THE NEOCON NON-ESTABLISHMENT

By: Joel v.d. Reijden | Expanded draft: Sep. 22, 2024 | Original: November 5, 2011

CONTENTS
1. Intro

2. The media: rise of the "neocons" post-9/11

3. 1997-2000: PNAC's "neocon" letters and papers
4. 2001: PNAC takes over the U.S. government, and soon
forces through the Iraq invasion for oil and WMD reasons

5. PNAC was not exclusively neocon: "liberal CIA" there too

6. Chief "neocon" whistleblower General Wesley Clark:
"Seven countries in five years"
7. Wesley Clark: Soros-Kissinger-Brzezinski ally

8. Pro-Iraq War versus anti-Iraq War stances amongst elites

9. Kissinger the "anti-neocon" - while his buddy George Shultz
fielded them

10. "Neocons" as in "new Jewish conservatives" perfectly fits

ISGP's models: including its controlled opposition aspect
 11. Are Rumsfeld, Cheney, etc. "neocons"? Or maybe right-wing
globalists?
12. Real (Jewish) neocons: mid level State and Defense
influencers: a list of names
13. Neocons as CIA-Mossad liaisons
14. James Woolsey's road to CIA director - until he really
became influential post-9/11 as the "neocon godfather"

15. Conclusions and summary

16. Notes

Intro
Earlier we discussed ISGP's Three Establishment Model:
liberal-globalist, conservative(-nationalist) and Zionist, in
which it was pointed out that the conservative establishment
not only serves as controlled opposition for the globalist one,
but also that it strongly turned towards Israel in the late 1970s.
This model is based on an analysis of 2,000 important NGOs
around the world and, as demonstrated throughout the site,
works very well. However, maybe, as an additional test, we
could look at the popular idea that the neoconservatives
formed their own "establishment" and "took over" the Bush
administration in the wake of 9/11 - and see how it fits into this
Three Establishment Model.

The media: rise of the "neocons" post-9/11

So, who remembers it? All the talk in the wake of 9/11 and the
beginning of the War on Terror about the "neocon takeover" of
American foreign policy? A hawkish policy in no small part
aimed at fighting and overthrowing all the enemies of Israel?
This view was strongly
promoted in both the
mainstream and "new left"
media: the New York Times, the
Washington Post, the Los
Angeles Times, BBC, New York
Observer, the New Statesman,
the San Francisco Chronicle,
Christian Science Monitor,
Washington Monthly, etc., etc. - No shortage in the mainstream and "anti-
establishment" media in informing us about
they all wrote their articles on "the neocons" and their nefarious plans for Iraq
and Iran in particular.
the "neocons", from discussing
their decades-long past tying even into communist support, to
their responsibility for the Iraq quagmire, to worries that Iran
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might be their next target. Popular conspiracy disinformers on
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the left, from 911-no-planer Peter Dale Scott to RFK, Jr., who
has been spreading disinformation about the death of his own
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father, have attacked the neocons. Also "alt-right", "anti-
establishment" conspiracy disinformers, Alex Jones at the top,
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have done the same, sometimes for decades. The word
"neocoon" has been dropped more than once - and makes this
author laugh every time.

In that sense conspiracy disinformers on the left and right do

not differ much from the mainstream media when the latter
made observations as the "virtual takeover of the Bush
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administration's foreign policy" by "neocons".

1997-2000: PNAC's "neocon" letters and papers

Lets' back up a litle bit and discuss things in more detail.
The predominant "neocon" institute remembered in history is
the 1997-founded Project for the New American Century
(PNAC). PNAC received funding from the usual "Eastern
Establishment"-tied "conservative CIA" foundations as Bradley
and Scaife, and to a lesser extent Olin, the Mellon-tied Donner
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Foundation and others. Signers of PNAC's 'Statement of
Principles' included:

1. Jeb Bush 8. Steve Forbes

2. Dick Cheney 9. Paula Dobriansky
3. Dan Quayle: Bush 41 v.p. 10. Frank Gaffney
4. Donald Rumsfeld 11. Donald Kagan
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5. Paul Wolfowitz 12. Elliott Abrams
6. Scooter Libby
7. Zalmay Khalilzad

The only big names missing here at this point are Richard Perle,
James Woolsey, and maybe John Bolton. They would join soon
enough. This June 3, 1997 'Statement of Principles' read:
 "Conservatives have not confidently advanced a strategic
vision of America's role in the world. ... They have not
fought for a defense budget that would maintain American
security and advance American interests in the new
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century [to maintain] American global leadership."

In January 1998 PNAC sent a letter to President Clinton,

explaining that "the policy of "containment"" surrounding
Saddam Hussein was failing, because the Clinton
Administration's policy allowed Hussein to circumvent United
Nations inspections for nuclear weapons. Instead, PNAC urged
the Clinton administration to put its "attention to implementing
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a strategy for removing Saddam's regime from power."

By May 1998 PNAC realized that its first letter hasn't had any
effect on the Clinton administration. Therefore it wrote another
letter, this time to Congressman Newt Gingrich and Senator
Trent Lott. This second letter read:

"The Clinton administration ... not only rejected this advice

but, as we warned, has begun to abandon its own policy of
containment. [Instead] U.S. policy should have as its
explicit goal removing Saddam Hussein's regime from
power and establishing a peaceful and democratic Iraq in
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its place."

Letter signers in the Iraq case included Richard Perle, PNAC

director John Bolton, former CIA director R. James Woolsey and
already familiar names as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz,
Zalmay Khalilzad, as well as Robert Zoellick, and the usual
host of Jewish neocons.
Another frequently-cited PNAC report, especially with regard to
foreknowledge of 9/11, is the September 2000 report 'Rebuilding
America's Defenses', and most notably this sentence:

"The process of transformation, even if it brings

revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent
some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl
11
Harbor."

This sentence is generally implied to refer to a political

transformation, in line with another often-cited sentence, this
time by Zbigniew Brzezinski, that went, "Democracy is
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inimical to imperial mobilization..." The thing is though,
PNAC's "process of transformation"-line referred to a military
transformation, and really cannot, or barely, be used to
indicate any foreknowledge of 9/11. Put in proper context, it
reads:

"Without increased spending on basic research and

development the United States will be unable to exploit the
RMA [Revolution in Military Affairs] and preserve its
technological edge on future battlefields. ...

"The process of [military] transformation, even if it brings

revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent
some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl
Harbor. Domestic politics and industrial policy will shape
the pace and content of transformation as much as the
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requirements of current missions."
In other words, if China, Russia, or some other hostile country
attacked the United States with some type of high technology -
be it a stealth missile, drone, or some other type of weapon -
that the United States cannot stop, only then will there be a
rapid military transformation in military affairs.

The 2000 PNAC report 'Rebuilding America's Defenses' actually

is interesting to read almost a quarter century later, with
HIMARS, hypersonic missiles, and drone technology all having
had their first major "transformational" or "revolutionary"
successes on the battlefield since the Russo-Ukrainian War that
started in 2022. Also let's not forget the reusable launch
vehicles introduced by SpaceX in 2015. In its Part V, the PNAC
report advocated for he following military changes:

1. Continue to develop, "HIMARS [to] replace forward-based

heavy forces [while at the same time] the Army should
develop ways to deploy and maneuver against adversaries
with improved long-range strike capabilities."
2. Conversion kits as JDAM are necessary to turn dumb
bombs into smart bombs.
3. Continue to develop anti-missile missiles as THAAD and
Patriot.
4. A need to "develop other strike weaponry beyond current-
generation Tomahawk cruise missiles..."

5. Complete the planned F-22 procurements, even though it

likely is too expensive an aircraft to have been developed.
6. Abandon the Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) program.
7. Invest in "precision munitions and developing new ones..."
 8. Replace these with the production of "large-bodied stealthy
aircraft for ... lift, refueling, and other support missions as
well as strike missions."
9. Invest much more in drone technology, both stealth and
non-stealth, for surveillance, air-to-ground, air-to-air, and
long-range support missions.
10. Invest in space technology, such as "inexpensive launch
vehicles, new satellites and transatmospheric vehicles,"
etc. (p. 64)
11. "Control of space and cyberspace." (51, 57)

12. The Navy's focus needs to be turned away from littoral

waters, back to dominating the open seas, where they will
be less vulnerable in the future.
13. Limiting investments in carriers, due to their increased
vulnerability through satellite access, drones, and missile
technology, one example involving "China’s acquisition of
... supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles [which] will
complicate U.S. surface fleet operations."
14. Move to "network-centric" warfare instead of "platform-
centric" warfare (such as carriers), creating as many
"nodes on the net" as possible. Underwater drones and
"missile pods" to be left behind are examples of this.
15. More submarines and a wide variety of stealthy surface
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ships are desired.

All in all, the PNAC reports in general are not bad at all. Far from
it. At least this author agrees with most of what was written.
The major problem, of course, is that these are just words.
American conservatives in general are experts at promoting
pollution, waste, corruption and cartel-forming, because they
always try to get rid of all checks and balances on government:
no or ultra-low taxes, no social security, no healthcare, no
minimum wage, no maximum work hours, no building codes,
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nothing. It's all Milton Friedman-type economic fascism.

2001: PNAC takes over the U.S. government, and soon forces
through the Iraq invasion for oil and WMD reasons
The following PNAC signers and directors ended up in
government from January 2001, with the 9/11 conspiracy taking
place on September 11, 2001:

1. The Bush family: Jeb Bush signed PNAC's founding

'Statement of Principles' in 1997. Jeb's brother, George W.
Bush, was U.S. president from January 2001 to January
2009.
2. Donald Rumsfeld: Secretary of defense Jan. 2001 - Dec.
2006.
3. Paul Wolfowitz: Deputy secretary of defense March 2001 -
June 2005.
4. John Bolton: Under secretary of state for Arms Control and
International Security Affairs May 2001 - July 2005.
Ambassador to the United Nations 2005-2006.
5. Elliott Abrams: Deputy national security advisor under
Stephen Hadley Feb. 2005 - Jan. 2009.
6. Dick Cheney: U.S. vice president from January 2001 to
January 2009.
7. Scooter Libby: Cheney's chief of staff and national security
advisor Jan. 2001 - Oct. 2005.
8. Dov Zakheim: Comptroller of the Department of Defense
May 2001 - July 2004.
9. Richard Perle: Member Defense Policy Board 1996-2005,
chair 2001-2003.

10. Zalmay Khalilzad: Born in Afghanistan. In the 1970s he

studied at the University of Chicago under Albert
Wohlstetter, also the mentor of Perle, Wolfowitz and
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Ahmed Chalabi. Assistant professor of political science
at Columbia University's School of International and
Public Affairs 1979-1989, working closely with Trilateral
Commission founder and Jimmy Carter national security
advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. Signed PNAC's 'Statement of
Principles' on June 3, 1997. Signed PNAC's 1998 letter
'Milosevic is the Problem'. Signed PNAC's two "Iraq War"
letters of January and May 1998. Ambassador to
Afghanistan 2004-2005. Ambassador to Iraq 2005-2007.
U.S. special representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation
2018-2021.

11. Ahmed Chalabi: Born in Baghdad, in one of Iraq's oldest

and dominant banking, merchant and political families, in
1945. His family fled Iraq after the 1958 assassination of the
Hashemite king Faisal II. Remained close in later decades
to the Hashemite royal family ruling Jordan, but
eventually, in the mnid 1990s, ended up here with a
conviction for bank fraud. Studied at the University of
Chicago under Albert Wohlstetter, also a mentor to Perle,
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Wolfowitz and Khalilzad. Recruited by the CIA in 1991
and co-founded his anti-Saddam Hussein Iraqi National
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Congress with CIA coordination in 1992. Over the years
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this Iraqi National Congress was funded by U.S. congress
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and reportedly also by PNAC itself.

