianni Agnelli | Lord Carrington | Shultz (chairman international council 1990s-2009) | David O'Reilly (Chevron) | Kissinger | Riley Bechtel | Brian Mulroney | Jacob Frenkel (chairman IC 2009-2010) | Tony Blair (chairman IC since 2010) | Andre Desmarais | Jean-Louis Beffa | Bill Bradley (Allen & Co.) | Minoru Makihira (Mitsubishi) | Mustafa Koc | Lee Kuan Yew | Mohammed Ali Abalkhai | Sir John Rose | Cees van Lede | Edgar Bronfman, Jr. | Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone; not IC) | Anatoly Chubais | Martin Feldstein (since 1993 with the bank) | John T. Connor (director Chase Manhattan). Advisory council: Lee Raymond (Exxon) | David Rubenstein (Carlyle) | Maurice Sonnenberg | Zuckerman. Other: John Watson (chair and CEO Chevron) | Thomas Higgens (managing director and global head of operational control; CIA). Past: C. Douglas Dillon (director) | John McCloy (chair Chase National Bank 1953-1960) | Alexander Haig (independent director 1979-1980) | Lord Howe (director J. P. Morgan in the 1990s) | Walter Page II (chair J. P. Morgan until 1979) | Thomas Lamont (J. P. Morgan chair until 1959) | Winthrop Aldrich (Chase exec. and uncle to the Rockefeller brothers). Also: Betsy Bliss (managing director J.P. Morgan Securities) | Stephen Macklow-Smith (managing director Asset Management) | Herve de Carmoy (protege of David R.; European executive director Chase Manhattan 1963-1978) |
1965 |
| Kissinger Associates Just about the only important company with no website. Henry K. (founder and chair) | Scowcroft (vice chair) | Eagleburger (president) | William Rogers | William Simon | Robert O. Anderson | Bremer (managing director) | Geithner | Carrington | Lord Roll | Davignon | Gyllenhammar | Saburo Okita | Jami Miscik | Stapleton Roy (vice chair) | David Rothkopf (managing director) | Thomas McLarty III (Kissinger McLarty Associates in Washington, D.C.) | Richard Burt (McLarty and Associates) | Renato Ruggiero |
1982 |
| Barrick Gold Peter Munk (founder and chair) | Adnan Khashoggi (existing business partner, co-founder and shareholder for the first several years). Directors, past and present: Trevor Eyton (retired in 1999; formerly a Bronfman empire CEO) | Anthoney Munk | Gustavo Cisneros | Brian Mulroney | Nat Rothschild (joined supervisory board in 2005; left as a director in 2012). International advisory board, founded in 1995: George H. W. Bush (1995-1997) | Paul Desmarais, Sr. (from 1995 until 2000s) | Sen. Howard Baker, Jr. (since 1995) Brian M. (founding member, chair) | Jose Maria Aznar | Lord Charles Powell (since the 1990s) | Karl Otto Pohl | Gustavo C. | William Cohen (since 2002) | Vernon Jordan (since 1990 until today) | Andronico Luk | John Thornton | Newt Gingrich (advisor). |
1983 |
| Blackstone Group Strategic partner Kissinger Associates and AIG since 1980s. Stephen Schwarzman | Peter Peterson | Paul O'Neill (special advisor 2003-2010) | Sir Ronald Grierson | Jonathan E. Colby | Jacob Rothschild | Jacob Wallenberg | Niall FitzGerald | Brian Mulroney | Shaukat Aziz. |
1985 |
| Hollinger International Financier of the National Interest magazine. Conrad Black | Perle | Kissinger | Brzezinski | Volcker | Raymond Seitz | Marie-Josee Kravis | Henry Keswick | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild | Lord Hanson | Carrington | Margaret Thatcher | Alfred Taubman | Sir James Goldsmith | Lord Kenneth Roy Thomson | Gianni Agnelli | Chaim Herzog | Richard Burt | Leslie Wexner |
1986 |
| The Carlyle Group James Woolsey (lawyer late 1980s-early 1990s) | David Rubenstein (co-founder and co-CEO since 1987) | Frank Carlucci (vice-chair 1989-1992; chair 1992-2005) | James Baker III (partner) | George H. W. Bush (partner) | John Major (chair Carlyle Europe) | Leslie L. Armitage (managing director) | Jonathan E. Colby (managing director; son of CIA chief and Opus Dei member William Colby) | William A. Long (managing director) | Peter Clare (managing director; BAH) | Ian Fujiyama (managing director; BAH) | Daniel Akerson (managing director; BAH) | Thomas McLarty III (senior advisor since 2003) | Richard Burt (adviser) | Paul Desmarais, Sr. (advisory board) | Karl Otto Pohl (advisory board) | Cees van Lede (European advisory board) | Edward J. Mathias (co-founder, director and one of the managing directors) | Saudi relations: Shafig bin Laden (guest of honor on 9/11 at a Carlyle meeting; the family invested in Calyle beginning in 1995) | Khalid bin Mahfouz (two sons of his became Carlyle partners and investors in 1995) | Saudi ambassador Bandar bin Sultan and his father, Prince Sultan, Saudi defense minister 1963-2011 (investors since the mid- to late 1990s) BDM International was controlled by Carlyle 1990-1997. Until 1990: - Earle Williams (early Standard Oil and Sandia Corp. career; joined BDM in 1962, president and CEO of BDM 1972-1992 when annual revenue grew from $7.7 m to $424 m, director 1990-1997; anno 1999 director Earle C. Williams GTS Duratek, in which Carlyle is the second largest shareholder, right behind the directors; in 1999 at Wolf Trap Fdn, with Carlucci's wife; CFR 1990s; director emeritus Wolf Trap Foundation anno 2014 (first lady is honorary chair); at the Professional Services Council with Odeen and Mantech head Pedersen). - Michael Stolarik (joined BDM in 1975 as a technical staff member; vice president of Information Systems of BDM 1985-1987; vice president and general manager BDM's Communications and Data Systems Division 1987-1989; CIO BDM 1994-1995; president and CEO Space Applications Corporation (SAC) March 1995-1997, where Gen. Stubblebine was a consultant; director Professional Services Council; executive vice president Titan Corporation's Technical Resources Sector 2002-2003 (Titan is linked to 9/11, drugs, coups, and Abu Graib); president and COO of QinetiQ North America since 2009, a firm where former CIA director George Tenet was a director 2006-2008, followed by Adm. Edmund Giambastiani, present at Rumsfeld's side on 9/11, a vice chair of then Joint Chiefs, a ranking CIA official and MITRE trustee) - Gen. Albert Stubblebine (vice president of BDM's Intelligence Systems 1984-1990; chair Psi-Tech since 1990; consultant Space Applications Corporation in the 1990s). 1990-1997 new officers: Frank C. (chair since 1990) | Philip Odeen (president and CEO since 1992) | Sonnenfeldt | Walter Leisler Kiep (director since 1995) | Neil Goldschmidt (child abuse scandal) | Joseph Gorman (chair and CEO of TRW which took over BDM in 1997) | EG&G (controlled by Carlyle 1999-2002): Michael Bayer (director) | Donald Kerr (director 1985-1992) Majority shareholder in Booz Allen Hamilton since 2008. Still listed separately. Frontier Group, founded in 2005: Frank C. (Carlyle) | David Robb (Carlyle) | Raymond A. Whiteman (Carlyle) | Norman Augustine | Sanford McDonnell (of McDonnell Douglas) | Danny Pang Baker & Taylor Holdings, Inc. (owned by Carlyle): Patrick Gross (chair), very close to Joseph Kasputys, owner of the WTC South Tower collapse floors. The North Tower impact and collapse floors were controlled by Carlyle's closest friends. Le Figaro: from 1999 to 2002 Carlyle held a 40% stake in the newspaper, in partnership with long-time Figaro owner Robert Hersant who kept 60%. In May 2000 Dominique Baudis was appointed chairman of the editorial board. A year later he left, after Chirac provided him with a government post. In 2003 Baudis was embroiled in a major child abuse scandal, but was never prosecuted. Interestingly, various employees of Hersant at Le Figaro (as well as staffers of Chirac) have been liaisons for the CAUSA (the Moonie Cult) and Le Cercle, both closely affiliated with the CIA, as is Carlyle. |
1987 |
| RIT Capital Partners Jacob Rothschild (founder and chair) | Nat Rothschild (alternate director 2000-2004, non-executive director 2004-2010; began at Lazard Brothers in 1994) | Andrew Knight (resigned as a director in 2008) | James Leigh-Pemberton (non-executive director since 2004) Strategic partnership with Rockefeller Financial Services, Inc. since 2012. David Sr., David Jr., Mark F. and Michael S. Rockefeller are all on the board. |
1988 |
| Forstmann Little & Company/Gulfstream Corp. Rumsfeld | Shultz | Colin Powell | Kissinger | Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Theodore J. Forstmann |
during 1990s |
| Lightbridge Corporation (founded as Thorium Power) Dr. Alvin Radkowsky (founder and chair; former head U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program). Strategic advisory council (2009): Victor Chu (Hong Kong-based financier) | Sir Ronald Grierson (co-chair) | Lord Guthrie | Susan Eisenhower | Michael Howard. Later on: Hans Blix. A few years earlier: Guy de Selliers. |
1992 |
| Trireme Partners LP Set up in November, immediately after 9/11 to invest in homeland security-related projects. Richard Perle | Conrad Black | Henry Kissinger (advisory board) | Adnan Khashoggi (brought together Richard P. and the Saudi businessman Harb Saleh al-Zuhair). This firm is one amazing display of conflicting interests. Not just the Saudis and Richard, but also the fact that Henry and Richard were the biggest enemies during the Cold War over the policy of detente. In addition, Conrad B., a patron of Richard's career, is neoconservative Zionist who also has the closest ties to the liberal establishment of Henry K. |
2001 |
| Albright Stonebridge Group Managing board: Madeleine Albright (co-chair) | Sandy Berger (co-chair) | Warren Rudman | James O'Brien. Team: Joschka Fischer | Susan Eisenhower and former husband Roald Sagdeev | Gerald Curtis |
2001 |
| International advisory council, National Bank of Kuwait The first Arab bank in the world to have an IAB. Members: Josef Ackermann | William R. Rhodes | Martin Feldstein | John Major | Prince Turki al Faisal | Abdlatif Al Hamad, (chair Arab Fund-Kuwait) | Arleigh Burke (chair of strategy CSIS) |
2008 |
| AT&T Walter Gifford (president 1925-1949) | Vannevar Bush (director 1947-1962) | Winthrop Aldrich | John McCloy | John W. Davis | C. Douglas Dillon | Charles Brown (chair and CEO 1979-1980) | James Evans | Louis Gerstner | Philip Hawley | James Olson | William Turner | Warner Rawleigh | Joseph Williams | Henry Schacht | Myron Taylor | Edmund Hawley | Winthrop Aldrich | Thomas Coolidge | James Evans | Walter Page II | Washington SyCip. Bell Labs, subsidiary of AT&T , which ran Sandia National Laboratories from 1949 to 1993: Dr. Oliver Buckley (president 1940-1950, chair 1950-1952) | Robert Dynes (at semi and superconductor department 1964 to 1990) |
1885 |
| Bechtel Group (and foundation) Warren E., Stephen P. Sr., Stephen P. Jr., Riley Bechte1 | John McCone | Edmund Littlefield | Ruben Mettler | Richard Helms (consultant since 1978) | Farouk Mian (low level but ASC advisory boar member) | Walter Wriston (counselor) | Philip Habib (consultant) | George Shultz (president and director 1974-1982, 1989-2006) | Caspar Weinberger (vice president and general counsel 1975-1981) | John Weiser (director and general counsel 1980-1996) | Gen. Jack Sheehan (vice president since 1998) | William C. "Bill" Dudley | Bob Peck | Dan Chao (joined in 1986, executive vice president and managing director) | Judith A. Miller (senior vice president and general counsel) | David O'Reilly (director since 2010) |
1898 |
| TRW, Inc. William Perry (founder and president of ESL 1964-1977, until merged with TRW) | Gen. Jimmy Doolittle (became chair of TRW's STL, consultant to TRW in the 1960s) | Ruben Mettler (executive vice president of TRW's STL, president and COO TRW 1969-1977, chair and CEO 1977-1988, director 1964-1994) | Joseph Gorman (became vice president in 1972, president 1985-1988, chair and CEO 1988-2001)| Lloyd Hand (senior vice president 1970s-1980s; White House connected at the time) | John Stenbit (executive vice president 1977-2001) | George Heilmeier (director since 1992) | Robert Gates (director 1994-2002) | Philip Odeen (1997-2002) | Adm. Bill Studeman (vice president and deputy group manager of TRW 1996-2005) | John S. Foster, Jr. (vice president, Science & Technology -1988, director 1988-1994) | Martin Feldstein (director 1981-1982 and again since 1984 to 2002) | Paul O'Neill (director) | Arthur Money (vice president and deputy general manager of TRW's Avionics and Surveillance Group and at TRW/ESL 1972-1994) | Michael Armacost (director since 1993) | Carl Hahn (director since 1993; chair Volkswagen 1981-1992 and director BP and Thyssen AG) Also: Stanton Friedman (nuclear physicist 1969-1970 at TRW, full time UFO investigator since 1970) |
1901-2002 |
| Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) Majority owned by Carlyle since 2008. High technology consultancy firm. Miles Copeland | James Allen (chair) | James Woolsey (vice president since July 2002 and later senior executive advisor) | Kissinger (founding chair international advisory board (IAB) 1991-; BAH partnered with Kiss. Associates) | Renato Ruggiero (IAB; of Kiss. Associates) | Robert Galvin (founding member IAB) | Peter Wallenberg (founding member IAB) | Dov Zakheim (senior vice president 2004-2010) | Adm. Vernon Clark (advisor) | Philip Odeen (director) | Peter Clare (director; Carlyle) | Ian Fujiyama (director; Carlyle) | Daniel Akerson (director; Carlyle) | Joan Dempsey (executive vice president) | Michael M. Thomas (executive vice president) | Gen. James Clapper (vice president 1997-1998) | Adm. Mike McConnell (since 1996 and rose to vice chair; briefly left to become DNI) | Stephen Kaplan (principal; CIA; vice chair National Intelligence Council) | Enders Wimbush (analyst) | Edward Snowden | Joseph Augustyn (principal) |
1914 |
| Merck Historical ties to Rockefeller University for Medical Research, USAMRIDD and MKNAOMI biological warfare research. George W. Merck (of the founding family, president 1925-1950) | Vannevar Bush (director 1949-1957, chair 1957-1962; OSRD) | John T. Connor (OSRD; joined in 1947, CEO 1955-1967, headed Allied Chemical after that) | Kissinger (advisory board) | Niall FitzGerald | Ruben Mettler | Walter Page II | Charles Tillinghast | Anne Tatlock | Raymond Gilmartin | Richard T. Clark (president and CEO) |
1917 |
| Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) Governors are the heads of companies as Raytheon, Northrop and Lockheed. |
1919 |
| ITT Corporation John McCone (director 1965-) | Harold Geneen (president and CEO 1959-1977, chair 1977-1979) | J. Patrick Lannan | Felix Rohatyn | Eugene R. Black |
1920 |
| Raytheon Vannevar Bush (founder) | Charles Adams IV (director, president, CEO and chair in period 1938-1997) | Harold Geneen (senior vice president 1956-1959) | Warren Rudman (director 1993-2006) | Gen. John Galvin (director since 1996) | Robin Beard (joined Raytheon as an executive in 1998; congressman and former assistant secretary general of NATO) | Daniel Burnham (CEO 1998-2003, briefly at the company) | John Deutch (director since 1998) | Adm. Vernon Clark (director since 2005) | Gen. James Cartwright (director since 2012) | William Swanson (rose through company ranks, CEO since 2003, chair and CEO since 2004) | Matthew Riddle (president; came from BAE). Hughes Aircraft, taken over in 1994: Ruben Mettler (director? 1977-1989) E-Systems, taken over in: William Raborn (director 1970-1990) | Inman (director) | Peter Marino (senior vice president 1991-1996) | A. Lowell Lawson (joined in 1964, president and COO 1989-1994, chair and CEO 1994-1995, chair and CEO Raytheon E-Systems 1995-1998) |
1922 |
| Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Vincent Vitto (president and CEO) | Robert Hermann (chair 1995-2001) | Gen. John Gordon (chair - CIA and national security background) | Franklin Miller | Robert Gates (director from at least 1993 to 1997) | Ashton Carter |
1932 |
| Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) (JASON-related) James Killian (founder) | William O. Baker (co-founder) | Richard Bissell | William A. M. Burden (trustee) | Chas Freeman (trustee) | Luis Alvarez | Gen. Maxwell Taylor (president 1966-1969) | Gen. Paul Gorman (consultant) | Gen. Larry Welch (president 1990-2004, trustee since then) | Gen. John Galvin (trustee anno 2000) | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (president) | Adm. Dennis Blair (president 2004-2009) | David Chu (president since 2009) | Suzanne Woolsey (trustee since 2000, chair since 2010) | Adm. Harry Train (trustee) | Gen. Russell Dougherty (trustee) | John P. White (trustee) | William Press (trustee since 1988, executive committee since 1990) | Robert Worley (research staff) | Samuel Huntington (trustee anno 1999) | Gen. William Smith (former president) Security Policy Advisory Board (SPAB), founded in 1996 at IDA. Advised the National Security Council. Advisory board: Gen. Larry W. (president) | Adm. Thomas A. Brooks. |
1947 |
| RAND Corporation Caryl Haskins (trustee 1955-65, 66-75, adv. trustee since 1988) | Thomas Jones | Mondale | Rowan Gaither (co-founder and chair) | Dr. William Webster (co-founder and chair; trustee 1950-1971) | Franklin Collbohm (co-founder and president, trustee 1948-1967) | J. Paul Austin (chair, trustee 1971-1981) | Julius Stratton | Lewis Branscomb (advisory trustee 1972-1982) | William T. Coleman, Jr. | Andrew Marshall (nuclear expert) and protege Robert Worley | Charles Townes (trustee 1965-1970) | Kissinger | Volcker | Carlucci (CMEPP) | Lester Crown (CMEPP) | Hushang Ansary (CMEPP) | James Schlesinger | Scowcroft | Ikle | Brzezinski | Wohlstetter | Charles J. Hitch | Lord Robin Renwick | Palliser | Philip Lader | John P. White (trustee and senior vice president for national security research programs) | Graham Allison | Condoleezza Rice | Rumsfeld | Paul Kaminski (chair) | Fukuyama | Dick Gephardt | Rita Hauser (CMEPP) | Richard Burt | James Thomson (president) | Paul O'Neill (chair) | James Steinberg (senior analyst 1989-1993) | David Chu (executive 1991-2001 period) | Richard Solomon (senior fellow since 2012) | Ermarth (strategic and Soviet affairs analyst 1968-1972 and director of strategic programs 1977-1978) | Graham Fuller (political scientist) | Paul Henze (political scientist) | Adm. Harry Train (participated in a few studies) | Enders Wimbush (Soviet specialist 1976-1980) | Carl Bildt (speech 2006) | Zalmay Khalilzad (director of strategy) and wife Cheryl Benard (analyst) | Erik Frinking (13 year veteran RAND Corp., Leiden University) | Spencer Kim (Center for Asia-Pacific Policy) | Leon Goure (top analyst for the Vietnam War who relentlessly pushed bombing policies) |
1948 |
| General Dynamics Frank Pace, Jr. (CEO 1957-1962) | Henry Crown (bought a controlling share in 1959, CEO 1966-1966, bought back control in 1970) | Lester Crown (president 1953-1966, chair 1970-1983, 1986, director until 2006, after which GD donated $2,5 million dollars to the Crown Center for Middle East Studies) | James Crown (director since 1987) | Maurice T. Moore (director 1962-1972) | Richard Patterson, Jr. (director) | Gen. Bernard Rogers (director) | Cyrus Vance (director) | Adm. William Crowe (director) | Paul Kaminski (director 1997-beyond 2008) | James Beggs (joined in 1974, later executive vice president ) | Ray Cline (risk consultant) | Gen. George Joulwan (director 1998-beyond 2008) | Gen. Jack Keane (director) | Carlucci (director 1991-1997) | Gen. Carl Mundy (director 1998-beyond 2008) | Donald Rumsfeld (consultant 1990s) | James Woolsey (lawyer in the late 1980s-early 1990s). |
1952 |
| Wackenhut Deeply involved in domestic spying and privatized CIA/FBI operations. George Wackenhut (founder) | Gen. Mark W. Clark | Lloyd Wright | Eddie Rickenbacker | Gen. Bernhard Schriever | Carlucci | Gen. Paul X. Kelley | John S. Foster, Jr. | Carol Boyd Hallett | Adm. David Jeremiah (chair since 2002). As an exception, preferred not to make directors available during the early days of the internet. |
1954 |
| MITRE Corporation Set up by MIT, RAND and Ford Fdn. people. James Killian (key founder) | Rowan Gaither (founding chair) | Hap Halligan (founding president; came from: director of military engineering, Bell Labs) | John M. Woolsey, Jr. (co-founder; lawyer) | Dr. William Webster (co-founder; became 2nd chairman in 1960) | Lewis Branscomb | George Heilmeier (trustee) | Charles Townes | James Schlesinger (trustee chair since 1985) | Gen. William Hartzog (advisory board) | Cindy Williams | Jane Garvey | Adm. David Jeremiah | Adm. Giambastiani | Ashton Carter (trustee) | Gen. Paul Gorman | John Hambre | Richard Kerr | Donald Kerr | Gen. Montgomery Meigs | John Stenbit | Vic Demarines (president and CEO 1994-2000) | Martin Faga (president and CEO 2000-2006) | Chuck Robb (trustee since 2001, vice chair since 2006) |
1958 |
| JASON Group James Killian (co-founder) | Charles Townes (co-founder) | Marvin Goldberger (co-founder) | William O. Baker (co-founder) | Joshua Lederberg | Freeman Dyson | William Nierenberg | Sidney Drell | Luis Alvarez | Lewis Branscomb | Richard Garwin | Murray Gell-Mann | Gordon MacDonald | Dr. Kenneth Watson | William Press (since 1977, chair 1995-1998). Also: Ann Finkbeiner (wrote an official history) | Paul Horowitz | Ronald Pandolfi (known to have initiated a study in 2008) |
1958 |
| Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) James Killian (founder) | John S. Foster, Jr. (missile defense committee) | Gen. Paul Gorman (Army-DARPA) | George Whitesides (defense science research council) |
1958 |
| Aerospace Corporation Gen. Russell Dougherty | William A. M. Burden | James Woolsey (trustee 1982-1989) | Pete Aldridge (president and CEO) | Vincent Vitto (trustee since 2008) | John Stenbit (engineer 1962-1968) |
1960 |
| Logistics Management Institute McNamara (founder) | Joseph Nye (trustee 1997-2009)| Joseph Kasputys (1999-2009) | Paul Kaminski (joined in 2002) |
1961 |
| ManTech International Corporation George Pedersen (founder, CEO and chair since 1968) | Evan Hineman (executive vice president 2001-2004 and president Mantech Security Mission Assurance Corp. and the National Security Solutions Group) | Richard Kerr (director and advisory board member/ chairman since 2002) | Richard Armitage (director since 2005, later advisory board) | Mary K. Bush (advisory board; childhood friend of Condi Rice) | Adm. David Jeremiah (member advisory board since its founding in 2002, chair 2002 for some years, ordinary member again) | Mark Chadason (senior vice president Mission, Cyber and Technology Group; CIA) Board of Aegis Research Corporation, taken over by ManTech's NSSG in 2002: Evan H. (head) | Robert Huffstutler (CEO | Richard K. (director 1996-2002) - all three were top-level CIA guys. Advisory board Aegis: Gen. Lincoln Faurer. |
1968 |
| Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Adm. William Raborn (director) | 2st Baron Sherfield (Makins) (assistant vice president 1979-1989) | Dr. Kenneth Watson (consultant 1981-2004) | John Deutch (director 1980-1993) | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (director 1982-2003) | Adm. Harry Train II (manager SAIC's Hampton Roads Operations 1989-2006) | Robert Gates (1993-1994) | Donald Kerr (exec. vice president and director 1993-1996) | Adm. Bill Owens (vice chair SAIC 1996-1997, president and COO 1997-1999) | Glen Howard (research analyst Strategic Assessment Center 1997-2003) | Victor Reis (vice president for strategic planning 1983-1989) | Adm. Richard Mies (senior vice president 2002-2007) | Larry Cox (senior vice president and general manager IIS business unit) | Stuart Shea (CEO) | Adm. Normant Saunders (vice president for corporate development) | Fritz Ermarth (part-time senior analyst for its Strategies Group) | James Woolsey (lawyer) | Enders Wimbush (analyst) | Maurice Sovern (consultant, or "senior executive advisor Mission Integration Business Unit") | Patti Benner Antsen (defense analyst) | Leon Goure (director of Soviet studies) Pan Heuristics (owned by SAIC): Albert Wohlstetter (founding partner and senior consultant 1974-1997) |
1969 |
| United Technologies Corporation Owns Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky. Robert Knight (counsel to the board 1974-1985) | Haig (president in 1980, in between government jobs - later UTC was the principal client of Worldwide Associates) | Pehr Gyllenhammar (director until 1998) | Robert Hermann (senior vice president for science and technology until 1998) | William Perry (director until 1999) | Gorelick (director since 1999) | Christine Todd Whitman (director since 2003) | Harold McGraw III (director since 2003) | Gen. Richard Myers (director since 2006)| Irving Yoskowitz (executive vice president and general counsel) | James Woolsey (lawyer) | George Whitesides (consultant) |
1975 |
| Technology Strategies & Alliances Original name: H&Q Technology Partners. William Perry (founder and chair 1985-1993) | Paul Kaminski (chair and CEO until 1994) | Adm. David Jeremiah (president since 1994, later CEO, chair and partner - still in 2007) | Conrad Lautenbacher | Howard Schue (partner and executive vice president anno 2013) | |
1985 |
| Defense Group, Inc. (DGI) Directors anno 2000: James P. Wade, Jr. (chair and CEO; under secretary of defense for research and engineering) | James Beggs (NASA head 1981-1985; manager at Westinghouse and General Dynamics) | Richard P. Godwin (under secretary of defense; vice chair and president of Bechtel) | Adm. Thomas Hayward (chief of naval operations; Joint Chiefs) | Wiilaim A. Long (managing director Carlyle). Directors anno 2013: James P. W., Jr. (still chair and CEO) | William Schneider, Jr. (since 2001) | John Stenbit | John Deutch. |
1987 |
| Crescent Investment Management in New York Mansoor Ijaz (founder; close to bin Laden's network in Pakistan and to Pakistan's nuclear elite) | Gen. James Abrahamson (co-founder; close to WTC security) | James Woolsey (vice chair) | Prince Alfred von Liechtenstein (vice chair) | Maurice Sonnenberg (advisory board) |
1991 |
| Northrop Grumman Corporation Thomas Jones (president, chair and CEO Northrop 1952-1990) | Tom Killefer (director) | Adm. Charles Larson (director early 2000s) | Robert W. Helm (corporate vice president governmental relations) | Lewis Coleman | Adm. David Jeremiah | Gen. Richard Myers | Philip Odeen | Ralph Crosby, Jr. (rose to president 1981-2002) | Scott D. White (corporate vice president intelligence programs) | John S. Foster, Jr. (consultant) | Bran Ferren (consultant) | Paul Wolfowitz (consultant 1990s) | Ermarth (senior technical analyst 1980-1983) |
1994 |
| Lockheed Martin Lockheed and Martin Marietta merged in 1995. Controls Sandia National Laboratories since 1993. Historic financier of the ASC, AFIO and FARI. Robert E. Gross (president Lockheed 1934-1956) | Roy Anderson (CEO 1977-1985, director until 1990) | William A. M. Burden (director) | Lamar Alexander (director) | Jack Horton (director) | John Swearingen (director) | Warren Christopher (director) | James Day Hodgson (vice president) | John McMahon (exec. VP Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. 1986-1988, president and CEO 1988-1994) | Prince Bernhard (lobbyist) | Yoshio Kodama (lobbyist; Black Dragon & Yakuza) | James Woolsey (lawyer and director Martin Marietta 1989-1991) | Peter Marino (president, COO and senior vice president 1986-1988) | Norman Augustine (vice president of technical operations Martin Marietta since 1977, CEO since 1987 and chair since 1988; founding chair and CEO Lockheed Martin 1996-2005) | Bruce Jackson (vice president for strategy and planning Lockheed 1993-2002)| Sir Anthony Cleaver | Larry Cox (vice president of signals intelligence strategy) | Bran Ferren (consultant) | John Stenbit (consultant) Lockheed is owner of Sandia National Laboratories since 1993: John Deutch (director) | James Schlesinger (director) | Al Roming, Jr. (various high level functions) | James Gosler | Miriam E. John | National Security Advisory Panel for Sandia National Laboratories: Michael Bayer | Richard Kerr | James Tegnelia (co-chair) | Elizabeth Stanley | Gen. John Michael Loh | Victor Reis |
1995 |
| Hakluyt Lord Peter Inge (since 1999) | Lord Robin Renwick (RAND)| Sir William Purves (chair HSBC) | Sir Peter Holmes (chair Shell) | Sir Peter Cazalet (chair BP, director P&O) | Frank Wisner II (AIG, Rockefeller friend, CIA history) | Bill Bradley (managing director Allen & Co.) | Sir Ralph Robins (chair Rolls Royce) | Minoru Makihara (chair Mitsubishi) | Don Argus (chair BHP Billiton). Senior advisor: Jonathan Powell (brother of Lord Charles Powell) |
1995 |
