Thanks for the list of Board of Directors
I want to highlight one name:
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lt. Governor of Maryland
This is from the book
"Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies, by S Steven Powell, with an introduction by David Horowitz, " published in 1987:
"Jimmy Carter's "progressive global" and "human rights" approach to foreign policy had backfired, but it had at least demonstrated what a short distance separated progressive liberalism from revolutionary socialism, the model enthusiastically embraced by IPS and the Latin network." - page 223
"The Center for International Policy (CIP) was formed in 1975 by Lindsay Mattison, with Orlando Letelier's help, as another "human rights" research/lobbying organization. Like the IPS spinoff Center for National Security Studies, which focused on the intelligence agencies, CIP operates under the aegis of the Fun for Peace, with support from the Rubin Foundation, the Ruth Mott Fund, and the Stern Fund. Donald Ranard, a disaffected State Department official and friend of Orlando Letelier, is CIP's director and William Goodfellow its deputy director.* Susan Weber, an early staff member, was previously registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act as an employee of the Soviet embassy to copyedit
Soviet Life.
CIP has focused much of its effort on stopping financial institutions, like the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, from aiding Latin American countries friendly to the United States.
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A theme CIP plays is that Latin America's problems are really the fault of the United States. For instance, the introduction to William Biddle's CIP paper on Nicaragua states that "basic U S interests are more threatened by the customary American response to radical governments than by the governments themselves."** Likewise, on the Grenadan crisis, CIP fellow W Frick Curry wrote, "In the final analysis, the greatest threat to American citizens was caused by violence precipitated by the [U S] invasion itself.*** Despite its overt bias, CIP avers that "the press corps and Congressional leaders and staffs have found the Center's bimonthly
International Policy Report useful in getting a fresh look at the problems of aid and repression.**** --pages 236-7 ----- All quotes in original text. Asterisks refer to footnotes of attribution.
Not much has changed with the world view or methods of operation of these folks in the past twenty years.