It was Chalabi who provided some of the bogus evidence to

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justify the Iraq invasion of March 2003. The neocons
favored him, because Chalabi claimed that once installed
in power in Iraq, he could open up diplomatic relations
with Israel and allow contracts to be set up and pipelines
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to be build in favor of western companies. In October
2002, according to oil industry sources, "officials from the
White House, the Department of Defense and the State
Department", including Dick Cheney staffers, met with
executives of ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, ConocoPhillips
and Halliburton to discuss contracts in post-Saddam Iraq.
Coincidentally, on November 3, 2002, it came out that
Ahmed Chalabi "has met executives of three US oil
multinationals to negotiate the carve-up of Iraq's massive
oil reserves post-Saddam." The Cheney-tied meeting was
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denied , while the companies Chalabi met with were kept
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secret , but it may well have involved the exact same
meeting. In this same period Russia, France and China
expressed worries of being forced out Iraq after an
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invasion.

By 2004 Chalabi was accused by an increasing amount of

people of "double crossing" his long-time neocon friends in
favor of cozying up to an Ayatollah-ruled Iran, purely out of
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self-interest. Despite that, Chalabi still became president
of the Governing Council of Iraq under Paul Bremer from
 September 1 to September 30, 2003, and deputy prime
minister of Iraq and minister of oil in 2005 and 2006.
Distrusted by many, he never was able to become prime
minister of Iraq.

As the reader can see, Ahmed Chalabi may not have been a
PNAC signer, but he was part of the PNAC network, and for
decades also involved with PNAC's founders. His use by the
PNAC clique really drives home how much the 2003 Iraq
invasion was about controlling the second-largest oil supplies
in the world. The oil motive actually goes back to the very start
of the Bush administration, well before 9/11. Already in April
2001 vice president Dick Cheney, as head of the Bush
government's Energy Task Force, had commissioned a joint CFR
and James Baker Institute study entitled 'Strategic Energy
Policy Challenges For The 21st Century'. It read:

"The United States remains a prisoner of its energy

dilemma. Iraq remains a destabilising influence to ... the
flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East.
Saddam Hussein has also demonstrated a willingness to
threaten to use the oil weapon and to use his own export
programme to manipulate oil markets. Therefore the US
should conduct an immediate policy review toward Iraq
including military, energy, economic and
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political/diplomatic assessments."

James Baker was the Texas friend of President George H. W.

Bush, back from his family's oil days. Baker came to serve
under Bush as secretary of state and chief of staff in the 1989-
1993 period. Others involved in the task force were Enron's
Kenneth Lay, ChevronTexaco CEO David O'Reilly, senior
leadership of Shell and BP, and a former Kuwaiti oil minister.
Cheney, of course, had been CEO of Halliburton - an oil industry
products and services provider - in the 1990s.

Secondly though, it also is clear that all the Jewish neocons

involved in PNAC and the subsequent Bush invasion, wanted to
get rid of Saddam Hussein for fear he would be able to
blackmail or attack Israel with weapons of mass destruction in
the near future. We see this agenda very clearly described in
the 1996 report 'A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the
Realm', written by emerging PNAC signer and Defense Science
Board member Richard Perle, and Douglas Feith, who, as under
secretary of defense for policy from July 2001 to August 2005,
would come run the Office of Special Plans, an outfit that
manipulated "evidence" to "prove" a connection between
Saddam Hussein and 9/11, some of the evidence coming from
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Chalabi. The 1996 report reads:

"Labor Zionism, which for 70 years has dominated the

Zionist movement, has generated a stalled and shackled
economy. ... Netanyahu’s government comes in with a new
set of [neoliberal] ideas. ...

"Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation

with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and
even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing
Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important
Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of
foiling Syria’s regional ambitions...
 "The predominantly Shia population of southern Lebanon
has been tied for centuries to the Shia leadership in Najf,
Iraq rather than Iran. Were the Hashemites to control Iraq,
they could use their influence over Najf to help Israel wean
the south Lebanese Shia away from Hizballah, Iran, and
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Syria."

Again, the report doesn't sound "irrational" or "immoral" at all.

The problems are the extreme neoliberal economic measures,
the wasting of trillions of dollars of (american) public funds,
the questionable allegiances, and the deception of the
(American) public.

What we can say with a large degree of certainty though is that

the 2003 Iraq invasion was pushed through for two main
reasons:

1. Control over Iraq's oil reserves, to prevent Saddam from

blackmailing the West with them.
2. Getting rid of any potential weapons of mass destruction
threat, especially to Israel, but also an objective of the U.S.
3. Reducing the power of Israel's enemies as Iran, Syria and
Hezbollah.

Looking at this amalgam of reasons, it appears the old CIA-

Mossad partnership in (big business) coup-plotting and
apparently the drug trade also came together to arrange for the
invasion of Iraq.
This still leaves the question though: what exactly is a
"neocon"?

PNAC was not exclusively neocon: "liberal CIA" there too

Anyone who looks at the names of PNAC will recognize a
lengthy list of Jewish scholars, but also a number of non-Jewish
Republicans and conservatives, plus a peculiar former
Democrat former CIA director in the form of R. James Woolsey.

However, PNAC's 1998 letter to get rid of Serbian dictator

Slobodan Milosevic also was signed by the following three
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individuals with deep ties to George Soros :

1. Morton Abramowitz: Member CFR 1975-. Ambassador to

Thailand 1978-1981. Assistant secretary of state for
Intelligence and Research 1985-1989. Ambassador to
Turkey 1989-1991. Trustee Carnegie Endowment 1991-1997.
Visitor Davos in 1993 and 1995. Founding trustee of George
Soros' International Crisis Group from 1995 until 2017,
when he became trustee emeritus. Member of the
Executive Panel of the Chief of Naval Operations 1997-1998.
Member of the super-elite Bretton Woods Committee from
at least 1999 to 2015. Trustee of George Soros' "liberal CIA"
Open Society Foundations from at least 2000, until 2002.
Board member of elite CIA front Freedom House until 1999
and the National Endowment for Democracy from 2000 to
2004.
 2. Morton Halperin: Member CFR 1968-. Director of the
"liberal CIA", IPS-associated group Center for National
Security Studies (CNSS) 1975-1992, followed by the position
of advisory board chair. Co-chair of the anti-CIA 'Covert
Operations and Decision Making' committee that was part
of the CNSS' founding. Project director of the ACLU- and
CNSS-sponsored Project on National Security and Civil
Liberties. Fellow "liberal CIA" MacArthur Foundation 1985-
1991. Created the Washington office of George Soros'
"liberal CIA" Open Society Foundations (OSF) and
appointed director of it in Feb. 2002, until at least 2009.
Also a senior advisor to OSF. Long-time member of the
2002-founded Collegium International, a think with
countless former heads of state. Senior vice president and
director of fellows of the Center for American Progress
(CAP), which was at the center of the 2016 Hillary Clinton
campaign, with George Soros a major CAP financier.

3. Ed Turner: Executive vice president of CNN, owned by

globalist, new age, "liberal CIA"-funding billionaire Ted
Turner, who is not related to him. Ed Turner was one of
Ted's first chief aides. Ed was a trustee of George Soros'
International Crisis Group from at least 1996 to November
1999. He died in 2002.

Morton Abramowitz also signed a 2002 PNAC letter in favor of

defending Hong Kong from China.

This, of course, raises the question why polar opposites -

upcoming, pro-Israel "neocon" Bush administration officials
and anti-Israel, anti-conservative Soros employees - decided to
associate themselves with each other. While these people are
not in the habit of inviting actual "outsiders", this association
remains fascinating.

Chief "neocon" whistleblower General Wesley Clark: "Seven

countries in five years"
Looking at the hopelessly propagandist TikTok feeds of the
2020s, probably one of the more time-persistent remnants of
this Bush administration era - and also as one of the chief
sources - was the "Seven countries in five years" warning of
General Wesley Clark. After a visit to the Pentagon about ten
days after 9/11, he was informed about a favored neocon
strategy:

"On or about the 20th of September [2001] ... about 10 days

after 9/11, I went to the Pentagon. I saw secretary [of
defense Donald] Rumsfeld and deputy secretary [of
defense Paul] Wolfowitz. I went downstairs, just to say
hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to
work for me. And one of the generals called me [into his
office]. ... "We've made the decision to go to war with Iraq.
... I don't know [why]. ... No, no, there's nothing new that
way [in that we still can't tie Al Qaeda to Saddam
Hussein.]"

"I came back to see him a few weeks later. By that time we
were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to
war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that. ... I
just got this down from upstairs, [from] the secretary of
 defense's office, today. This is a memo that describes how
we're going to take out seven countries in five years,
starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya,
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Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran."

This quote comes from a 2007 interview of Clark by none other

than Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, the "new left", "liberal
CIA" outfit heavily financed by the Ford Foundation, and which
has also received funding from Soros and other foundations.
While the memo in question was classified and has never been
seen by the public, Clark has been heavily talking about this
subject since 2003, when he made a failed run for U.S.
president. He always gave the same basic story with a few
additional details:

1. He met Paul Wolfowitz at the Pentagon in 1991, with

Scooter Libby opening the door for him. At the time
Wolfowitz served as under secretary of defense for policy
under secretary of defense Dick Cheney, in the George H.
W. Bush administration. Clark asked if Wolfowitz was
happy with the outcome of the (first) Gulf War. To Clark's
surprise, Wolfowitz was disappointed that Bush hadn't
fully invaded Iraq and gotten rid of Saddam Hussein. On
top of that, Wolfowitz stated he wanted to "clean up" Syria,
headed by the Assad regime; and Iran, ruled by the
Ayatollahs; "before the next great superpower comes
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along".

2. On the 20th of September, 2001, days after 9/11, Clark

visited secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld and deputy
 secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz. George W. Bush was
U.S. president at the time and Dick Cheney vice president.
During the meeting with Rumsfeld, Clark was shocked by
Rumsfeld's callousness: "No one is gonna tell us where and
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when we can bomb. Nobody." This was followed by
more shocks that certainly Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz -
despite not any clear ties to Al Qaeda and 9/11 - once again
were plotting to "go to war" with Iraq, Syria and Iran, as
well as Libya under Gaddafi, Sudan under Omar Al-Bashir,
and an additional focus on terrorism harbor Lebanon and
Islamic Somalia.

3. Clark did not complain about the Bush administration's

Afghanistan invasion: "We attacked Afghanistan. I was
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pretty happy about that. We should have." He did not
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start complaining about the "policy coup" until the time
of the March 2003 Iraq invasion, which, in addition, he
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explained, was promoted in the "neoconservative press".

4. In 2007, again looking to run for president of the United

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States, Clark set up the website StopIranWar.com. In one
the site's first posts he warned about "neoconservatives
who don't understand the limitations of military power in
achieving political ends", suggesting the "clipping the
wings of these madmen" before they are "are going to kill us
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all".

It's not all untrue what Clark said. Far from it. The case could
easily be made that the persons fingered as "neocons" are
hawkish to the point one has to worry about self-destruction.
Also, in 2007, Clark predicted the rise of ISIS, saying if the U.S.
would leave Iraq prematurely, the Saudis would start financing
Sunni Iraqi terrorist groups to counter Iran, leading to the
possibility of the rise of a "superpowerful Sunni extremist
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group". The major question, of course, is why the Bush
administration "neocons" didn't see the rise of Shia influence in
post-invasion Iraq. Arguably they spent trillions of dollars of
public funds to the benefit of few billion in oil company profits,
but without any real solution in sight for the region.