| Blackwater USA / Xe Services / Academi Blackwater USA 1997-2009. Xe Services 2009-2011. Academi 2011-. Used as a CIA front to run the War on Terror assassination program through. Directors: Erik Prince (founder, chair and CEO 1997-2009, chair 2009-2010) | Al Clark (co-founder) | Cofer Black (vice chair 2005-2008) | Buzzy Krongard (advisory board since 2007) | Joseph Yorio (president and CEO Xe) | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (director since March 2011) | John Ashcroft (director since March 2011) | Red McCombs (chair since March 2011; billionaire; co-founder and still director Clear Channel Communications, which controls alternative radio show C2C AM) | Joseph E. Schmitz (refused to investigate BW as DOD inspector general 2002-05; then joined Prince Group as general counsel and COO; SMOM) |
1997 |
| Global Technology Partners, LLC Partners: William Perry (founder) | John Deutch (1990s-2010s) | Paul Kaminski (1990s-2010s) | John Stenbit (1990s-2010s) | Robert Hermann (1990s-2010s; NSA/Air Force/NRO) | John P. White (1990s-2010s) | Ashton Carter (1990s-2010s) | George Whitesides. In 2000 a strategic partnership was formed with Rothschild, still headed by Sir Evelyn at that point. |
1997 |
| GlobalOptions, Inc. Neil Livingstone (founder) | Frances Cook | William Sessions | William Webster | Wesley Clark | James Woolsey | Adm. William Crowe (chair advisory board). Also: Oleg Deripaska (important client of the firm) |
1998 |
| In-Q-Tel Founded at the request of CIA director George Tenet to support the CIA in the high-tech arena. Shareholders and voting control: Norman Augustine | Adm. David Jeremiah | Paul Kaminski | William Perry. Other directors: Stephen Friedman | Buzzy Krongard | John McMahon. |
1999 |
| European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) Jean-Claude Trichet (director since 2012) | Sean O'Keefe (CEO EADS North America) | Evan Galbraith (director Groupe Lagardere, which controls EADS with Daimler Benz) | Ralph Crosby, Jr. (North American chair since 2002) |
2000 |
| Paladin Capital Group Suzanne (minor function) and James Woolsey (chair strategic advisory group) | Richard A. Clarke | Gen. Wesley Clark | Bran Ferren | |
2001 |
| Los Alamos National Security, LLC (manages the nuclear site) Founding partners: Bechtel, University of California (Caltech), Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services, and URS Energy and Construction. Norman Pattiz (chair board of governors) | Adm. Richard Mies (independent governor) Advisory board Los Alamos National Laboratory: Richard Kerr (also at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) |
2006 |
| Monument Capital Group Douglas B. Baker (co-founder, another son of James B. III, seven years younger than James B. IV). Management board: James Rothschild (protege of Jacob and Nat Rothschild). Four-member advisory board: James Baker III, Thomas McLarty III, Frank Carlucci, Mustafa Koc. Operating advisors: Thomas Malatesta |
2007 |
| Private Security Company Association of Iraq (PSCAI) Some of the companies who were members in this period: Aegis Defence Services, founded in 2002: Lord Inge (chair) Tim Spicer (founder and CEO) | Nicholas Soames (director and later chair) | Gen. Sir Roger Wheeler | Sir John Birch | Robert McFarlane Armor Group: Sir Malcolm Rifkind (non-exec. chairman) | Noel Philp (CEO since 2002) | Laura Dietrich (unknown work) Blackwater USA, founded in 1997: Erik Prince (founder and chair) | Cofer Black (vice chair 2005-2008; head of the CIA's Counter-Terrorist Center (CTC)) | Robert Richer (vice-president for operations) | Enrique Prado (vice president for special government programs; CIA Counter-Terrorist Center (CTC) operations chief) | Buzzy Krongard (Blackwater advisory board; CIA contact with Blackwater until 2004; CIA executive director) New Bridge Strategies, founded in May 2003: Mike Baker (CEO) | John Howland (president) | Ed Rogers | Lanny Griffith | Neil Bush (consultant) Diligence, LLC, founded in July 2003 in Baghdad: William Webster (founder, chair advisory board) | Mike Baker (CIA ops officer; founder, CEO 2003-2005) | Joe Allbaugh (FEMA head February 2001-March 2003)| Ed Rogers (vice chair) | Richard Burt (chair) | Lord Charles Powell (advisory board) | Lord Michael Howard | Whitley Bruner (former CIA station chief in Bagdad) | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Haley Barbour | Edward J. Mathias (Carlyle) | Thomas H. Boggs. Jr. (son of the Warren Commissioner) | Thomas McLarty III (advisory board) | Prince Michel Karadordevic of Yugoslavia (senior advisor Geneva office) DynCorp, founded in 1946 (sold to CSC in 2003 and far less stable leadership since then. Still has a role in the war against drugs): Eugene Blanchard (vice president and CFO 1979-1997, director 1997-2003) | Daniel R. Bannister (president and CEO 1985-1997, chairman 1997-2003) | Paul V. Lombardi (president and CEO 1997-2003) | Paul Kaminski (director 1988-2002 - not mentioned on site, only in annual/SEC reports) | Gen. Russell Dougherty (director 1988-2001) | James Woolsey (director 1988-1989) | Michael P. C. Carns (director since 2000) | Michael Bayer (2006-2010) | Gen. Barry McCaffrey (director, certainly in 2006-2010 period) Erinys, founded in 2003 (DSL spin-off): SAS gen. John Holmes | Alastair Morrison (executive 2003-2004, rejoined in 2008; SAS, co-founder Delta Force) | Lord Westbury (chair) Hart Group, founded in 1999 (DSL spin-off - today owns Erinys): Lord Westbury (chair) | Alastair Morrison (director) Kroll Associates, founded in 1972: Jules Kroll (founder and head) | Michael Cherkasky | Brian Michael Jenkins | Alastair Morrison (became head Kroll Security Group in 2004) | Aldwin Wight (Kroll Security Group) | Mark Blagbrough (Kroll Security Group) | Maurice & Jeffrey Greenberg (CIA; important shareholders 1997-2004) | Hugh Price [CIA; director since Oct. 1996] | Raymond Mabus (director Nov. 1996) | William Sessions [FBI chief; director since Nov. 1996]. |
2004-2011 |
| ExecutiveAction, LLC Neil Livingstone (founder) | James Woolsey (advisory board chair) | William Sessions (advisory board vice chair) | Sir Richard Needham | Celia Sandys | Adm. James Stark |
2006 |
| Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (AFSAB) No major names in recent years. Historical: Theodore von Karman (chair 1944-1954, chair emeritus until 1963) | Gen. Curtis Lemay (military director 1946-1947) | Gen. Jimmy Doolittle (chair 1955-1958) | John S. Foster, Jr. (member until 1956) | Edward Teller | Detlev Bronk | Gen. Bernard Schriever | Gen. Robert Dickman | Gen. James McCarthy | Antonio Pensa | Gen. Theodore Milton | William Swanson | John Gardner |
1946 |
| National Security Agency Advisory Board (NSAAB) Members are officially listed as classified. John C. McPherson (IBM) | John von Neumann (Institute for Advanced Study) | Dr. Howard T. Engstrom (Engineering Research Associates, Remington Rand) | Dr. William O. Baker (president Bell Labs) | Adm. Joseph Wenger | Michael P. C. Carns | Richard Kerr | John Stenbit | Francis Landolf | Patrick Swygert | Bran Ferren | Larry Cox | Ruth A. David |
1953 |
| 5412 Special Group (government body; later 303 and 40 Committee) | 1954 |
| American Astronautical Society (AAS) Senior fellows: Gen. James Abrahamson | Buzz Aldrin | Neil Armstrong | Norman Augustine | William Ballhaus, Jr | Lloyd Berkner | Arthur C. Clarke | Jimmy Doolittle | Gen. Walter Dornberger | John S. Foster, Jr. | Donald Menzel | William Perry | Simon Ramo | Gen. Bernard Schriever | Wernher von Braun | James E. Webb |
1954 |
| Army Science Board Relatively low level. Michael Bayer | Elizabeth Stanley | James Tegnelia (chair) | Gen. David Maddox | Bran Ferren | Bruce Tarter | John S. Foster, Jr. | Gregory Canavan |
1954 |
| President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) / President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) James Killian (initial chair 1956–1963) | Jimmy Doolittle (initial board) | Gen. John B. Hull (initial board) | Joe Kennedy (initial board) | Robert Lovett (initial board) | Frank Pace, Jr. (member 1961-1973) | Ewin Land (member 1961-1977) | Clark Clifford (chair 1963–1968) | Gen. Maxwell Taylor 1968–1970 | Nelson Rockefeller (1969-1974) | Clare Boothe Luce (member 1973-1977 and during the Reagan years) | William O. Baker | John S. Foster, Jr. (1973-1990 - except when it was abolished during the Carter years) | William Casey (1974-1976) | Leo Cherne (chair 1976–1977) | Glenn Campbell (member 1980-1990) | Alfred Bloomingdale (since 1981) | Anne Armstrong (chair 1982–1990) | Gen. Norman Wood (executive director 1982-1984) | Gen. Bernard Schriever (Reagan and Bush years) | David Abshire (member 1981-1982) | Henry Kissinger (1984-1990) | Albert Wohlstetter (1985-1988) | Jeane Kirkpatrick (1985-1990) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (member 1987-1989) | Caspar Weinberger (1987-1988) | John Tower (chair 1990–1991) | Michael Swetnam (special consultant 1990-1992) | Adm. Bobby Inman (chair 1991–1993) Adm. William Crowe, Jr. (chair 1993–1994) | Robert Hermann (1993-2001) | Sidney Drell | Maurice Sonnenberg | Les Aspin (chair 1994–1995) | Warren Rudman (chair 1995–1996 and 1997-2001 ) | Thomas Foley (chair 1996–1997). Bush 43: Brent Scowcroft (chair 2001-2004) | Stephen Friedman (Goldman Sachs) | Ray L. Hunt (Texas oil) | Rita Hauser | Adm. David Jeremiah | Arnold Kanter (national security official in the elder Bush's administration and a founding member of the Scowcroft Group) | Philip Zelikow. Obama: Sen. Chuck Hagel (co-chair) | Sen. David Boren (co-chair) | Lee Hamilton | Rita H. | Paul Kaminski | Jami Miscik | Philip Z. | Sen. Chuck Robb | Martin Feldstein (2007-2008) | Adm. Mike McConnell Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), part of PIAB: Chuck H. (chair) | David B. Glenn C. (appointed chair in 1980; member until 1990) |
1956 |
| Defense Science Board (DSB) Dr. Kenneth Watson | Gen. Bernard Schriever | Sidney Drell (1970s) | Norman Augustine (chair 1981-1983, later RDT & E strategy integration) | John S. Foster, Jr. (chair 1990-1993) | Ashton Carter (1991-1993, 1997-2001) | Paul Kaminski (chairman 1993-1994, again since 2009, member in between) | Adm. Thomas Brooks (1997 summer study) | Gen. Jack Sheehan (1997-1999) | Joseph Nye (pre-1996-1998) | Robert Mueller (pre-1996-2000) | Joshua Lederberg (1999-2005) | Gen. Russell Dougherty | William Perry | Albert Wohlstetter (member 1986-1992) | Phillip Odeen (pre-1996-2006) | Adm. David Jeremiah | Gen. Paul Gorman (consultant) | John Stenbit (pre-1998-2013) | Adm. Bill Studeman (pre-1996-2008) | William Taft IV (1998-1999) | Gen. John Vessey (1997-1999) | Martin Faga (pre-1996-2000) | Donald Kerr (pre-1996-2000) | Brent Scowcroft (1999-2000) | Dov Zakheim (1999-2000) | Gen. Larry Welch (since 1997) | Vincent Vitto (vice chair) | Gen. Russell Dougherty | Gen. William Hartzog (2002-2009) | Ruth A. David | James P. Wade, Jr. (vice chair) | Gen. James McCarthy | Antonio Pensa | Judith A. Miller | Arthur Money | William Schneider, Jr. (chair 2000-2009) | John Deutch (since 2010) | James Gosler (since 2010) | Miriam E. John (since 2010) | James Schlesinger (co-chair) | Robert Hermann (from 1985 until beyond 2013) | George Heilmeier | Peter Marino | James Tegnelia | Howard Schue (studies) | Michael P. C. Carns | Adm. Richard Mies (task force member on nuclear surety) | Adm. Harry Train (Task Force on Information Warfare Defense) | Michael Swetnam (task force member). 2006 board (13 members): Michael Bayer (chair) and represented were SAIC, Raytheon, CSIS, IDA, RAND, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. |
1956 |
| NRO Technical Advisory Group Adm. David Jeremiah | Deutch | Paul Kaminski | William Press | Bran Ferren | Robert Dickman | Vincent Vitto | James Frey | John Stenbit | Gen. Robert Dickman | Robert Hermann (former NRO head) | Michael Swetnam |
1961 |
| Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) John McCloy (founder) | Richard Barnet (aide to John M. in 1961-1962; rebelled) | Albert Wohlstetter | Fred Ikle (head 1973-1977) | Paul Warnke (director/head 1977-1978) | Eugene Rostow (head 1981-1983) | Ronald Lehman II (head 1989-1993) | Henry Kissinger (consultant 1961-1968) | Joseph Churba (advisor 1981-1982) | John N. Moore (consultant) | Keith Payne (consultant) |
1961 |
| Warren Commission Members: Earl Warren (chair) | Allen Dulles | John McCloy | Gerald Ford | Sen. Richard Russell | Sen. John Sherman Cooper | Hale Boggs. Assistant counsel: William T. Coleman, Jr. Senior counsel: Joseph A. Ball (chief organizer of all incoming police, FBI and CIA information and chief author Warren report; later a lawyer for key Watergate figure John Ehrlichman and lawyer for Adnan Khashoggi 1980-1982) |
1963 |
| Task Force 157 Paul Nitze | Thomas Moorer | Edwin Wilson |
1966 |
| Scientific Advisory Group, Joint Strategic Targeting and Planning Staff Meetings at Offutt AFB. All approved by secretary of defense. Fred A. Payne (chair; Martin Marietta) | James Woolsey (1987-1988) |
1968 |
| U.S. Strategic Command Strategic Advisory Group, Offutt AFB Gen. Larry Welch (since pre-1996) | Vic Demarines (since 2003) | Victor Reis (since 2000) | John Stenbit (since 2004) | James Woolsey (2006-2010) | Joan Dempsey (since 2010) | Eric Edelman (since 2009) | Adm. Richard Mies (since 2012) | Franklin Miller (Scowcroft Group) | Gen. James McCarthy | Gregory Canavan (chair) | Keith Payne (chair) | Antonio Pensa |
1968 |
| Executive Panel, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Albert Wohlstetter (1971-1997) | Adm. Thomas Brooks (executive secretary) | Fred Ikle (since 1970s) | Morton Abramowitz (1997-1998) | Kenneth DeGraffenheid | David Abshire | James Woolsey (1980-1992, CIA director 1993-1995, served again from 1996 until today) | Joshua Lederberg (pre-1996-2008) | William Press (1994-2000) | Phillip Odeen (pre-1996-2012) | Richard Solomon (pre-1996-2012) | Dov Zakheim (since 2004) | Sonnenfeldt (pre-1996-2012) | Michael Bayer (since 2006) | William Luti | Eli S. Jacobs | Dr. Jacquelyn Davis (pre-1996-2012) | Lloyd Hand (1998-2005) | Bran Ferren (since 2000) | Paul Bracken | Walter Morrow | John Egan | Jerry MacArthur Hultin |
1970 |
| Professional Services Council Anno 2014 emeriti directors: George Pedersen | Philip Odeen (former chair around 1990) | Earle Williams. Michael Stolarik (not listed, but also a past director) |
1972 |
| Advisory Group on Electron Devices (DOD committee) Gen. Paul X. Kelley | William Schneider, Jr. |
1974 |
| Naval Studies Board (NSB) John Stenbit |
1974 |
| United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States (Rockefeller Commission) Prelimiray look at the JFK assassination, MK-ULTRA and Mockingbird. Nelson Rockefeller | Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer | Ronald Reagan | C. Douglas Dillon. |
1975 |
| United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee) Sen. Frank Church (chair) | Walter Mondale | Gary Hart | John Tower | Howard Baker |
1975 |
| Outer Continental Shelf Policy Committee (OCSPC) Linked to oil and gas retrieval. James Woolsey (member anno 2005) |
1975 |
| Defense Intelligence Agency Advisory Board (DIAAB) No major names, certainly not civilian. Adm. Bill Studeman (pre-1996-2008) | Gen. Larry Welch (pre-1996-2000) |
1977 |
| Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) Frances Townsend (chair) | Adm. Mike McConnell (chair) | John Brennan (chair) | John Negroponte | Timothy Reardon (Lockheed) | Scott White (Northrop Grumman) | Dewey Houck (Boeing) | Robert Griffin (IBM) | Jim Allen (Booz Allen Hamilton) | Lynn Dugle (Raytheon) | DeEtte Gray (BAE Systems) | Bernard Guerry (General Dynamics) | Al Munson (Potomac Institute | Michael Johnson (Homeland Security) | Barbara McNamara (NSA) | Aris Pappas (Microsoft) | Michael Rodrigue (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) | Stuart Shea (SAIC) | David Shedd (DIA) | Adm. Bill Studeman (Northrop Grumman) | Michael M. Thomas (Booz Allen Hamilton) | Adm. Thomas A. Brooks (past director) | Gen. James Clapper (visitor and expert) |
1979 |
| National Bipartisan Commission on Central America Argued in favor of more anti-communist aid to El Salvador and Nicaragua. Henry Kissinger (chair) | Nicholas Brady | Henry Cisneros | Robert Strauss. |
1983-1984 |
| Defense Policy Board (DPB) Gen. Peter Dawkins | Graham Allison (from the 1980s to late 1990s) | Armitage (1990s) | Adm. Thomas Brooks (1995-) | Nye (1996-2000, since 2009) | Robert Zoellick (1997-2000, 2006-2007) | Wolfowitz (1997-2000) | Adm. Bill Owens (1997-2003) | Richard Haass (1997-2000) | Maurice Greenberg (1997-2000) | Norman Augustine (1997-2000) | Richard Burt (1997-2000) | Ashton Carter (1997-2000) | Stephen Hadley | Kissinger (since 2001) | James Schlesinger (since 2001) | Scowcroft (since 2009) | Woolsey (2001-2005) | Perle (1996-2005, also chair) | Devon Gaffney Cross (2001-2008) | Gingrich (2001-2010) | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Thomas Foley | Richard V. Allen | Ikle | Adm. David Jeremiah (1997-2005) | Gary Hart | Helmut Sonnenfeldt (2001-2005) | Chuck Hagel | Eli S. Jacobs | Eliot Cohen (2001-2006) | William Perry (since 2007) | John Hamre (chair) | Gen. Peter Pace (2007-2011) | Harold Brown | Adm. Vernon Clark (2006-2011) | Gen. Jack Keane | Gen. Larry Welch (since 2009) | Col. John Nagl | Robert Kaplan | Robert Gallucci | Rudy de Leon | Stephen Biddle | Madeleine Albright | Gorelick (2011-2013) | Gen. Richard Myers (2006-2010) | Sam Nunn (since 2009) | Dan Quayle (2001-2005) | Walter Slocombe (2002-2004) | Barry Blechman | Franklin Miller | Jane Harman | Michael Armacost | Jeane Kirkpatrick (1985-1993) | John S. Foster, Jr. (since 2010) |
1985 |
| Chemical Warfare Commission (CWC) Brzezinski (member 1986-1987) |
1985 |
| Report of the Secretary of State's Advisory Panel on Overseas Security Inman (chair) | Eagleburger | Warren Rudman | Anne Armstrong |
1985 |
| President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission) Established after the Pentagon had grossly overpaid for a wide variety of item, including $435 for a hammer, $600 for a toilet seat and $7,000 for a coffee pot. David Packard (chair) | Nicholas Brady | Louis Cabot | Frank Carlucci | William Clark, Jr. | Barber Conable | Paul Gorman | Carla Hills | James Holloway III | William Perry | Brent Scowcroft | James Woolsey |
1985-1986 |
| NASA Advisory Council Daniel J. Fink (chair; of GE) | John Warner (1996-1998; CEO Boeing) | Freeman Dyson (2001-2003) | Sen. Jake Garn (2001-2003) | Sen. John Glenn (2002-2006) | Gen. James Abrahamson (2005-2009; of SDI) | Neil Armstrong (2005-2007) | Susan Eisenhower (1999-2002)| Stephen Katz (2005-2009) | NASA Federal Laboratory Review Task Force: John S. Foster, Jr. (chair) |
1987 |
| Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy (CILTS) Albert Wohlstetter (co-chair) | Anne Armstrong | Brzezinski | William Clark | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Adm. James Holloway | Samuel Huntington | Kissinger | Joshua Lederberg | Gen. Bernard Schriever | Gen. John Vessey |
1988 |
| Advisory Committee on the Future of the United States Space Program Norman Augustine (chair) | Laurel Wilkening (vice chair; provost University of Washington) | Edward Aldridge (president McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems Company) | James Baker III | Robert Herres (former commander of the United States Space Command) | Thomas Paine (former NASA administrator) |
1990 |
| Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) Kenneth Lay (founding member, chair and CEO of Enron) | Richard Stegemeier (founding member; Unocal president) | Walter Massey (chair in the 1990s; BP, Bank of America, MacDonalds) | Robert Galvin (member and chaired a 1994-1995 commission) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (appointed in Dec. 1998) | Marie-Josie Kravis (appointed in Dec. 1998) | Peter Bijur (appointed in Dec. 1998; chair of Texaco) | Lee Raymond (anno 2003-2004) | Joseph Kennedy II (anno 2003-2004) | James P. Hoffa (anno 2003-2004) | Norman Augustine (since 2010 | John Deutch (since 2010) | William Perry (since 2010) | Bruce Tarter |
1990 |
| James Madison Council The Library of Congress' national private-sector advisory group. Council members have given at least $1 million. Officers: James Billington (founder; librarian of Congress since 1987) | John Kluge (founding chair) | Roger Hertog (founding council member) | Ray Smith (long-time founding council member; chair Rothschild, North America) | David Rubenstein (long-time founding council member) | John Thain | Laura Bush (visitor) | Henry Kissinger (visitor) John W. Kluge Center, founded in 2000: George Shultz was a Henry K. lecture speaker. |
1990 |
| Vice President's [Post Cold War] Space Policy Advisory Board Gen. James Abrahamson | John S. Foster, Jr. | Daniel J. Fink | Pete Aldridge |
1992 |
| Defense Trade Advisory Group, State Department William Schneider, Jr. (chair 1992-2010 and only high level member in this period; continued as ordinary board member). Other members: varying representatives of Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Lockheed, Northrop, SAIC and other defense contractors. |
1992 |
| Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board Formerly the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board. Gen. Larry Welch (1993-2001) | Richard Garwin (chair, 1993-2001) | Gary Hart (chairman, since 2013) | Graham Allison (since 2011) | Ashton Carter (2006-2008) | Robert Gallucci (since 2011) | Gen. Montgomery Meigs (since 2011) | William Perry (since 2011) | Robert Pfaltzgraff (2006-2009) | Chuck Robb (2006-2008) | James Schlesinger (2006-2009) | William Schneider (2006-2008) | Brent Scowcroft (since 2011) | Walter Slocombe (since 2011) | William Van Cleave (2006-2009) | Adm. Giambastiani (2008-2009) | Paul Wolfowitz (2008-2009) | James Woolsey (2006-2009) Maintaining U.S.-China Strategic Stability (study initiated in 2011). |
Pre-1993 |
| Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (PIPS) Michael Swetnam (founder, chair and CEO; worked for CIA directors William C. and William W. 1986-1990) | Gen. Al Gray (chair, also senior fellow and management board member) | Donald Kerr | Francis Landolf | Robert Worley (senior research fellow) | Howard Schue (director) | James Beggs (chaired a 1997 study) |
1994 |
| President's Advisory Board on Arms Proliferation Policy Ronald Lehman (founding member) | Paul Warnke |
1995 |
| Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore Robert F. Lehman II (director/head) |
1996 |
| Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel / National Defense Panel Philip Odeen (chair 1997) | Stephen Hadley (co-chair in 2001) | William Perry (co-chair in 2001) | Richard Armitage (2001) | John Lehman (2001) | Adm. David Jeremiah (2001) | Gen. Larry Welch (2001) | Rudy de Leon (2001) | Andrew Krepinevich | Gen. James McCarthy | Gen. George Joulwan | Gen. Jack Keane |
1997 |
| CIA's National Security Advisory Panel Adm. David Jeremiah (chair) | Stephen Hadley | Jamie Gorelick (since 1997) | Carol Boyd Hallett (member 1999-2005) | Randy Jayne (served for 11 years) | Robert Gallucci (since 2000) | Robert Kimmitt | Richard Betts | Bran Ferren | James Frey | |
1997 (+/-) |
| Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy Sen. Daniel Moynihan (chair) | Jesse Helms | Lee Hamilton | John Deutch | Martin Faga | Samuel Huntington | John Podesta | Maurice Sonnenberg |
1997 |
| Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy (study group) Collaborative study of Harvard, Stanford and MIT. Members of the study group: Ashton Carter (co-chair) | John Deutch (co-chair) | Philip Zelikow (project director) | Vic DeMarines | Robert Gates | Jamie Gorelick | Fred Ikle | Joseph Nye | Graham Allison | William Perry | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Zoellick | Ernest May. |
1997-1998 |
| Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States Rumsfeld (chair) | Wolfowitz | Woolsey | William Schneider, Jr. | William R. Graham | Gen. Larry Welch | Richard Garwin | Barry Blechman | Keith Payne |
1998 |
| U.S. Space Command and Northern Command (NORAD) Independent Strategic Assessment Group Advisory board, set up by IDA, later split, but with much of the same membership apparently. Gregory Canavan (member pre-9/11, later chair) | Gen. James McCarthy | Adm. Normant Saunders | Richard Foster (2004-2005) | Adm. Jim Eckleberger | Gov. Dick Celeste | Antonio Pensa |
1998 |
| NASA Earth Systems Science and Applications Advisory Committee Gregory Canavan | |
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| White House Science Council Military Committee Gregory Canavan |
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| US Commission on National Security Gary Hart | Warren Rudman | Anne Armstrong | Augustine | Leslie Gelb | Gingrich | Lee Hamilton | James Schlesinger | Harry Train II | Andrew Young, Jr. | Charles Boyd. Staff: Jeffrey Bergner | Chas Freeman | Richard Haass | Gen. William Hartzog | Barry Blechman | Gen. Patrick Hughes |
1998 |
| National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Advisory Group Bran Ferren | James Frey | Peter Marino (chair) | Evan Hineman | Edward P. McMahon |
1998 (+/-) |
| Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (TRAC) Gen. Larry Welch (chair) | Norman Augustine | Gen. James Clapper | John Deutch | Joshua Lederberg | Jamie Gorelick | Dr. Ronald Lehman (Lawrence Livermore, brother of John) | Rich Wagner (Los Alamos) | Paul Robinson (Sandia) | William Perry | James Schlesinger | Hal Smith | Paul Wolfowitz | Don Kerr (FBI) | Philip Odeen | James Tegnelia | Adm. Richard Mies |
1998 |
| Vulcan Team Armitage | Perle | Zakheim | Zoellick | Wolfowitz | Cheney | Colin Powell | Shultz | Condoleezza Rice |
1998 |
| Report of the Accountability Review Boards on the Embassy Bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam Adm. William Crowe (chair) | Philip Wilcox | Michael Armacost |
1999 |
| National Commission on Terrorism Paul Bremer (chair) | Sonnenberg (vice chair) | Ikle | Woolsey |
1999 |
| Federal Advisory Committee for the End-to-End Review of the U.S. Nuclear Command and Control System (NCCS) Review takes place aboard the National Airborne Command Center and at U.S. Strategic Command Headquarters Conference Room, Offutt AFB. Members: Brent Scowcroft | Arthur Money | Michael P. C. Carns | William Crowell |
2000 |
| Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry Robert S. Walker (chair) | William Schneider, Jr. | Buzz Aldrin | Neil deGrasse Tyson |
2001 |
| President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Norman Augustine (anno 2005) | William Press. Predecessor boards (PSAC): Sidney Drell (PSAC 1966-1971 and OSTP 1977-1982) | William O. Baker | Caryl Haskins (1955-58, consultant 1959-70) |
2001 |
| Deterrence Concepts Advisory Group (DCAG) Keith Payne (co-chair) | Woolsey | Barry Blechman |
2001 |
| National Nuclear Security Administration Advisory Committee Adm. Henry Chiles (chair) | John S. Foster, Jr. | Sidney Drell | Gen. Larry Welch |
2001-2003 |
| Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) William Webster (chair) | James Schlesinger (vice chair) | Gary Hart (vice chair) | William Bratton (vice chair) | Augustine | Freeh | Lee Hamilton | Mitt Romney |
2002 |
| DNI's Intelligence Science Board (ISB) Antonio Pensa | Al Roming, Jr. | Paul Marino |
2002-2010 |
| 9/11 Commission Kissinger (initial chair) | George J. Mitchell (initial vice chair) | Thomas Kean (chair) | Lee Hamilton (vice chair) | John Lehman | Jamie Gorelick | Slade Gorton | Philip Zelikow |
2002 |
| NYFD Task Force for Future Preparedness Against Terrorism James Woolsey (named both as head and chief counsel) | NYFD chief Daniel Nigro | Shabtai Shavit (director Mossad 1989-1996) | Gregory Canavan | Joshua Lederberg. |
2002 |
| Defense Business Board (DBB) Michael Bayer (chair) | Richard Perle (2002-2004) | William Schneider (2002-2006) | Mortimer Zuckerman (2002-2007) | Dov Zakheim (since 2004) | John Hamre (since 2007) | Philip Odeen (since 2008) | Rudy de Leon (2009) | Paul Kaminski (2012-2014) | Patrick Gross (2012-2013). |
2002 |
| FBI Director's Advisory Board Arthur Money (chair) | Paul Kaminski | Lee Hamilton (since 2005) | Chuck Robb (since 2005) | Richard Thornburgh | James Q. Wilson |
2003 |
