Kerry, the Sandinistas, and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)

"Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies" | 1987 | S. Steven Powell

[Fedora]

Thanks for your cross-link! BTW I've been following that thread since it was posted and have found it very handy. Your work on that is appreciated.

[185JHP]

The IPS and its agents of influence nefarian ilk are dealt with in a marvelous book about heroes and villains: "The Spike."

[backhoe]

Thank you, and again, welcome to Free Republic.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Kerry and Dodd tried to block the nomination of anti-Castro Otto Reich to the state department.

Why Do Sens. Dodd and Kerry Want to Deny Otto Reich a Hearing? To Obscure The ‘Extremism' of Their Own Views

[Tailgunner Joe]

"At that point, IPS created its StopOttoReich.com Website"

[Fedora]

Thanks!--that hits the nail on the head. Powell's book also mentions Dodd a few times in connection with IPS:

Pages 249-250:

On April 5, 1983, IPS threw a large twentieth-anniversary celebration to raise funds. On the committee were fourteen present and two former members of the House of Representatives and three present and former senators. . .Among the senators then in office:

Christopher Dodd. ..
Gary Hart. . .
Mark O. Hatfield. . .

Page 257:

Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus

At this time Congressman [George] Miller [D-Calif.] chaired the Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus (ACFPC) task force on Latin America, an aggressively liberal in-house lobby numbering 13 senators and 119 representatives. . .Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), a critic of the administration's foreign policy who fears American action in the Western Hemisphere more than the Soviet Union's, has served as Vice Chairman.

Page 389:

Appendix 13: Members of Senate Voting Straight Coalition for New Foreign and Military Policy Line in 1983

Joseph Biden (D-Del.)
William Bradley (D-N.J.)
Alan Cranston (D-Calif.)
Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.)
Thomas Eagleton (D-Mo.)
Gary Hart (D-Colo.)
Mark Hatfield (R-Oreg.)
Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.)
Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)
Carl Levin (D-Mich.)
Spark Matsunaga (D-Hawaii)
Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.)
William Proxmire (D-Wis.)
David Pryor (D-Ark.)
Donald Riegle (D-Mich.)
Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.)
Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.)

[Just mythoughts]

Good job.

JFK got ties all over the communistic world...

Iran seems to be his most recent funders, and he is sending emails.

[Fedora]

Thanks. I posted some stuff on Kerry's Iranian funding here under Post #39:

(From Iran) An Open Letter To Senator John Kerry

[mrsmith]

btt

[Fedora]

Since I posted this, more information relevant to my speculations about a Kerry-Bundy-Hiss link has been posted here:

EWWW! Check out these pictures of John Kerry (Rock band in Prep School & Yale Yearbook Picture) (Posts #40 and 41)

Swarthmore's "world peace foundation" lists HH Bundy Senior in it's membership, along with Alger Hiss (and George Plimpton?!?)

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG051-099/dg055wpf.htm

[SNIP]

During the 1920s, the WPF hoped to be the official agent in the United States for the sale of League of Nations publications, as well as the International Labor Organization, and the Permanent Court of International Justice. Its primary focus continued to be the dissemination to libraries of literature promoting world order. It worked closely with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to hold conferences about documentary and research problems in the field of international relations. In 1947, WPF began publication of a quarterly, International Organization, which dealt with issuea affecting the United Nations.

[SNIP]

After Hiss helped the State Department set up the UN he became President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1946 (for a reference see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss).

Also see:

Kerry's World: Father Knows Best

Richard Kerry's father, a Czech Jew, fled Europe. The son, by contrast, embraced it. As a law student at Harvard in the late '30s, he read continental philosophers like Kierkegaard and histories about Bismarck and Metternich; he traveled to France, where he took sculpture classes and met his wife. Hoping to parlay his love of Europe into a career, he chose international law as his law school specialty. After World War II, which he spent in the Army Air Corps testing new airplanes at high altitudes, he moved his family to Washington to take a spot in the Department of the Navy's Office of General Counsel, hoping that his proximity to the State Department might help him land a job there. Two years into his Washington stint, Kerry's relocation paid off. The State Department's Bureau of United Nations Affairs hired him to help work through the thicket created by America's adherence to a new set of postwar international agreements. According to Brinkley, the cosmopolitan Kerry was a true believer in the United Nations and the postwar promise of global government.

My emphasis on Kerry's father's Harvard Law School background here is meant to draw attention to the fact that Alger Hiss also came to Washington from Harvard Law during this period, courtesy of Agricultural Adjusment Administration general counsel Jerome Frank upon recommendation from Harvard Law School professor Felix Frankfurter, who was acting covertly on behalf of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, also formerly of Harvard Law School (sources: Kenneth S. Davis, FDR: The New Deal Years, 1933-1937, A History, New York: Random House, 1986, 275-281; John Chabot Smith, Alger Hiss: The True Story, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976, 10-12; Joseph P. Lash, Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal, New York: Doubleday, 1985, 111, 217-218; Bruce Allen Murphy, The Brandeis/Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices, Oxford University Press, 1982; Garden City: Anchor Books, 1983, 33, 113-116. Cf. Roosevelt and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1928-1945, annotator Max Freedman, Little, Brown and Company, 1967, 7-9).

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

You're not going to believe this but I know the person who wrote this letter (scroll down to read the whole thing).

[Bob J]

ping

[Fedora]

You're not going to believe this but I know the person who wrote this letter (scroll down to read the whole thing).

Wow--that's quite interesting indeed. Thanks for posting this. Please let us know if you learn any more about that.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

The world really is a small place. This "connection" I just discovered means I'm about only 4 "connections" away from JFK (Kennedy) and 2 "connections" away from JFK (Kerry). (Think Six Degrees of Separation.) Wow! I'm scaring myself..... ;-)

[Fedora]

The world really is a small place. This "connection" I just discovered means I'm about only 4 "connections" away from JFK (Kennedy) and 2 "connections" away from JFK (Kerry). (Think Six Degrees of Separation.) Wow! I'm scaring myself..... ;-)

LOL! Well, hopefully you're connected via Kevin Bacon within a few degrees of someone who can offset the Kerry connection--ROFL!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I am "connected" to Kevin Bacon this way: my sister has been friend to Gary Sinise's wife, Moira Harris, since toddlerhood. Gary, as you know, was in "Apollo 13" with Kevin Bacon. The Sinises are probably Democrats though. I'll keep trying ;-).

SiniseFans.org

[Fedora]

Well, that's a start!--because Kevin Bacon was probably in the Screen Actors' Guild at some point, and Ronald Reagan was once President of the Screen Actors Guild--so there you go! :)

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

You saved me!!! :-) I'm sure Bacon is a card-carrying member of SAG. You almost have to be to get any kind of on-screen work in Hollywood.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Check your FReepmail!