Wesley Clark: Soros-Kissinger-Brzezinski ally

In any case, here we have General Wesley Clark taking
centerstage in the campaign against the hawkish agenda of the
neoconservatives that dominate the Bush administration.
There are a few anomalies though with Clark. One is that Clark
himself has been considered a bit of a "neoconservative" - or
bully - in his own high level military past, from alleged
behavior as head of USSOUTHCOM in 1996-1997 to the 1999
Pristina airport incident in Kosovo in which he and fellow
Bilderberger Javier Solona - then NATO secretary general - could
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well have started World War III with the Russians. It
certainly must be said that Clark's "shock observations" about
the "outlier" views of these neocons are naive to the point of
unbelievability:

"The purpose of the military is to start war and change

governments? It is not sort of to deter conflict. We're gonna
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invade countries?"
So who really is General Wesley Clark? Apart from his official
military positions? Let's see:

1. West Point graduate.

2. MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) in 1968

from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

3. Graduated Ranger School and went to Vietnam afterwards.

4. 1975 White House fellow working under President Ford's

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chief of staff Donald Rumsfeld , a future top "neocon"
who was a CFR member in the 1974-1979 period. The U.S.
vice president at the time was Nelson Rockefeller, with
Nelson's old protege, Henry Kissinger, as secretary of state
and former national security advisor, also as head of the
secretive 40 Committee, dominating foreign policy and CIA
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covert operatons. Ford himself was an old member of the
controversial Warren Commission, investigating the JFK
assassination, alongside David Rockefeller friend, former
CIA director Allen Dulles; and David Rockefeller mentor
and CFR chair John J. McCloy.

5. Member CFR 1983-.

6. Annual visitor Munich Security Conference from at least

1999 until 2003.

7. Speaker at the Commonwealth Club of California in 1999,

2001 and 2007, the last time speaking out against the
 "neocons".

8. "Distinguished senior adviser" at the Center for Strategic

and International Studies (CSIS) from September 2000 on,
where Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski sat on
various boards for decades, still dominating the group in
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the 2000s.

9. Among the longest-serving U.S. trustees of the far-less-U.S.-

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centered International Crisis Group from mid 2000 until
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2018 , all these years together with the group's founder,
George Soros. Also on the board during much of this period
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was Zbigniew Brzezinski.

10. From 2001 to 2005 he was a director of the National

Endowment for Democracy (NED) - which began as a
privatized CIA front for the Democrat and Republican
parties - from 2001 to 2005, together with elites as Lee
Hamilton, Richard Holbrooke, Morton Abramowitz, Frank
Carlucci, and others. Henry Kissinger (1985-1989) and
Zbigniew Brzezinski (1988-1997) used to be board
members of the NED as well, as were (neo)conservatives
Steve Forbes (1994-1999) and Paul Wolfowitz (1994-2001).

11. No later than August 2001, Clark was a trustee of the

National Committee on American Foreign Policy, a group
dominated by traditional "Atlantic elitists", but also with
some neocons and Israel lobby individuals on board as
Jeane Kirkpatrick, Richard Pipes and Kenneth Bialkin.
Centered around George Kennan, the father of the Cold War
 "containment" policy, it has awarded persons as David
Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger (also a honorary chair in the
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1990s) and George Shultz.

We could continue with globalist think tank positions for later

years, but it should be clear that General Wesley Clark never
was any kind of independent player, "outsider", or
"whistleblower" when he warned the world about the
"neocons". This is a person involved at that very moment in
globalist think tanks with Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew
Brzezinski, and quite literally employed by George Soros - the
"new left" polar opposite of the neocons - at the International
Crisis Group. It all makes little sense. And at the very least we
can conclude that some kind of globalist roleplay is going on.

Pro-Iraq War versus anti-Iraq War stances amongst elites

Other elitists have roughly supported the claims of General
Wesley Clark. Richard Haass, a Rhodes scholar who was the
director of Policy Planning at the State Department in 2001-2003
and subsequently, from 2003 to 2023, the president of the
Council on Foreign Relations, explained that he became aware
that vice president Dick Cheney, national security advisor
Condoleezza Rice, and secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld
already had convinced President Bush to go to war with Iraq by
July 2002:

"There was nothing imminent, nothing that was

particularly new, so I didn't see any vital national interests.
Nevertheless, the administration decided to go to war. I
found this out in July of 2002, nine months before the war
 began... Guys on my staff, women on my staff said,
"Something is going on... all the people working for the vice
president [Dick Cheney], the national security advisor
[Condoleezza Rice] and the secretary of defense [Donald
Rumsfeld] are too happy. ...

"Condi [then] said [me], "Richard, save your breath. It has

already been decided." This is early July 2002. So I go back
to the State Department and I called my boss, Colin
[Powell]. Guess what? He said, "No way. Can't be. You
misread your girlfriend." ... A few days later he says, "You
know, you're right." ... What is extra-ordinary is that all of
this happened without there ever being a formal meeting in
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the Bush administration about whether to go to war."

What is important to note here is that certainly Haass and Rice

weren't bitter enemies. Zbigniew Brzezinksi described Haass
as Rice's "colleague and friend on the National Security
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Council" from the 1990s. Colin Powell, as can be seen above,
joked to Haass, "You misread your girlfriend", after he informed
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Powell about the apparent decision to go to war with Iraq.
Haass' claims that the Iraq War had nothing to do with oil and
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profits, or with Israel, are questionable as well. Haass is a
Jew, by the way.

Opposition to the Iraq War and the neocons is a fascinating

issue. Almost all senior American politicians and elites
unequivocably supported the Iraq invasion. The only mild and
less mild opposition to the Iraq invasion (and not the
Afghanistan invasion) came from the
"diplomacy"/"equilibrium"-obsessed Kissinger clique, an Israel-
hating Zbigniew Brzezinski and the equally Israel-hating
George Soros circles. Let's look at the dividing lines on the Iraq
issue from 2001-2003, because it's clear it wasn't just a "Jewish
neocon" issue:

Pro-Iraq invasion - Bush administration:

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1. Condoleezza Rice : A key George Shultz protege and Bush
national security advisor.
2. Dick Cheney: U.S. vice president.
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3. Donald Rumsfeld : Secretary of defense 2001-2006.
4. Paul Wolfowitz: Deputy secretary of defense 2001-2005.
5. Douglas Feith: Under secretary of defense for policy 2001-
2005. In September 2002 he and Wolfowitz founded the
secret Office of Special Plans, which gathered intelligence
and cherry-picked and manipulated any data that could be
construed as Iraq having ties to Al Qaeda or working on
weapons of mass destruction. Feith headed this office until
June 2003, three months after the Iraq invasion. He and
Wolfowitz briefed Rumsfeld, Cheney and Rice with their
manipulated data. These officials wanted the Office of
Special Plans manipulations to be true, which pushed CIA
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analysts on the defense. All this is literally a rehash of
the "(neo)conservative" "Team B" group during the Cold
War in 1975-1976, that was founded by Richard Perle and
counted the involvement of Paul Wolfowitz. Team B just
maximized the military threat of the Soviet Union in
opposition to the CIA.
 6. Richard Perle: Member of the Defense Policy Board 1996-
2005, and chairman 2001-2003.
7. Paul Bremer.
8. Richard Boucher.

"Reluctantly" pro-Iraq invasion - Bush administration:

1. Colin Powell: Bush's secretary of state.

Anti-Iraq invasion - outside of the Bush administration:

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1. Henry Kissinger.
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2. Brent Scowcroft : A key Kissinger protege in government
and as founding Kissinger Associates president.
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3. Lawrence Eagleburger : A key Kissinger protege in
government and as Kissinger Associates president who,
despite being against an Iraq invasion, already in the hours
after 9/11 stated on TV: "The Afghani government has a
responsibility that is at least as great as Osama bin Laden's.
And that means, I think, we must take military action
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against them [as well as] a number of states."
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4. Zbigniew Brzezinski.
5. George Soros.
6. Gen. Wesley Clark.

Pro-Iraq invasion - Republicans outside of the Bush

administration:
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1. George Shultz.
2. James Woolsey: A former CIA director and the chief neocon
U.S.-Israel NGO liaison, who one day after 9/11 went: "The
prime candidate [with 9/11] would have to be, not proven,
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but would have to be Iraq." Member Defense Policy
Board with Richard Perle and various other "neocons" 2001-
2005.
3. General Alexander Haig: An old right-wing Kissinger
protege, Knight of Malta, and 1981-1982 Reagan secretary of
state. As an international advisory board member of
"conservative CIA" outlet Newsmax, by January 2002 Haig
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openly preferred going after Syria, Iraq and Iran.

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4. Sen. John McCain:
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5. Sen. Rick Santorum.
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6. Sen. John Kyl.
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7. Sen. Richard Lugar.
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8. Sen. Mitch McConnell.
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9. Sen. Arlen Specter.

Pro-Iraq invasion - Democrats outside of the Bush

administration:
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1. Sen. Hillary Clinton: Democrat leader and senator 2001-
2009, who on October 10, 2002 said to the Senate:
"Unfortunately, during the 1980s, while he engaged in such
horrific [torture and chemical warfare] activity, he enjoyed
the support of the American government, because he had
oil and was seen as a counterweight to the Ayatollah
Khomeini in Iran. In 1991 Saddam Hussein invaded and
occupied Kuwait, losing the support of the United States.
[Since inspectors were pushed out] Saddam Hussein has
worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons
stock... and his nuclear program. He has also given aid,
 comfort and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda
members. ... Any vote that might lead to war should be
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hard, but I cast it with conviction."

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2. Sen. Joe Biden: Democrat Delaware senator from 1973
until becoming U.S. vice president in 2009. On October 10,
2002, with great conviction and even anger, he said to the
Senate: "President Bush did not lash out precipitously at
Iraq after 9/11. He did not snub the U.N. or our allies. He did
not dismiss new inspection regimes. He did not ignore
congress. At each pivotal moment, he has chosen a course
of moderation and deliberation. And I believe he will
continue to do so. ... In each case in my view, he has made
the right, rational, and calm, deliberate decision... The
reason [Saddam Hussein] poses a growing danger to the
United States and its allies is that he *possesses* chemical
and biological weapons and is seeking nuclear weapons.
[Dismissive:] And-uh, unlike my colleague from West-
Virginia and Maryland, I don't believe this is a rush to war.
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I believe it's a march to peace and security."

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3. Sen. John Kerry: A member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee anno 2002. On October 9, 2002 he
gave the Senate a long history of Hussein's war crimes,
miscalculations and penchant for developing weapons of
mass destruction. He continued, "We should not go to war
because these things are in his past, but be prepared to go
to war because of what they tell us about the future,"
followed by the lie, "We know through intelligence that not
 only he has kept them [the chemical cand biological
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weapons], but he continues to grow them."

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4. Sen. Jay Rockefeller. A nephew of David Rockefeller and
a senator from West Virginia from 1985 to 2015, who served
as vice chair and chair of the Senate Intelligence
Committee in the years after 9/11. On October 10, 2002,
Rockefeller held a speech on the Senate floor, saying: "The
risk of doing nothing [is] too great to bear. There is
unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working
aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely
have nuclear weapons within the next five years. And
could have it earlier if he is able to obtain fissle materials
on the outside market. ... We have always underestimated
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the progress that Saddam has been able to make..."
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5. Sen. Chuck Hagel. A member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee anno 2002, similar to John Kerry.
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6. Sen. Dianne Feinstein:
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7. Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
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8. Sen. Harry Reid.
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9. Sen. Chuck Schumer.
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10. Sen. Bill Frist.
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11. Sen. Tom Daschle.

So again, the "neocons" manipulated the United States into the

Iraq War? Or better said, the "neocons" manipulated the Bush
administration into pushing for the Iraq War? And then the
Bush administration, with its questionable intelligence leaks,
was able to convince Congress and the Senate into supporting
the war? Even Democrat elites? Who under Obama maintained
a similarly interventionist, "pro-neocon" foreign policy in the
post-Bush era? Questionable as such a line of thinking may be,
it certainly looks as if just about every influential senator with
some significance in ISGP's Superclass Index, took the bait:
hook, line and sinker.