| United States European Command Senior Advisory Group Brent Scowcroft | Thomas Pickering | Michael Bayer | Newt Gingrich | John Hamre | Robert Kagan | George Shultz | Jacquelyn Davis | Lloyd Hand |
2003 |
| Missile Defense Advisory Committee (MDAC) Gregory Canavan | Adm. Dennis Blair (classmate of Ollie North) | Norman Augustine | Gen. Larry Welch | Robert Joseph | John Stenbit | Graham Allison |
2004 |
| Iraq Intelligence Commission Sen. Chuck Robb (co-chair) | Sen. John McCain | Walter Slocombe | Adm. Bill Studeman | |
2004 |
| Iraq Study Group Co-chairmen: James Baker III and Lee Hamilton | Chas Freeman | Vernon Jordan | Edwin Meese | Sandra Day O'Connor | Leon Panetta | William Perry | Chuck Robb |
2006 |
| Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel James Woolsey | Dov Zakheim | Adm. Richard Mies | Adm. Giambastiani | Adm. Bill Studeman | Maurice Sonnenberg |
2007 |
| International Commission on Non-Nuclear Proliferation and Disarmament Turki al Faisal | William Perry | Hans Blix | Kissinger | Sam Nunn | Hans van den Broek | Lord George Robertson | Rocard | Shultz |
2008 |
| Maintaining the Defense Industrial Base (DOD committee) Philip Odeen | Michael Bayer |
2008 |
| Disruptive Technology (DOD committee) James Woolsey | Bran Ferren |
2008 |
| Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States Facilitated by the U.S. Institute for Peace. Commission members: John Glenn | James Schlesinger | William Perry | Lee Hamilton | John S. Foster, Jr. | Fred Ikle | James Woolsey | Bruce Tarter. |
2009 |
| CIA External Advisory Board Jane Harman | Madeleine Albright | Sen. Bob Graham | Lee Hamilton | Vernon Jordan | Arnold Kanter (Scowcroft Group) | Jeong Kim, (president Bell Labs) | Gen. Richard B. Myers | Thomas Pickering | Sen. Warren Rudman | Hal Smith (vice president CSC) | Jeffrey Smith (former CIA general counsel) |
2009 |
| President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB) Paul Volcker (chair) | Martin Feldstein | Robert Wolf |
2009 |
| National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development Programs of the United States Intelligence Community Maurice Sonnenberg |
2009 |
| Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (BRCANF) Brent Scowcroft (co-chair) | Lee Hamilton (co-chair) | Susan Eisenhower | Chuck Hagel |
2010 |
| BASIC Trident Commission (on the UK's nuclear weapons) Rifkind (chair) | Lord Guthrie |
2011 |
| Future of Navy Force Structure (FNFS) Jacquelyn Davis | Dov Zakheim | James Woolsey |
2011 |
| Navy Personnel Policy (NPP) Michael Bayer | Philip Odeen | James Woolsey |
2011 |
| Blue Water People's Liberation Army-Navy (committee) Jacquelyn Davis | Dov Zakheim | Philip Odeen |
2011 |
| DOD Cyber Resiliency (committee) Adm. Bill Studeman | Donald Kerr | Michael Swetnam |
2011 |
| Eastern Mediterranean and the Maghreb (DOD committee) Jacquelyn Davis | Dov Zakheim |
2011 |
| Advisory Committee on the 100,000 Strong Initiative (State Department) Joseph Nye | Thomas Pickering | Chuck Hagel | Thomas McLarty | J. Stapleton Roy | Sen. David Boren |
2011 |
| Foreign Affairs Policy Board, State Department Founding members: Stephen Hadley | Jane Harman | Carla Hills | Robert Kagan | Jim Kolbe | Thomas McLarty III | Adm. Michael Mullen | John Negroponte | Thomas Pickering | John Podesta | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Strobe Talbott |
2011 |
| Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise (committee) Norman Augustine (co-chair) | Adm. Richard Mies (co-chair) | William Schneider, Jr. |
2014 |
| Director of National Intelligence's Senior Advisory Group Jane Harman | Joanne Isham (CIA, NRO, BAE Systems) | Rod Beckstrom (cybersecurity executive) | Gen. James McCarthy | William Crowell (appointed chair in 2007; deputy director NSA) |
Unknown |
| FCC Technical Advisory Council Bran Ferren | Gen. Wesley Clark |
Unknown |
| CIA's Science and Technology Advisory Group John Stenbit (chair) |
Unknown |
| Science Advisory Group to the Directors of Naval Intelligence John Stenbit |
Unknown |
| Research and Development Advisory Group to the Director of the FAA John Stenbit |
Unknown |
| Science Advisory Group to the Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency John Stenbit |
Unknown |
| Technical Advisory Board, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Paul Kaminski | Michael Swetnam | Bran Ferren | Ruth A. David |
Unknown |
| Non-Proliferation Treaty Policy Advisory Group, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Ashton Carter (co-chair) | Ronald Lehman II |
Unknown |
| Strategic Analysis Advisory Board, National Intelligence Council Sen. Chuck Robb |
Unknown |
| Naval and Military Club, London ("In & Out") Sir John Cuckney |
1862 |
| Army and Navy Club, Washington, D.C. Quite popular among elites in some other groups here. John Davis Lodge | Maxwell Rabb | William Draper Jr. | Gen. Maxwell Taylor | Gen. Albert Wedemeyer | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Robert Knight | Gen. Theodore Milton | Adm. Robert Hanks (president) | Robert Pfaltzgraff | Jamie Jameson |
1885 |
| Order of Daedalians, Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay | Gen. Nathan Twining | Gen. George Kenney | Gen. Clements McMullen |
1934 |
| Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI (SFSAFBI) Created the Former Agents of the FBI Foundation in 1957. James T. Kesler (interviewed Warren Reynolds and Richard Carr, stange cases linked to the JFK assassination) |
1937 |
| Stay-Behind networks Colby | Critchfield |
1949-55 |
| CIA Officers Memorial Foundation Officers: William Swanson | Michael Hayden | Thomas Higgins | Scott D. White (treasurer) | Mark Chadason |
1947 |
| Veterans of the OSS (OSS Society) The top of the CIA largely ties in with the liberal establishment. Gen. John Singlaub | James Schlesinger | Arthur Schlesinger | Porter Goss | Ross Perot | George H. W. Bush | Paul Mellon | William Webster | James Woolsey | William Colby | William Casey | Bernadette Casey Smith | William vanden Heuvel | S. Dillon Ripley II | Richard and Cynthia Helms | John Negroponte | Robert Gates | David Petraeus | Gen. John Mulholland | Gen. Michael Mullen | Beurt SerVaas |
1947 |
| Human Resources Research Institute (HRRI) CIA-linked. James Monroe (psychological warfare expert). Advisory board: Charles Dollard (chair; president Carnegie Corp.) | Dr. Leland DeVinney (Rock. Fdn.) |
1949 |
| Scientology L. Ron Hubbard (founder, leader until the late 1970s) | Heber Jentzsch (president since 1982, but missing since 2004; listed as a CIA source on the Crowley list) | David Miscavige (leader after a power struggle since 1987; listed as a CIA source on the Crowley list; accused of being very cruel and abusive to his personnel) | Tom Cruise (extremely close to Miscavige, very clingy, and reports of a sexual relationship) | John Travolta (Miscavige largely directed his Battlefield Earth movie, but denied any involvement after it failed) | Hal Puthoff | Col. L. Fletcher Prouty | Dustin Hoffman | Goldie Hawn | Joe Reaiche | John Brousseau | Leah Remini (member who in 2013 reported Miscavige's wife, Shelly, who seems to have been locked away for years now, as missing; police claimed they had made contact with her and that she wasn't missing) | Juliette Lewis | Lisa McPherson | Sonny Bono | Lisa Marie Presley | Amy Scobee. |
1953 |
| Jonestown Cult Persons involved with the cult: Jim Jones (founder and head) | local police commissioners in San Francisco were associated with Jones | Walter Heady (associate of Jones; head JBS in San Francisco) | Walter Mondale (associate of Jones) | Jimmy Carter (associate of Jones) | Layton family (major financial supporters of Jones; CIA linked) | George Philip Blakey (husband of Debbie Layton; reportedly bought the land for the cult in Guyana; ran a program to send cult members to Angola to fight against the communists; handler of the surviving cult members who brought them to Grenada; family had extensive stock in Solvay) | John Burke (U.S. ambassador to Guyana) | Richard Dwyer (station chief CIA in Guyana; a friend of Jones) | Mark Lane (JFK investigator who became the cult's lawyer) | Dr. Geoffrey Bourne and his son Peter (suspected of having ran much of the mind control for the cult, including the surviving members who ended up on Grenada; worked for various U.S. administrations) | Robert Pastor (as national security advisor on Latin America and the Caribbean 1977-1981, he gave the order to remove all ID tags form the cult victims; married to the daughter of Robert McNamara) | Alexander Haig (SHAPE commander; allegedly passed the order on to Pastor) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (Carter's national security advisor who allegedly gave the original order to strip all bodies from ID tags). Jim Jones ordered Dwyer and Lane to be evacuated just before all cult members were murdered in 1978. Jim Jones was found dead, shot in the back of the head. Angola. Took street kids and people from U.S. elderly homes, psychiatry buying children in Guyana, |
Mid-1950s |
| Society for Human Ecology / Human Ecology Fund CIA front for handing out funds for MKULTRA research. Officers: Dr. Harold Wolff (founder and president; treated Allen Dulles' son) | James L. Monroe (executive director 1961-1963) | Cees van den Heuvel (visited with a study study group in February 1959, before setting up a Dutch branch) |
1957-1965 |
| George Town Club, Washington, D.C. CIA-ran, both liberal and conservative. Leaders/founders: Robert Keith Gray (chair) | Tongsun Park (co-founder) | Tommy Corcoran (co-founder) | Rita Chappiwicki (president 1966-76; Bill Harvey's former secretary) | Anna Chennault | Kenneth Crosby (president; knew Dulles) | Lloyd Hand (vice president; TS/SCI clearance) | Norman Larsen (H.L. Hunt associate) | Thomas Malatesta (director) | Dr. John H. McDonough (Edgewood arsenal) | Monsignor John J. Murphy | Marion H. Smoak | William E. Timmons | Carol T. Crawford. Members/visitors: Barry Goldwater | Gen. Graves Erskine | Edwin Wilson | Richard Viguerie | Ernst Werner Glatt | Neil Livingstone | Brademas (friend of Park) | Kissinger | Cheney | John Tower | Hale Boggs | Sen. Lloyd Bentsen | Claiborne Pell | Princess Nora Liechtenstein (younger sister of Hans Adam II) | Emil Mosbacher | Warren Burger | Ardeshir Zahedi | George H. W. Bush | Ed Meese | Weinberger | Donald Regan | Sandra O'Connor. |
1966 |
| Unknown underground lodge in Belgium Reported members in Belgian judicial files: Willy De Clercq | Jean Gol | Willy Claes | Eric Haemers (crime boss linked to strategy of tension) |
1970s-1980s |
| Nugan Hand Bank Criminal enterprise. Involved in large scale drug trafficking. Founders: Frank Nugan and Michael Hand. Directors: William Colby (legal advisor after 1979) | Adm. Earl Yates | Gen. Edwin Black | Gen. LeRoy Manor | Walter McDonald (Saudi and economics expert at the CIA) | Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong (BBRDW: similar purposes to Nugan Hand) bank accounts: George H. W. Bush | Richard Armitage | William Casey. |
1973-1980 |
| National Military Intelligence Association (NMIA) Gen. Vernon Walters (founder and president 1974-1975) | Gen. Daniel Graham (founder and president 1975-1976) | Col. Charles Thomann (became president in 1976 and greatly expanded the national chapters) | Gen. Jack Thomas (director) | Adm. Thomas Brooks (president) | Gen. James Williams (chair anno 2014) | Jim Leusner (journalist) | Col. John Guenther |
1974 |
| Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) The top of the CIA largely ties in with the liberal establishment. James J. Angleton (article published; rest TBD)| James J. Angleton, Jr. (president Ted Shackley chapter) | Ted Shackley | Richard Helms | Thomas Spencer | David Atlee Phillips (founder and 1st president) | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell (2nd president) | Gen. Richard Larkin (president) | Eugene Poteat (president) | George Joannides | Carl Jenkins | Ray Cline | James Schlesinger | Max Hugel | John Gittinger | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Frank Carlucci | Kenneth DeGraffenreid | Robert T. Crowley | William Colby | Raymond Wannall | William Webster | Sully de Fontaine (Vegas) | Col. John B. Alexander (Vegas) | T.D. Barnes (Vegas) | Gerald Ford | James Woolsey | George H. W. Bush | Porter Goss | Gen. John Singlaub | John McMahon | Col. Hayden Peake | Gen. Michael Hayden | Albert Wedemeyer (son of the general) | James and Lois Critchfield | Martin Faga | Gen. Edward Heinz | Gen. Lincoln Faurer | Gen. Georges Guay | Gen. Norman Wood | Maurice Sovern | Ransom Haig | Robert Steele | Gen. James Williams | Sanford Stone | Gen. James Enney | Samuel Halpern | Adm. Thomas Brooks | Adm. John Butts | Adm. Ralph Cook | Adm. Paul Dillingham | Adm. Robert Geiger | Adm. Ronald Hays | Adm. Donald Harvey | Adm. John Marocchi | Adm. Don McDowell | Adm. William Mott | Adm. Earl Rectanus | Adm. Sumner Shapiro | Adm. U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr. | Col. Charles Thomann | Gen. Norman Wood | Gen. Jack Thomas | Col. Michael Aquino | Michelle Van Cleave | Eli S. Jacobs | Clare Lopez (guest) | Neil Livingstone | Richard M. Cumming | Robert "Bob" Dreyfuss | Jim Leusner | Mary Ferrell | Rodney Stich | Walter Hodge | Col. John Guenther | Cofer Black (speaker) | Erik Prince (speaker) | Dr. Hal Puthoff (speaker) | Edgar Mitchell (speaker). Sponsors: SAIC, Lockheed Martin, TRW, Motorola. |
1975 |
| Central Intelligence Retirees Association (CIRA) Christian MacRitchie Freer (provisional president; high level CIA officer) | Maurice Sovern (chair; 45-year colleague of Ted S.) | Adm. Thomas Brooks (president) | Sam Halpern (member) | T.D. Barnes (member) | William Webster (speech) | David Cohen (speech 1996, then CIA DDO) |
1979 |
| Tulane University Various Whitney family members in the 19th century served as trustees | Charles Fenner (trustee since 1882, president 1893-1906; father of Darwin) | Esmond Phelps (trustee 1915-1950) | Ashton Phelps (trustee 1955-1972) | Sam Zemurray (trustee 1920-1961; United Fruit) | Joseph Montgomery (trustee 1947-1967; United Fruit) | Darwin Fenner (trustee 1953-1963, chair 1963-1968, member president's circle 1982-1996) | Langbourne Williams (board of visitors 1954-61; Freeport Minerals) | Caryl Haskins (board of visitors 1957-1982) | James Killian (board of visitors 1961-1969) | Detlev Bronk (board of visitors 1961-1974). Also: Alton Ochsner (chair surgery department 1927-1961) | Dr. Robert G. Heath (chair Department of Psychiatry and Neurology 1949-1980) | Eberhard Deutsch (has the Chair of Public International Law named after him). Also: Jim Garrison was a student here, together with friend and later political backer Joseph Rault, Jr. |
1834 | ||||
| Boston Club, New Orleans Charles Fenner (president; died in 1963) | Darwin Fenner | James Pierce Butler, Jr. (president; headed Canal Bank, the largest bank in the South which was tied to Chase in New York) | C. C. Walther | Crawford Ellis | Joseph Montgomery | Anton Ochsner | Leonard Nicholson | Edward Butler (both of his grandfathers) | |
1841 | ||||
| Hibernia National Bank Directors in the 1960s: Rudolph Hecht (chair) | William Zetzmann (director) | Theodore Brent (director) | Wallace M. Davis (president) |
1870 | ||||
| New Orleans Athletic Club Members: Clay Shaw | Jim Garrison | family who accused Garrison of sexually molesting their 13-year-old child here (Feb. 2, 1970, Jack Anderson column, 'New Orleans District Attorney in New Scandal') |
1872 | ||||
| United Fruit Headquartered in New Orleans since 1933. Directors: Sam Zemurray (president until 1954; died in 1961) | Tommy Corcoran (joined in 1954 as a lobbyist and special consultant to deal with company problems in Latin America) | George Gardner, Jr. (elected chair in 1958) | Joseph Montgomery (director, vice president and legal aid) | Gen. Walter Bedell Smith (joined as vice president in 1955) | Thomas Dudley Cabot (president) | Henry Cabot Lodge | John Moors Cabot (shareholder) | John McCloy | General Robert Cutler | Robert Hill | Crawford Ellis | Edmund Whitman (vice president; anti-communist/socialist activist) | Allen Dulles (shareholder, legal representative and reported president) | John Foster Dulles (had written the 1930 and 1936 agreements with Guatemala for Sullivan & Cromwell) | Spruille Braden (shareholder) |
1899-1970 | ||||
| Freeport Minerals / Freeport McMoRan Headquartered in New Orleans until 2007. Has been known as Freeport Texas, Freeport Sulphur, Freeport Minerals and Freeport McMoRan. Directors: John Hay Whitney (majority shareholder, chair 1933-1957, resigned to become ambassador to the UK; major CIA and MI6 connections) | Langbourne Williams (president 1933-1958, chair 1958-1967) | Chauncey Stillman | Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller (director 1931-1980) | Robert Lovett | Augustus Long (Texaco; Federal Reserve) | Paul W. Douglas (president, CEO, and chair 1975-1983) | James Moffett (founding partner McMoRan Exploration in 1969; chair and CEO Freeport McMoRan 1984-1997; today co-chairman, president and CEO of McMoRan Exploration and chairman Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold) | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | John Beckwith Madden | Henry Kissinger (director 1988-1995; Moffett and Henry K. at the ASC in modern times)| Marine Corps Gen. Victor Krulak | Julius Tahija (co-founder and head Freeport Indonesia) More: Richard White. Intelligence report from the recovered files of Guy Banister, the ultra-right private investigator who was the handler of Oswald in New Orleans:
Freeport and Richard White came up on another occasion in the JFK investigation. During an October 1, 1968 interview with an anti-Castro activist, Garrison's investigator was told:
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1912 | ||||
| Mississippi Shipping Company / Delta Steamship Co. Officially changed it name in 1962, but known as Delta for quite a while by then. Rudolph Hecht (chair) | Theodore Brent (president) | Captain J. W. Clark (president; John Willis Clark) |
1919 | ||||
| New Orleans Petroleum Club This is where Jim Garrison's initial 1967 fund raiser was held to finance his private investigation into the death of President John F. Kennedy. Present: John M. Rault, Jr. (Rault Petroleum) | Willard E. Robertson | Cecil Shilstone | Eberhard Deutsch (mentor of Garrison). The club is/was located at various cities besides New Orleans: Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth, etc. Members in Texas: George de Mohrenschildt (ran Oswald in Dallas) | Sen. Joseph McCarthy | Murchison family | Lamar Hunt | Nelson Bunker Hunt | Oliver North (1985 meeting with Nelson Hunt). |
Unknown | ||||
| Inter-American Municipal Organization (IAMO) Alfred Ochsner (chair in the 1960s) | Joseph Rault, Jr. (temporary director in the 1960s) | Alberto Fowler (replaced Rault). Headquarters for many years located at the ITM (29th floor) where all these men worked. |
1930s | ||||
| Ochsner Foundation Hospital Dr. Alton Ochsner (founder and head) | Meredith Mallory (student of Ochsner at Tulane) | John Murchison (major financier; his daughter Patricia married Mallory) | Clint Murchison (major financier) | Theodore Brent (trustee until his death in 1953). In the 1950s and 1960s additional financing was received through United Fruit and the Ford Fdn, mainly under the leadership of John McCloy. |
1942 | ||||
| International House (IH), New Orleans (now WTC New Orleans) Directors appointed in 1943-1945: Rudolph Hecht (first brought up the idea to Cordell Hull in 1939; primary founder and chair until his death in 1956) | William Zetzmann (primary founder and president) | Adolph Hegewisch (first vice-president and president in 1945) | Theodore Brent (vice-president; in 1946 he recommended Clay Shaw for the post of managing director of IH) | Lloyd Cobb | Joseph Rault, Sr. (director; his son was the primary corporate organizer of funds for Jim Garrison's JFK/Clay Shaw investigation) | C. C. Walther (director) | Dr. Alton Ochsner (director) | Alonzo Ensenat (director; later wrote a detailed history of IH and ITM where much of this info comes from). Also: Nelson Rockefeller (speaker; coordinator of Latin American Affairs) | Charles Nutter (managing director 1945-1961; bureau chief Associated Press in New Orleans until 1945) | Clay Shaw (managing director 1961-1962) | Dr. Paul Fabry (took over as managing editor for Shaw in 1962) | Hale Boggs (founding secretary until late 1943 and life-long supporter; congressman for Louisiana 1941-Jan. 1943, 1947-1973; Warren Commission). Modern times: James Moffett (director WTC New Orleans) |
1943 | ||||
| International Trade Mart (ITM), New Orleans Sister of International House. Among the 41 founding directors: Theodore Brent (president until death in 1953) | William Zetzmann (president 1953 until his death in 1962) | Lloyd Cobb (president 1962 until his death in 1972; received a CIA security clearance around 1968) | Captain J. W. Clark (president since 1972) | Joseph Montgomery (United Fruit) | Leonard Nicholson (with his son publisher of the Times Picayune) | Ralph Nicholson (publisher News Orleans States Item, controlled by the Times Picayune) | Harvey Koch (vice president and executive committee 1960s-1970s) | Charles Nutter (close to Shaw). Also: Alberto C. Fowler (director of international relations) | Clay Shaw (managing director 1946-Oct. 1965). More: Gordon Novel (visited Shaw's office at the ITM on occasion for business deals; involved in the Schlumberger arms heist with persons of Lee Harvey Oswwald's/Guy Banister's circle; major disinformer in the conspiracy community until his death in 2012; has been photographed sitting in between Col. John B. Alexander and wife Victoria Lacas. The location where Lee Harvey Oswald was handing out pro-Castro leaflets in the early 1960s. He was ran by the ultra-right Guy Bannister at the time who had high-level contacts at the CIA and FBI.. |
1945 | ||||
| Latin American Report Ran by William Gaudet, who was a CIA recruit and had his office in the ITM. Very close associate of both Ochsner and Nelson Rockeller who supported his efforts. Had seen Oswald handing out leaflets in front of the ITM, knew that Ferrie and Shaw were friends and gays, believed there was a conspiracy involved in the assassination of Kennedy, but didn't for a minute think that Ferrie or Shaw would be capable of doing that by themselves. |
Late-1940s | ||||
| World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth Henry Neil Mallon (primary founder; chair Dresser Industries; S&B friend of George H. W. Bush (WAC's Mallon awardee)) | George de Mohrenschildt (member) | Hunter Hunt (director anno 2013; grandson of H.L. Hunt and son of Ray Hunt) | Ray L. Hunt (advisory board anno 2013) | Ross Perot, Sr. and Jr. and wives (advisory board anno 2013). Speakers: King Baudin of Belgium | William Casey | Queen Noor of Jordan | Ytizhak Shamir | Dick Cheney | General David Petraeus | Prince Turki al Faisal | Henry Kissinger (2013). |
1951 | ||||
| Cordell Hull Foundation for International Education Ran an Latin American exchange program for school teachers. Founding trustees: John W. Davis | Thomas Watson, Sr. | Henry C. Alexander | Dr. Harvie Branscomb (father of Lewis Branscomb) | Frank K. Houston (president Chemical Bank). Moved to International House headquarters in 1954. Officers in 1960: Gov. of Tennessee Earl Buford Ellington (chair) | Frank K. H. | Dr. Alton Ochsner (president in the 1960s) | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | Bob Kleberg (Texas). Others: Captain J. W. Clark (trustee 1960s-1970s) | DeLesseps Morrison, Jr. (executive vice president; son of the mayor of Louisiana 1946-1961 and ambassador to the Organization of American States 1961-1963). |
1951 | ||||
| New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission Aaron Kohn (managing director). Among the executive directors 1960s: William Monaghan | Alton Ochsner | J. D. Grey | Eustis Reily. Non-executive directors C. C. Clifton, Jr. | |
1952 | ||||
| Anti-Communism League of the Caribbean, New Orleans Guy Banister (head) | Maurice Brooks Gatlin (legal counsel; attorney of American Nazi Party chief George Lincoln Rockwell, who was also seen at Banister's office; reportedly provided funds to have de Gaulle assassinated) | Felix Rodriguez (joined in 1958; later top CIA assassin) |
Early 1950s | ||||
| Mississippi Valley World Trade Council Sponsored annual conferences in New Orleans to promote American exports in the 1950s and '60s. Officers: C. C. Walther (president) | Clay Shaw (secretary) |
1956 | ||||
| Permanent Industrial Expositions (Permindex) Company seems a logical expansion on Shaw's international trade activities. Permindex's Italian branch was Centro Mondiale Commerciale (CMC), which had similar or close to similar officers. Company registered in Switzerland. Directors (from newspapers at the time of the CMC scandal): Louis Bloomfield (president, from Canada) | Giorgio Mantello | Prince Guitere de Spadaforo | Dr. Enrico Mantello | Clay Shaw (director since 1958) | Ferenc Nagy. From a less reliable source (a 1982 court document of JFK researchers) added these names: Jean de Menil (Schlumberger) | Paul Raigorodsky. Larouche in Dope, Inc. stated they had done the sensible thing of getting the 1958 Swiss incorporation papers of Permindex. They named all these men, as well as: Roy Cohn | Joseph Bonanno | Hans Seligman | Carlo d'Amelio | Max Hageman | Munir Chourbagi | Giuseppe Zigotti | Ferenc H. Simonfay. Incredible that after 50 years we still don't have photocopy proof of who the directors of this company were. |
1958 | ||||
| Crusade for Freedom, Texas Raised money for anti-Castro Cubans. Herbert Lehman | Gen. Lucius Clay | Neil Mallon (contact and recruiter for CIA director Allen Dulles) | Paul Raigorodsky | MacNaughton | Everette DeGolyer | Earle Cabell | Harold Byrd | Ted Dealey (publisher Dallas Morning News) |
1950s? | ||||
| Information Council of the Americas (INCA) International advisory council from a 1966 brochure: Edward Butler (director; established Lee Harvey Oswald's credentials as communist during a live debate on radio three months before the assassination) | Alton Ochsner (chair) | Alberto Fowler (IAMO; Cuban exile; said he was stalking and annoying JFK the weekend before his death) | George Albertini (member Otto von Habsburg's Cercle group) | Patrick Frawley (financier of the American Security Council) | C. C. Too. Undated document: Wallace M. Davis (vice president for financial affairs). Additionally named as directors in a 1968 New Orleans States Item article: Captain J. W. Clark | Eberhard Deutsch (Jim Garrison's mentor and law partner) | J. D. Grey | Darwin Fenner (accused of child abuse with many unmentioned friends) | H. Eustis Reily (employed Oswald) | William E. Robertson | Cecil Shilstone | C. C. Walther (IH) | C. C. Clifton, Jr. | Dr. John Ochsner (son of). Other reported members/financiers: Joseph Montgomery | Murchison family | Nelson Rockefeller (speech, according to William Gaudet) | Dr. Mary Sherman (minor financier). |
1961 | ||||
| Truth and Consequences Joseph Rault, Jr. (primary organizer; son of International House director and Ochsner friend) | Willard E. Robertson (co-founder and chair; INCA director) | Cecil Shilstone (co-founder; INCA director). Known financial contributor: Eberhard Deutsch (law partner of Jim Garrison, his political mentor and INCA director). Committee of New Orleans businessman that decided to privately finance the investigation of Jim Garrison into the JFK assassination, with a primary focus on Clay Shaw -- instead of Shaw's superiors, who were some of the persons financing the investigation. Joseph Rault, Jr. Rault quoted in the National Observer, 'The Kennedy Case', of Feb. 26, 1967:
Jim Garrison was inspired to investigate JFK after conversations with his friends Joseph Rault, Jr. and Senator Russell Long on a plane trip to a conference of the American Petroleum Institute. Estimates of how much the group raised range from $30,000 to $100,000. |
1967 |
Based on the directorships of friends and aides of Gen. Douglas MacArthur: Gen. Bonner Fellers, Gen. George Stratemeyer, Gen. Pedro del Valle, Gen. Albert Wedemeyer, Gen. Charles Willoughby, as well as the financiers of MacArthur's campaign in 1952: Gen. Robert E. Wood (his wealthy campaign manager), H.L. Hunt, Nelson Bunker Hunt, and reportedly Clint Murchison, Sr. (a close supporter in any case).
| Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem (early Shickshinny Knights) Charles Pichel (Nazi and apparent sadistic sexual abuser who maintained ties with the White Russian community). Counted the involvement of families as Habsburg, Thurn und Taxis, Wittelsbach, Windisch-Graetsch and Radziwill. |
1908 | ||||||
| America First Committee Wood | Regnery | Wedemeyer | Ford |
1940 | ||||||
| Hotel del Charro Clint Murchison | Sid Richardson | J. Edgar Hoover | Clyde Tolson | McCarthy |
1951 | ||||||
| Fact Forum/Life Line H.L. Hunt | Wood | Wedemeyer |
1951 | ||||||
| Constitution Party and MacArthur-For-President (Eisenhower opponent) H.L. Hunt | Wood | Gale | del Valle | Fellers | |
1952 | ||||||
| Citizens for Taft Committee (also opposed Eisenhower) Wedemeyer (chairman) |
1952 | ||||||
| Defenders of the American Constitution Del Valle | Chennault | Fellers |
1953 | ||||||
| For America Wedemeyer | Wood | Gen. Mark Clark | Smoot | Buckley |
1953 | ||||||
| Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Justice [for McCarthy] Del Valle | Stratemeyer |
1954 | ||||||
| Mid-American Research Library (soon the ASC) Gen. Robert Wood |
1954 | ||||||
| National Military-Industrial Conferences (hosted by ASC) Frank Barnett | Gen. Robert Wood | John Fisher | Martin Blank | Baron Friedrich August von der Heydte | Robert Strausz-Hupe | Wernher von Braun (speaker) |
1955 | ||||||
| Citizens Foreign Relations Committee Willoughby | Stratemeyer | Wedemeyer | Manion | Menjou |
1955 | ||||||
| Shickshinny Knights of Malta Charles Pichel. Eugene Tabbutt (KKK). Military advisory committee: Willoughby | Del Valle | Wedemeyer | Stratemeyer | Fellers. |
1957 | ||||||
| Americans for Constitutional Action Moreell | Fellers | Wood |
1958 | ||||||
| Liberty Lobby Founding members advisory council: Willis Carto | Gen. Pero Del Valle | Gen. George Stratemeyer | Taylor Caldwell. Also: General Alfred Wedemeyer (at the very least lots of correspondence with the lobby in the early years) | Mark Lane (attorney to the Lobby, including to Victor Marchetti, since the 1980s and speaker at its conventions) | Col. L. Fletcher Prouty (member of the Lobby's populist action committee; his book 'The Secret Team' was published by Noontide Press, which belongs to the Lobby; special operations expert for the Joint Chiefs under JFK) | Zionist Watch, set up in 1987 by the lobby. Mark Lane (basically CIA) and Victor Marchetti (CIA) were the original editors. Lawyer for the lobby who supposedly took over its assets in 1993. Lane was a JFK investigator and lawyer for the Jonestown Cult, just before the massacre began. Earlier he had been the same to Martin Luther King and JFK investigator Jim Garrison. Lane is one of the most prominent authors on the JFK case. Spotlight and American Free Press are anti-Jewish and anti-black (thus, Nazi) conspiracy-oriented publications of the Lobby. July 2008, AFP staff: James Tucker (national editor; anti-BB) | Michael Piper Collins (national corresponding editor) | Willes Carto (national correspondent) | Ted Gunderson (co-editor Southwest regional bureau; employee ultra-right CIA-linked Murchison family) | Anthony Hilder (anti-BB, Illuminati, etc.) and Rev. Ted Pike (co-editors regional bureau West). Speakers at the 2006 American Free Press-Barnes Review International Conference in Washington: Dave Von Kleist (major 9/11 disinformer) | Collins Piper | Doug Rokke (anti-depleted uranium activist) | Colonel Donn de Grand Pre (9/11 disinformer) | Victor Thorn and Lisa Guliani (Wing-TV 9/11 disinformers) | Ellen Mariani | William Rodriguez (major 9/11 disinformer; reversed 9/11 testimony, claiming all of sudden a bomb went off in the basement of the WTC) | Lindsey Williams (abiotic oil/peak oil disinformer) | Eustace Mullins (protege of the Nazi poet Ezra Pound and H.L. Hunt; major anti-NWO author) | Ted Gunderson (disinformer on chemtrails, child abuse and everything else) | Willis Carto (Nazi) | Texe Marrs (religious extremist Illuminati believer and extremely anti-Jewish) | Mark Lane. Lyndon Larouche: allied with Willis Carto and the Liberty Lobby 1974-1979, until Carto became involved in holocaust denial. Was more socialist thinking, however, and also always maintained ties with the Soviet Union, as well persons in the U.S. government. By far the most knowledgeable conspiracy group ever, but very manipulative, radical and holds a lot of info and sources back. Institute for Historical Review (IHR), founded by Carto in 1978, was part of the Lobby. It tries to provide "science" that the holocaust never happened or had very limited impact. Has become the leading group for holocaust denial/revisionism. Principals: David Duke | David Irving | Mark Weber. Jeff Rense website and radio program, founded in the 1990s, is today's most prominent continuation of Liberty Lobby Nazi-inspired conspiratorial thinking. Terry Arnold (columnist at Rense since 2002; associate of Neil Livingstone and his CIA/Pentagon group) | Paul Craig Roberts (columnist since 2010) | Webster Tarpley (columnist; Larouche background) | William Engdahl (columnist; Larouche background) | David Duke (long-time columnist; KKK and Nazi background) | David Irving (long-time columnist; IHR Nazi) | Mark Weber (long-time columnist; IHR Nazi). |
1958 | ||||||
| John Birch Society Primary publication has been the New American, which attacks BB, the TC, the CFR and does not distinguish between liberalism, communism and socialism. Early(McCarthyite) board members: Robert Welch | Nelson Bunker Hunt | Gen. Wedemeyer | Clarence Manion | Adolphe Menjou | Larry MacDonald | Harry Bradley | Fred Koch | Spruille Braden | Edward Butler (ordinary member). Also: Gary Allen (famous author on the CFR and TC; speech writer for George Wallace and advisor to Nelson Bunker Hunt) | William Jasper (prominent editor The New American) | Ron Paul and Father Nicholas Gruner (supporters who were in JBS documentary 'United Nations: Global tyranny, step by step') | Malachi Martin (interviewed in 1997 and major critic of the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie Fdns.) | John McManus (protege of Welch since 1966 at the JBS and president since 1991). The Alex Jones Show is largely a modern spin-off of the JBS with an additional focus on modern conspiracy. On March 23, 2009, John McManus stopped by at Jones HQ, where Jones stated on air:
Some of Alex Jones guests from the JBS and CNP: Phyllis Schlafly | G. Edward Griffin | Stanley Monteith | William Jasper | Dr. Michael Coffman (also in Jones' Endgame movie) | Gina Parker Ford (in Endgame) | Joel Skousen (son of Cleon Skousen, also of the ASC)
| Jerome Corsi (close to JBS leadership and a propagandist against Kerry and Obama who pushed for war with Iran) | Paul Craig Roberts | Ron Paul (about the only dovish but fervant JBS backer). Also: James Tucker (until his death Jones' BB expert). Other guests: Ted Gunderson of the Liberty Lobby and John De Camp (cooperated in apparently limiting the fall-out of the Franklin child abuse scandal and in Oklahoma).
On July 1, 2011, while being confronted with a guest who is just as right-wing as the CNP, but frustrated by its lack of what appears to be political compromise:
At least in 2011 Alex Jones received his "pocket constitution" flyers from the Heritage Foundation, which he sent to people who purchased items from his website. Considering the Heritage Foundation is the main U.S. arm of the secretive CIA, MI6 and Opus Dei-ran Cercle group, that explains why Jones all of sudden withdrew all support for ISGP when it began to focus on the right-wing of the spectrum in late 2006, starting with a massive article on Le Cercle, in which the Heritage Foundation, the CNP and the JBS were also put under the magnifying glass. Before, while writing much less detailed articles about the liberal establishment and globalization, there hadn't been any issues. |
1958 |
Important roles have been played by Rev. Wesley Swift and Rev. Col. William P. Gale, another former aide to Gen. MacArthur.
| Ku Klux Klan (KKK) | 1865 |
| America Legion | 1919 |
| Order of '76 Nazi. Royal S. Gulden (head) | Thomas Alexander (cooperated with Gulden) |
1932 |
| Silver Legion Nazi. William Dudley Pelley (leader) | Gerald L. K. Smith |
1933 |
| Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution Nazi. Founders: Vance Muse and John Kirby. Financiers: du Pont family. |
1934 |
| Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (CACC) Main financier: Pew Memorial Trust. Also: Patrick Frawley | Schick Razor | Richfield Oil | Lilly Endowment | Berry Foundation. |
1953 |
| California Rangers | 1959 |
| Minutemen | 1961 |
| Intelligence Digest Kenneth De Courcy |
1938 |
| Christian Identity (British Israelites) | 1946 |
| Congress of Freedom | 1951 |
| League of Empire Loyalists | 1954 |
| Veritas Foundation | 1955 (+/-) |
| White Citizen's Council | 1956 |
| New Order (American Nazi Party) | 1958 |
| National States Rights Party | 1958 |
| Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation Phyllis Schlafy (research director early 1960s) | Eleanor Schlafly (president anno 2013) |
1958 |
| California Rangers | 1959 |
| American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom | 1961 |
| Defenders of American Liberties Robert J. Morris (founder) | Fred Schlafy (president) |
1962 |
| Christian Defense League | 1964 |
| Friends of Rhodesian Independence | 1966 |
| Eagle Forum Phyllis Schlafy (founder) | Gina Parker Ford (chair of the National Eagle Forum for Judicial Reform) |
1967 |
| The Spotlight (magazine of the Liberty Lobby) | 1975 |
| Western Goals Foundation | 1979 |
| Ludwig von Mises Institute | 1982 |
| Edwin A. Walker Society | 1999 |
| American Free Press (website of the Liberty Lobby) | 2001 |
| College Republican National Committee (CRNC) Jack Abramoff (chairman 1981-1985) |
1892 |
| Military Order of the Carabao Guests: Strom Thurmond | Adm. Moorer | Adm. James L. Joy | Adm. Wesley McDonald | Gen. Jack Merritt | Pete Aldridge, Jr. | Dov Zakheim | Gordon England | James Roche | Colin Powell | Robert Gates | James Schlesinger | Ike Shelton | Sean O'Keefe | Gen. Peter Pace | Gen. Richard Myers | Gen. Paul. X. Kelley | Gen. Al Gray | Adm. James Loy | Gen. Jack Merritt | Gen. Carl Mundy | Louis Dechert, Sr. |
1900 |
| National Security Industrial Association / National Defense Industrial Association (with its Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) Division that organizes the annual SO/LIC Symposium & Exhibition) Russell E. White (chair) | John S. Foster, Jr. (advisory board) | Robert W. Helm (Northrop) | William Swanson (Raytheon) | Bob Amick (a former questionable security director at E-Systems who went to SO/LIC in 1995) |
1919 |
| Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation (later on turned conservative and was CIA-linked) |
1941 |
| Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Harry Bradley (founder) | David and Charles Koch | Michael Joyce (president 1985-2001) | William Kristol (director 1993) |
1942 |
| Freedoms Foundation Kenneth Wells (co-founder; executive vice president 1949-1951; president 1951-1970) | Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (chair) | John Fisher (board of visitors 1964-1965) | Adm. Felix Stump (vice chair) | Gen. Edwin Black (executive vice president 1970-1971) | Patrick Frawley (trustee) | Henry Hazlitt (repeatedly honored) | Henry Regnery (involved in publications) | Richard Mellon Scaife (financier with Olin Fdn. and others) |
1949 |
| Council Against Communist Aggression (CACA) / Council for the Defense of Freedom (CDF) since 1980 Marx Lewis (chair 1980s) | Reed Irvine (director) | Murray Baron | Wilson Lucom Bernard Yoh | James Tyson (president). 1969 founded Accuracy in Media (AIM) was located at CACA and shared many board members: Reed Irvine (founder and chair until his death in 2004) | Don Irvine (follow up of Reed as chair) | Roger Aronoff (editor and executive secretary | Deborah Lambert (fund raiser) | Marx Lewis (advisory board 1980s) and others above. National advisory board anno 2000: Midge Decter | Adm. Thomas Moorer | Adm. William Mott (died in 1997, so not updated) | Dr. Frederick Seitz | Dr. Edward Teller | James Tyson. In the late 1990s, Joseph Goulden of AIM went on the air to counter the charges of journalist Gary Webb and DEA agent Mike Levine of CIA drug trafficking that led to the crack-cocaine epidemic. 1985-founded Accuracy in Academia (AIA): Spin-off of AIM and controlled by the same people. Reed Irvine (founder and chair until his death in 2004) | Don Irvine (follow up of Reed as chair) | Deborah Lambert (fund raiser) |
1951 |
| John M. Olin Foundation Considered conservative, but also very much liberal elite-linked. John Olin | Charles Horn | William Simon (president 1977-1979) | Michael Joyce (executive vice president 1979-1985) |
1952-2005 |
| Koch Family Foundations Various foundations. Supports conservative, but also liberal establishment think tanks. |
1953 |
| Moonie Cult (freed by MacArthur, later backed by two MacArthur-freed yakuza leaders); Edward Heath (gave speeches) | Alexander Haig (gave speeches) |
1954 |
| Asian People's Anti-Communist League (APACL) Ray Cline (reportedly) | Kai-shek | Sasakawa |
1954 |
| American Security Council (ASC) Robert Wood | Sid Richardson | Patrick Frawley | Robert Galvin (chair NSC, chair Motorola 1964-2001) | Cleon Skousen (field director; assistant to the ultra-right Hoover; Mormon scholar; major conspiracy author) | Gen. MacArthur | Gen. Willoughby | Gen. Lemay | Gen. Power | Gen. Lemnitzer | Gen. Lansdale | Bissell | Angleton | Ray Cline | Daniel Arnold | Gen. Schriever | Leon Goure | Gen. Harkins; Gen. Edwin Black | Gen. Singlaub | Gen. Richard Larkin | Gen. Robert Richardson | Gen. Milnor Roberts | Gen. Haig | Col. Raymond Sleeper | Gen. Daniel Graham | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Gen. Mark Clark | Gen. Lewis Walt | Gen. Woellner | Gen. Maxwell Taylor | Gen. Wedemeyer | Gen. Vernon Walters | Gen. Abrahamson | Adm. Radford | Adm. Moreell | Adm. Robert Spiro | Col. Sam Dickens | Adm. Stump | Adm. Chester Ward (co-author anti-detente books 'Soviet Strike from Space' and 'Kissinger on the Couch', both with Phyllis S.)| Adm. Moorer | Adm. Zumwalt | Dr. Kenneth Watson | Sven Kraemer | Bendetsen | Lev Dobriansky | Van Cleave | Feulner | Kirkpatrick | Luttwak | McCain, Jr. | Pennington | James Atkinson | Gen. Theodore Milton | Raymond Wannall | William Pawley | Richard Pipes | Andy Messing | Oliver North | Neil Livingstone | Gregg Hilton | George Hearst, Jr. | Albert Wohlstetter | Sen. Henry Jackson | Sen. John Tower | Jack Kemp | Edward Teller | Sam Cohen | Eugene Wigner | Possony | Joseph Coors | Robert J. Morris | Scaife (very minor financing) | Spruille Braden | Garnier-Lancon | D'Aubuisson | Mario Sandoval | Stedman Fagoth | Col. Bermudez | Adolfo Calero | Roberto Alejos | Jonas Savimbi | Ian Smith | Gen. van der Westhuizen | Gurmit Singh Aulakh | Schwarzenegger | Nelson Rockefeller | Eugene Rostow | Henry and Clare Boothe Luce | John D. Lodge | Averell Harriman | Kissinger | George Pataki | Christine Whitman | Scott Thompson | James Moffett | Mark Wallace | T. Boone Pickens | Russell E. White | John S. Foster, Jr. | Col. Charles Thomann (member) | Col. Michael Aquino (listed as an advisory board member) | Bob Dole (awarded and visitor of meetings) Also: - Henry Regnery: the family publishing firm published books of Ezra Pound (the fascist mentor of Eustace Mullins), UFO authors as Jacques Vallee, J. Allen Hynek and Raymond Drake, and the first prominent book on Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. Gen. Twining: his publishing firm - also the one of the husband of Jeane K. - published Mark Lane’s Rush to Judgment, the prominent critique of the JFK assassination and the Warren Commission. It was published while Twining was vice chair. A.S.C. project: - National Security Caucus (NSC), founded in 1978 (name 1978-1986: Congressional Division of the Coalition for Peace Through Strength). Chair in the 1980s: Howard Phillips. Co-chairmen in 1998: Sen. Trent Lott | Sen. Richard Shelby | Sen John McC., Jr. | Sen. Bob Graham | Sen. Ted Stevens | Sen. Joe Lieberman | Sen. Chuck Robb. - National Security Caucus Foundation (NSCF) directors in 2002: John F. (chair) | Adm. Robert S. (president and COO) | Walter Fauntroy (vice president) | Jack Abramoff | Gregg H. Representatives from South Korea, France, Portugal and Colombia. - NMIC, founded in 1955. Virtually same leadership as ASC. - Institute for American Strategy (IAS: the later ASCF), founded in 1958 at the NMIC: John F. (president) | Frank B. (program director) | Gen. Edward Lansdale (administrative director). - Freedom Studies Center, founded in 1966 as part of the IAS ($11m budget, 400 students) Planning and Development Committee: Gen. Edward L. (administrative director) | Ed B. | Col. James A. | Dr. Stefan P. | Lev D. | Walter Judd | Scott T. Education Advisory Committee: Evron Kirkpatrick (husband of Jeane). Also involved: Patrick F. | Gov. George Romney (Father of Sen. and Gov. Mitt R.) |
1954 |
| National Military-Industrial Conferences (NMIC) Frank Barnett | Gen. Robert Wood | John Fisher | Martin Blank | Baron Freidrich August von der Heydte | Robert Strausz-Hupe | Wernher von Braun (speaker) |
1955 |
| Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) Robert Strausz-Hupe | Robert Pfaltzgraff | Possony | Kintner | William Y. Elliott | Adm. Arthur Radford | Kissinger | Haig | Rumsfeld | John Lehman | Daniel Pipes | James Schlesinger | Dov Zakheim | David Eisenhower | McFarlane | Malcolm Hoenlein (Middle East expert) | Patrick Clawson (research scholar) |
1955 |
| Operations and Policy Research, Inc. (OPR) USIA and CIA financed. Employed 100 part-time social scientists. Evron Kirkpatrick (founding president) | Jeane K. |
1955 |
| National Captive Nations Committee (NCNC) Gen. Dwight Eisenhower | Lev Dobriansky (founder and long-time chair) | Phyllis Schlafy (director) |
1959 |
| Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) William F. Buckley | Dick Cheney (speaker 1991) | Barry Goldwater | Philip Crane | Gingrich | Trent Lott | Dan Quayle | Reagan | Alfred Regnery | Strom Thurmond | Richard Viguerie | Wedemeyer | Neil Livingstone (member) |
1960 |
| Hudson Institute Richard Burt (consultant 1973) | Elliott Abrams (senior fellow 1990-1996) | Nina Rosenwald | Fred Ikle | Herman Kahn | Marie-Josee Kravis | Scooter Libby | Herb London | Haig | Conrad Black | Perle | Pierre duPont IV | Donald Kagan | Dan Quayle | Beurt SerVaas | Podhoretz | Jeffrey Bergner (trustee) | Robert McKinney (trustee) | Paul Bracken (senior staff) | William Schneider, Jr. (adjunct fellow) | Keith Payne (researcher) | Niall Ferguson (senior fellow) | Enders Wimbush (senior vice president) | Douglas Feith | Wolfowitz (speech) | Walter Mead (distinguished scholar 2014-) |
1961 |
| National Strategy Information Center (NSIC) William Casey (founder) | Bendetsen | Sven Kraemer | Scaife (finances) | Dr. Roy Godson (president). 1984 officers list: Frank Barnett | Adm. William Mott. 1984 directors list: Prescott Bush, Jr. (brother of George, Sr.) | John N. Moore | Morris Leibman | Adm. Thomas Moorer. 1984 advisory council list: Joseph Coors | Henry Folwer | John Hanes, Jr. | Dr. Frederick Seitz | Adm. Elmo Zumwalt. More: Adolph Schmidt (Mellon) |
1962 |
| American Enterprise Institute (date of name change; orig. 1938; influential since 70s) Scaife (financing) | David Packard (trustee 1978-1996) | DeMuth | Cheney | Kirkpatrick | Gingrich | Ledeen | Perle | Lee Raymond | Shultz | William Simon | Richard Pipes | Bruce Jackson (advisor) | Bolton (senior VP for public policy research 1997-2001) | Frederick Kagan (brother-in-law of Robert K.) | Sen. Jon Kyl and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (co-chairs AEI's American Internationalism Project) | Ayan Hirsi Ali (visiting fellow) | Robert Nisbet (scholar) | Joshua Muravchik (scholar) | Michael Novak (scholar since 1978) | George von Furstenberg (scholar for 6 months mid 1970s) | Glenn Campbell (research director) |
1962 |
| Korean Culture and Freedom Foundation (KCFF) Sun Myung Moon (founder) | Col. Bo Hi Pak (founder) | Harry Truman (honorary president) | Dwight Eisenhower (honorary president) | Richard Nixon (director; former vice president at the time) |
1964 |
| American Conservative Union (ACU) William Buckley (founder) | David Keene (chair 1984-2011) | Michael Keene (director of online communications; David's son; sentenced to 10 years in 2003 for attempted murder during a road rage incident) | Diana Hubbard Carr (administrative director; ex-wife of David; pleaded guilty in June 2011 to embezzling between $120,000 and $400,000 from 2006 to 2009) |
1964 |
| World Anti-Communist League (WACL) Ray Cline | Roger Pearson | Gen. Singlaub (chairman) | Gen. Daniel Graham (vice chairman) | Gen. Lewis Walt | John Fisher | Paul Bethel | Andy Messing | David Rowe | McCain III | Col. Ray Sleeper | Possony | Lev Dobriansky | Fred Schlafy | Anna Chennault | Gen. Milnor Roberts | Anthony Kubek | Steve Symms | Robert J. Morris. Outside U.S. : Mario Sandoval Alarcon | Adolfo Calero | Gen. Robert Close | Paul Vankerhoven | Stefano Delle Chiaie | Count Hans Huyn | Ryoichi Sasakawa | Yoshio Kodama | Ferdinand Marcos | Blas Pinar | Alfredo Stroesser. |
1966 |
| Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy (CMPDP) Dean Acheson and Paul Nitze (founders) | Albert Wohlstetter | Paul Wolfowitz | Richard Perle | Peter Wilson. |
1969 |
| Confederación Anticomunista Latina (CAL - WACL) John Carbaugh | Margo Carlisle | Stephano Delle Chiai | Roberto D'Aubuisson. |
1970s (+/-) |
| Committee for the Defense of the Mediterranean Philip Guarino* | John Connally * Recruit and friend of OSS chief Bill Donovan. Catholic priest. Co-founder U.S. branch Supreme Military Order of the Jerusalem Temple. Close to Bushes. Alleged P2 and Cosa Nostra ties. |
1970s (+/-) |
| America-Israel Friendship League (AIFL) See U.S.-Israel relationship. Founders: Nelson R. and Senator Henry J. Directors: John B. | Jack K. | Lawrence E. | Vernon J. | Henry K. | Rudolph G. | George S. | Paul V. | Mortimer Z. (president) | Abraham F. | Malcolm H. |
1971 |
| Office of Net Assessment (ONA) Andrew Marshall (founder and head for decades) | Andrew Krepinevich (worked at ONA with Marshall) | James Schlesinger (colleague who transferred ONA to the Pentagon) | Henry Kissinger (Marshall and ONA started out as his advisor on Soviet affairs, but Marshall was too much on the extremist/hawkish side) | Henry Sokolski | Enders Wimbush (analyst) |
1971 |
| Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM) Sen. Henry Jackson | David Boren | Daniel Inouye | Sen. Moynihan | Sam Nunn | Sen. Chuck Robb | Les Aspin | Thomas Foley | Hubert Humphrey | Ben Wattenberg (co-chair) | Irving Kristol (co-chair) | Angier Biddle Duke | Samuel Huntington | Kampelman | Kirkpatrick | Joshua Muravchik | Richard Pipes | Eugene Rostow | Walter Slocombe | James Woolsey | Allen Weinstein | Michael Novak |
1972 |
| Heritage Foundation Feulner | Scaife | Coors | Weyrich | Bechtel | Habsburg | William Simon | Steve Forbes (trustee) | Richard V. Allen | Zakheim (scholar) | Meese (holds the Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy since 1988) | Ermarth (2009 penalist) | Ariel Cohen (2009 penalist) | David Brock (briefly a research fellow here around 1990). Has supplied its "pocket constitutions" to Alex Jones. Headquartered at the Heritage Foundation: Citizens for America (CFA), founded in 1983: Lewis Lehrman (co-founder and president) | Oliver North | Jack Abramoff (became executive director in 1984) | Jack Stevens (later executive director). United Students of America Foundation (USA Foundation): Jack Abramoff (chair) |
1973 |
| American-Chilean Council Lev Dobriansky | Anthony Kubek | Stefan Possony | Francis Bouchey | James Atkinson | David Rowe | Lord Alun Chalfont (British-Chilean Council) |
1974 |
| European American Institute for Security Research (EAISR) Formerly known as the European-American Workshop. Albert Wohlstetter (president since 1975) | Fred Ikle | Richard Burt | Pierre Hassner | Devon Gaffney Cross | Scaife (minor financier) |
1975 (+/-) |
| Second Committee on the Present Danger (2nd CPD) Paul Nitze | Kampelman | Casey | Bendetsen | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Richard V. Allen | Richard Pipes | Fred Ikle | Van Cleave | Geoffrey Kemp | Kirkpatrick | John Lehman | Shultz | Perle | Reagan | John Connally | J. Peter Grace | Clare Boothe Luce | C. Douglas Dillon | John M. Cabot. Also: John McCone | John S. Foster, Jr. | David Packard (1976-1981) Very close affiliated with Team B of 1975-1976: John F., Jr., John Arthur Paisley (CIA), Richard P. and Richard Per1e played important roles in setting it up. Paul Wolfowitz and Seymour Weiss sat on the advisory board. |
1976 |
| Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) Co-founders: Michael Ledeen and Sen. Henry Jackson. Others: Morris Amitay (vice chair) | James Woolsey | Dick Cheney | Wolfowitz (co-chair) | Richard Perle | Feith (vice chair) | Shoshana Bryen (executive director; managing editor) | Adm. David Jeremiah | Adm. Sumner Shapiro | Max Kampelman (chair advisory board) | Nina Rosenwald | Phyllis Kaminsky | Kirkpatrick | Bolton | David Steinmann | Joshua Muravchik | Stephen Solarz | Ken Blackwell | Galen Kelly (director anno 1985; CAN deprogrammer). Advisory board anno 1985: Senator Rudy Boschwitz | Gen. Devol Brett | Dr. Lawrence Goldmuntz | Jack Kemp | I.L. Kenen | Dr. Walter Laqueur | Eugene Rostow | Edward Sanders | Gen. Eugene Tighe | Jacques Torczyner | Gen. John Vogt | Gordon Zacks | Adm. Elmo Zumwalt. Note: Michael L., James Woo1sey and Richard Per1e all quit at the same time in 2012, immediately after Bryen. |
1976 |
| Nathan Hale Institute (NHI) Founder: Raymond Wannall |
1976 |
| Security and Intelligence Fund (SIF) Founding chairman: James Angleton | Gen. Robert Richardson | John M. Fisher (ASC) |
1976 |
| Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) Elliott Abrams (president 1996-2002) |
1976 |
| Council for Inter-American Security (CIS) Directors: Gen. Gorden Sumner (chair) | Francis Bouchey (president) | Pat Buchanan | Col. Sam Dickens | Francis Graves | Andy Messing | Gen. John Singlaub | | Frank Aker. Members of its first and second Committee of Santa Fe: Francis B. | Roger Fontaine | Gen. Gordon S. |
1976 |
| National Intelligence Study Center (NISC) Ray Cline (president) | Marjorie Cline (vice president; editor World Intelligence Review) | Col. Hayden Peake | Gen. J. Milnor Roberts | John Mapother | Warren Frank (editor) | John Guenther | Samuel Halpern |
1977 |
| Defense Advisory Committee for President-Elect Reagan John Lehman | Gen. Singlaub | Gen. Daniel Graham | Lawrence Korb | Richard V. Allen | William Clark | Charles Lichenstein | Adm. James Nance | Adm. Edward Outlaw | Gen. George Patton IV | Richard Pipes | Gen. Gordon Sumner, Jr. | Louis Dechert, Sr. |
1977 (+/-) |
| National Black Leadership Roundtable (NBLR) Walter Fauntroy (founder and chairman thoughout its existence) |
1978-1991 |
| National Defense Council Foundation (NDCF) Andy Messing (executive director) | Coors (financing) | Dick Cheney (congressional advisor) | Newt Gingrich (congressional advisor) | Christopher Cox (congressional advisor) | Bob Stump (congressional advisor) | Gen. Singlaub | Robert Brown (SoF editor); Tommy Corcoran | Gen. Lansdale. |
1978 |
| Jonathan Institute and conferences George H. W. Bush | Claire Stirling | Jacques Soustelle | Shultz | Weinberger | Chalfont | Richard Pipes | Brian Crozier | Douglas Feith | Robert Moss | Jack Kemp | Gen. Keegan | Sen. Henry Jackson | Kirkpatrick | Yitzhak Rabin | Benjamin Netanyahu | Ray Cline | Fred Luchsinger |
1979 |
| Religious Roundtable, Council of 56 Jerry Falwell | Gen. Daniel Graham | Gen. Keegan | James Kennedy | Nelson Bunker Hunt | Phyllis Schlafly | Dr. Gary North |
1979 |
| Western Goals Foundation International directors: Larry MacDonald | John Rees | Adm. Thomas Moorer | Gen. John Singlaub | Roy Cohn | Gen. Robert Close | Roberto D'Aubuisson. | Gen. George Patton IV. Also: William Jasper (adviser for the documentary foundation's 'No Place to Hide: The Strategy and Tactics of Terrorism') |
1979 |
| Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies (IEDSS) Feulner (chair) | Richard V. Allen | Albert Wohlstetter | Melvin Lasky | Sir Ray Whitney |
1979 |
| CAUSA (Moonies) Members: Gen. Woellner | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Ray Cline | Gen. Daniel Graham | Douglas MacArthur II | Lynn Francis Bouchey. French liaisons for Col. Bo Hi Pak and CAUSA: Alain Griotteray (Le Figaro) | Louis Pauwels (Le Figaro) | Jacques Toubon | Jacques Soustelle. |
1980 |
| Colloquium on Counterintelligence Conference Participants (loaded with questionable CIA operatives): Daniel Arnold | Frank Barnett | Ted Shackley | Richard Bissell | Ray Cline | Kenneth deGraffenreid | John Dziak | Edward Epstein | Gen. Schlomo Gazit (director Israeli Military Intelligence 1974-1979) | Dr. Roy Godson | Col. John Guenther | Sam Halpern | Adm. Donald Harvey | George Kalaris | Roger Kaplan (H. Smith Richardson Fdn.) | Newton Miler | John N. Moore | Adm. William Mott | Robert Nisbet | James Nolan (FBI) | Gen. William Odom | Richard Pipes | Raymond Rocca | P.L Thyraud de Vosjoli (SDECE) | Gen. Edmund Thompson | Joe Volz (NY Daily News) | Raymond Wannall | David Ignatius (WSJ) | William Kuzewicz (WSJ) | Charles Lichtenstein (PBS) | Edwin Warner (Time mag.) | Allen Weinstein. |
April 1980 |