Watching the Senate proceedings at the time and comparing it

to the even more embarrassing TikTok ones of 2023, the scenery
is quite recognizable. Fake, controlled opposition debates ruled
the day, from questions as "Is he manufacturing these weapons
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of mass destruction for the defense of his sovereign nation?"
to what type of nuclear threat the U.S. or countries surrounding
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Iraq might be facing from Saddam , to questions if the U.S.
should proceed with war if Saudi Arabia won't make bases
available. Literally everyone was talking around the issue that
the Bush administration's intelligence on Saddam's alleged
nuclear weapons development program, or supposed ties to Al
Qaeda, was flimsy at best - and all too convenient for a
"neocon"-influenced administration hell-bent from the day of
9/11 to go to war with Iraq.

On June 5, 2008 Senate Intelligence Committee chairman

Senator Jay Rockefeller put out the Committee's work
demonstrating that President George W. Bush, vice president
Dick Cheney, secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, secretary
of state Colin Powell and national security advisor Condoleezza
Rice all had conspired to lie about Iraq having ties to Al Qaeda,
having weapons of mass destruction, in particular nuclear
ones; and about various other aspects, including having
exaggerated how welcome an American liberation would be.
Rockefeller's words:

"Just to be clear, there is no doubt that we all relied on

flawed intelligence. But there is a fundamental difference
between relying on incorrect intelligence and deliberately
painting a picture to the American people that you know is
not fully supported by intelligence. ... It's about the most
heinous type of activity that I can think of: it's taking
intelligence which you know not to be true, and then
persuing it. ...

"And I'm gonna give an example and that is the enriched

uranium. This was a REALLY big deal on all the Sunday
shows, with the president, the vice president and
everybody else, Condi Rice, all of them, repeating,
repeating, repeating, "Avoid the mushroom cloud. Saddam
is preparing a nuclear weapon. And he is getting enriched
uranium."

"The fact of the matter was, he wasn't. ... The fact of the
matter is if he was trying to get it - which he wasn't - from
Niger, he couldn't have gotten it from Niger, because all
their yellow cake, which he was seeking, is controlled by
the French government, and they would not have allowed
it to happen. And beyond that, he already had 500,000
pounds of yellow cake in Iraq. But they turned this sort of
sequence of absolute untruthers into scaring the American
people. [They were] saying something that was entirely
unsubstantiated, which they knew... and that had the gall
to try and pawn it off on British intelligence. ...

"[Cites his own report:] "Statements and implications by

the president and the secretary of state suggesting that Iraq
and Al Qaeda had a partnership, or that Iraq had provided
Al Qaeda with weapons of training, were not substantiated
by the intelligence. ... Statements by the president and the
vice president indicating that Saddam Hussein was
prepared to give weapons of mass destruction to terrorist
group for attacks against the United States, were
contradicted by available, at that time, intelligence
information." ... So much was not based on intelligence.
They simply didn't care about that. They disdained the
intelligence community. ...

""Statements by the president and the vice president prior

to the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate
regarding Iraq's chemicial weapons production
capabilities and activities, did not reflect the intelligence
community's uncertainties whether such production was
ongoing. But boy, did they put it forward. The secretary of
defense's statement that the Iraqi government operated an
underground weapons of mass destruction facility that
was buried so deep that it was not vulnerable to missile or
other attack - uh, [that] was not substantiated by available
intelligence and information. The intelligence community
did not confirm that Mohammed Atta met an Iraqi
intelligence officer in Prague in 2001 is a very important
point."" They made much of that. Talked about it
 constantly. And yet the facts are all to the other side. He
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wasn't even out of the country - this country."

As any top-notch politician, Senator Jay Rockefeller really did

his best to sound shocked and angry about all the misleading
the Bush government had been doing. The real question, of
course, is how Rockefeller himself supposedly was so
convinced by the Bush administration's non-evidence in 2002
that he voted in favor of an attack on Iraq with the argument,
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is
working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons..." Even
much later, on February 5, 2003, in front of the United Nations,
all Colin Powell showed were a few pixelated satellite photos
that could mean anything. The rest was just posturing. All the
intelligence reports Senator Rockefeller discredited in 2008
never were credible at an earlier date, because they just
consisted of random bits and pieces of speculation that never
came to form a coherent story. This author, as a naive 20-year-
old, literally was laughing and rolling his eyes back in February
2003 upon seeing Colin Powell's U.N. speech: "They sure are
desperate to invade Iraq, aren't they?"

So why was Senator Rockefeller so convinced in 2002-2003 that

Iraq was developing nuclear weapons? Or Hillary Clinton, Joe
Biden and John Kerry for that matter? Of course, they weren't.
They were just towing the expected line, similar to any senator
who was anyone within the globalist think tank network, or
who turned out to have a career in front of them in terms of
future presidential candidacies or senior cabinet positions.
That also helps explain why even Senator Rockefeller admitted
that it had taken forever to produce the report in question, and
why, despite his harsh languague, even saying the Bush
administration was "rotting" the democratic process in other
ways with its lies, absolutely, staunchly opposed criminal
prosecution procedures. In fact, he specifically had to be asked
about it when he tried to walk off at the end of the press
conference. Next he misunderstood the question: "Do I endorse
this report?" His staffer corrected him: "No, criminal
prosecution", after which Rockefeller sternly went:

"Oh no, I'm not into that. ["Why not"?] Well, one, because
you'd love it so much. [*Laughter*] Second, it would mean
[that] nothing else, whether it's clean air or uh, whatever,
FISA, would get done. In other words, if you press for that,
it's like pressing for impeachment. It's a grand act! Uhm,
with only, you know, five or six months to go. But it's a
futile act. And it's a wrong act. Because we do have
business to do. And, you know, should it be done? In the
wide sweep of history? Yes. Should it be now by us, now?
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No!"

So, in other words: let's not prosecute criminal behavior of the

entire Bush administration that cost the U.S. trillions of dollars
and caused thousands of dead and mutilated U.S. soldiers in a
war that still was not at its end... because it's inconvenient for
the Democrat-Republican relationship? And because the Bush
administration will be out of power by late January 2009, not 5-
6 months, but almost 8 months later? This makes zero sense, of
course: it will result in exactly what Senator Rockefeller was
claiming during the press conference that he tried to prevent: a
repeat of the type of behavior of the Bush administration.

Of course, anybody familiar with senior bureaucrats - which

this author has increasingly been - immediately recognizes the
roleplays and sugar-coated lies and cover ups. Judges,
prosecutors, Superior Court lawyers and politicians - at least
over here in the Netherlands - shamelessly engage in this
behavior all day whenever they need to protect "the system", to
the point of disappearing and ignoring every possible
document and secret audio recording. (The author has
privately already written a book on that). All their "opposition"
is just "play" with unspoken limits to the public debate. And
they know they can get away with it, because neither the media
nor any colleagues of theirs will hold them accountable. The
senior levels of government are a stranglehold: you shut your
mouth and go along, or you get out. You do the exact opposite of
what a pressured criminal does: you make no deals and you
don't inform on anyone, no matter the evidence against you. As
long as you shut your youth, you get protected.

In any case, there was no reason for Senator Rockefeller to try

and prosecute the Bush family, vice president Dick Cheney,
secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of state Colin
Powell and national security advisor Condoleezza Rice,
because they are all major playors in the globalist think tank
network. They are meant to play their roles and stay above the
law. A Donald Trump, despite being "conservative CIA", they
would have immediately tried to impeach and prosecute. If
fact, he wouldn't even have gotten away with any
warmongering, because the media wouldn't have played along.
So it's all a silly game of insider corruption. Even if Bush
government officials were to be convicted, they would likely be
pardoned by a future administration, similar to how President
George H. W. Bush in 1992 pardoned his former Reagan
government colleagues Robert McFarlane, Caspar Weinberger
and Elliott Abrams, as well as various senior CIA officials
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involved in Iran-Contra and BCCI scandals. They all got
away with that too. The holes in the report of the Bush-
appointed elite 9/11 Commission? Same story.

Kissinger the "anti-neocon" - while his buddy George Shultz

fielded them
In the previous section we saw that it were the "Rockefeller
Republican" Henry Kissinger, the "Rockefeller Democrat"
Zbigniew Brzezinski and the "new left" "Social Democrat"
George Soros being among the minority within the globalist
elite who expressed reservations or outright opposition to the
2003 Iraq invasion. Then we had "Reagan Republican" George
Shultz who was in favor. There are more questions to be raised,
because all of these men were close friends and allies of David
Rockefeller for decades-on-end through the CFR and Trilateral
Commission, as well as successive Democrat and Republican
administrations. In other words, their "division" is not
particularly credible, and also peculiar enough to address,
because Kissinger and his "detente" policy have always been
the ultimate two enemies of the (neo)conservatives, while
Shultz quite literally injected the neoconservatives into the
Bush administration.
Henry Kissinger and George Shultz shared membership in
many globalist think tanks and met each other on many
different occasions. Countless pictures of them together exist,
even from the Bush, Obama and Trump administration eras,
also at the White House. Kissinger has publicly fawned over
Shultz since his second set of memoirs that were published on
January 1, 1982, six months before Shultz moved from the
Bechtel presidency to become Reagan's secretary of state; with
Bechtel's immediate past vice president, Caspar Weinberger,
already having been appointed Reagan's secretary of defense at
that point:

"I met no one in public life for whom I developed greater

respect and affection. ... He became the dominant member
of every committee he joined. ... If I could choose one
American to whom I would entrust the nation’s fate in a
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crisis, it would be George Shultz."

George Shultz has similarly been close to David Rockefeller

through the University of Chicago since 1967, the CFR, the
Bohemian Grove and the U.S.-USSR Trade and Economic
Council since the 1970s. He actually served as a CFR director
under chairman David Rockefeller in 1980-1982, before
becoming Reagan's long-time secretary of state; and was
involved in David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission and the
new age-globalist State of the World Forum with the likes of
David Rockefeller, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ted Turner in the
1990s. Despite the liberal-globalist ties and a cheerful
personality, also in the post-9/11 era Shultz continued to play
the stone-cold, right-wing Reaganite without any apparent
humor when making statements as the following:

"You remember the Dow Chemical Company? It’s a fine

chemical company. They made napalm, which the Defense
Department wanted. I suppose it’s a perfectly honorable
thing in America to run a company that produces
something that the Defense Department wants to buy.
However, in the Vietnam atmosphere, they were very
unpopular on campuses... [Professor] Hans Morgenthau
gave a speech about the terrible things of napalm and
Vietnam and so, but we had the [opposition] interviews.
Freedom of speech prevailed. ...

"It [also] was the first time that Henry Kissinger realized
that economics was important because he saw how
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destabilizing this was."

A first interesting thing to mention is that "the lefty" Hans

Morgenthau, soon after these events, was to be found as a
"fellow member" of the ultraright Hudson Institute, alongside
Henry Kissinger, Milton Friedman, and a list of emerging
neocons, with both Nelson Rockefeller and his son Rodman
playing important roles in the institute.

As for the speech, in this case Shultz quite literally used the
production of napalm in a questionable war as an example of
Milton Friedman's concept of "freedom". Friedman was a
proponent of the most radical form of neoliberalism and
libertarism: no maximum working hours, no minimum wages,
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no laws for such (essential) things as building codes, etc.
With that, Friedman (and Shultz) contrasted with "the left" -
and even David Rockefeller, who criticized the "Friedman
Doctrine" and argued in favor of various forms of "corporate
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social responsibility". The "Friedman Doctrine" became
particularly well known in 1970 when a Milton Friedman-
penned New York Times headline read, 'The [Only] Social
Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits [for the
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Shareholders]'. Both actually became key contrasting
philosophies on Wall Street. This aspect is discussed at some
length in ISGP's Three Establishment Model article.