| Committee for the Free World Scaife | Rumsfeld (co-chair) | Decter (co-chair) | Chalfont | Sir James Goldsmith | Kirkpatrick | Perle | Podhoretz | Ledeen | Richard Pipes | Irving Kristol | Eugene Rostow | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Elliott Abrams |
1981 |
| Committee for a Free Afghanistan Chairman: Gen. J. Milnor Roberts |
1981 |
| Council for National Policy (CNP) J. Peter Grace | Nelson Bunker Hunt | Mary Reilly Hunt | Joseph Coors | Jeffrey Coors | Paul Weyrich | Pierre duPont IV | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Gen. Daniel Graham | Andy Messing | Oliver North | Singlaub | T. Spencer | Albion Knight | Feulner | Falwell | Max Hugel | Teller | Dick Armey | Jesse Helms | Elsa Prince (mother of Erik Prince, who helps finance the group) | Richard V. Allen | Bolton | Phyllis Schlafy | Jack Abramoff | Jack Kemp | Rush Limbaugh | Tim LaHaye | Pat Robertson (wrote a well-known book against the CFR, TC, etc.) | Pat Buchanan | Mitt Romney | Tom Delay | Tom Clancy | Trent Lott | Lynn Francis Bouchey | Pat Matrisciana | Stanley Monteith | Barbara Monteith | Dr. Gary North | Beurt SerVaas | Cleon Skousen | Mark Skousen | Joel Skousen | John A. Stormer | Michael Coffman | Robert Waring Stoddard | Gen. Gordon Sumner | Frank Aker | Richard Viguerie | Edwin Meese III | John Lehman | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Paul Craig Roberts | Jon Kyl (co-chair CNP's Defense and Foreign Policy Committee) | James Dobson | Jack McLamb (went with Dobson; head of Police and Military Against the New World Order and Alex Jones supporter) | George W. Bush (1999) | Cheney (speech) | Rumsfeld (speech) | Rudy Giuliani (speech) | James Woolsey (speech '02) | Frank Gaffney (debate '02) | Schwarzenegger (speech) | Thomas Spencer | Alton Ochsner, Jr. | Newt Gingrich (at least a speaker/visitor; fell out with the group). Protected by Alex Jones, who really dislikes to criticize the group. |
1981 |
| U.S. Global Strategy Council (USGSC) Directors: Ray Cline (chair) | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Gen. Daniel Graham | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | William Colby | Luce | Gen. Maxwell Taylor | Gen. Albert Wedemeyer | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Adm. Thomas Moorer | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Brent Scowcroft | Edward Teller | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Gen. David Woellner. Also: Janet Morris (research director; wife of Robert J. Morris; co-author of Col. John Alexander; both cooperated with Newt G. for his 1984 book 'Window of Opportunity'; Alexander is a known friend of men as Stilwell and Teller). |
1981 |
| Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) Carlucci | Ikle | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell |
1981 |
| National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP) Keith Payne (long-time president and chair). Advisory board: Eugene Rostow | Adm. Harry Train II | Amb. Henry Cooper (SDI) | William Van Cleave | Gen. George Blanchard | Gen. William Odom. Robert Joseph (senior scholar) |
1981 |
| Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) Michael Novak (founder) | George Weigel |
1981 |
| American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) Website since at least 1995, but didn't list its advisory board members until 2010. These are anno 2014: Paula Dobriansky | Newt Gingrich | Robert Joseph | Sen. Robert Kasten, Jr. | Richard McCormack | Robert McFarlane | Gov. Thomas Ridge | William Schneider, Jr. | James Woolsey | Dov Zakheim. Until 2011: Fred Ikle. Experts anno 2014: Kenneth DeGraffenreid (distinguished fellow in intelligence studies) | Sven Kraemer (distinguished fellow in national security affairs). Others: Monique Garnier-Lancon (special advisor in 1985, director 1987-1995) |
1982 |
| AmeriCares J. Peter Grace | Brzezinski | William Simon | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Stilwell, Jr. | Eagleburger | Robert Macauley (friend of George H. W. Bush) | Prescott S. Bush, Jr. | Jeb Bush | George P. Bush | Barbara Bush | Bruce Ritter | Elie Wiesel | Sen. Gordon Humphrey | A. James Forbes, Jr. | Robert Galvin | James Earl Jones | Colin Powell | Thomas L. Sheer |
1982 |
| Refugee Relief International Gen. John Singlaub | Gen. Harry Aderholt | Col. Robert K. Brown (owner and publisher of Soldier of Fortune) |
1982 |
| Henry M. Jackson Foundation James Schlesinger | McCain III | Philip Odeen (chair) |
1983 |
| International Republican Institute (IRI) McCain III (chair since 1993) | George A. Folsom (president and CEO) | Rumsfeld (headed a 9-member IRI commission about Macedonia in 1994) | Porter Goss (led a 20-member IRI team in Haiti in 1995) | Scowcroft | Eagleburger | Scheunemann | Chuck Hagel | David Dreier | Lewis Eisenberg | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Feulner | Bremer | Zoellick | Ken Blackwell | Lieberman (involved in organizing a 1998 conference) |Christine Whitman (lead IRI Election Observation in Cambodia in 2003). Visitors to IRI: Negroponte (present at a 2011 award meeting honoring James Baker) | Kissinger and Shultz (awarded in 2010 and 2011; present at meetings) | Janusz Bugajski (consultant on eastern European affairs) |
1983 |
| Special Operations Policy Advisory Group (SOPAG) Carlucci | Ikle | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Luttwak | Singlaub | Secord | Messing | Lansdale | Aderholt |
1983 |
| Symposium on the Role of Special Operations in U.S. Strategy Ted Shackley | Terry Arnold | Donald Jameson | Lisa Jameson | Margo Carlisle | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Edward Luttwak | Oliver North | Richard Stilwell | Maurice Tugwell | Patti Benner Antsen |
March 1983 |
| Friends of the Americas Woody Jenkins (founder; chair) | Diane Jenkins (co-founder and exec. director) | Sen. Daniel Richey (director) | Gen. John Singlaub (aided in fund raising) |
1984 |
| Jamestown Foundation Jameson | Casey | Woolsey | Haig | Brzezinski | Cheney | Rumsfeld | Kampelman | Richard V. Allen | Tom Clancy | Decter | Nunn | Regnery | Patrick Gross | McCain III | Carlucci (wife) | Hayden | Michelle Van Cleave | Margarita Assenova (project director for the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia) | Glen Howard (president since 2003) | Ermarth (June 9, 1999 speaker) | Graham Fuller (2008 speaker) |
1984 |
| International Security Council (ISC) Moonies-linked. Kelley | William Van Cleave | Fred Ikle | Donald Rumsfeld | Adm. Zumwalt | Gen. Al Gray | Woellner | Gen. Gordon Sumner | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Leon Goure (visitor) |
1984 |
| Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies Clean Break report | Feith | Perle |
1984 |
| Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) David and Charles Koch | Ron Paul (initial chairman) | Dick Armey (chairman) |
1984 |
| Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) General John Singlaub (founder) | Alexander McColl (chair; editor Soldiers of Fortune) | Col. Robert K. Brown |
1984 |
| International Freedom Foundation (IFF) Jack Abramoff (founder and chairman) | Russel Crystal (executive director) | Duncan Sellars (later chairman). Huge financing by apartheid South African government, up to $1.5 million a year until 1992 - in line with A.S.C. projects in southern Africa. Abramoff soon became executive producer of Dolph Ludgren's 'Red Scorpion' (1989), financed by the same interests. |
1985 |
| Maldon Institute Raymond Wannall | John Rees | Robert Moss | Dr. James Kennedy | Martha Powers | Jack Abramoff (secretary and treasurer 1999-2003) | Scaife-funded |
1985 |
| Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) Larry and Barbi Weinberg (founders). Indyk (founding executive director) | Nina Rosenwald (director). Advisory board since the late 1990s: Eugene Rostow | Wolfowitz | Woolsey | Kirkpatrick | Perle | Kissinger | Shultz | Luttwak | Eagleburger | Warren Christopher | Kampelman | James Roche | McFarlane | Zuckerman | Martin Peretz | Samuel Lewis | Michael Mandelbaum. Also: Dov Zakheim and Moshe Yaalon (involved with WINEP's policy forums) | Klutznick (involved in the 1988-1990 period) | Joshua Muravchik (scholar) |
1985 |
| Francisco Marroquin Foundation, Guatemala Elliott Abrams (chairman) |
1980s |
| American Freedom Coalition (AFC) Associated with the Moonies. Arranged a fundraiser for Oliver North's legal defense 1987-1988. Board of directors: Richard Ichord (chair) | Bob Wilson (co-chair) | Robert Grant (president). National advisory board: Walter Judd | Alton Ochsner Jr. (son of) | Richard Viguerie (secretary). National policy board: Dr. Joseph Churba | Gen. Daniel Graham | Gen. John Singlaub | Cleon Skousen. Board of advisors: Gen. Gordon Sumner |
1987 |
| Nicaraguan Resistance Educational Foundation Elliott Abrams (chairman) |
1987 |
| A Night for Afghanistan, Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix George H. W. Bush (co-chair) | Sen. John McCain (co-chair) | Ronald Reagan (prominent guest) | Jon Kyl |
Feb. 20, 1988 |
| Center for Security Policy (CSP) Frank Gaffney (founder) and Devon Gaffney Cross (advisory board; sister) | Woolsey (co-chair) | Sen. Jon Kyl (co-chair) | Col. John Nagl (president) | James Schlesinger | Rumsfeld (regular visitor/advisor) | Weinberger (regular visitor) | Gen. James L. Jones (regular visitor) | Cheney | Perle | Feith | Ikle | John Lehman | Gen. McInerney | Gen. Carl Mundy | Bruce Gelb (chair board of regents) | Sven Kraemer | Paula Dobriansky | Kenneth deGraffenreid | James T. deGraffenreid (chair) | Margo Carlisle | Decter | Feulner | Charles Fairbanks | Jamie Jameson | Zakheim | Phyllis Kaminsky | James Roche | Evan Galbraith | William and Michelle Van Cleave | Morris Amitay | George Keyworth (major SDI figure; in contact with Hoagland over Cydonia) | Charles Lichenstein | Gen. Piotrowski | William Schneider, Jr. | Gen. Schriever | Edward Teller | Gen. Vallely | Robert Kagan (member and signatory to CSP letters) | Bruce Jackson | Garry Kasparov | Elliott Abrams | Nina Rosenwald. Family Security Matters, a project of the CSP, board of advisors: Frank G., R. James W. and Gen. Paul V. on board of advisors. A random headline from the frontpage: "Huffington Post blogger's Islamophile Insanity Continues." |
1988 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI) Jack Kemp (co-chair) | Christopher Cox (co-chair) | Robert W. Helm (director in the 1990s) | David Kirkpatrick (appears to be a relative of Jeane) | Sen. Mike Gravel (director since 2001 and chair since 2004). Financing: Koch, Bradley, Olin and Scaife foundations. |
1988 |
| Christian Coalition of America (CCA) Pat Robertson (founder) | Paul Weyrich (co-founder) | Stanley Monteith (member) |
1989 |
| Institute for International Health and Development (IIHD) Philip Morris scam which tried to deal with the WHO's anti-smoking stance. David Morse (founder and chair) | Paul Dietrich (president) | Laura Dietrich (magazine editor) | Elizabeth Kristol (executive director and publisher of IIHD's magazine; sister of neocon William K.) |
1989 |
| Committee on U.S. Interests in the Middle East John Lehman | Perle | Gaffney | Elliott Abrams | Eugene Rostow | Douglas Feith | |
1992 |
| Project for the Republican Future (PNR) William Kristol (founding chair 1993-1994) | Michael Joyce (co-founder) |
1993 |
| National Policy Forum (NPF) Haley Barbour (founder; chair Republican National Committee) | Bolton (president 1995-1996) | Gingrich (fundraising consultant) |
1993 |
| Empower America Co-directors: Theodore Forstmann (founding chair) | Jack Kemp | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Vin Weber | William Cohen (the secretary of defense) | |
1993 |
| Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Brzezinski | Claiborne Pell | George W. Bush (honorary chair) | Abshire | Lev Dobriansky | Gingrich | Feulner | Richard Pipes | Singlaub | Jack Kemp | Brian Crozier | Bob Dole |
1994 |
| Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) Henry Sokolski (executive director) | Robert Pfaltzgraff | Mark Wallace |
1994 |
| American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) National council members: Lynne (chair; wife of Dick C.) | Sen. Lieberman (co-founder) | Irving Kristol | Martin Peretz | Ed Meese. |
1995 |
| American Institute for Strategic Cooperation (AISC) Albert Wohlstetter (president) and Roberta | Samuel Huntington | James Roche |
1995 |
| Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) Past and present directors: Andrew Krepinevich (executive director) | James Roche (chair) | Wolfowitz | Devon Gaffney Cross | James Woolsey | Pete du Pont | Eric Edelman (distingushed fellow) |
1995 |
| Project for the New American Century (PNAC) Donald and Robert Kagan (co-founders) | William Kristol (co-founder) | Cheney | Rumsfeld | Jeb Bush | Frank and Devon Gaffney | Ikle | Perle | John Lehman | Richard V. Allen | Woolsey | Armitage | Paula Dobriansky | Wolfowitz | Francis Fukuyama | Decter | Daniel Pipes \ Zakheim | Zoellick | Steve Forbes | Bolton | McCain III | Randy Scheunemann | Bruce Jackson | William Schneider, Jr. | Eli S. Jacobs | Eliot Cohen | Michael Joyce (signatory) | Zalmay Khalilzad (founding signatory) |
1997 |
| United States Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL) Golden circle: Elliott Abrams | Douglas Feith | Jesse Helms | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Richard Perle. Advisory board: Ziad Abdelnour (founder) | Morris Amitay | Paula Dobriansky | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Joseph Farah | Amine Gemayel (president Lebanon 1982-1988) | Michael Ledeen | Daniel Pipes | James Woolsey | David Wurmser | Amine Gemayel (president Lebanon 1982-1988) |
1997 |
| Donors Forum on International Affairs Devon Gaffney Cross | David Steinmann |
2000 |
| NGO Monitor International advisory board: Elliott Abrams | James Woolsey | Elie Wiesel | Abraham Sofaer | Alan Dershowitz | Col. Richard Kemp | Nina Rosenwald. |
2001 |
| Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Set up in response to 9/11. Officers: James Woolsey (chair)| Clifford May (president; Fox News terrorism expert) | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Jack Kemp | Richard Perle | William Kristol | Gen. Paul X. Kelley | Paula Dobriansky | Steve Forbes | Louis Freeh | Kampelman | McFarlane | Lieberman | Michael Ledeen (Freedom Chair). Financiers 2001-2004 period: Roland Arnall of Ameriquest Capital Corp. ($1,802,000) | Bronfman family ($1,050,000) | Michael Steinhardt ($850,000) | Leonard Abramson ($822,523) | Hyperion Partners ($250,000) | Charles Schusterman ($385,325) | Bernard Marcus ($350,000) | Lewis Ranieri ($350,000) | Jerome Goodman ($244,425) | Barrack Foundation ($200,000) | Joe Weber ($200,000) | Dalck Feith Revocable Trust ($200,000; father of Douglas Feith) | Sanford J. Grossman Charitable Trust ($125,000) | Sarah Scaife Foundation ($125,000) | R. & H. Rubin Charitable Foundation ($100,000) | Russell Berrie Foundation ($100,000) | Peter May ($100,000) | David Cutler ($100,000) | Tony Gelbart ($50,000) | Jennifer Mizrahi ($25,000) | Nina Rosenwald ($35,000) | George Rohr ($25,000). |
2001 |
| Americans for Community and Faith-Centered Enterprise (ACFCE) Michael Joyce (said he founded it for Karl Rove) | William Kristol | Midge Decter |
2001 |
| American Center for Democracy (ACD) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld | Woolsey | Perle | Gen. Thomas McInerney | Gen. Paul Vallely | Norman Bailey | Harvey Stone | Dr. Nicholas Rostow | Dr. Jean-Charles Brisard (lead investigator for lawyers representing over 6,500 9/11 families trying to sue the financiers of 9/11) |
2001 |
| Benador Associates Public relations firm. Experts (for clients to pick from): Arnaud de Borchgrave | Frank Gaffney | Alexander Haig | Mansoor Ijaz | Charles Krauthammer | Lord Lamont | Michael Ledeen | Richard Perle | Richard Pipes | Gen. Paul Vallely | James Woolsey. |
2001-2007 |
| American Alliance of Christians and Jews (AACJ) Board: Rabbi Daniel Lapin (founder and Jack A.'s religious advisor) | Jack Abramoff | James Dobson | Pat Robertson | Jerry Falwell. |
2002 |
| American Congress for Truth (ACT) Brigitte Gabriel (official founder and head). Board of advisors: James Woolsey | Gen. Paul Vallely | Robert Spencer | John Loftus | Robert Katz. A few headlines from the website in 2007: "Sign Our Petition: Stop Islamic totalitarianism" and "Christian Perscution in the Middle East". |
2002 |
| Committee for the Liberation of Iraq Chairman: Shultz | Woolsey | Perle | Randy Scheunemann | Bruce Jackson | Robert Kagan | Eliot Cohen |
2002 |
| International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) Peter Ackerman (founding chair) |
2002 |
| Coalition for Democracy in Iran James Woolsey | Michael Ledeen | Frank Gaffney | Jack Kemp | Joshua Muravchik |
2002 |
| Anglo-Arab Organization Nadhmi Auchi (founder and president) |
2002 |
| Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG) Government group, overseen by the "Special Operations Executive" in the National Security Council. Plans of its creation were leaked at the time, but little is known about the group. Its creation was recommended by the "independent" Defense Science Board's 2002 Summer Study on Special Operations and Joint Forces in Support of Countering Terrorism. It is not known if the group has been created and under what name. |
2002 |
| International Commission on the Balkans Bruce Jackson | Pauline Neville-Jones | Richard von Weizsacker |
2004 |
| We Remember Foundation Bruce Jackson (director) | Irina Krasovskaya (founding president) |
2004 |
| FreedomWorks (Tea Party) Scaife (largest financier) | Dick Armey (founding co-chair) | Kemp (founding co-chair) | C. Boyden Gray (founding co-chair) | Steve Forbes |
2004 |
| Third Committee on the Present Danger (3rd CPD) Woolsey (leader) Shultz (leader) | Kyl (co-chair) | Lieberman (co-chair) | McFarlane | Decter | Steve Forbes | Gaffney | Gingrich | Jerome Hauer | Meese | Joshua Muravchik | Podhoretz | Nicholas Rostow | William Van Cleave | John Whitehead | Elie Wiesel | Zakheim | Jose Maria Aznar | Moshe Yaalon (chief of staff Israeli Defense Force) |
2004 |
| Iran Policy Committee Woolsey | Livingstone | Vallely | McInerney (chair) | William Nitze |
2005 |
| Henry Jackson Society Patrons: James Woolsey | Perle | Robert Kagan | Joshua Muravchik | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Chertoff | Sir Richard Dearlove | 13th Marques of Lothian (Kerr) | Hubertus Hoffmann | Bruce Jackson. Signatories: Lord Charles Powell. HJS Initiative: Towards a More Incluse Capitalism task force: Lynn Forester de Rothschild (co-chair), Lawrence Summers, Lord Tugendhat. |
2005 |
| Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Kimberley Kagan (founder and president; wife of Donald, mother of Robert) | Gen. Jack Keane (founder) |
2007 |
| Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) Robert Kagan | William Kristol |
2009 |
| Friends of Israel Initiative Aznar (founder) | Bolton | Weidenfeld |
2010 |
| Secure America Now Devon Gaffney Cross (prominent member) | Mike Huckabee and Bolton (advisory board) |
2011 |
| Langley Intelligence Group Network (part of Newsmax) Hayden | Rees-Mogg | Bolton | Borchgrave | Ermarth | Otto Reich |
2012 |
| Society for Individual Freedom (SIF) Officers: George Kennedy Young (president) | Sir John Biggs-Davison | Sir Frederic Bennett | Sir John Rodgers |
1942 |
| The Mont Pelerin Society Friedrich Hayek (founder) | Sir Anthony Fisher | Ed Feulner (treasurer 1979-1996; president 1996-1998; senior vice president 1998-2000; treasurer 2000-) | Lord Ralph Harris (secretary 1967-1982, president 1982-1984) | Arthur Seldon (vice president) | William Simon | Henry Hazlitt | Alain de Benoist | Frits Bolkenstein | James Buchanan | William Buckley, Jr. | Arthur Burns | Martin Feldstein | Niall Ferguson | Steve Forbes | Milton Friedman | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Alan Greenspan | Otto von Habsburg | Ayan Hirsi Ali | John Howard | Lord Howe | Reinhard Kamitz | Frank Knight | Charles Koch | Walter Lippmann | Salvador de Madariaga | Edwin Meese | Ludwig von Mises | Stefan Possony | Murray Rothbard | Gunter Schmolders | George Shultz | Julian Simon | John Marks Templeton | . |
1947 |
| Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) Friedrich Hayek (inspiration/guide) | Sir Anthony Fisher (founder) | Oliver Smedley (founder) | Lord Ralph Harris (general director 1957-1988) | Graham Mather (general director 1988-) | Arthur Seldon (editorial advisor 1958-1959, editoral director 1959-, president) |
1955 |
| Monday Club Leaders: 5th Marquess of Salisbury (Cecil; president 1961-1972) | 6th Marquess of Salisbury (Cecil; president 1974-1981) | Sir Patrick Wall (chair 1978-1980) | Julian Amery (patron). Others: Sir Frederic Bennett | Sir John Biggs-Davison (president 1974-1976) | George Kennedy Young. |
1961 |
| Anglo-Rhodesian Society Cecil | John Biggs-Davison | Julian Amery | Stephen Hastings | Sir Patrick Wall |
1966-1980 |
| Institute for the Study of Conflict Brian Crozier (founder and chairman); Scaife (financier) |
1970 |
| Washington Institute for the Study of Conflict (WISC) Crozier | George Ball | Brzezinski | Komer | Kermit Roosevelt | John Diebold |
1975 |
| The Freedom Association (TFA) Founded as the National Association for Freedom (NAFF). Eurosceptic. Directors: Viscount De L'Isle | Norris McWhirter (chair until beyond 2000) | Robert Moss | Brian Crozier | Stephen Hastings (until beyond 2000) | Chapman Pincher | Sir Frederic Bennett | Sir John Biggs-Davison and daughter Lisl (meeting secretary) | Lord Ralph Harris (regular speaker) | Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly | Winston Churchill II | 3rd Viscount Monckton (global warming critic of Gore who wrote '35 Inconvenient Truths'; the family has deep ties to MI6, the SAS, the Group 13 assassination team and the DSL private military firm). |
1975 |
| Foreign Affairs Research Institute (FARI) Crozier | Casey | Scaife | Cline | Gen. Daniel Graham | Sir Frederic Bennett (chair) | Sir John Biggs-Davison |
1976 |
| Safari Club Gen. Vernon Walters (founder) | Marenches | Kamal Adham | Turki al Faisal | Sadat | Saddam Hussein | Shah of Iran |
1976 |
| 6I Crozier | Gen. Walters | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Gen. Fraser (S.A.) | Georges Albertini. Financiers: Rupert Murdoch | Sir James Goldsmith | Richard Mellon Scaife. |
1977 |
| Shield Committee Sir Stephen Haskings | Harry Sporborg | Nicholas Elliot | Crozier | Lord Carrington (about the only outsider who was kept in the loop) |
1978 |
| British Anti-Communist Council (BACC) The year that the BACC joined the WACL. Peter Dally (chair; Intelligence International Ltd.); Sir Patrick Wall (hon. president) |
1983 |
| Global Economic Action Institute (Moonies) Chairman: Lord Julian Amery (Cercle) | Lord Brian Griffiths |
1984 |
| Institute for the Study of Terrorism (IST) Founder and chairman: Lord Alun Chalfont |
1985 |
| Western Goals UK / Western Goals Institute The institute was created from Western Goals UK in 1989: Gen. Sir Walter Walker (patron) | Sir Patrick Wall (parliamentary consultant) |
1985 |
| Research Foundation for the Study of Terrorism Paul Wilkinson (chair) | Michael Ivens | Norris McWhirter | Ian Greig | John Biggs-Davison | Nicholas Elliott |
1986-1989 |
| Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism (Canada) | 1986 |
| Committee for a Free Britain (CFB) | 1987 |
| Bruges Group Margaret Thatcher (major speech) | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (involved in the Thatcher speech) | Lord Ralph Harris of High Cross (founder, chair 1989-1991) | Lord Lamont | 13th Marquess of Lothian (Kerr) (conference participant) | Nigel Farage (conference participant) | |
1988 |
| Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Vatican-linked) Michael L. M. Brenninkmeyer (commander Netherlands since 2013) | Jan Brenninkmeijer (Dutch member) | Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley (commander East Coast of the U.S.) | John Fleming Ball |
1099 |
| Knights of Malta (SMOM) (Vatican-linked) Americas: Allen Dulles (said to have been inducted around 1943 in Switzerland) | Myron Taylor | William Simon | John McCone | Haig | Paul Dietrich | Laura Dietrich | J. Peter Grace | Joseph Kennedy | Thomas L. Sheer | William Casey | Bernadette Casey Smith | Prescott S. Bush, Jr. | Nicholas Brady | Dean Rusk | Elmer Bobst | Gen. Mark Clark (honorary) | Gen. David Woellner | Gen. Vernon Walters | Gen. Daniel Graham (rumors) | Clare Boothe Luce | Ed Feulner | Robert McKinney | Duncan Bauman | William Wilson | Foster Stearns | Roberto Alejos Arzu | Mary Reilly Hunt | Lee Iacocca | Joseph Califano | Michael Novak | William Buckley, Jr. | Pete Domenici | Joseph E. Schmitz | Peter Lynch (Fidelity) | Eugene Sullivan (CEO Borden) | James Frick (Notre Dame) | William Agee and wife (Morrison Knudsen Corp.) | Thomas Monaghan (founder Domino's Pizza) | Thomas Labrecque (CEO Chase Manhattan) | Sen. Pete Domenici | Theodore Black (Ingersoll-Rand) | Joseph Flannery (Ingersoll-Rand) | Richard Torrenzano (spokesman NYSE) | Hugh Carey (W.R. Grace & Co.) | Robert Dilenschneider (W.R. Grace & Co.) | Morrison Knudsen Agee (W.R. Grace & Co.) | Gerard Roche (W.R. Grace & Co.) | Alfred Bloomingdale | Gustavo Cisneros Southern European members: Gulio Andreotti | Manuel Fraga | Baron Luigi Parrilli | German and East European members: Konrad Adenauer (honorary) | Otto von Habsburg (honorary) | Gen. Reinhard Gehlen (honorary) | Furst Mariano Hugo zu Windisch-Graetz | Prince Michel Karadordevic of Yugoslavia | Belosselsky-Belozersky family Belgium and France: Jacques Jonet | Prince Baudouin de Merode | Princess Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz | Antoine Pinay (honorary) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Jean-Claude Gaudin British members: Mark Brenninkmeyer (UK leadership; Dutch family) | Earl Richard Fitzalan-Howard (UK leadership) | Stephen Macklow-Smith (U.K. leadership) | Dukes of Norfolk | Lord Mowbraw | Sir Michael Craig-Cooper | Lord Guthrie | 12th Marquess of Lothian (Kerr) | Lord Jude Kerr | Edward Leigh | John Fleming Ball | Sir Patrick Wall Dutch members: Barons and Baronesses van Voorst tot Voorst (Dutch chairs: 1911-1931, 1936-1939, 1953-1964, 1970-2002, 2005-2010) | numerous barons and baronesses van Hovell tot Westerflier (Dutch heads: 1931-1936, 2002-2005, co-chair anno 2014) | Jonkheer Jeroen Alting von Geusau | Christiaan Alting von Geusau | Jonkheer Barend de Roy van Zuidewijn (family on the Dutch board anno 2014) | Jonkheer Frans Eugene Joseph Marie de Roy van Zuidewijn | Jan Brenninkmeijer (friends of SMOM) |
1099 |
| Society of Jesus / Jesuits Daniel Sheehan | Malachi Martin | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | Charles De Selliers De Moranville | Cardinal Avery Dulles (nephew of Allen and son of John Foster) | Father Gregory Brenninkmeyer (the whole family is a major financier of the Jesuits and in touch with its leadership) | Barons of Voorst tot Voorst (had quite a few family members becoming Jesuit priests) | Ruud Lubbers (educated and active for Catholic causes throughout life) |
1534 |
| Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George Prince Carlo de Bourbon, the Duke of Calabria (head; the Bourbon-Parma family has headed the order since 1699) | Lord Norman Lamont (member) | Nadhmi Auchi (honory) | Anthony Cavendish (knight first class) | Bernard Kerik (knight commander) |
±1535 |
| Paneuropa Union (PEU) Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi | Otto von Habsburg | Vittorio Pons | Sir John Biggs-Davison (council member until at least 1965) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing The Belgian branch was known as the Conseil Belge pour l'Union Europeenne and later, since 1969, as the Mouvement d'Action pour l'Unite Europeenne: Radbot de Habsburg-Lorraine (b. 1938; title: honorary title: Archduke of Austria; married to Caroline Proust) | Florimond Damman (secretary general and the PEU's International Events Committee) | Baron and Bernard de Marcken de Merken | Count Alain de Villegas | Count Paul van Zeeland | Gaston Eyskens | Baron Pierre Nothomb | |
1922 |
| Coudenhove-Kalergi Foundation Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi | Otto von Habsburg | Count Hans Huyn | Jakob Coudenhove-Kalergi | Prince Carlo della Torre e Tasso | Nikolaus von Liechtenstein. |
1923 |
| Opus Dei Radical Catholic fascism. Basically the belief system of everyone in the Vatican-Paneuropa network, but seldom official. Membership overlaps greatly with the Knights of Malta. Reported members: Otto von Habsburg (arguably the movement's chief political force until his death) | Radbot de Habsburg-Lorraine | Prince Miguel de Bourbon (didn't mind being referred to as an arms dealer for Opus Dei) | Prince Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein (named as a chief financier) | Pope John Paul II (according to his assistant, Malachi Martin, John Paul II had assigned the Knights of Columbus and Opus Dei a key role in upholding the church's worldwide influence) | Frans Alting von Geusau | William Colby | Tommy Corcoran | Giulio Andreotti | Gen. Franco | Manuel Fraga | Monsignor Alberto Giovanetti | Alois Mertes | Silva Munoz | Antoine Pinay | Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin | Jean-Paul Dumont | Franz Josef Strauss | Jean Violet | Sir Peter Sutherland | Brenninkmeyer family | Frederico Trillo | Alberto de la Hera | Jose Manuel Romay \ Joaquin Abril | Pablo Guardans | Isabel Tocino | Father Marc van Rossem (Van Lanschot internship) | Michel Poniatowski |
1928 |