Ironically, post-9/11, George Shultz defined "neoconservatism",

and effectively its whole global War on Terror, also in terms of
Milton Friedman-type "freedom"-spreading. It appears that
every aspect of the policies he has been pushing revolves
around this concept, similar to how Kissinger always talked
about things as "equilibrium" and "world order":

"I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism', but I think

it's associated with trying to spread open political systems
and democracy. I recall President Reagan's Westminster
speech in 1982—that communism would be consigned to
‘the ash heap of history' and that freedom was the path
ahead. And what happened? Between 1980 and 1990
[during Reagan], the number of countries that were
classified as ‘free' or ‘mostly free' increased by about 50
percent. Open political and economic systems have been
gaining ground... I don't know whether that's
neoconservative or what it is, but I think it's what has been
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happening. I'm for it."
Shultz' preference for pro-Israel neoconservatism makes sense,
as in the 1980s, as Reagan's secretary of state, he developed
among the closest ties to Israel of any top person in the
Superclass Index. James Woolsey, certainly since 9/11, has
many more of these ties, but Shultz's ties started much earlier:
going back to his friendship with future Israeli prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu in the mid 1980s, followed by overseeing
the neoliberal reform of the Israeli economy, all of which
brought Shultz into the radical CIA-Mossad and MI6-tied
Zionist and pro-Israel network of the Jonathan Institute, named
after Benjamin Netanyahu's slain brother.

The article in which Shultz was cited was published by the

heavily conservative-oriented Hoover Institution, the long-time
home of Shultz and, since 2013, Henry Kissinger as well. It was
aptly called 'George Shultz, Father of the Bush Doctrine'. After
all, it was George Shultz, with his protege Condoleezza Rice,
who invited Governor George W. Bush to Shultz's Stanford
office, and surrounded him with neoconservatives as Paul
Wolfowitz and Richard Perle to build Bush's foreign policy -
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were he to be elected.

In reality, the "neoconservative" Shultz and Friedman economic

and political doctrines cannot function long-term by
themselves without being balanced out by concepts promoted
by elitist friends as the Rockefeller Republican, the Clinton
Democrat, or a Jimmy Carter and George Soros-type Social
Democrat. And these elements certainly have fielded their
opposition - or "opposition" - to the Shultz- and Friedman-
inspired "Bush Doctrine". George Soros has been the most
prominent aspect of that. The heavy funding of anything from
the Democracy Alliance to MoveOn.org, and the latter's
subsequent support for Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11' -
which after 30 minutes very abruptly switched from
questioning 9/11 to questioning the Iraq invasion - is exactly
what first made George Soros notorious.

Traditional liberal-globalist Zbigniew Brzezinski, coming from

an more "elite" perspective, has not been quiet either. In his
2009 analysis of the change between Bush 41 and Bush 43, he
correctly pointed out that the former was much more
traditionally anti-Israel, a view that Brzezinski - as a top pro-
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Third World immigration globalist - shared. In 2009
Brzezinski even suggested "a Liberty in reverse" if Israel would
try to fly over U.S.-controlled Iraqi airspace to attack Iran's
nuclear facilities, a reference to Israel's 1967 non-so-accidental
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attack on the U.S.S. Liberty.

Neither Brzezinski nor Soros, nor anyone else really, has

focused on the fact that a (fellow) Trilateral Commission
member, George Shultz, largely fielded "the neocons" though,
individuals these elites also were already familiar with for
many years. In fact, a former Washington Post and Los Angeles
Times journalist named James Mann is the only one to have
focused on the Shultz aspect in his 2004 book 'Rise of the
Vulcans'. Guess who joined the Kissinger- and Brzezinski-
dominated CSIS in October 2001, one month after 9/11? That
would be James Mann, as "Writer-in-Residence, International
Security Program", right on the same panel and with the same
function as the pre-9/11-appointed Kissinger protege Anthony

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Blinken , who two full decades later, in 2021, surfaced as
President Joe Biden's secretary of state.

As always, no matter what side of the aisle someone is located,

at the highest levels everybody knows everybody. It's a
peculiar, hard-to-understand elite game, in which the average
voter has no say, and doesn't even have a clue just how close
the connections at the top are, even with political groups that
supposedly hate and maximally oppose each other. This, of
course, is why ISGP's various models are so important.

"Neocons" as in "new Jewish conservatives" perfectly fits ISGP's

models: including its controlled opposition aspect
Speaking of these models, in the 'Managed Democracy' article
ISGP demonstrated the domination of David Rockefeller and
friends - mainly Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and
George Shultz - of the Republican versus Democrat voting
system in the post-World War II era. Ignoring all the additional
liberal CIA" and "conservative CIA" controlled opposition
elements, also discussed in the Three Establishment Model and
Boxes Model articles, and just sticking to "elite elements" of
society, we find that America's Republican Party is split among
liberal-globalist "Rockefeller Republicans" and a more
nationalistic "Christian conservative" wing.

In turn, the latter is split into the influential pro-Israel

"neoconservatives" and the increasingly marginal traditional
right wing: the once-anti-Jewish, Christian conservative, anti-
interventionist "old right" and the pro-interventionist "new
right" of the Cold War, with the "Christian Right" spread among
the both of them. The "old right" for the most part became
known as the conspiracy-minded "alt right" in the run up to the
2016 Trump election, who represented all these elements in
one, including the neoconservatives.

The neocons and Christian conservatives have been working

together against liberals, mainly Democrats, since the 1970s.
This peculiar alliance only breaks down within the lowest,
controlled opposition John Birch Society, alt-right conspiracy
network. At this level "neocons" can be attacked without issue.

One major problem with these right-wing

establishments as a whole really is that
they have been dominated by the CIA
and the Pentagon ever since the creation
of the national security state. ISGP's Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas
Feith, the two highest-ranked
article on the American Security Council Zionist neocons in the history of
and its neoconservative follow-up, the the U.S. government. Wolfowitz
was Rumsfeld's deputy secretary
Center for Security Policy, made this of defense from 2001 to 2005,
with Feith serving as under
painfully clear, as well as ISGP's article secretary of defense for policy.
on Le Cercle. More recently, in the Both came out of Sen. Jackson's
Zionist "fifth column" office.
Pilgrims Society article, ISGP looked into Wolfowitz in particular has
numerous liberal establishment
the financing of the neocon movement,
ties: George Shultz, State
which eventually came to include PNAC, Department, Bilderberg, Aspen,
World Bank, and more.
through "conservative CIA" foundations
as Olin, Bradley, Scaife, H. Smith Richardson Foundation and
Achelis and Bodman. Not only do some of these foundations
have clear CIA ties, but some of them also have had liberal
establishment elites, including many Pilgrims, on the board for
decades, sitting there alongside their conservative
counterparts. It really makes one wonder to what extent the
"neocons" or even traditional conservatives even exist as a
separate establishment or if all of it is little more than just little
factions within one larger establishment, controlled in its
entirety by the security state. In fact, the author has already
made the case that there is no such thing as a "conservative
establishment".

That brings us to ISGP's definition of the "neocons": they are the

"new conservatives" that emerged in the 1970s, as the pro-
interventionist "new right" dropped switched its anti-Jewish
character into a pro-Jewish one, as portrayed by the transition
of the American Security Council to the Center for Security
Policy. If anything, it might be best to refer to the Jewish aspect
of the "new right" as "neoconservative", considering
neoconservatism is so strongly tied to a group of Jewish
scholars with an "Israel uber alles" mentality: Richard Perle,
Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Richard Pipes and quite a few
others.

Most crucially, ISGP's model would predict that these

neoconservatives should be just as much controlled opposition
as the traditional "conservative establishment" of the "new
right", "old right", and "Christian right". We've already seen
evidence of that, with the Soros-, Kissinger- and -Brzezinski-
tied General Wesley Clark, and much of the dominant liberal
globalist media, attacking them so prominently, similar to how
these newspapers always attacked the CIA-tied "new right
conservatives" involved in the various scandals of the Reagan
years: Iran-Contra, the wider Contra scandal, the Moonies and
BCCI. Also with these "neocons:

1. we can't really find a separate power base in terms of

multinational financing;
2. and they don't occupy the highest levels of government.

Are Rumsfeld, Cheney, etc. "neocons"? Or maybe right-wing

globalists?
The term "neocon" is often liberally sprinkled out. We've given
ISGP's definition of them in the previous section, but generally
there's isn't a definitive answer as to what a "neoconservative"
is. Some apply it to any Bush administration-tied official who
supported the Iraq War or subsequent Democrat-led
interventions in Syria and Gaddafi's Libya. At other times it
specifically refers to hawkish Jewish scholars. If even George
Shultz, who was cited in a previous section, couldn't give a
definition of "neoconservatism", you know it's either a vague or
sensitive subject. In this case it is both.

As a result of this vagueness, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick

Cheney - respectively secretary of defense and vice president
under George W. Bush - have been labeled "neoconservatives".
The problem is - and as ISGP's index of institutes demonstrates
- these men have been very comfortable with the liberal-
globalist establishment, having held important positions in
groups ranging from the CFR and the Bretton Woods Committee
to the Eisenhower Fellowships and the Atlantic Institute of
International Affairs. Yes, they ended up supporting Israel
stronger than almost anyone in the liberal-globalist
establishment, but does this make them part of an entirely new
establishment? Hardly. Throughout the 1990s Rumsfeld even
was a director of Gulfstream, together with George Shultz,
Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger and Lynn Forester de Rothschild.
His name also appeared in Pilgrims Society membership lists of
the 1990s. So did the name of Bush's uncle, by the way, Prescott
S. Bush, Jr., the brother of President George H. W. Bush. And
upon seeing Cheney's puppy dog face when taking a question
from David Rockefeller at the Council on Foreign Relations and
hearing his introduction--quoted below--and it's immediately
clear that Cheney too is extremely close to the liberal-globalist
establishment:

"It's good to be back at the Council on Foreign Relations. As

Pete [Peterson] mentioned, I've been a member for a long
time and was actually a director for some period of time. I
never mentioned that when I was campaigning for re-
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election back home in Wyoming."

Not only that, at the CFR, David Rockefeller thanked Cheney for
his support for the Free Trade Agreement for all the Americas
(FTAA):

"Vice president [Cheney], I just watched your whole

speech, but I was particularly pleased that you gave such a
strong endorsement for the Free Trade Agreement for all
the Americas, a subject that has been of great concern to
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me for many years..."

The FTAA failed in 2008, but would have made it even easier
for Latino immigrants to move into the United States. This not
only shows that both "the left" and "the right" in American
politics are globalist-oriented, but also that Cheney was fully in
support of that agenda. In a joint appearance with Bill Clinton
on July 13, 2017, George W. Bush showed to be of the exact same
pro-Third World immigration mindset. Considering the FTAA's
family-structure- and Christianity-destroying nature, that
certainly excludes Bush and Cheney from the "Christian
conservative" box they have been pretending to be part of.

If key Bush administration officials as Rumsfeld and Cheney

aren't true neoconservatives, operating independently from the
globalist establishment, then who are?

National security advisor and secretary of state

Condoleezza Rice? The George Shultz protege at Stanford
University, the Chevron oil corporation, and Rockefeller
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bank JPMorgan Chase?

Or secretary of state Colin Powell? Who in the 1990s was a

director of Forstmann Little and Gulfstream, together with
George Shultz, Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger and
Lynn Forester de Rothschild?

Or defense secretary and former CIA director Robert Gates?

Who in the 1990s was to be found at the Forum For
International Policy (FFIP), together with the afore-
mentioned Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, key Kissinger
proteges and Bush 41 administration men Brent Scowcroft
and Lawrence Eagleburger?
These persons are the "new conservatives"? Hardly. They are
not traditional "Christian conservatives" either. All of them
feature high up in ISGP's Superclass Index, meaning they have
had involvement in dozens of liberal-globalist think tanks. And
this is just a small percentage of the globalist ties. In other
words, they are just globalists - right-wing globalists if you will.
But it should be clear that a Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell
would be just as suitable for an Obama or Biden
administration. Gates actually stayed on as secretary of
defense for 2.5 years in the Obama administration. It makes
little difference. The "radicals" played their part in initiating the
War on Terror, and now the "moderates" can come in to
continue it with a little less torture and overt invasion.

Real (Jewish) neocons: mid level State and Defense influencers:

a list of names
So, at the top of the Bush administration, no true neocons
existed, at least not of the Jewish kind. So where did they exist?
Well, looking at the Jewish character, the fact is that virtually
all well known "neocons" fall into one or more of the categories
below:

1. Mid-level Pentagon employees.

2. Actually also State Department employees looking at David
J. Kramer.
3. National security scholars.
4. Executives of CIA-, State- and Pentagon-linked think tanks.

Well known neoconservatives include:

1. Richard Perle 2. Paul Wolfowitz

 3. Douglas Feith 12. Richard Pipes
4. Michael Ledeen 13. Daniel Pipes
5. Dov Zakheim 14. Elliott Abrams
6. Frank Gaffney 15. Ariel Cohen
7. Irving Kristol 16. Edward Luttwak
8. William Kristol 17. David Kramer
9. Joshua Muravchik 18. David & Meyrav
10. Norman Podhoretz Wurmser
11. Midge Decter

The fact is, while being influential in a whole range of NGOs,

these "neocons" never rose to top positions in the U.S.
government. Paul Wolfowitz held the highest office: as
Rumsfeld's deputy secretary of defense from 2001 to 2005.
Douglas Feith, as under secretary of defense for policy, served
under Wolfowitz, and, together with Michael Ledeen and
AIPAC henchmen as Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman,
collected much of the dirty propaganda to make a U.S. invasion
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of Iraq possible. By 2004 they also were investigated by the
FBI for secretly providing classified Pentagon information to
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Israel. Who could have predicted that?

Already back in the early 1980s, Feith

served under Richard Perle in the
Defense Department. A full decade
later, in 2001, Bush 43 appointed Perle
WINEP research director Patrick chairman of the Defense Policy Board.
Clawson in 2012 when he says: "Look
This is not an official government
people, Iranian submarines
periodically go down; some day one position though and already in 2003 he
of them may not come up. Who
would know why? We can do a was forced to step down. Back when
variety of things if we wish to
increase the pressure."
Reagan came into office in 1981, Perle
Clawson openly suggested a false
flag-type attack to bring the U.S. into did have an official position at the
war with Iran. The advisory board of
WINEP, a Zionist think tank, has Defense Department, but counted Fred
included top neocons as James Ikle and General Richard Stilwell, a
Woolsey, Richard Perle, Paul
Wolfowitz, in addition to liberal- former CIA chief in the Far East, among
globalist establishment
representatives as Henry Kissinger
his superiors here. Throughout the
and George Shultz. Dov Zakheim has 1980s these men were key liaisons to
also been a major player in WINEP.
There's little doubt that Israel is the secretive Cercle group, most likely
maintaining a fifth column in the U.S.
through WINEP, AIPAC, CPMAJO and
arranged through the connections of
other groups. their boss, deputy secretary of defense
Frank Carlucci. Carlucci was a friend of controversial CIA
spook Ted Shackley, who played a key role in running the
Cercle group. Carlucci is actually said to have made a decision
with Shackley, General Vernon Walters (ASC), George H. W.
Bush and others, to try and foment a silent CIA coup of the
White House in the late 1970s, which took the form of the
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hawkish Reagan administration As we know that Carlucci,
Shackley and Bush were close associates and friends from the
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1970s on and into the 21st century, it's not surprising either
that Rumsfeld, a college friend and political protege of Carlucci;
and George W. Bush, the son of George H. W. Bush, allowed the
neocons to return. However, the neocons do not control
anything. They are always brought in as assistants.

As has been discussed in some detail in ISGP's American

Security Council article, many neocons originated from the
office of Senator Henry Jackson to be employed as "detente
wreckers", the famous policy embraced by secretary of state
and national security advisor Henry Kissinger, with support
from the Rockefellers and much of the CFR elite. Back in the
1970s the following upcoming neocons all were employed at
Senator Jackson's office, which by itself is a curious situation:
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1. Richard Perle , a Jackson staffer
from 1969 to 1980;
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2. Frank Gaffney ;
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3. Paul Wolfowitz , who soon
ended up on the "Team B" CIA
advisory panel through its chair,
Senator Henry Jackson, an absolute
Richard Pipes, because "Perle favorite of the CIA, American
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recommended him so highly" ; Security Council, Le Cercle, and
Israel. On whose behalf exactly did
4. Richard Pipes, who had been he run a Zionist fifth column from his
senate office? Here we have one
brought in as a part-time senator employing Perle, Wolfowitz,
"consultant" by Jackson at the Feith, Luttwak, Gaffney, Pipes and
111 Abrams as staffers, years before
recommendation of Perle ; most of them rose to prominence.
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5. Edward Luttwak , earlier Perle's
important overlooked facts in
roommate at the London School of American history, still waiting for a
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Economics ;
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6. Douglas Feith ;
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7. and Elliott Abrams .

Senator Henry Jackson was listed among the "The Founders,

Benefactors and Strategists" of the American Security Council
and known as a hawkish, anti-communist Democrat senator
from 1953 until his death in 1983. In 1976 he and the CIA-tied
neocon Michael Ledeen were founders of the Jewish Institute
for National Security Affairs (JINSA), where CIA director James
Woolsey, Dick Cheney, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz (a co-
chair) and Douglas Feith (vice chair) all ended up on the board.
In fact, Ledeen, Woolsey and Perle jointly left the board of
JINSA in 2012. In 1979 Senator Henry Jackson was part of the
Jonathan Institute in Jerusalem, again surrounded by Jewish
neoconservatives, as well as a recently retired CIA director
George H. W. Bush. Then, 22 years after this death, in 2005,
prominent neoconservatives as James Woolsey and Richard
Perle set up the neocon Henry Jackson Society.

Looking at this background, Senator Henry Jackson must have

played a key role in founding the "neocon establishment", right?
Well, before jumping to that conclusion, let's search ISGP's
index of NGOs for any other former ties of Senator Jackson.
Again, it doesn't take long to find that Senator Jackson also was
involved in plenty of major liberal-globalist projects of the
Rockefeller-kind:

1. In 1971, together with Nelson Rockefeller, a co-founder of

the America-Israel Friendship League (AIFL). Certainly in
the post-9/11 era, this would end up being a peculiar group.
On the one hand, directors of the AIFL in that period
included long-time respective ADL and CPMAJO chiefs
Abraham Foxman and Malcolm Hoenlein, as well as other
Jewish globalist and Israel Lobby heavyweights, including
multiple billionaires: Kenneth Bialkin, Mortimer
Zuckerman, Ronald Lauder, Michael Steinhardt and
Michael Ovitz. On the other hand, "Rockefeller liberal" and
"Rockefeller conservative" globalist elites as Henry
Kissinger, George Shultz, former Kissinger Associates
president Lawrence Eagleburger, former Rockefeller
Foundation trustee Vernon Jordan, who brought Bill
Clinton into the CFR, Bilderberg and the Trilateral
 Commission before even announcing his presidential
campaign; all were on the advisory board of this group.
With that, the AIFL grew to become a key liaison NGO for
Eastern Establishment ties with the Zionists, which has
seldom been overly friendly.

2. Along with countless elite senators, a founding advisory

board member in 1977 of the Alliance to Save Energy under
advisory board chairman Henry Kissinger. Founding
directors of the group included Laurance Rockefeller,
David Rockefeller and two dozen of their elite CFR-tied
friends.

3. Alongside Nelson Rockefeller, Rockefeller mentor John

McCloy and countless other elites, anno 1977 a honorary
director of the Atlantic Council. Kissinger had just become
a director and continued to be one into the 2020s.

Kissinger actually has stated that he "considered Jackson a

good friend, and I agreed with many of his analyses of Soviet
intentions." The only difference was that Jackson was looking
for "all-out confrontation [with the Soviet Union], under the
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influence of ... Richard Perle." Zbigniew Brzezinski, when
serving as Jimmy Carter national security advisor, considered
Perle for a position at his National Security Council, but in the
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end Perle was never appointed. In the end you have to reach
the conclusion that the emerging neocons were an accepted
part within Washington's elite. Paul Nitze, the right-wing
globalist hawk who was Bilderberg's early advisor on the
Soviet Union, came to deal a lot with the neocons, such as in
1975-1976 as part of Team B, together with Richard Pipes and
Paul Wolfowitz. "Neocon godfather" Fritz Kraemer recruited
Henry Kissinger in 1944, a decade before Nelson Rockefeller
did so, and also recruited the hawkish Alexander Haig in 1961.
Both Haig and Kraemer's son, Sven, came to work for Kissinger.
Subsequently, Sven became an assistant to detente wrecker
Senator John Tower, and Haig was accepted as the first
secretary of state in the anti-detente Reagan administration.

The peculiar situation at the office of Senator Henry Jackson,

together with all of Senator Jackson's globalist ties, does stand
at the center of this neocon mystery. This situation occurred in
the same period that a number of CIA-linked "neocon"
foundations began building the "neocon" movement - except
that, once again, at least half of these foundations also
contained liberal Eastern Establishment elites on their board.
The foundations in question were the:

1. Olin Foundation
2. H. Smith Richardson Foundation
3. Scaife foundations
4. Bradley Foundation
5. Coors Foundation
6. Achelis and Bodman Foundation

To illustrate, what was John J. McCloy, a Pilgrim, CFR chair,

Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation chair and the
mentor of David Rockefeller at both the CFR and Chase
Manhattan Bank, doing on the board of the Olin Foundation
from the late 1970s until his death in 1989? That's just where the
Eastern Establishment ties of the birth of the neocon movement
start. John M. Olin was a long-time member of the Pilgrims from
the 1960s on. Key "conservative CIA" financier Richard Mellon
Scaife, a cousin of Pilgrims as Andrew and Paul Mellon, was on
the advisory board of the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (CSIS), a group dominated by Kissinger and Brzezinski
in particular. In 1985 not just Scaife and a bunch of right-
wingers were founding governors of the Reagan Foundation, so
were the Pilgrims David Rockefeller, Brooke Astor and various
other "liberal" globalist elites, similar to how the "conservative"
Reagan administration was dominated by these elites. As has
been done in the Pilgrims Society article with these early
"neocon" foundations, we could go on.

Going back to Senator Henry Jackson's clique, Richard Pipes

used to be on the board of the CIA- and Pentagon-dominated
American Security Council and chaired "Team B". Gaffney
founded the Center for Security Policy, the unofficial neocon
successor of the American Security Council. Another, Luttwak,
worked at the prestigious CSIS think tank for several decades.
In this capacity he has been a permanent consultant to various
special operations branches of the Pentagon, the national
security council, the State Department, and, unofficially, the
CIA covert operations clique surrounding Ted Shackley. Still,
Gaffney, Pipes, Luttwak, and fellow-neocons ranging from
Joshua Muravchik to Michael Ledeen, never held any official
government positions. They somehow made a name for
themselves as outside "consultants", often to the highest
government officials.
Of course, besides Perle, Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, a few
other neocons certainly did hold official positions in the U.S.
government:

1. William Kristol, the famous founder and chairman of the

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Project for the New American Century (PNAC) , was
chief of staff to vice president Dan Quayle in the
administration of George H. W. Bush.
2. Dov Zakheim was another mid-level Pentagon employee
under Reagan who was reappointed during the
administration of George W. Bush, in his case as under
secretary of defense (comptroller).
3. David J. Kramer, who held various upper level State
Deparment positions during the George W. Bush
administration.