| P2 Lodge (Italy) U.S. side: Shackley (Cercle), Haig and agents and Frank Gigliotti and Ledeen. Top Italian leaders, according to member Roberto Calvi (top down): Giulio Andreotti (Cercle), Francesco Cosentino, Giordano Gamberini, Licio Gelli. | Giancarlo Elia Valori (groomed by Cosentino at the Vatican) | Florio Fiorini | Prince Vittorio Emanuele | Elio Ciolini | Silvio Berlusconi | Adm. Emilio Eduardo Massera (Argentina; with Videla and Agosti a key 1976 coup plotter against Isabel Peron; assassintaed about 30,000 political opponents) |
1945 |
| Institut Français des Sciences Administratives (IFSA) Jean Violet | Father Yves-Marc Dubois |
1947 |
| Comité International de Défense de la Civilisation Chrétienne / International Committee for the Defence of Christian Civilization (CIDCC) Paul van Zeeland (first president Belgian national committee) | Pierre Andre Simon (Belgian secretary general) | Friedrich Holzapfel (president German national committee) | Hermann Lindrath (elected chair in 1958) | Pinay (vice president) | Solis Ruiz (chair Spanish national committee and national president) | Manuel Fraga-Iribarne (vice president) | Federico Silva Munoz (speaker) | Gaetano Martino (vice president) | Oliveira Salazar (president Portuguese council) |
1948 |
| World Veterans Federation (WVF) Gilbert Harrison (founder as co-founder in 1943 and chair since 1948 of the American Veterans Committee) | Willem "Bib" van Lanschot (founding treasurer general 1951-1957, president 1957-1994, and honorary president until his death in 2001) |
1951 |
| Centre of Documentation and Information (CEDI) Otto von Habsburg (key founder) | Alfredo Sanchez Bella | Paul Vankerkhoven (head Belgian section) | Gaston Eyskens | Paul van Zeeland | Vittorio Pons (known visitor) Count Jacques Pirenne | Jacques-Ernest Solvay (co-founder) | Ernest-John Solvay (co-founder) | Jean-Pierre de Launoit | Nicolas de Kerchove | Sir John Rodgers | Geoffrey Rippon | Kenneth Clarke | Jose Napoleon Duarte | Alvaro Gomez Hurtado | Marcel de Roover (founding president Belgian branch in 1961) | Finne Veikko Reinikainen | |
1952 |
| Le Cercle United States: Ted Shackley | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | William Casey | James Critchfield | Paul and Laura Dietrich | Jamie Jameson | William Colby | Fritz Ermarth | Arnold Silver | Ron Silver | Herbert E. Meyer | Thomas Spencer | Chas Freeman | Walter Raymond, Jr. | Samuel Hoskinson | William Schneider, Jr. | Richard V. Allen | Sen. Henry Jackson | Richard Perle | Paul Wolfowitz | Donald Rumsfeld | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Fred Ikle | Sven Kraemer | Gen. James Abrahamson | Adm. Thomas Moorer | Gen. Schwarzkopf | Edwin Feulner | Paul Weyrich | Ronald Lehman II | Robert Pfaltzgraff | Adm. Robert Hanks | Robert McKinney | Jeffrey Bergner | Sen. Steve Symms (1984) | John Carbaugh | Margo Carlisle | Edward Rollins | John Barron | Edward W. Carter | James Cicconi | Sen. Howard Baker and George Montgomery | William Henry Moore II | Audna England | Robert Lighthizer | Sir Eldon Griffiths | Wayne Berman | Stefan Halper | James Lucier | Richard McCormack | Constantine Menges | Richard Nixon | Sen. William Roth | Joseph Schuchert | Marshall Shulman | Robert B. Anderson | Norman Bailey | Arkady Shevchenko | Louis Freeh | Antonin Scalia | John Bolton | Sen. Wyche Fowler (2011; ambassador to Saudi Arabia 1996-2001) | Richard Armitage (2011) | United States (Rockefeller/Kissinger clique invitees or not mainly associated with (neo)conservatism or CIA covert operations): Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller | Adolph Schmidt (Mellon) | Henry Kissinger (late 1960s-, 2011) | Paul Volcker | Robert Knight | Zbigniew Brzezinski | John Negroponte | Brent Scowcroft | Paul Bremer | John Bryan, Jr. | Alan Greenspan | Chuck Hagel (2011) | Sen. George Mitchell (2011) Great Britain: Brian Crozier | Julian Amery | Sir Peter Tennant | Robert Moss | Nicholas Elliot | Col. Billy McLean | Alan Clark | Jonathan Aitken | Lord Chalfont | Lord Charles Powell | Margaret Thatcher | Lord Lamont (chair 1996-2008) | Timothy Landon and Chester Nagle | Col. Tim Spicer | Sir Henry Grierson | William Hague | Lord Michael Cecil | 7th Marquess of Salisbury (Cecil) | Frank Steele | Sir John Leahy | Sir Stephen Lander | Sir John Biggs-Davison | Winston Churchill II | Lord Thomas of Swynnerton | David Burnside | David Faber | Patricia Rawlings | Sir Steven Hastings | Jack Dellal | Bruce Anderson | Xan Smiley | Eddie Bell | Alistair Horne | Michael Howard | Lord David Howell | Sir John Killick | 4th Earl of Kimberley | Sir Steven Lander | Sir John Leahy | Edward Leigh | Dr. Julian Lewis | David Roy Lidington | Geoffrey Tantum | Philip Vander Elst | John Wilkinson | Sir Philip Goodhart | Rupert Allason | Margaret Beckett | South Africa: Anton Rupert | Basil Hersov | Dirk Hertzog | Gavin Relly (key Oppenheimer representative) | Harold Taswell | Gen. Charles Fraser | Robert du Plooy. Rhodesia: Peter van der Byl | Conrad Gerber Mozambique: Evo Fernandes Germany: Otto von Habsburg | Count Hans Huyn | Konrad Adenauer | Franz Joseph Strauss | Dr. Franz Josef Bach | Gen. Reinhard Gehlen | Alois Mertes | Bruno Heck | Baron Hans Christoph Schenk von Stauffenberg | Fritz Konig | Alphons Horten | Friedrich Voss | Theo Waigel | Werner Marx | Bruno Heck | Philipp Jenninger | Fritz Konig | Gerhard Lowenthal | Fred Luchsinger | Karl-Heinz Narjes | Hans Ruhle | Dieter Schmidt | Gerd Schulte-Hillen | Gen. Franz-Joseph Schulze | Jurgen Warnke | Dr. Bernard Worms Switzerland: Philippe de Weck | Robert Zoelly Belgium: Baron de Bonvoisin | Armand de Decker | Gen. Robert Close | Florimond Damman | Jacques Jonet | Nicholas de Kerchove | Paul Vankerkhoven | Christian Schwarz-Schilling | Leo Tindemans | Maurice Brebart | Jan Sabbe France: Jean Monnet (liberal establishment) | Paul Violet | Antoine Pinay | Jean Violet | Robert Schuman | Georges Albertini | Francois de Grossouvre | Gen. Pierre Gallois | Adm. Francois Lacoste | Charles Pasqua | Monique Garnier-Lancon | Alain Griotteray (Figaro) | Raymond Bourgine | Francois d'Orcival (Figaro writer 1977-1978) | Francois Vallet | Alain Juppe | Jean-Claude Gaudin | Philippe Malaud | Pierre Mehaignerie | Alain Poher | Marcel Clement. Luxembourg: Pierre Werner Italy: Carlo Pesenti II | Giulio Andreotti | Giancarlo Elia Valori | Oscar Luigi Scalfaro | Enrico Franzoni | Gen. Umberto Capuzzo | Filippo Maria Pandolfi Vatican: Father Yves-Mark Dubois | Monsignor Alberto Giovanetti | Spain: Alfredo Sanchez Bella | Manuel Fraga-Iribarne | Federico Silva Munoz | Guillermo Kirkpatrick | Carlos Robles Piquer | Countess Eline de Romanones Portugal: Gen. Kaulza de Arriaga | Gen. Antonion de Spinola | Jaime Nogueira Pinto Latin America: Antonio Sanchez de Larragoiti (Brazil) | Luis Maria Otero Monsegur (Argentina) | Alvaro Gomez Hurtado (Columbia) | Enrique Gomez Hurtado (Colombia) | Daniel Mazuera (Colombia) | Francisco Bulnes (Chile) | Manuel Prado y Ugarteche (Peru) | Netherlands: Frans Alting von Geusau | Frans Otten Eastern Europe: Tedo Japaridze (Georgia) | Gen. Nikolay Malomuhz (Ukraine; foreign intelligence chief; 2011) | Urmas Paet (Estonia; minister of foreign affairs 2005-2014; 2011) | Ion Iliescu (Romania) | Crown Prince Alexander II Karadordevic of Yugoslavia (Serbia; hosted a 2004 meeting) | Russia: Yegor Gaidar | Victor Kuvaldin (2011) Israel: Shimon Peres (1996) | Benjamin Netanyahu (1996) | Dan Meridor (2011) | Natan Sharansky Turkey: Eymen Topbas Saudi Arabia: Prince Turki al Faisal | Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (invited in 2012) Jordan: King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan | Marwan al-Muasher | Zaid al-Rifai | Kamel Abu Jaber | Samih al-Batikhi Oman: Sultan Qaboos of Oman Iraq: Nadhmi Auchi Iran: Ardeshir Zahedi (Shah representative) | Hooshang Amirahmadi for Iran | Pakistan: Yegor Gaidar | Shaukat Aziz India: Benazir Bhutto | Manmohan Singh (born into a Sikh family; Ph.D. in economics from Oxford; worked for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 1966-1969; professor of international trade Delhi School of Economics; hired by Lalit Narayan Mishra as chief economic advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Trade; governor of the Reserve Bank of India 1982-1985; deputy chair planning commission 19885-1987; minister of finance 1991-1996; liberalized India's economy; member of parliament since 1991, opposition leader 1998-2004; prime minister 2004-2014) Japan: Tsutomu Hata |
1953 |
| Verein zur Erforschung sozial-politischer Verhaltnisse im Ausland Professor Hans Lades | Dr. C. D. Kernig |
1950s |
| German counterpart: Deutsche Vereinigung für Ost-West Beziehungen Professor Hans Lades | Dr. C. D. Kernig |
1950s |
| Centre de Recherche du Bien Politique Colonel Antoine Bonnemaison (head 1955-1963) | Jean Violet (head since about 1963) | Brian Crozier | General Foertsch (head of the German delegation and senior deputy to Gen. Reinhard Gehlen) | Professor Hans Lades | Dr. C. D. Kernig | Gen. Jean Olie (head French delegation and de Gaulle's Chief of the General Staff) | Louis Einthoven (head of the Dutch delegation) | Cees van den Heuvel |
1955 (+/-) |
| Konrad Adenauer Foundation Bruno Heck (head 1968-1989) | Hubertus Hoffmann (scholar) |
1955 |
| Institut d'Etudes Politiques Vaduz / Institute for Political Studies, Vaduz Publisher of International Background: An International Journal of Current Political, Social and Economic Affairs. Liechtenstein: Prince Henry of Liechtenstein | Germany: George von Furstenberg | Harald von Bohlen und Halbach (Krupp) | Count Max Thurn und Valsassina | Count Hans van der Golz | Gerard Bauer (Uhrenindustrie) | Arend Oetker | Dieter Spethmann | Fredborg | Count Hans Huyn Switzerland: Rudolf Ernst | Luregn Mathias Cavelty Austria: Reinhard Kamitz (president Austria's National Bank 1960-1968) Czech Republic: Prince Karel Schwarzenberg Scandinavia: Arvid Fredborg (president) | Matts Calgren (Sweden) | Alvar Lindencrona (Sweden) | Kaj Kjellqvist (Sweden) | Christian Norgren (Sweden) | Thede Palm (Sweden) | Finn Andreen (Sweden) | Finne Veikko Rainikainen (Finland) | Georg Ehrnrooth (Finland) | Erik Haunstrup Clemmensen (Denmark) | Gunther Smolders Netherlands: Theodoor Joekes | Alfred Vas Nunes (UN ambassador; Shell external relations director 1958-1974) | Gwendolien E. Vrins Belgium: Count Jean-Pierre de Launoit | Jacques Jonet ("Club de Vaduz") | France: Jean Violet (July 1968 meeting) | Count Armand du Chayla | Pierre-Bernard Couste | Jean Cuene-Grandidier Spain: Marquis de Miralrio | Vincente Mortes Alfonso | Antonio Valero y Vicente Portugal: Jaime Nogueira Pinto ("Club de Vaduz") | Sarmento Rodriguez Italy: Prince Nicolo Pignatelli Aragona Cortes | Giancarlo Elia Valori | Achille Albonetti | Giuseppe Baranco Britain: Sir Anthony Fisher, Lord Ralph Harris, and Arthur Seldon of the IEA | Sir John Rodgers | Lord Robin Balniel (29th Earl of Crawford) | Lord Kenneth Baker | Lord John Selwyn Gummer | Baroness Diana Ellis U.S.: Kenneth Wells | Henry Hazlitt | Richard McKean Far East: Eric Hotung |
1959 |
| Charlemagne dinners Otto von Habsburg | Jacques Jonet | Florimond Damman | Count Alain de Villegas | Paul Vankerkhoven | Bernard Mercier | Jean-Pierre Grafe | Leo Tindemans | Willy De Clercq | Gaston Eyskens | Comtesse Antony de Meeus | Baron Jean de Marcken de Merken | Bernard de Marcken de Merken | Father Yves-Marc Dubois | Baron Patrick Nothomb | Alfredo Sanchez-Bella | Ernest Tottosy | Vincent van den Bosch | Richard van Wijck | Kai-Uwe von Hassel | Giulio Andreotti | Brian Crozier | Jean Violet | Count Hans Huyn | Giancarlo Elia Valori | Yves Guerin-Serac | Prince and Princess de Merode (1969 dinner; same table as Serac) | Emile Lecerf (1969 dinner; same table as Serac) |
early 1960s |
| l'Institut Europeen de Developpement Baron de Bonvoisin (founder) | Paul Vankerkhoven | Bernard Mercier (director) |
1960s |
| International Freedom Foundation (INFRA) Ludwig Erhard | Fin Andreen | Carlo Pesenti II | Sir Evelyn Baring (3rd Earl of Cromer) | Antoine Pinay | Matti Virkkunen | Harald von Bohlen |
1962 |
| Centre d'Observation du Mouvement des Idées | 1963 |
| Europe-Action A small fascist think tank and publishing agency. Very pro-OAS. Leading figures: Dominique Venner (knew Francois de Grossouvre) | Alain de Benoist | Francois d'Orcival. Members/contributors: Raymond Bourgine | Maurice Gingembre | Gen. Otto Skorzeny (SS) | Erich Kern (SS officer) | Leon Degrelle (SS commander and collaborator). |
1963-1967 |
| Ordre du Rouvre Jacques Jonet | Vincent vanden Bossche | Paul Vankerkhoven | |
1964 |
| Hanns Seidel Foundation Otto von Habsburg (foreign policy advisor since 1975) | |
1966 |
| Aginter Press (Portugal) Yves Guerin-Serac (founder) | Otto Skorzeny (founder) | Francis Dessart (Belgian contact) | Stefano Della Chiaie (Italian contact) |
1966 |
| CREC Florimond Damman (co-founder) | Yves Guerin-Serac (co-founder) |
1969 |
| Academie Europeene des Sciences Politique (AESP) Jean Violet | Florimond Damman | Paul Vankerkhoven | Baron de Bonvoisin | Paul vanden Boeynants | Count Alain de Villegas | Bernard de Marcken de Merken | Jacques Jonet | Richard van Wyck | Bernard Mercier | Ernest Tottosy (P7) | Carlo Pesenti | Manuel Fraga. Not based on documents (yet): Founding life members: Alfredo Sanchez Bella | Otto von Habsburg | Father Yves-Marc Dubois | Carlo Pesenti. Life members since the 1970s: Jacques Soustelle | John Biggs-Davison | Peter Agnew | Sir John Rodgers | Baron von Stauffenberg. Permanent delegation members: Vincent Van den Bosch | Marcel de Roover | Rudolf Dumont du Voitel | Count Alain de Villegas | Elia Giancarlo Valori (P2) | Vittorio Pons (P7) | Count Hans Huyn | Francois Vallet | Cees van den Heuvel. |
1969 |
| Mouvement d'Action pour l'Union de l'Europe (MAUE - PEU) Jacques Jonet | Florimond Damman | Gaston Eyskens | Yves Guerin Serac | Emile Lecerf | Bernard de Marcken de Merken | Luc Beyer de Rycke | Pierre Nothomb | |
1969 |
| Cercle des Nations Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin | Emmanuel de Bonvoisin | Paul vanden Boeynants | Jean-Paul Dumont | Aldo and Philippe Vastapane | Ado Blaton | Jacques Jonet | Serge Kubla | Charly De Pauw | Roger Boas | Jean Violet | Felix Przedborski | Pierre Salik | Xavier Magnee | Guy Mathot. Prince Francois de Merode | Philippe Cryns | Nicholas de Kerchove | Philippe de Kerchove | Bernard Marcken de Merken | Philippe Boel | Comte Philippe and Louis de Meeus d'Argenteuil | Prince Albert de Croy | Prince Rodolphe de Croy-Roeulx | Prince Antoine de Ligne | Comte Bertrand, Herve and Yannick d'Ursel | Comte de Launoit | Edgar Parser | Philippe Cruysmans | Paul Vankerkhoven | Florimond Damman | Baron Jean van den Bosch | Vincent van den Bossch | Jo Gerard | Henri Simonet | Richard van Wijck | Michel Relecom | Jean-Pierre Grafe | Baron Paul Kronacker. |
1969 |
| Ligue Internationale de la Liberté (LIL) Paul Vankerkhoven | Emile Lecerf | Florimond Damman |
1969 |
| European Institute of Management (EIM) Michel Relecom (owner) | Douglas MacArthur II | Col. Rene Mayerus | Jean Bougerol | Faez El Ajjaz (Saudi intelligence agent; apparently a client). |
1960s |
| P7 Lodge (Belgium) Vittorio Pons | Ernest Tottosy | Victor de Stankovich |
1970 |
| Nouvel Europe Magazine (Belgium) Baron de Bonvoisin | Paul vanden Boeynants | Emile Lecerf | Francis Dossogne |
1971 |
| CEPIC (Belgium) Baron de Bonvoisin | Paul vanden Boeynants | Jean-Paul Dumont | Paul Vankerkhoven | Jean Breydel | Jo Gerard | Joseph Franz | Bernard Mercier |
1972 |
| Public Information Office (PIO) Baron de Bonvoisin | Paul vanden Boeynants | Major Jean-Marie Bougerol |
1974 |
| Comite Hongrie (at CEPIC headquarters) Ernest Tottosy | Victor de Stankovich | Emile Lecerf | Florimond Damman | Bernard Mercier | Francis Dessart | |
1977 |
| American-European Strategy Institute / Western Goals Europe Count Huyn | Werner Marx | Gen. Robert Close (WG Belgium) |
1981 |
| Europaeisches Institut fuer Sicherheitsfragen Otto von Habsburg | Leo Tindemans | Kai-Uwe Von Kassel | Gen. Robert Close | Nicholas de Kerchove | Gerhard Lowenthal | Fred Luchsinger | Monique Garnier-Lancon |
1981 |
| Institut Européen pour la Paix et la Sécurité (IEPS) Jacques Jonet | Gen. Robert Close | Paul Vankerkhoven | Nicholas de Kerchove | Brian Crozier | Count Hans Huyn | Gen. Daniel Graham | Gen. Robert Richardson | Wolfgang Reinecke | Jean Gol | Willy De Clercq | Giovanni Spadolini. |
1983 |
| Balmes Foundation & Razon Espanola Federico Silva Munoz | Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora |
1983 |
| National Leadership Roundtable on [Catholic] Church Management Board of directors: Gen. James Dubik (chair) | Betsy Bliss | Charles Geschke (chair Adobe) | Hans Brenninkmeyer | Anthony Brenninkmeyer | Leon Panetta |
2005 |
| B'nai B'rith Philip Klutznick (international president 1953-1959) | Jack J. Spitzer (international president) | Edmond Safra (board of overseers) | Max Fisher (board of overseers) | Edgar M. Bronfman (chair board of overseers) | Chella Safra (in Brazil) | Larry Silverstein (hosted a meeting for B'nai B'rith Real Estate in 2012 in the new 7 WTC building) |
1843 |
| World Zionist Organization Presidents: Theodor Herzl (1897–1904), Otto Warburg (1911–1921) Chaim Weizmann (1921–1931 and 1935–1946), David Ben-Gurion (1946–1956). Tibor Rosenbaum (chair finance committee) |
1897 |
| Zionist Organization of America Awarded: Pat Robertson (2002) | Nina Rosenwald (2003). |
1897 |
| Jewish United Fund (Chicago) Philip M. Klutznick (chair in the 1960s) |
1900 |
| Jewish National Fund Bernard Bloomfield (Canada), brother of Louis B. | Peter Munk (Canada) | Leonid Nevzlin (Israel) | Ronald Lauder |
1901 |
| American Jewish Committee (AJC) Count Otto Lambsdorff (advisory board of AJC's Berlin Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations; non-Jewish, but highly respected in the Jewish community; also on the board of Khodorkovsky's Menatep) | Elliott Abrams |
1906 |
| American Jewish Congress (AJC) Felix Frankfurter | Klutznick (involved in the 1970s and 1980s) | Maurice Tempelsman (trustee, vice president, chair, and chair of AJC's Commission on International Affairs 1980s-1990s) | Phil Baum (chair) | Robert Lifton (president 1988-1994) |
1918 |
| Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Abraham Foxman | Ronald Lauder | Klutznick (vice chair national commission). Centennial celebration (2013): Henry Kissinger | George Shultz | Condoleezza Rice | Colin Powell | Madeleine Albright | Diane von Furstenberg | Elie Wiesel | Giancarlo Elia Valori. |
1913 |
| Joint Distribution Committee, New York Board members: Kissinger | David de Rothschild | Charles Bronfman | Edgar Bronfman | Alan Greenberg | Lord Weidenfeld | Ronald Lauder |
1914 |
| Jewish Agency for Israel Moshe Tov | Edmond de Rothschild | Tibor Rosenbaum | Simcha Dinitz (executive chair) | Mendel Kaplan (chair) | Max Fisher | Leonid Nevzlin | Mikhail Chlenov (governor 1998-2002; committee member since 2006) | Chella Safra (Brazilian representative to the Jewish Agency Board 1986-) | Natan Sharansky executive chair since 2009). Present at a meeting of Jewish Agency governors: Charles Bronfman, Edmond Safra. |
1929 |
| World Jewish Congress (WJC) Nahum Goldman (president 1949-1977) | Philip Klutznick (president 1977-1979) | Tibor Rosenbaum (former treasurer) | Edgar M. Bronfman (president 1979-2007) | Matthew Bronfman (chair governing board 2007-2009) | Eduardo Elsztain (became chair of the governing board in 2009) | Baron David de Rothschild (chair governing board since May 2013) | Chella Safra (treasurer since May 2013; sister-in-law of Edmond S.) | Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich (vice president since May 2013) | Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (chair policy council since May 2013) | Yuri Kanner (vice president since may 2013) | Ronald Lauder (president since 2007) | Mikhail Chlenov (vice president) | Mark Shabad (general council member) | Avi Beker (secretary general) | Vladimir Gusinsky (elected vice president in 2000; had a meeting with Clinton at the WJC in September 2000; in June 2000 Clinton, while on his way to visit Putin, first called in to Gusinsky's NTV network, angering the Russian president) |
1936 |
| YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York City Bruce Slovin (chair) | Martin Peretz (long time trustee) | Baron David de Rothschild (guest of honor at a 2012 meeting) |
1940 |
| American Zionist Emergency Council Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver (co-chair) | Stephen Wise (co-chair) |
1939-1949 |
| Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London (moderate) Jacob Rothschild (president) |
1941 |
| Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) | 1944 |
| Sonneborn "Institute"/network David Ben-Gurion | Rudolf Sonneborn (founder, married a granddaughter of Jacob Schiff) | Abe Feinberg | Louis Bloomfield |
1947 |
| American Zionist Council (AZC) Louis Lipsky (chairman 1950s) | Moses Epstein (vice chair 1950s) | Si Kenen (head of the Washington, D.C. branch 1951-1953) |
1949 |
| American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Si Kenen (founder and head) | Larry and Barbi Weinberg (president and vice president) | Morris Amitay (executive director) | Indyk (deputy research director) | Robert H. Asher (president) | Nina Rosenwald (director) | Klutznick (known to have at the very least corresponded intensely with AIPAC between 1975-1985 and to be close to Asher) | Lewis Eisenberg (director 1998-2003; remained an ordinary member) | Patrick Clawson (director of research) |
1953 |
| American-Israel Society Morris Bram (founder) | Ambassador Abba Eban (1950s; ambassador to the U.S. 1950-1959; deputy PM 1963-1966; foreign affairs minister 1966-1974) | Klutznick (interaction between 1965 and 1990) |
1954 |
| Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CPMAJO) Nahum Goldman (key founder) | Philip Klutznick (key founder and president until 1961) | Malcolm Hoenlein | Ronald Lauder | Mortimer Zuckerman (chair 2001-2003) |
1956 |
| LEKEM/LAKAM Benjamin Blumberg | Rafi Eitan | Arnon Milchan (billionaire Hollywood movie producer, including Once Upon a Time in America, Under Siege, JFK and Fight Club; recruited as an agent by Peres; helped acquire uranium for Israel) |
1957 |
| Rothschild Foundation (England) / Yad Hanadiv (Israel) Jacob Rothschild (chair/patron since 1989) |
1958 |
| Israel-America Chamber of Commerce | 1965 |
| Jerusalem Foundation Teddy Kollek (founder, also US and UK trustee; ran Haganah/Mossad operations in the US with Reuven Shiloah) | Dan Meridor (international chair) | Mark Sofer (president) | Charles R. Bronfman (Canadian president, later honorary) | Neri J. Bloomfield (Canadian trustee) | Harry J. F. Bloomfield and Evelyn Bloomfield Schachter (Canadian trustees) | Alan Hassenfeld (US chair; CEO of Hasbro toys) | Max Kampelman (US chair emeritus) | Alan Greenberg (US director) | John Whitehead (US director, later emeritus) | Frans Alting von Geusau (Dutch chair, later honorary; SMOM) | Lester Crown (US trustee) | Robert de Rothschild (US trustee ) | John Deutch (US trustee 1990s) | Michael Ledeen (in the 1980s he spent time in Israel with financial aid of the foundation) | Lord Weidenfeld (UK trustee). Desmarais family (among the Canadian financiers) |
1966 |
| Canadian Zionist Federation (CZF) Bernard Bloomfield (president), brother of Louis B. | Neri Bloomfield (first female president) | Thomas Hecht (vice president) |
1967 |
| European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC) Vadim Rabinovich (vice president since 2008) |
1968 |
| Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Benjamin Netanyahu (contributor to studies; PM) | Gen. Uzi Dayan (contributor to studies; nephew of Moshe Dayan) | Gen. Moshe Yaalon. Nina Rosenwald (member). |
1976 |
| Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) Winifred Weiselman (founder) | Nina Rosenwald (director). |
1982 |
| Solntsevskaya Bratva (Zionist-Russian oligarch mafia) Reported leaders: Sergey Mikhailov | Viktor Averin | Semion Mogilevich. Very closely connected to these leaders (often accused of being members): Robert Maxwell | Edmond Safra | Vadim Rabinovich | Pyotr Aven | Mikhail Fridman | German Khan | Oleg Deripaska | Alisher Usmanov | Andrei Skoch | Lev Kvetnoy | Roman Abramovich | Anatoly Chubais | Michael Cherney | Yury Luzhkov | Vladimir Yevtushenkov | Evgeny Novitsky | Xavier Magnee (named as a Russian mob intermediary; lawyer for Mikhailov, Marc Dutroux, VdB, BdB, various strategy of tension and Agusta scandal figures; also good at promoting disinfo). (Rothschild family is close to various people in this list) Closely related: ATLAS dossier link between Boris Nayfeld, Riccardo Fancini, Mike Brandwein and Maurice Tempelsman. Also: reports of historical ties to the mafia of Lester Crown and the Bronfman family. |
mid-1980s |
| Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies Among two dozen listed co-founders: Lester Crown | Charles Bronfman | Baron Edmond de Rothschild | Cyrus Vance. The boards of the institute are completely staffed by Israelis. Also: Martin Indyk (visiting scholar) | Shimon Shamir (staffer) |
1985 |
| Jewish Policy Center (JPC) Decter | Kristol | Ledeen | Medved | Daniel Pipes | Podhoretz | Shoshana Bryen |
1985 |
| Republican Jewish Coalition (formerly: National Jewish Coalition) Sam Fox (chair) | Lewis Eisenberg (director) | |
1985 |
| Ir David Foundation Elie Wiesel (chairman) |
1986 |
| UJA Federation of New York Klutznick (general chair United Jewish Appeal until 1961) | Edgar Bronfman | Edmond Safra | Max Fisher | Larry Silverstein (chair in the 1990s and listed as a honorary director today) | Rupert Murdoch | Alan Greenberg (life benefactor, along with his wife). Also: Baron David de Rothschild (chair of United Jewish Appeal France) |
1986 |
| European Jewish Congress Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (president since 2007) | Vladimir Slutsker (vice president in 2005) |
1986 |
| Zionist Forum (Soviet Jewry Zionist Forum) Natan Sharansky (founder) |
1988 |
| Israel Council on Foreign Relations David Kimche (founder and president until his death in 2010) | Avi Primor (president) | Dan Meridor (president 2014-) | Indyk (speech in 1997): Speakers: James Wolfensohn | Karel Schwarzenberg | Victor Yushchenko | Frans Timmermans | Jimmy Carter | Joschka Fischer. |
1989 |
| "Mega Group" / "Study Group" Members: Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | Charles Bronfman | Lester Crown | Max Fisher | Michael Steinhardt | Leslie Wexner | Steven Spielberg | Harvey Meyerhoff | Laurence Tisch | Leonard Abramson | Charles Schusterman | Marvin Lender. |
1991 |
| Israeli Policy Forum (IPF) Directors: Peter Joseph (chair) | Robert Lifton (president) | Charles Bronfman. Advisory council: Thomas Dine | Marshall Breger | Edward Walker, Jr. | Robert Pelletreau. Program director: David Halperin. |
1993 |
| Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies International advisory board, Canada and England (2002): Thomas Hecht (founder and chairman - still in 2014) | Robert Hecht (still in 2014) | Marion Hecht (still in 2014) | Neri Bloomfield | Sir Robert Rhodes James | International advisory board, United States (2002): Gen. Alexander Haig | Sen. Daniel Moynihan | Brian Mulroney | Eugene Rostow | Sen. Joseph Lieberman (still in 2014) | Robert Lifton (still in 2014) Brian Mulroney (still in 2014) International Academic Advisory Board: John J. Mearsheimer (2002) | Eliot Cohen (2014). International advisory board , Israel (2002): Yuval Neeman | Gen. Ori Orr | Yitzhak Shamir | Gen. Dan Shomron | Moshe Arens (still in 2014) | Shlomo Hillel | Gen. Mordechai Hod | | Gen. Daniel Matt |
1993 |
| Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes (president) | David Steinmann (treasurer) | Ziad Abdelnour | Elliott Abrams (Signatory of a 2000 report urging action against Syria) | Nina Rosenwald |
1994 |
| Shalem Center Yoram Hazony (founder; Netanyahu's ghose writer) | Natan Sharansky (fellow) | Gen. Moshe Yaalon (fellow) Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies (2007): Sheldon Adelson (financier of $4.5 million) | Natan S. (founder and chair until 2009) |
1994 |
| Peres Center for Peace See liberal establishment-Israel relations section. Extremely high level. |
1996 |
| Russian Jewish Congress Directors from 2003 list: Vladimir Gusinsky (president 1996-2001) | Leonid Nevzlin (president 2001-2003) | Vladimir Slutsker (president 2004-2005) | Viacheslav Moshe Kantor (president 2005-2009) | Yuri Kanner (president) | Mikhail Fridman | German Khan | Yakov Urinson | Andrei Rappoport | Leonid Melamed | Alex Knaster | Igor Linshits | Vitaly Malkin | Vitaly Mashitsky | Mikhail Mirilashvili | Vadim Moshkovich | Henri Reznik | Vitaly Ginzburg | Pavel Feldblum | Gennady Khazanov | Mikhail Chlenov | Mark Shabad | David Yakobashvili | Alexander Chigirinskiy | Yevgenia Albats | Andrey Kozyrev | Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt | Mikhail Simonov | Yuri Kanner | Viktor Chernomyrdin (speech in 1997) | Sam Nunn (present in 1997) |
1996 |
| International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) Shabtai Shavit (co-founder and chairman; former Mossad head) | Danny Yatom (former Mossad head) | Carmi Gillon and Amy Ayalon (former Shabak heads) | Daniel Pipes (conference visitor and speaker) | Gen. Danny Rothschild (conference visitor) |
1996 |
| All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress (UJC) Vadim Rabinovich (chair since 1998) | Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich (conflicted with Rabinovich along with other Jewish leaders in Ukraine) | Victor Pinchuk (financier) |