That's about it. All this stands in stark contrast to the 30

important NGOs and Pentagon advisory groups Zakheim has
been involved in, quite often alongside former CIA director
James Woolsey. Kristol held almost 40 of such positions. His
father, Irving Kristol, infamously co-founded Encounter
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magazine with CIA backing and adds over a dozen more of
such positions.

A latter day find of this author is (Jewish) David J. Kramer, who

at the moment of this writing has been tied to 10 NGOs. Once
again it quickly becomes clear this person does not represent
any kind of separate "neocon establishment". Kramer has an
early history at CSIS, the Carnegie Endowment and then as a
senior fellow at PNAC - very familiar places that completely
and totally transcend the "liberal-globalist" and "neocon"
division. He joined the CFR in 1998. From 2000 to 2009 he held
various senior positions in the State Deparment. Among his
positions was as special advisor to under secretary of state for
global affairs Paula Dobriansky, a major hawkish superclass
member. From 2005 to 2008 he was deputy assistant secretary
of state for European and Eurasian affairs. During the final year
of the Bush administration in 2008-2009, he was employed as
assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and
labor.

After his government service, Kramer disappeared back into

the think tank world, first at the once-Rockefeller-funded
German Marshall Fund, and then, from 2010, as executive
director of the global "parallel CIA" group Freedom House.
Through these NGOs, as well as the international advisory
council of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA),
which also included top superclass members Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Madeleine Albright and Carl Bildt, he was able to
continue to exercise political influence in eastern Europe.

Apart from being handed the position of executive director of

the George W. Bush Institute, in 2016 Kramer was also
appointed executive director of the McCain Institute for
International Leadership. Through this position, Kramer was
handed the Steele Dossier about Donald Trump. Officially
meant to only be seen by Senator McCain, Kramer, supposedly
at his own initiative, leaked the report to "liberal CIA" media
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outlet Buzzfeed , causing months of controversy about the
only anti-immigration candidate (in theory) with nothing of
substance.
What do we see here all the time? Low level Jewish neocons
being accepted by much more influential conservative and
even liberal globalist elites.

Neocons as CIA-Mossad liaisons

If anything, the vast majority of neocons, if not all of them,
appear to be assets of the CIA and-or Mossad and certainly to
be used as liaisons to the Israeli government. As has been
discussed by ISGP, the CIA, mainly through the private club of
men as Richard Helms, Ted Shackley, Frank Carlucci and
George H. W. Bush, has maintained relations with the Vatican-
Paneuropa network (see Le Cercle Pinay), the Saudis (Safari
Club), and, seemingly through the neocons, Israel. Just one of
the latter-day examples this author ran across is Edward
Luttwak, an expert on death squads and coups, who can be tied
to Giancarlo Elia Valori through Italintesa and an Aspen
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Institute-sponsored meeting in Italy. Valori used to be a
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Cercle member and one of the key players in the P2 Lodge,
part of the fascist-terrorist "Strategy of Tension" campaign in
Italy. To this day he has top-level friends in the United States
and the Israel lobby, and is still suspected to be a major behind-
the-scenes power player.

Almost certainly Valori was well-acquainted

with Michael Ledeen, another fascist Zionist
extremist ("neocon"), at the time of Italy's
false flag bombings, the Banco Ambrosiano
scandal and the subsequent P2 affair. Ledeen Top neocon Richard Perle.
Backed by Ted Shackley
was operating in Italy as a SISMI military
(CIA), Frank Carlucci
intelligence "risk consultant". He primarily (CIA), James Schlesinger
 (CIA), James Woolsey
worked with controversial SISMI asset
(CIA); Conrad Black
Francesco Pazienza, with P2 member General (Hollinger and Bilderberg),
Netanyahu (PM Israel), to
Giuseppe Santovito being the head of SISMI a degree by George Shultz
at the time. Both Pazienza and Santovito were (Bechtel) and even worked
with Henry Kissinger on
close associates of Valori, who in more recent many occasions during the
War on Terror era: at
decades turned from a Vatican insider to Bilderberg, the National
being one of the closest friends of radical Interest and various
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Zionism. where is the "neocon
establishment?" It doesn't
exist. All neocons are low
Of course, Ledeen also never held any official to mid-level DOD
government position. He's just an academic employees, CIA-Mossad
liaison officers and
and journalist who shows up wherever some political science
professors involved in
kind of conspiracy is suspected, whether it's various think tanks. So
an assassination attempt on the pope, Iran why is everyone talking
about the neocon takeover
Contra, or the forging of the Yellowcake of the US government?

controversy, apparently with former P2 member, Italy's prime

minister Silvio Berlusconi, to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq
by the Bush administration. Unsurprisingly, Ledeen has been
close to CIA covert operation veterans as William Colby and
especially Ted Shackley for many decades.

Senator Jackson himself, apart from his globalist ties, was

closely linked to this same CIA group. In 1973 he worked closely
with top CIA officers Ted Shackley, William Colby and James
Schlesinger in undermining the Church Committee's inquiries
into Richard Helms' illegal CIA projects: MK-ULTRA, the
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Kennedy assassination, coups, Mockingbird, etc. Jackson is
also known to have been a darling of the American Security
Council and to have visited the secretive Cercle group of
Shackley, although it was mainly the ever-present Richard Perle
or an assistant of his, Pat Balestreri, who showed up as a
Pentagon liaison to Le Cercle in the 1980s. Wolfowitz visited Le
Cercle in the early 1990s.

How exactly did this network come about? We don't really

know the details, but Perle, as well as Wolfowitz, was sent to
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Jackson's office by Albert Wohlstetter , one of the godfathers
of neoconservatism who was a veteran of the RAND
Corporation and various right-wing and national security think
tanks and government advisory boards, all linked to the
Pentagon and the CIA. These include the Hudson Institute,
"Team B", the IISS, the European American Institute for Security
Research, the Institute for European Defence and Strategic
Studies, the Executive Panel of the Chief of Naval Operations,
the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, the Defense
Science Board, and more.

Zalmay Khalilzad and later CIA-recruit-to-topple-Saddam

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Hussein Ahmed Chalabi , as already discussed, also were
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initially picked up by Albert Wohlstetter. As also already
discussed, PNAC was financed by "conservative CIA"
foundations, with the main PNAC founder, William Kristol,
having a father whose 1950s-1960s publication was covertly
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financed by the CIA.

When you check all the NGOs the "neocons" have been part of
you find countless top-level national security ties to the U.S.
and Israel in particular. This would have to lead to the
conclusion that these "neocons" are some kind of combination
of CIA, Mossad, Israeli and U.s. government representatives,
and "establishment" - yet not the actual top.
James Woolsey's road to CIA director - until he really became
influential post-9/11 as the "neocon godfather"
Interestingly, Richard Perle is actually not the most connected
neocon of all. Ranked far above him on the neoconservative
ladder is the ultraconnected CIA spook James Woolsey, the
number 2 or 3 in ISGP's Superclass Index, right behind Henry
Kissinger. Indeed, Woolsey has been involved in more think
tanks and advisory bodies than a Zbigniew Brzezinski, and
roughly sits on par with David Rockefeller - if we ignore the
family's influence as a whole - and George Shultz. He also did
so in a remarkably short time, as since 9/11, Woolsey has played
a role in almost every think tank and action group set up by the
neocons, often alongside Richard Perle and Dov Zakheim.

At the same time though, Woolsey has

always been intricately connected to
the core of the liberal-globalist
establishment, best illustrated by his
early support for anti-global warming
Former CIA director and top-neocon measures, Yale and Rhodes
James Woolsey, in the top 3 in ISGP's
Superclass Index, right behind Henry Scholarship background (senators of
Kissinger. Here Woolsey is arguing
his 1993 CIA senate confirmation
that Edward Snowden should be
hanged for having exposed hearing were joking about Rhodes
questionable and even unlawful spy
operations of the NSA. That's
scholars apparently being an "Old Boy
interesting coming from a person Network" and "Mafia that has
who advocated for the Iraq War from
the day of 9/11, with his close suddenly taken over the
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Saddam to justify an invasion...
Administration" ), membership in
the CFR since 1975, directorship of the
Similarly, former NSA and CIA
director Michael Hayden, another Atlantic Council since 1981, positions at
major superclass member, stated at
the Smithsonian, and vice
the 2013 Cybersecurity Summit that
he wants Snowden put on a "kill list"
chairmanship of the CSIS think tank by
and was supported in this remark by
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congressman Mike Rogers, the 1988 , where for more than a decade
chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee. Neocons, even when he shared boards with Henry
members of the Democrat Party, are Kissinger, Maurice Greenberg,
the opposite of believers in
democracy. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Claiborne Pell
(closest of friends with the Liechtenstein royal family), top
European Union globalist and honorary Bilderberg chair
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Etienne Davignon and Baron Edmond de Rothschild. The
neocon Edward Luttwak was equally active at CSIS.

At the same time Woolsey was the ultimate arms industry

insider--quite possibly as a CIA informant--as a lawyer and
director of corporations as British Aerospace, DynCorp, Martin
Marietta, McDonnell Douglas, Litton Industries, Fairchild
Industries, Rockwell, SAIC, the Titan Corporation, United
132
Technologies, General Dynamics and also the Carlyle Group.
In 1987 and 1988 Woolsey was a member of the Scientific
Advisory Group of the Joint Strategic Targetting and Planning
Staff at Offutt Air Force Base. Worryingly, this is where part of
the Franklin child abuse affair supposedly took place, with
Woolsey and his wife, a national security behavioral
133
psychologist, being rather closely linked to the affair.

Woolsey's first association with the neoconservatives, as far as

ISGP can figure things out, appears to have been at the
Executive Panel of the Chief of Naval Operations when he
joined it in 1980. Archneocon Albert Wohlstetter, a RAND
scientist and Pentagon consultant who had sent Perle and
Wolfowitz to Senator Jackson's office, served on the Executive
Panel from 1971 until his death in 1997. Woolsey actually beat
him in terms of longest-serving member, still being a member
today.

In 1988 Woolsey's neocon ties were solidified when he joined

the board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
134
(JINSA) , co-founded a decade earlier by Senator Henry
Jackson (there he is again) and Iran-Contra veteran Michael
135
Ledeen , who, just as Jackson, was close to CIA officers Ted
Shackley, of Le Cercle, and Ray Cline, a co-chair of the
American Security Council and the U.S. Global Strategy
Council. There's every indication that back in the 1970s and
early 1980s Ledeen was a key U.S. liaison to the fascist P2 Lodge
for Shackley at the CIA and Alexander Haig (Pilgrims and
136
Kissinger protege) at the State Department. Richard Perle,
Paul Wolfowitz (co-chair), Douglas Feith (vice-chair), and even
Morris Amitay, AIPAC's executive director, could all be found at
137
JINSA no later than the early 1990s. Ledeen, Perle, and
Woolsey stayed on the board of JINSA until early 2012 when a
dispute arose with a more moderate lead financier of JINSA and
138
all three prominently resigned. Clearly the three men had
grown very close over the decades.

Woolsey, Ledeen and also Perle, through his association with

Le Cercle, clearly all can be considered CIA assets. We could
argue that Woolsey likely already was CIA when he established
Yale Citizens for Eugene McCarthy for President in 1967, a
curious anti-Vietnam War candidate apparently in the business
of educating hippies to cut their hair and dress properly. In
other words, Woolsey's 1993 appointment as CIA director
doesn't appear to have been a coincidence and as a lifelong CIA
officer, it's also questionable that Woolsey's appointment to the
board of JINSA and dozens of later neocon outfits has been a
coincidence.