1997 |
| Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) Co-founders: Col. Yigal Carmon (Israeli military intelligence) and Meyrav Wurmser (Israeli-born, American political scientist). Directors and advisory board members: Oliver Revell (former FBI C-I chief) | Elliott Abrams | Elie Wiesel | Hayden | Rumsfeld | Jose Maria Aznar | James Woolsey | Bolton | Ashcroft | Ehud Barak | Mortimer Zuckerman | Norman Podhoretz | Deborah Lipstadt (Holocaust researcher) | Yehuda Bauer (holocaust researcher) | Christopher DeMuth | Paul Bremer | Lord Weidenfeld | Herb London | Holbrooke | Jack Kemp | Kirkpatrick | Irving Kristol | Max Kampelman. |
1998 |
| United Jewish Communities (UJC) "Lunch with a Legend" guests: Larry Silverstein | Charles Bronfman | Lester Crown. |
1999 |
| United Jewish Community of Ukraine Vadim Rabinovich (president 1999-2009; vice president since then) | Igor Kolomoisky (president since 2012) |
1999 |
| E.U.-Israel Forum Lord Weidenfeld (vice chair since 2002, later chair). Speakers: Shimon Peres | Silvan Shalom | Joschka Fischer |
1999 |
| Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia Mikhail Chlenov (president since 1992) | Roman Abramovich (trustee chair) |
1999 |
| Taglit - Birthright Israel Founders and key financiers: Charles Bronfman | Michael Steinhardt. Others key financiers: Edgar Bronfman | Sheldon Adelson | Daniel Och | Lynn Schusterman | Israeli government (25%). |
1999 |
| Fondation pour le Mémoire de la Shoah (FMS), Paris Simone Veil (honorary president; Auschwitz survivor) | Baron David de Rothschild (president) | Eric Rothschild (board member) U.S. Shoah Foundation: Susan Crown, daughter of Lester C. (chair) |
2000 |
| Herzliya Conference (IPS) Gen. Danny Rothschild. 2007 conference speakers/panelists: Aznar | Matthew Bronfman | Nicholas Burns | Newt Gingrich | Rudolph Giuliani | Lord Guthrie | Malcolm Hoenlein | Robert Hunter | Bruce Jackson | Ronald Lauder | John McCain III | Dan Meridor | Benjamin Netanyahu | Ehud Olmert | Shimon Peres | Richard Perle | Thomas Pickering | Mitt Romney. 2012 conference speakers/panelists: Ehud Barak | Robert Blackwill | Kissinger | Niall Ferguson | Jacob Frenkel | Francois Heisbourg | Ban Ki-moon | Vyacheslav Nikonov | Karel Schwarzenberg | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | James Woolsey | Zakheim | Zoellick. |
2000 |
| One Jerusalem Co-founders: Douglas Feith | Natan Sharansky | David Bar-Illan | Baroness Cox | Nancy Montgomery | Michael Siegal | Ron Silver |
2000 |
| World Congress of Bukharian Jews (WCBJ) Lev Leviev (president) | Ben Binyaminov (vice president) Visitors: Lev Nektalov, Raphael Nektalov, David Gurevich, Avi Miel. |
2000 |
| Michael Cherney Foundation | 2001 |
| Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) Alexander Mashkevitch (founder; president 2002-2011; Kazakh-Israeli nationality; billionaire natural resources explorer) | Mikhail Chlenov (founding secretary general) | Vitaly Mashitsky (vice president) | Mark Shabad (vice president) | Rabbi Pinkhas Goldschmidt (vice president) | Yuri Kanner (present at meetings) |
2002 |
| Jihad Watch Robert Spencer (head; appears to be a Catholic Jew from the Intelligence Summit) |
2003 |
| Jerusalem Summit Key founders: Michael Cherney and John Loftus. Paul Vallely (speaker in 2004). 1st summit participants, 2003: Ehud Olmert | Benyamin Netanyahu | Avigdor Lieberman | Dr. Uzi Landau (Israel's Minister for the Strategic Cooperation between US and Israel) | Congressman Eliot Engel | Richard Perle | Daniel Pipes | Alan Keyes (religious leader and former ambassador) | Avi Beker (secretary general WJC) | Mike Evans (president Jerusalem Prayer Team) | Frank Gaffney | Sergei Filatov (president Congress of Russian Intelligentsia) 2nd summit, Nov. 2004, Jerusalem’s King David Hotel: Daniel P. | Xu Xin (Center for Jewish Studies, China ) | Gen. Mansour Abu Rashid, former head of Jordanian intelligence | Amb. Sonmez Koksal, former Turkish intelligence chief | Ana de Palacio, Spanish foreign minister in Aznar's government | G. Parthasarathy, former Pakistani high commissioner to India | Shabtai Shavit, former Mossad head | vice premier and foreign affairs minister Silvan Shalom | Gen. Isaac Ben-Israel (IAF) | Gen. Yaacov Amidror (IDF) | Jerusalem mayor Uri Lupolianski. |
2003 |
| Intelligence Summit Key founders: Mikhail Cherney and John Loftus. Robert Katz (executive director). Clare Lopez (vice president). Advisory council 2005: Gen. Paul Vallely | Gen. Thomas McInerney | James Woolsey | John Deutch | Pauline Neville-Jones | Yoram Hessel ("former Senior Mossad Officer") | Col. Oded Shoham (IDF). Others: Richard Marcinko | Robert Spencer | Mossad, CIA, MI6 people. 2005 INTELCON advisory board: Robert Baer | Jamie Gorelick | Slade Gorton | Michael Ledeen | Daniel Pipes. Speakers: Conrad Black | Frank Gaffney |
2004 (+/-) |
| Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) Founders: Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | Leonard Abramson | Michael Steinhardt | Israeli Foreign Ministry (founding co-financier) | Malcolm Hoenlein (founding consultant) | Abraham Foxman (founding consultant). Advisory board: Ariel Cohen | Frank Gaffney | Daniel Pipes | Jeane Kirkpatrick | James Woolsey | Dr. Meyrav Wurmser | Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld | Alex Grobman | Ambassador Yossi Ben-Aharon | Ambassador Yoram Ettinger. |
2005 |
| World Holocaust Forum Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (founder and chair). Present at founding: Putin, Moshe Katsav, Cheney. Second meeting: Viktor Yushchenko. |
2005 |
| European Jewish Fund Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (founder and chairman) | Mikhail Fridman | German Khan |
2006 |
| Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Frank Lowy (co-founder and founding chairman) | Martin Indyk (founding director) | Mortimer Zuckerman (founding trustee) | Nina Rosenwald (director) |
2006 |
| Genesis Philanthropy Group, Moscow Founders: Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven | Alexander Knaster (chair) | Benjamin Netanyahu and Natan Sharansky (both helped in setting up Genesis Prize in 2009) |
2007 |
| Tomorrow: The Israel Presidential Conferences Founder: Shimon Peres. Trustees 2009 conferences: The Jewish Agency for Israel (co-chair) | Aharon G. Frenkel (co-chair) | Victor Pinchuk (co-chair) | Daniel Abittan | Daniel Abraham | Alfred Akirov | Philippe Amon | Jo Benhamou | Pierre Besnainou | Alexander Bronshtein | Nochi Dankner | Dan David | Lev Leviev | Baron David de Rothschild | Shlomo Eliyahu | Vladimir Gusinsky (also trustee of the 2008 conference) | Maurice Hatchwell Toledano | Marcos David Katz | Berl Katznelson Foundation | Yossi Maiman | Alexander Machkevitch | Antonio Moura Santos | Leonid Nevzlin | Marc Rich Foundation | Sami Sagol | Leslie Wexner | Chaim Zabludowicz. Speakers 2008: Yaakov Amidror, Jose Maria Aznar (also in 2009), George W. Bush, Ehud Barak (also in 2009), Tony Blair, Matthew Bronfman (also in 2009), James Wolfensohn (also in 2009 and 2011), Martin Indyk (also in 2009 and 2011), Mikhail Gorbachev (panel member 2008), Rupert Murdoch (2008 panel member), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (2008 panel member), Henry Kissinger (panel member and speaker in 2012) | Leonid Kuchma (also in 2009), Edward Luttwak (also in 2009), Marlies Leegwater (coordinator Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and coordinator here of internationalisation higher education since 2010), Benyamin Netanyahu (also in 2009 and 2011), Susan Rice (also in 2009), Baron David de Rothschild (also in 2009), Mortimer Zuckerman (also in 2009). Speakers 2009 (extra): Elliott Abrams (also in 2011), Tony Blair. Speakers 2011 (extra): Meir Dagan (also in 2012), Jacob Frenkel (also in 2012), Niall Ferguson (also in 2012), Abraham Foxman, Lord Peter Goldsmith, Malcolm Hoenlein (also in 2012), Larry Summers, Robert Wexler. Speakers 2011 (extra): Richard Haass |
2008 |
| European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR) Moshe Kantor (co-chair) | Jose-Maria Aznar | Igor Ivanov |
2008 |
| European Jewish Union (EJU) Founded by: Vadim Rabinovich (vice president) and Igor Kolomoisky (president since 2012) |
2011 |
| Gatestone Institute James Woolsey (founding chair) | Nina Rosenwald (founding president; anti-Muslim financier; brought anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders to the U.S. in 2008) | Eli Wiesel (director; holocaust survivor) | Daniel Pipes ("contributor"; participated in a conference) | Douglas Feith ("contributor") | Steven Rosen ("contributor"; AIPAC director) | |
2011 (+/-) |
| European Jewish Parliament (EJP) Founded by: Vadim Rabinovich (co-chair) and Igor Kolomoisky |
2012 |
| Russian Geographical Society Trustees (2013): Sergei Shoigu (president; governor of the Moscow region) | Pyotr Aven (Alfa Group) | Vagit Alekperov | Viktor Vekselberg | Gromov Alexei (Putin aide) | Boris Gryzlov (chair State Duma and Putin crony) | Oleg Deripaska (top oligarch) | Evgeny Dod (chair RusHydro) | Alexander Dyukov (chair Gazprom) | Vladimir Yevtushenkov (chair Sistema) | Yuri Luzhkov (mayor of Moscow 1992-2010) | Magomed Magomedov (chair Kardo-Alliance) | Alexey Miller (chair Gazprom) | Vladimir Potanin (top oligarch) | Vladimir Pronichev (Federal Security Service) | Mikhail Prokhorov (top oligarch) | Vitaly Savelyev (general director Aeroflot) | Victor Sadovnichy (rector Moscow State University) | Sergei Sobyanin (mayor of Moscow) | Vladimir Strzhalkovsky (chair Norilsk Nickel) | Gennady Timchenko (top oligarch) | Alisher Usmanov (top oligarch) | Sergey Chemezov (head Russian Technologies State Corporation) | Prince Albert II of Monaco | Frederik Paulsen (chair Ferring Pharmaceuticals) | Robert Dudley (CEO BP). Visitors: Putin |
1845 |
| Institute of World Economy and International Affairs (later IMEMO) | 1925-1948 |
| Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) Very elite. Many names here studied at this institute. | Alexander Nikitin (director Center for Euro-Atlantic Security of MGIMO) | Alexei Bogaturov (in 2006 set up the Department of Applied International Analysis within MGIMO) | Victor Kuvaldin (political history professor) Trustees (2013): Sergei Lavrov (chair), Vladimir Potanin (deputy chair), Alisher Usmanov (deputy chair), Alexander Avdeev (ambassador to the Vatican), Andrey Kostin, Mikhail Kuzovlev (president-chairman Bank of Moscow), Alexander Lebedev (KGB; $3.1 b.; shareholder in Sberbank, Gazprom, RAO UES, Ilyushin Finance, Aeroflot, and since 2006, Novaya Gazeta; closed down Moskovski Korrespondent for spreading a rumor about Putin; suspects he was poisoned in 2006 for publishing Litvinenko's theories; owner London Evening Standard and the Independent; close friend of Gorbachev), Evgeny Primakov, Sergei Prikhodko, Alexey Pushkov, Victor Cherkesov, Sergey Yastrzhembsky. |
1944 |
| Kapustin Yar (The USSR's most secret base, comparable to Area 51) General Vasily Voznyuk (supervised creation of the site; 1906-1976) |
1946 |
| Soviet Committee for the Defense of Peace (Soviet Peace Committee) Yevgeny Primakov (first deputy chair; KGB/SVR chief 1991-95; Russian foreign affairs minister 1996-98; Russian PM 1998-99) | Mikhail Kotov | Oleg Kharkhardin | Alisher Usmanov (at the committee's Foreign Economic Association) |
1949-1991 |
| Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences Yevgeny Primakov (educated here; director 1977-85) | Gennady Chufrin (deputy head 1979-1997) | Mikhail Piotrovsky |
1950 |
| Russian (version of the) United Nations Association Anatoly Torkunox (chairman) | Alexei Arbatov | Sergei Rogov |
1956 |
| Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) Yevgeny Primakov (deputy director 1970-77; director 1985-89)| (has a Ukrainian counterpart, established in 1991) | Alexander Medvedev (1978-1989; KGB rumors; later deputy chair Gazprom under old friend and reported KGB reporter Andrey Akimov) | Oleg Bykov | Vladimir Gantman | Gennady Chufrin (director) | Sergei Oznobishchev (section head) | Vladimir Baranovsky (deputy director; at France's IFRI council) | Alexander Dynkin (deputy director) | Aleksei Arbatov (director) | Vyacheslav Trubnikov | Victor Kuvaldin |
1957 |
| Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies (ISKRAN) Dr. Georgy Arbatov (founder and head 1965-1995; protege of KGB chief Yuri Andropov; politburo-KGB liason; father of Alexei) | Sergei Rogov (head 1995-today) | Sergei Oznobishchev (from fellow to director of ISKRAN's Center for National Security 1973-1996) | Andrey Kortunov (deputy director and head Foreign Policy Department) | Gen. Boris Surikov | Anton Surikov (military strategist; in 1996 pro-Baltic invasion and nuclear deterrent) | Alexei Bogaturov (deputy director) | Aleksandr Kislov | Andrei Kokoshin | Viktor Kremenyuk (deputy director Foreign Policy and Domestic Policies) |
1967 |
| Russian Foreign Policy Association Sergei Rogov (director) | Alexander Bessmertnykh (chair) | Sergei Kortunov (vice president) | Alexander Bessmertnykh (chair) |
Unknown |
| Centre for Research into Communist Economies (CRCE) Established as a project of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), London, and focused on promoting Hayek and Friedman in eastern Europe and the Societ Union. Hungary meeting: Friedrich von Hayek (founding honorary president) | Sir Anthony Fisher (founding trustee chair 1983-1988; died in 1988) | Ljubo Sirc (founding trustee) | Lord Ralph Harris (founding trustee; trustee chair since 1988; trustee until his death in 2006) | Lisl Biggs-Davison (administrative director since about 1986, invited by Harris; daughter of MI6 asset John Sir John Biggs-Davison) 1988 Hungarian conference: these men first met with Anatoly Chubais here and within a year also with Yegor Gaidar and "practically all the reformers in the Soviet Union". |
1983 |
| Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences Smelyev Nikolay Petrovich (long time director; Gorbachev advisor) | Karaganov (deputy director) | Andrei Kokoshin (chief scientist) |
1987 |
| Centre for Political and International Studies (CPIS) Alexander Nikitin (head) |
1989 |
| International Center for Research into Economic Transformation (ICRET), Moscow Lord Ralph Harris (chair) | Yegor Gaidar (contact; brought over to London for a speech) | Konstantin Kagalovsky (contact) |
1990 |
| Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy / Inst. for the Economy in Transition Yegor Gaidar (founder and director/head until his death in 2009) | Victor Mau (deputy director; Assistant to the prime minister on economic policy) | Andrei Nechayev (became minister of economics) | Vladimir Mashchits (became minister of CIS relations) | Pyotr Aven (became minister of international economic affairs) | Leonid Grigoryev (went to the World Bank, head Committee on Foreign Investment) | Sergei Vasilyev (became head Center for Economic Reform) | Sergey Prikhodko (executive director in later years; deputy prime minister since 2013) | Board of Guardians anno 2013: Aleksey Kudrin (chair), German Gref and Anatoly Chubais. Anno 2013: Cooperates with the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Stanford, MIT, the National Bureau of Economic Research, UCLA and other international institutes. |
1990 |
| Russian Political Science Association (RPSA) Alexander Nikitin (president) | Sergei Oznobishchev (vice-president) |
1991 |
| Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) Arkady Volsky (confidant of Gorbachev) | Aleksandr Shokhin (deputy prime minister CIS; Lukoil; governor IMF & World Bank) | Igor Yurgens (vice president) | Anatoly Chubais (no. 1 privatizer in Russia) | David Yakobashvili | Vladimir Yevtushenkov | Pyotr Aven | Andrey Kostin | Putin (2000) |
1991 |
| Russian National Committee, Asia-Pacific Council on Security Coop. Gennady Chufrin |
1992 |
| Center for National Security and International Relations Sergei Oznobishchev (chair 1992-1996) | Sergei Rogov (president) |
1992 (+/-) |
| Institute for National Security and Strategic Studies (INBSP) Serguei Blagovolin (president; member Russia's presidential council) |
1992 |
| Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS) Yevgeni Kozhokin (director) | Leonid Reshetnikov (director) | Victor Surikov (apparently a founding member) | Vladimir Novikov (leading research officer) |
1992 |
| Russian Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation Vladimir Baranovsky (vice president) |
1992 |
| Institute for Defense Studies (INOBIS) Yuri Maslyukov (co-founder; defense industry minister in the USSR; as first deputy PM under Yeltsin 1998-1999, Anton Surikov was his spokesperson) | Victor M. Surikov (founding head) | Anton Surikov (advisor) |
1992 |
| Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP) Vitaly Shlykov (founder: GRU spy; deputy defense minister under Yeltsin) | Sergei Karaganov (founding vice-chair; chair; Gorbachev, Yeltsin & Putin advisor; close to Sergei Prikhodko, Putin's foreign policy advisor 2000-2008 & later chief of staff; primitive, not particularly humanistic mindset) | Sergei Oznobishchev (chair) | Alexei Arbatov (chair) | Fyodor Lukyanov (chair) | Vyacheslav Nikonov | Sergey Brilev (deputy director & anchor Channel Rossiya) | more from a Oct. 25, 1999 list: Arkay Volsky | Yuli Vorontsov (deputy sec.-gen. UN; head of Iraq-Kuwait negotiations) | Mikhail Delyagin | Major-General Vagif Guseinov (bio reads: "board of directors... Joint-Stock Financial Corporation "Sistema"; also: director of AFK Sistema analytical center, Moscow 1995-96) | Maj.-Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin (head 4th Central Research Institute, Ministry of Defence since 1993; nuclear expert) | Alexander Dynkin | Alexander Zdanowicz (FSB's head of public relations) | Yevgeny Kiselyov (chief anchor and general director of NTV, owned by oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky; backed by all other oligarchs in his support for Yeltsin and loathing of Putin) | Andrei Kokoshin | Alexei Kondaurov (KGB general; head analyst YUKOS and Bank Menatep) | Sergei Prikhodko (foreign policy advisor to Yeltsin, Medvedev and Putin; deputy PM and chief of staff to Putin since 2013; director Tactical Missiles Corp. and Sukhoi) | Primakov (SVOP was one of his primary brain trusts; served on the board for years) | (dozens of other council members in 2000 represent various aspects of the military, government, banking and corporations. Less members as time went on.). 2001 list: Anatoly Adamishina (ambassador; VP Sistema) | Nikolai Mikhailov (director Sistema) | Leonid Parfyonov (NTV achorman; editor in chief Newsweek Russia) | Sergei Yushenkov (vice chair State Duma Committee on Security; critic of Chechen war and skeptic of Moscow bombings; murdered in April 2003) 2011 list: Ilya Ponomarev (among over a hundred board members) |
1992 |
| Russian-Ukrainian Forum Sergei Karaganov (co-chair 1992-2002; grandson of Stalin's foreign minister; taught at Caltech) | Putin (speech in 2001) | Medvedev (visitor in 2011) | Viktor Yanukovych (visitor in 2011) | |
1992 (+/-) |
| Polity Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov (president since 1993) |
1993 |
| Carnegie Moscow Center Vyacheslav Nikonov | Sergei Karaganov (advisor) | Andrey Kortunov | Thierry de Montbrial | Alexei Arbatov (scholar in residence) | Dmitri Trenin | |
1993 |
| Presidential Council (government body) | 1993 |
| Russian Center for Policy Studies (PIR Center) Alexei Arbatov | Andrey Kortunov | Alexander Nikitin | Vladimir Novikov | Yuri Fedorov |
1994 |
| Institute of Globalization Studies (IPROG) (anti-Putin) Mikhail Delyagin (founding head until April 2002; advisor to deputy PM Yuri Maslyukov, for whom Anton Surikov was spokesman, and PM Primakov in 1999; advisor to pro-oligarch PM Mikhail Kasyanov 2002-2003) | Boris Kagarlitsky (head since April 2002, at the recommendation of Surikov; left-wing activist; head political section Novaya Gazeta; contributor to The Nation) | Anton Surikov (listed as staff member 2004-05) | Alexei Kondaurov (KGB general; head analyst/security department of Khodorkovsky's YUKOS and Bank Menatep; very rich; SVOP; Communist Party Duma member; reported financier IPROG) | Heydar Dzhahidovich (Islamic leader) | Anatoly Baranov (coordinator of media projects) | Ilya Ponomarev (YUKOS employee; Open Russia Fdn.; anti-Putin communist Duma member) |
1995 |
| Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC), Kiev Victor Pinchuk (honorary chair) | Anders Aslund (co-chair) | Regina Yan (co-chair) | Yuriy Yekhanurov (director; Ukrainian PM and defense minister under Viktor Yushchenko). Partners include the Ford Fdn, the Eurasia Fdn, the World Bank, Soros' Open Society Institute, Greenberg's Starr Foundation and the Citicorp Foundation. |
1995 |
| Brussels International Banking Club (BIBC) Alexander Livshits (president 2000-2001) |
1996 |
| Association of Financial and Industrial Groups of Russia Oleg Soskovets (long-time founding president) |
1997 |
| Russian-Chinese Committee of Friendship, Peace and Development Arkady Volsky (Russian chair) | Shaolei Feng | Ilya Klebanov (Russian minister of industry, science and technology; and also military industries) | supported by Putin and Hu Jintao. |
1997 |
| St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) Putin | Medvedev | Igor Sechin (Rosneft) | Igor Demin (Transneft) | Alexei Miller (Gazprom) | Alexei Kudrin | Vladimir Semashko (Belarus) | Georgy Poltavchenko (St. Petersburg governor) | Suleiman Kerimov (major oligarch) | Oleg Deripaska (major oligarch) | Gennady Timchenko (major oligarch) | Alisher Usmanov (major oligarch) | Andrei Komarov (minor oligarch) | Ziyavudin Magomedov (oligarch; with Transneft controls Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port) | Bo Andersson | Barry Salzberg | Artem Volynets | Anton Siluanov | James Turley | Hu Bing | Artem Volynets | Pascal Lamy | Dominique Strauss-Kahn | Vladimir Dmitriev | Ivan Glasenberg | Michael Corbat | Peter Mandelson | John Chambers | Herman Gref | Mark Rutte | Ryan Chilcote | Andrey Kostin | Frederic Oudea | Farhad Moshiri | Tharman Shanmugaratnam | Frederic Oudea |
1997 |
| Centre for Strategic Research Herman Gref | Aleksei Kudrin (neoliberal economics minister) | Putin (visited on occasion; centre was assigned to write a plan to reform Russia's economy) |
1999 |
| Institute of International Security Affairs (IPMB) Andrei Kokoshin (founder) | Alexei Bogaturov (deputy director) | Alexei Fenenko (fellow) |
1999 |
| Institute of Strategic Studies and Analysis (ISSA - Journal of Intel.) Major-General Vagif Guseinov (Head of Azerbaijan's KGB 1989-92; head since 2000 and chief editor of the magazine) | Sergei Oznobishchev (director and editorial board) | |
2000 |
| International Foundation for Civil Liberties, New York City (IFCL) The recently exiled Boris Berezovsky (founder and financier) |
2000 |
| Window into Russia, Social Responsibility in Business meeting, Moscow Michael Carter (World Bank since 1972; World Bank director for Moscow 1995-2001; Rusnano) | Alexander Zhukov (State Duma Budget Committee) | Vladimir Potanin | Khodorkovsky | Vyacheslav Shtyrov | Yuri Maslyukov (they met with unknown representatives of 50 large corporations of Russia, Great Britain, and Holland) |
Nov. 25, 2000 |
| Center for the National Glory of Russia Vladimir Yakunin (chair) | Sergei Ivanov |
2001 |
| Russian-Arab Business Council (RABC) Primakov (primary founder) | Vladimir Yevtushenkov (Russian chair; chair Sistema JFC) | Anatoly Chubais (listed a member, not supreme council) |
2002 |
| Russia in Global Affairs (co-founded by SVOP) Vladimir Potanin (trustee chair; oligarch worth almost $20 billion)| Ruben Vardanian (trustee) | Sergei Karaganov (chair) | Vyacheslav Nikonov (deputy chairman) | Fyodor Lukyanov (chief editor)| Vladimir Pozner (president President Russian Television Academy) | Yevgeny Primakov | Fred Bergsten | Thierry de Montbrial | Helmut Kohl | James F. Hoge Jr. (CFR's Foreign Affairs editor) | Graham Allison (Belfer Center, Harvard) | Alexei Bogaturov (contributing author) |
2002 |
| Council for National Strategy Apparently set up by the Kremlin to attack Khodorkovsky. Stanislav Belkovsky (founder and head). |
2002 |
| Unity for Russia Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov (president) | Sergei Naryshkin (chair) |
2003 |
| National Strategy Institute Stanislav Belkovsky (founder and head; marginalized Putin's and Russia's power and claimed Putin had amassed a private fortune of $40 billion) |
2004 |
| Yalta European Strategy (YES), Ukraine Victor Pinchuk (key founder and board member) |
2004 |
| New Eurasia Foundation Andrey Kortunov (founder and president) |
2004 |
| Valdai International Discussion Club (co-founded by SVOP) Sergei Karaganov | Tim Colton (Harvard's Belfer Center) | Shaolei Feng | Toby Trister Gati (advisor to Clinton on Russia, Ukraine and Eurasian states) | Andrew Kuchins (director of Russia and Eurasian programs at CSIS) | Sergei Rogov | Savid Hearst (The Guardian) | Sergei Oznobishchev ("contributor") | Vagif Guseinov ("contributor") | Putin | Dmitry Medvedev |
2004 |
| MINEX Forum conferences, Moscow Oleg Soskovets (speaker) |
2005 |
| Foundation for Democracy in Russia (U.S.-based) / The Other Russia (anti-Putin coalition) Key people: Mikhail Kasyanov | Mikhail Delyagin | Andrei Illarionov | Garry Kasparov |
2006-2010 |
| Institute of Contemporary Development (INSOR) Dmitry Medvedev (founder) | Igor Yurgens (trustee chair) | Ilya Ponomarev (director) |
2008 |
| The Russia Forum ("Russian DAVOS") Ruben Vardanian (primary founder) | Sergei Sobyanin (Moscow mayor) | Zeljko Bogetic (lead economist for Russia, World Bank) | Joseph Stiglitz (U.S. economist; Rockefeller-clique) | Richard Branson | Paul Wolfowitz | Alan Greenspan | Stephen Sackur (BBC journalist) | Sergey Brilev | Fyodor Andreyev (ALROSA mining) | Anatoly Chubais (free market reformer under Yeltsin; RAO UES) | Sergei Shvetsov (Central Bank of Russia) | Sergey Kravchenko (Boeing Russia) | Putin. (all major banking, retail, infrastructure, utility, media, mining and oil companies are invited: Sberbank, Gazprom, Rosneft, Highland Gold Mining, Petropavlovsk, Metalloinvest, Uranium One, MMK Group and dozens of others) |
2008 |
| Eurasian Business Council Oleg Soskovets (chair) | Mikhail Slipenchuk (chair) |
2008 |
| Yaroslavl Global Policy Forum (GPF) Medvenev | Berlusconi | Romano Prodi | Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama | South Korean President Lee Myung-bak | Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero | French Prime Minister Francois Fillon. |
2009 |
| International Fund for Cooperation and Partnership of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea (BSCSIF) Victor Khmarin (vice president) |
2009 |
| Russian-Ukrainian Interregional Economic Forum President Medvenev of Russia (co-chair) | President Yanukovich of Ukraine (co-chair) |
2010 |
| Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) Yevgeny Primakov (founding trustee chairman) | Council members: Aleksei Arbatov, Sergei Karaganov, Andrei Kokoshin, Vyacheslav Nikonov and Sergei Rogov | Lukoil | Alfa Group | ITAR-TASS |
2010 |
Russia: Putin's "St. Petersburgers"
| Putin's "St. Petersburgers" (city known as Leningrad until 1991) Anatoly Sobchak (Moscow mayor 1991-1996 under whom Putin and many others worked) | Vladimir Putin | Dmitry Medvedev | Igor Sechin | Alexey Miller | Sergei Ivanov | Nikolai Patrushev (through family) | Viktor Ivanov | Viktor Cherkesov | Alexei Kudrin | German Gref | Boris Gryzlov | Dmitry Kozak | Victor Hmarin | Gennady Timchenko | Vladimir Yakunin | Yuri Kovalchuk | Mikhail Putin | Sergey Fursenko | Valery Golubev | Valery Musin | Vladimir Kozhin Others: Sergey Chemezov (KGB in East Germany in the 1980s) |
Early 1990s |
| Aeroflot – Russian Airlines Boris Berezovsky (major shareholder in the 1990s) | Nikolai Glushkov | Putin (controls appointments since 2000) | Viktor Ivanov (chair since 2004) |
1932 |
| Alfa Group (Russian Zionist) Mikhail Fridman | German Khan | Pyotr Aven | Alexander Knaster (CEO Alfa Bank) |
1989 |
| Bank Menatep / Group Menatep Limited The holding company for Yukos. Mikhail Khodorkovsky (primary owner of Yukos 1996-2004) | Platon Lebedev (president 1991-1995, director Yukos since 1996) | Leonid Nevzlin (first deputy chair Menatep 1993-1996, vice chair 1994-1996, first deputy chair since 1996, vice president of Yukos since 1996; first deputy general ITAR-TASS news agency) | Konstantin Kagalovsky (deputy chair since 1994, director/vice president Yukos since 1998). Count Otto von Lambsdorff (founding advisory board in April 2003) Deeply tied to IMF money laundering scandal through the Bank of New York-Inter Maritime, headed by CIA-Mossad-linked businessman Bruce Rappaport (chair and CEO) and Rothschild banker Alfred Hartmann (vice chair; also featured in the Banco Ambrosiano, BCCI and Iraqgate affairs). Kagalovsky's wife, Natasha, was the Bank of New York's head of the Eastern European division. Kagalovsky himself, a close friend of Russia's key privatizers Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais, was Russia's representative to the IMF 1992-1994. |
1990 |
| Gazprom Putin (controls appointments since 2000) | Medvedev (chair 2000-2008) | Alexey Miller (CEO since 2001, deputy chair and later chair) | Valery Golubev (director since 2003 and deputy chair since 2006) | Valery Musin (director) | Nikolay Shamalov (Gazfund) | Victor Hmarin (arranges supplies for Gazprom) | Mikhail Putin (head medical administration) | |
1992 |
| RAO UES Anatoly Chubais (management board chair 1998-2008) | Alexander Voloshin (supervisory board chair supervisory board 1999-2008) | Leonid Melamed | Andrey Rappoport | Yakov Urinson |
1992 |
| Rosneft (took over Yukos in 2004) Putin (controls appointments since 2000) | Igor Sechin (supervisory chairman since 2004 and executive chairman since 2012) | Andrey Kostin (director) | Andrei Patrushev | Dominique Strauss-Kahn (director of a subsidiary) |
1993 |
| Norilsk Nickel Anatoly Chubais (oversaw privatization) | Alexander Voloshin (chair 2008-2010) | Mikhail Prokhorov (chair) | Alisher Usmanov (co-owner through Metalloinvest) | Vladimir Potanin (co-owner through Interros) | Oleg Deripaska (co-owner through Rusal) |
1993 |
Far West, Ltd. (GRU-linked) Founders: Ludmila Rozkina, Anton Surikov, Vladimir Filin, KBR Halliburton | Aleksei Likhvintsev (his wife is Liudmila) | Major Ruslan Saidov | Leonid Kosyakov (general director and president) | Anatoly Baranov | Col. Valery Lunev | Alfonso Davidovich | Yakov Kosman | | Audrius Butkevicius | Natalia Roeva | Sergey Petrov (murdered after falling out with the company) | Armen Sargsyan (seemingly murdered after falling out with the company). Shareholders in Far West: KBR Halliburton, Diligence LLC (bought in 2007 by the Rothschild's JNR UK Ltd.), Meteoric Tactical Solutions, Fritz Ermarth (5%), Adnan Khashoggi, almost certainly with another person close to Prince Turki al Faisal, or Prince Turki himself (5%). Seemingly also: Al Haramain Foundation (Al Qaeda front), National Iranian Oil Company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA. Less confirmed, but likely partners: Aegis Defence Services, Erinys International. Business partners: Saad Hariri, Prince Turki, Nawaz Sharif (Pakistan), Ali Larijani, Jurgen Hambrecht. Also: some business was conducted with Rafic Hariri's son in Libanon. Erinys, Aegis Defence, Turki al-Faisal, Prince Rasheed as Rasheed, the family of Adnan Khashoggi, representatives of the intelligence services of Lithuania, Belarus, and Chechnya. Reported participants in the July 1999 Khashoggi meeting: Anton Surikov | Alfonso Davidovich | Yakov Kosman | Ruslan Saidov. Russia: Alexander Voloshin. Chechnya: Basayev. Abhkazia, Georgia: Ruslan Tsveiba, Gary Aiba, Sultan Sosnaliev. |
Oct. 1998 |
| Almaz-Antey (producer of SAM missile sites as S-300, S-400 and S-500) Putin (controls appointments) | Igor Klimov (director general; shot dead in 2003) | Viktor Ivanov (chair since 2002) |
2002 |
| NPO Mashinostroyenia (produces Oniks, Brahmos, Brahmos II cruise missiles) Putin (visited company in 2002 during the Joint Stock restructuring he ordered; controls appointments) | Medvedev (visited company HQ in 2009) | Alexaner Leonov (general director and designer) |
2002 |
| United Aircraft Corporation (since 2006 controls Sukhoi, MiG and Tupolev) Putin (controls appointments) | Sergei Ivanov (chairman) | Alexei Fyodorov (president) | Sergey Chemezov (director) | Andrey Kostin (director) | Mikhail Pogosyan (general director) Sukhoi Company (independent until 2006): Pavel Sukhoi (founder) | Mikhail Pogosyan (chair since 1995) | Sergey Chemezov (director since 2001) | Aleksey Akimov (director) | Sergei Prikhodko Moscow Aircraft Production Organisation (MAPO, controlled MiG until 2006): Nicholas F. Nikitina (general director and designer MiG) | Anton Surikov (advisor to Nikitana 1999-2000) | Vladimir Kuzmin (president) | Col. Evgeny Ananiev (bank) | Gafur Rakhimov and Sergey Mikhailov (gangster reportedly involved with the bank in the 1990s) | Alisher Usmanov |
2006 |
| Rusnano Putin (controls appointments) | Anatoly Chubais (director general, chair and CEO) | Leonid Melamed (director general) | Andrei Kokoshin | Mikhail Prokhorov | Andrey Rappoport | Yakov Urinson |
2007 |
| Rosicrucian Order / Fraternity of the Rose Cross Founder: Christian Rosenkreutz. According to the Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis of 1607. |
1407 (+/-) |
| Fratres Lucis A mythical esoteric research group, supposedly existing for centuries. Mythical, because the first reference dates to 1873, when the spirit of Count Cagliostro allegedly appeared in the crystal ball of Herbert Irwin. Named members (remains interesting to get a sense of who some of the classic Western mystics were): Count Cagliostro (1743-1795) | Emanuel Swedenborg | Louis Claude de Saint-Martin | Epithas Levi | Martinez de Pasqually. |
1498 |
| Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis The first public manifesto of the Rosicrucian Order. Caused great excitement. Work infuenced by John Dee and Heinrich Khunrath. The second manifesto is the Confessio Fraternitatis. The third manisfesto is The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (1616). |
1607 |
| Grand Lodge of London and Westminster / Grand Lodge of England James Anderson's The Constitutions of the Free-Masons dates to 1723. |
1717 |
| Scottish Rite (1-33) Date refers to the first evidence of lodges conferring degrees as "Scots Master", which was entirely new at the time. |
1733 |
| Grand Orient de France Date refers to the first braches of the London Grand Lodge in France, now also the official founding date of the Grand Orient. This used to be 1773, the year it was founded as a separate body. The English Grand Lodge of France was founded in 1743. Members: Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) | Count de Mirabeau (1749-1791) | Duke d'Orleans. |
1733 |
| Martinist Order Martinez de Pasqually (founder) | Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (founder) |
1740 (+/-) |
| Hellfire Club (the Dashwood version) Sir Francis Dashwood (founder) | Benjamin Franklin (attended meetings in 1748 as a guest) |
1746 |
| Amis Reunis Lodge, Paris Allied with the Bavarian Illuminati. Named members/visitors: Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) | Count de Mirabeau (1749-1791) | Antoine Barnave (1761-1793) | Duke Francois de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1747-1827) | [Pierre Samuel?] DuPont | Maximilien de Robespierre (1758-1794) | Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) | Ludwig X of Hesse-Darmstadt |
1771 |
| The Nine Sisters Lodge, Paris Voltaire | Benjamin Franklin (U.S. minister to France 1778-1785). Reported close associates or members: Franz Mesmer | Cagliostro | Mirabeau | Thomas Jefferson (U.S. minister to France 1785-1789) |
1776 |
| Illuminati Bavarian deist group pretending to be masonic which indeed became linked to the U.S. and French revolutions. Named members/allies: Adam Weishaupt (founder) | Joachim Christian Bode | Adolf Freiherr Knigge | Baron Karl Theodor von Dalberg | Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg | Karl von Hessen-Kassel | Count Cagliostro (1743-1795) | Count de Saint-Germain (1712-1784) | Franz Mesmer | Duke d'Orleans | Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) | Count de Mirabeau (1749-1791) | Jean-Pierre Brissot (1754-1793) | Antoine Barnave | Duke Francois de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1747-1827) | Nicolas de Bonneville (1760-1828) | Claude Fauchet | Prince Henry of Prussia | Duke of Saxe-Gotha | Thomas Paine. |
1776 |
| Rite of High Egyptian Masonry Count Cagliostro (1743-1795) (founder) |
1784 |
| Rite of Misraim Count Cagliostro (founder) |
1788 |
| Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA) Operated under the United Grand Lodge of England. Robert Wentworth Little (founder). The Golden Dawn founders were all SRIA members: William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott and Samuel Mathers. |
1865 |
| Theosophical Society Inspired by Far East mysticism. Later established the United Lodge of Theosophists. Co-founder: Henry Steel Olcott (first president), Helena Blavatsky (second president), William Quan Judge. Other leaders: Alice Bailey. |
1875 |
| Memphis Misraim (34-99th degree) Count Cagliostro (1743-1795) | General Giuseppe Garibaldi | Joseph Balsamo |
1881 |
| Society for Psychical Research Sir William Crookes | Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge | Arthur Balfour | Gerald Balfour | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Dianne Arcangel (protege of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) |
1882 |
| Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Founders were all SRIA members: William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott and Samuel Mathers. Seemingly made up co-founder: Countess Anna Sprengel (German Rosicrucian). First temple: Isis-Urania, followed by the Osiris, Horus and Ra temples. |
1888 |
| Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) Influenced by Memphis Misraim and the Swedenborg Rite. Carl Kellner (co-founder; first head) | Theodor Reuss (co-founder; second head) | Aleister Crowley (inducted in 1910; UK-Ireland head in 1912). |
1895 |
| Martinist and Synarchist Order | 1921 |
| Lucis Trust / Lucifer's Trust Alice Bailey (founder). |
1922 |
| Rotary International Paul Volcker (Rotary Foundation fellow) |
1905 |
| Lions Club International | 1917 |
| International Marnixring (Dutch-Flemish counterpart of the above) | 1968 |
| Dark Ocean Society (Genyosha) Mitsuru Toyama (founder and leader) | Ryohei Uchida (founder and protege of Toyama) |
1881 |
| Black Dragon Society (Kokuryukai) Mitsuru Toyama (founder and leader until WWII) | Ryohei Uchida (founder and protege of Toyama) | Yoshihisa Kuzu (president until the end of WWII) | Yoshio Kodama | Sankichi Takahashi | Shumei Okawa |
1901 |
| "The black network" | On July 29, 1991, Time Magazine reported in great detail how the corrupt BCCI bank had been controlled by what senior officers termed the "black network", which had ties to many western intelligence agencies (including the CIA, DIA and Mossad), arms merchants and dictators around the world. This hugely powerful conglomerate was involved in drug running, arms trafficking, gold smuggling, assassinations and bribing government officials. From other sources it became clear that black network operatives were working with the CIA and Mossad, indicating these two elements really controlled the network. See the La Nebuleuse article for some details. July 29, 1991, Time Magazine, 'The Dirtiest Bank of All': "B.C.C.I. is more than just a criminal bank. From interviews with sources close to B.C.C.I., TIME has pieced together a portrait of a clandestine division of the bank called the "black network," which functions as a global intelligence operation and a Mafia-like enforcement squad. Operating primarily out of the bank's offices in Karachi, Pakistan, the 1,500-employee black network has used sophisticated spy equipment and techniques, along with bribery, extortion, kidnapping and even, by some accounts, murder. The black network -- so named by its own members -- stops at almost nothing to further the bank's aims the world over." "The more conventional departments of B.C.C.I. handled such services as laundering money for the drug trade and helping dictators loot their national treasuries. The black network, which is still functioning, operates a lucrative arms-trade business and transports drugs and gold. According to investigators and participants in those operations, it often works with Western and Middle Eastern intelligence agencies. The strange and still murky ties between B.C.C.I. and the intelligence agencies of several countries are so pervasive that even the White House has become entangled. As TIME reported earlier this month, the National Security Council used B.C.C.I. to funnel money for the Iran-contra deals, and the CIA maintained accounts in B.C.C.I. for covert operations. Moreover, investigators have told TIME that the Defense Intelligence Agency has maintained a slush-fund account with B.C.C.I., apparently to pay for clandestine activities..." "U.S. agents collaborated with the black network in several operations, according to a B.C.C.I. black-network "officer" who is now a secret U.S. government witness. Sources have told investigators that B.C.C.I. worked closely with Israel's spy agencies and other Western intelligence groups as well, especially in arms deals. The bank also maintained cozy relationships with international terrorists, say investigators who discovered suspected terrorist accounts for Libya, Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization in B.C.C.I.'s London offices..." "The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the resulting strategic importance of neighboring Pakistan accelerated the growth of B.C.C.I.'s geopolitical power and its unbridled use of the black network..." "The bank was in a unique position to operate an intelligence- gathering unit because it dealt with such figures as Noriega, Saddam, Marcos, Peruvian President Alan Garcia, Daniel Ortega, contra leader Adolfo Calero and arms dealers like Adnan Khashoggi. Its original purpose was to pay bribes, intimidate authorities and quash investigations. But according to a former operative, sometime in the early 1980s the black network began running its own drugs, weapons and currency deals." "I was recruited by the black network in the early 1980s," says an Arab- born employee who has ties to a ruling family in the Middle East and has told U.S. authorities of his role in running one of the black units. "They came to me while I was in school in the U.S.; they spoke my language, knew all of my friends and gave me money. They told me they wanted me to join the organization, and described its wealth and political power, but at first they never said exactly what the organization did." "This operative -- call him Mustafa -- underwent a year of training that began with education in psychology and the principles of leadership and proceeded into spycraft, with lessons in electronic surveillance, breaking and entering, and interrogation techniques. "Then the nature of our advisers changed," says Mustafa. "The pleasantness was gone, and we moved to Pakistan, where we trained with firearms." Mustafa's first operational assignment took him to London. "They gave us passports and identification, and we moved a shipment of ((unidentified)) goods. In England they had more I.D. waiting for us, because customs and immigration are strict, but when we moved many places, into India or China or Latin America, matters were taken care of, and we just slipped through borders. We would be met. It was always all arranged."" "A typical operation took place in April 1989, when a container ship from Colombia docked during the night at Karachi, Pakistan. Black-unit operatives met the ship after paying $100,000 in bribes to Pakistani customs officials. The band unloaded large wooden crates from several containers. "They were so heavy we had to use a crane rather than a forklift," says a participant. The crates were trucked to a "secure airport" and loaded aboard an unmarked 707 jet, where an American, believed by the black-unit members to be a CIA agent, supervised the frantic activity..." "The black network was the bank's deepest secret, but rumors of its activities filtered through the bank's managerial level with chilling effectiveness. Senior bankers voice fears that they will be financially ruined or physically maimed -- even killed -- if they are found talking about B.C.C.I.'s activities... Businessmen who pursued shady deals with B.C.C.I. are just as frightened. 'Look,' says an arms dealer, 'these people work hand in hand with the drug cartels; they can have anybody killed.'... Currently the black units have focused their scrutiny and intimidation on investigators. 'Our own people have been staked out or followed, and we suspect tapped telephones,' says a New York law-enforcement officer." |
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| "The Octopus" | Term that was created by the murdered journalist Danny Casolaro to describe the global, criminal, CIA-ran conglomerate he was investigating. Although it isn't known if this term was also used by people involved in this network, his work was very unique and he was clearly digging very deep -- too deep, it appears. Before he was killed (as have many, many others), Casolaro had already received numerous warnings and death threats, but apparently he couldn't back off. As for me, I agree with Casolaro's take on the subject.
Parts of his investigation are discussed in the 1996 book The Last Circle of Cheri Seymour. Kenn Thomass and Jim Keith also discussed Casolaro's work in their 1996 book The Octopus: Secret government and the death of Danny Casolaro, pp. 69, 73 (revised edition of 2004): "Although Danny Casolaro does not state it explicitly in his notes, he apparently conceived the Octopus starting as an anti- Communist response to Philby's betrayel [found out about in 1963]; a conclave of OSS/CIA veterans, dispersing and coalescing in what Casolaro called "tag team compartments" and reaping huge profits through assassinations, arms sales, the control of governments, international drug trafficking, and the promotion of international fascism... "Danny Casolaro believed the Octopus responsible for criminal conspiracies which, linked, formed a virtual history of intelligence double dealing from 1950 to the present. These events, in Casolaro's view, included the ousters of US President Richard Nixon, Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, the Shah of Iran, and the murders of Chilean President Allende, and, of course, of President John F. Kennedy. Casolaro saw the Octopus' tentacles entwined throughout the creation of the Golden Triangle and Latin America drug trade, the Cuban Bay of Pigs debacle, the October Surprise, the BCCI banking scandal, and, almost as an afterthought, the theft of the PROMIS software. Casolaro found a "Secret Team," a high cabal of players operating a clandestine, parallel government, identified previously by other writers. The cabal had operated beyond the control or scrutiny of the elected government, financed by drug- running from Southeast Asia and the Americas... Casolaro believed the crimes could best be identified by linking them to a small network of named individuals that made up his Octopus. He outlined their hierarchy and provided specific detail about their behind-the-scenes role in contemporary political history. "Casolaro named people both familiar and unfamiliar to other researchers. He deemed the "first level" operatives to be Richard Helms, George Pender, John Philip Nichols, and Ray Cline [ASC; close to Cercle group]. The second level included Robert Chasen, E. Howard Hunt, Edwin Wilson, Thomas Clines, and Ted Shackley [Shackley was influential in Le Cercle; Shackley was definitely the leader of what Casolaro terms "second level"]. Working backward from the PROMIS theft, Casolaro saw them in a new relationship, a nearly organic entity that impacted on both past and then current events..." The Octopus', p. 71, interview with investigative reporter Virginia McCullough: "Danny would say that he couldn't believe the government would do drugs for arms. He was God, motherhood, and apple pie. I would say, 'Look Danny, let's get real, we're living in the 20th century.'" |
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| "The nebula" | Spoken about in the 1994 ATLAS dossier on this website. It involves a network of Mossad agents and Russian mafia, but also CIA, politicians and bankers. Elements are very recognizable compared to the previous two terms: "black network" and "Octopus". Intro of the the relevant ATLAS dossier document: "To comprehend this nebula, it is necessary to abandon traditional financial or political logic; this is not merely a question of nation, political party, or of ordinary economics... Our conclusion would be that at least over the last twenty years, the economic powers, some of which mafia types, have allied themselves with political forces and organized criminal structures, and reached the 4th stage of money laundering, namely, Absolute Power. It has been specified to us that at the present moment these characters control 50% of the world economy." |
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| "The Joint" | Network described by Kay Griggs. "Joint" is actually one of several terms her husband, a top Marine Corps official, used for the network he was involved with. "Joint" specifically refers to his group's alliance with the Zionist network headquartered in New York. I have interacted with Kay Griggs, did extensive research on her claims and see no reason at all to doubt her statements, despite the fact that she has a severe bias against Jews. This is only to be expected, as Kay Griggs was protected by Sarah McClendon, part of the old non-neocon, anti-liberal establishment and old anti-Zionist American Security Council and John Birch Society network. That also seems to explain why she is allowed to speak out, as shows like Alex Jones and Jeff Rense have their roots in these same groups.
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| Committee of 26 | This group is mentioned in Simon Regan's book 'Who killed Diana?' The author was informed about this group through his intelligence contacts, including the one who advised him to look into Le Cercle. I quote from his book:
"My own security contacts, including the Baroness, had also told me about a highly mysterious organization called the Committee of 26, which is apparently based in Bristol, in England’s West Country. I have never heard of this and can find no other official reference in any file. But it is apparently a super-secret "liaison desk" between the highest echelons of British and American agencies and has the "co-operation" of the French. I was told it was "Old Guard" and worked unilaterally. That is, it was a kind of uncontrolled "super-agency" which answered to no one. I cannot show that this agency even exists... I trust the Baroness, but she was unable to give me any feasible further "chapter and verse." This could well be disinformation, as this is certainly the case with John Coleman's Committee of 300 ("the Olympians"). I read Coleman's book years back, looking for evidence of the committee's existence, but couldn't find it. Virtually all of the information could be found in the work of EIR and Eustace Mullins (both also propagandists, but who never used the Committee of 300 term), and most of the names he mentions have at least once visited Bilderberg. Especially since Coleman gathered so many names of this alleged Committee of 300, you'd guess he could at least point you in the right direction for proof of its existence. But he has never done that. Coleman, a former MI6 agent, is typical of conservative establishment propagandists à la Brian Crozier and others, in the sense that he links liberalism, socialism and communism all on one heap and the West has been a victim of this joint "plot". This alone is a dead giveaway that he's spreading disinformation. Maybe it's different with the Committee on 26, but don't get your hopes up. |
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| Group 13 | Said to be an assassination team from Britain. You can find some information about it here. The supposed head of Group 13 turned out to be someone whose background could not be fully traced, not even by the British Parliament. This person and his allies had also infiltrated the boards of arms companies. Apparently, when these companies aren't useful anymore, they are run into the ground. This group, which appears to have close ties to the Pinay Cercle leadership, will be slightly more expanded on in the future. |
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| Company 14 | Another assassination team from England. The well-respected and well-connected author Gordon Thomas spoke about this group in March 2010. Supposedly this group is hunting down IRA members who killed two British soldiers and a policeman in Northern Ireland. |
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| Knight's Templar (CIA) | In his 1977 book The Night Watch, former CIA officer David Atlee Phillips wrote on page 123 (according to Lobster): "...that small circle of well-bred, highly educated adventurers who were known to some in the CIA as the 'Knights Templars' - Allen Dulles, Frank Wisner, Kermit Roosevelt, Tracey Barnes, Dick Bissell, and kindred spirits. Other CIA veterans have confirmed the existence of similar associations within the agency, with names like the "Century group" and the "Gold Key group".
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| Synarchist Movement of Empire | The Synarchist and Martinist order existed, but nothing is really known about it and it may well have been very insignificant in terms of influence. But some have claimed that the philopsophies of Synarchism played a role in the French version of an underground fascist, pre-World War II movement. 1969, William L. Shirer, 'The Collapse of the Third Republic', p. 218-219: "Later Coutrot would be generally credited with being the man behind a technocratic movement called Synarchie, which to this day, despite many studies of it, remains - at least to this writer, who has pondered most of them - somewhat of a mystery... That some Synarchists organized as far back as 1922 a secret society with revolutionary aims has been established. It was called "Le Mouvement Synarchique d'Empire," or MSE, and its secret "Pact," containing "Thirteen Fundamental Points and 598 Propositions" for the Synarchist revolution, was discovered by the Vichy police in 1941 and published after the war... so far as one can make out from reading the lengthy document the movement would set up a sort of super monopoly capitalism, with competition abolished and endless plans drawn up for production and distribution, the whole - as well as the government - to be run by knowledgeable technocrats... That at one time the MSE was linked to the terrorist Cagoule [CSAR] also seems clear... this secret society of technocrats never got close to staging a revolution." A number of other authors disagree with that last notion. You can find more on the SME and the Synarchie in note 3 of the article on Le Cercle and especially in note 61 and 62 of the article on the Pilgrims. Here's a quick timeline compiled from the work of Roger Mennevée in Les Documents Politiques, Diplomatiques et Financiers, which was published from 1946 to 1962.
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| Taipan Society | Ron Rewald of the CIA investment bank BBRDW reportedly was invited in 1983, after his bank became controversial and he attempted a suicide. Reportedly had about a dozen lifetime members coming from high-level Asian multinationals and banks. Hookers were available during get-togethers. |
Over the years I came across certain and alleged coups in the countries below, usually carried out by by the CIA and other times by MI6 and French intelligence. Several of the coups also involved the Israelis. The dates are picked based on either a major event in that year or when a slower, more drawn-out coup went into action - like in Tibet, for example. This list is just a guide. Google the country listed, togeter with "coup" and "CIA", and you are likely to find more than enough information. Some curious assassinations, which could be suspected as having been part of coup, have not been listed. An example of this are the deaths of the left-leaning Indian politicians Sanjay Gandhi (1980), Indira Gandhi (1984) and Rajiv Gandhi (1991).
Keep in mind that "open action", instead of "covert action", has become the norm since the early 1980s, meaning that major thinks tanks and foundations continue to support student and "pro-democracy" groups in all countries the West takes an interest in. Freedom House, the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Democratic Institute the Open Society Foundations of George Soros have been examples of this type of activity. Like Allen Weinstein, co-founder of the National Endowment for Democracy, acknowledged: "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." [1]
| 1. | Albania | 1948 | 33. | Uganda | 1971 | ||
| 2. | Italy | 1948 | 34. | Chile | 1973 | ||
| 3. | Burma | 1951 | 35. | Angola | 1975 | ||
| 4. | Iran | 1953 | 36. | Portugal | 1975 | ||
| 5. | Philippines | 1953 | 37. | Australia | 1975 | ||
| 6. | Vietnam | 1954 | 38. | Great Britain | 1976 | ||
| 7. | Guatemala | 1954 | 39. | Nigeria | 1976 | ||
| 8. | Hungary | 1956 | 40. | Jamaica | 1976 | ||
| 9. | Guatemala | 1957 | 41. | Afghanistan | 1979 | ||
| 10. | Laos | 1957 | 42. | Turkey | 1980 | ||
| 11. | Tibet | 1957 | 43. | Nicaragua | 1981 | ||
| 12. | Thailand | 1958 | 44. | Ecuador | 1981 | ||
| 13. | Congo | 1960 | 45. | Panama | 1981 | ||
| 14. | Cuba | 1961 | 46. | Seychelles | 1981 | ||
| 15. | Ecuador | 1961 | 47. | Suriname | 1982 | ||
| 16. | Algeria | 1961 | 48. | Chad | 1982 | ||
| 17. | United Nations | 1961 | 49. | Ethiopia | 1989 | ||
| 18. | Yemen | 1962 | 50. | Haiti | 1991 | ||
| 19. | France | 1962 | 51. | Sierra Leone | 1995 | ||
| 20. | United States | 1963 | 52. | Azerbaijan | 1995 | ||
| 21. | Iraq | 1963 | 53. | Turkey | 1997 | ||
| 22. | Dominican Rep. | 1963 | 54. | Kosovo | 1998 | ||
| 23. | Bolivia | 1964 | 55. | Eritrea | 2000 | ||
| 24. | Brazil | 1964 | 56. | Venezuela | 2002 | ||
| 25. | Italy | 1964 | 57. | Georgia | 2003 | ||
| 26. | Indonesia | 1965 | 58. | Ukraine | 2004 | ||
| 27. | Ghana | 1966 | 59. | Equatorial Guinea | 2004 | ||
| 28. | Greece | 1967 | 60. | Honduras | 2009 | ||
| 29. | Iraq | 1968 | 61. | Ecuador | 2010 | ||
| 30. | United States | 1968 | 62. | Kyrgystan | 2010 | ||
| 31. | Cambodia | 1970 | 63. | Ecuador | 2011 | ||
| 32. | Bolivia | 1971 | 64. | Ukraine | 2014 |
Notes
| [1] | September 22, 1991, Washington Post, 'Innocence Abroad: The New World of Spyless Coups'. |