Personally, this author suspects Woolsey was picked by the

private CIA network set up by Richard Helms and Ted
Shackley, and in later decades still counted George H. W. Bush
and Frank Carlucci among its ranking members, as the
network's chief liaison to the Israel lobby. If anybody is
managing the neoconservative movement from behind the
scenes, at least from the U.S. side, it would be Woolsey.
Woolsey has definitely been close to this CIA group, as his co-
chairmanship of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers
and the OSS Society, both with George H. W. Bush,
demonstrates. Other former CIA officers as James Schlesinger,
Frank Carlucci, Richard Helms have also been involved with
these groups. Ted Shackley was a key player in the AFIO until
his death in 2002. Clearly all these men knew each other very
well, but Woolsey's old CIA ties remain obscure. His Pentagon,
neocon and liberal establishment ties are very clear, however.

Woolsey and Cheney may well all have been assigned to

manage the "neocon radicals", as Cheney was a board member
of JINSA from 1993 to 1999. Cheney and Woolsey, who
reportedly are close, also know each other from the board of
the Jamestown Foundation - where Donald Rumsfeld was to be
found as well - and the Center for Security Policy. Both men
appear to be deep insiders to the United States' most illegal
black programs, as the men's association with the Russian firm
139
Far West alone seems to indicate. When it comes to any
major black program the Pentagon might be running, it's hard
to imagine Woolsey not being aware of it to some degree - as a
lot of Unacknowledged Special Access Programs (USAPs) seem
to be hidden in private industry. On top of that, Woolsey has
served on numerous low profile Pentagon committees. Who the
heck has ever heard of the Outer Continental Shelf Policy
Committee (OCSPC), the Deterrence Concepts Advisory Group
(DCAG), the Disruptive Technology Committee, the Future of
Navy Force Structure (FNFS), or the Navy Personnel Policy
(NPP)? Not a lot of people, but Woolsey served on all of them.

Conclusions and summary

So yes, the estimate of this author is that the Bush clique
represented the old boys of the CIA, its most "insider" aspect
surrounding names as Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and Ted
Shackley, while the neocons have been operating as CIA-
Mossad liasions. Or liaisons between the right-wing aspect of
the Israeli-U.S. superclass. This entails that these people do a
lot of the dirty work, quite directly, as discussed in ISGP's
article on the history of CIA-Mossad coups. In contrast, some
other heads of state might be a bit further removed from this
deepest element of the intelligence community.

All that having been said, there is no evidence that the neocons
represent an independent establishment of their own. They are
liaisons between America's Christian conservative
establishment and right-wing Zionist establishment, centered
in Israel, New York City and Washington, D.C. These
establishments have been discussed in a separate article by
ISGP.

Notes

1. *) April 14, 2003, The Guardian (Ford and Rockefeller Fdn.-

financed), 'The rise of the Washington 'neo-cons''. Cites
articles from all the newspapers mentioned except the N.Y.
Times and L.A. Times.
*) Dec. 17, 2006, New York Times, 'Letter From New York:
Should neocons take the fall for Iraq? - Americas -
International Herald Tribune'; March 15 2008, New York
Times, 'Getting Out of the Mess the Neocons Made'. Etc.
*) June 10, 2004, Los Angeles Times, 'A Tough Time for
'Neocons'; April 2, 2015, Los Angeles Times, 'Op-Ed: The
neocons: They're back, and on Iran, they're
uncompromising as ever'. Etc.
2. 2017, Peter Dale Scott, 'The American Deep State - Updated
Version', pp. 82-84, as an example.
3. April 5, 2023, Alex Jones' Infowars.com, 'RFK Jr: 'The
Neocon Projects' in Iraq and Ukraine...' (hour-long
interview).
4. Feb. 26, 2023, Infowars, 'Neocon Condoleezza Rice Says
Biden 'A Little Bit Behind' on His Ukraine Policy But Going
'In Right Direction''.
5. June 10, 2004, Los Angeles Times, 'A Tough Time for
'Neocons''.
6. Financing:
mediatransparency.org/ grantsearchresults.php?
searchString=New+American+Century (accessed:
October 1, 2006): "1-1-1997: $50,000. [Purpose:] Project
for the New American Century. [Recipient:] New
Citizenship Project, Inc. Sarah Scaife Foundation."
mediatransparency.org/ grantsearchresults.php?
searchString=New+American+Century (accessed:
October 1, 2006): "8-11-1997 [and] 12-10-1997: $25,000.
[Purpose:] To support the Project for the New American
Century. [Recipient:] New Citizenship Project, Inc. The
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. ... 9-22-1998:
$100,000. ... 11-11-1998: $50,000. ... 1-1-1999: $150,000. ...
12-20-2000: $150,000. ... 9-17-2003: $50,000. ... 10-20-
2003: $50,000. ... 11-10-2003: $50,000. ... 12-10-2003:
$50,000. ... 9-10-2004: $43,750."
2003 annual report, Bradley Foundation, p. 22: "New
Citizen Project, Washington, DC. To support the Project
for the New American Century: $200,000."
mediatransparency.org/ grantsearchresults.php?
searchString=New+American+Century (accessed:
October 1, 2006): "1-1-1999: $50,000. Project for the
New American Century. New Citizenship Project, Inc.
John M. Olin Foundation, Inc. ... 1-1-2001: $10,000. ... 1-
15-2003: 10,000."
mediatransparency.org/ recipientgrants.php?
recipientID=2243 (accessed: February 7, 2008): "To see
all grants to the PNAC, you must see the grants directly
to PNAC, as well as those designated to PNAC through
other organizations, such as the New Citizenship
Project. ...
 - Olin Foundation... 1-1-2002: $15,000 [and] 1-15-2003:
$10,000 [and] 2-6-2004: $15,000 [and] 12-7-2004:
$6,000...
- Earhart Foundation: ... 1-1-2000: $17,420 [and] 1-1-
2002: $8,315. ...
- William H. Donner Foundation: ... 1-1-2002: $20,000.
...
- Hickory Foundation: ... 1-1-2003: $50,000 [and] 12-31-
2005: $50,000. ...
- Gilder Foundation: ... 12-31-2003: $50,000."
7. newamericancentury.org/ statementofprinciples.htm
(accessed: Feb. 5, 2002)
8. Ibid.
9. newamericancentury.org/ iraqclintonletter.htm (accessed:
Oct. 17, 2001; letter date: Jan. 26, 1998).
10. newamericancentury.org/iraqletter1998.htm (accessed:
Dec. 1, 2002; letter date: May 29, 1998).
11. Sep. 2000, PNAC report, 'Rebuilding America's Defenses', p.
51.
12. 1997, Zbigniew Brzezinski, 'The Grand Chessboard', p. 35.
13. Sep. 2000, PNAC report, 'Rebuilding America's Defenses',
pp. 50-51.
14. Ibid., pp. 50-68: Part V.
15. June 1, 1992, minneapolisfed.org, 'Interview with Milton
Friedman': "Building codes impose costs that you might not
privately want to engage in, wage and hour laws—and on
and on." George Shultz was one of Milton Friedman's
closest friends.
16. May 20, 2007, The American Prospect, 'The Apprentice':
"Paul Wolfowitz, who first met Wohlstetter at a faculty tea
 hour at the University of Chicago in 1964, by which time
Wohlstetter had written his most-important works and had
gathered together a group of young followers. Among them
was Richard Perle, who had fallen under his spell five years
earlier. (Wohlstetter's daughter invited Perle, then in high
school, to swim in the family pool; there, Perle met
Wohlstetter, who handed him "The Delicate Balance of
Terror." ... In [the book], Henry Kissinger, George Kennan,
Dean Acheson, and others appear as hapless characters
intellectually marooned in a pre-nuclear age."
17. Ibid.
18. Sep. 8, 2006, Senate Committee on Intelligence, 'The Use
by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by
the Iraqi National Congress', pp. 5-6: "In the Spring of 1991,
President George H. W. Bush approaved efforts aimed at
influencing those in the Iraqi government and military to
undertake action to change the Iraqi leadership. ... In May
1991, the CIA approached Dr. Ahmed Chalabi... Chalabi and
the CIA began to work together. In June of 1992, more than
200 Iraqi opposition leaders met in Vienna. This conference
saw the creation of the INC...""
19. Dec. 2011, Mother Jones, 'Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We
Got Into Iraq': "11/6/00 Congress doubles funding for Iraqi
opposition groups to more than $25 million; $18 million is
earmarked for Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress, which
then pays defectors for anti-Iraq tales.".
20. Feb. 21, 2013, William Rivers Pitt for Truthout, 'The United
States of Aftermath': "PNAC was the driving force behind
the drafting and passage of the Iraqi Liberation Act in 1998,
a bill that essentially turned their desire for war into
 American law. PNAC funneled millions of taxpayer dollars
to a group called the Iraqi National Congress, and to the
man they intended to be Iraq’s heir-apparent, Ahmed
Chalabi... Chalabi and the INC gathered support for their
cause by promising oil contracts to anyone who would
help overthrow Saddam Hussein and put them into power
in Iraq.".
21. Nov. 3, 2015, ABC News, 'How Ahmed Chalabi's Faulty Intel
Altered US Course in Iraq'.
22. May 4, 2004, Salon, 'How Ahmed Chalabi conned the
neocons'.
23. Jan. 16, 2003, Thaddeus Herrick for the Wall Street Journal,
'U.S. Oil Wants to Work in Iraq; Firms Discuss How to Raise
Nation’s Output After a Possible War': "Executives of U.S.
oil companies are conferring with officials from the White
House, the Department of Defense and the State
Department to figure out how best to jump-start Iraq's oil
industry following a war, industry officials say.
The Bush administration is eager to secure Iraq's oil fields
and rehabilitate them, industry officials say. They say Mr.
Cheney's staff hosted an informational meeting with
industry executives in October [2002], with Exxon Mobil
Corp., ChevronTexaco Corp., ConocoPhillips and
Halliburton among the companies represented.
Both the Bush administration and the companies say such
a meeting never took place. Since then, industry officials
say, the Bush administration has sought input, formally
and informally, from executives and industry experts on
how best to overhaul Iraq's oil sector.”"
24. Nov. 3, 2002, The Observer / The Guardian, 'Carve-up of oil
riches begins'.
25. Ibid.
26. May 4, 2004, Salon, 'How Ahmed Chalabi conned the
neocons'.
27. *) Oct. 6, 2002, Sunday Herald, 'Official: US oil at the heart
of Iraq crisis': "The report, Strategic Energy Policy
Challenges For The 21st Century, concludes...".
sundayherald.com/print28285 (accessed: Oct. 31, 2002). It
is quite shocking how low-profile the information in this
article is.
*) Description of the report in question (it doesn't mention
"Iraq", "Hussein", or some of the key participants):
July 2001, no. 16, Baker Institute Report, Baker III Institute
for Public Policy at Rice University, 'Task Force Issues
Recommendations for Energy Policy': "The Baker
Institute/Council on Foreign Relations task force report was
promulgated on the eve of the final deliberations of the
administration’s energy task force headed by Vice
President Cheney. ... The task force released the report to
the media at a news conference April 12 in Washington,
D.C. ... Amy Jaffe and Edward Morse headed the
independent task force that issued a report titled “Strategic
Energy Policy Challenges for the 21st Century.”"
rice.edu/projects/baker/Pubs /reports/Pubs/bipp200107/
bipp200107_03.html (accessed: Oct. 31, 2002).
28. May 4, 2003, The New Yorker, 'Selective Intelligence'; July
17, 2003, The Guardian, 'The spies who pushed for war'.
29. July 8, 1996, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David
Wurmser for the Institute for Advanced Strategic and
 Political Studies, 'A Clean Break: A New Strategy for
Securing the Realm'.
30. newamericancentury.org/ balkans_pdf_04.pdf (accessed:
June 15, 2003; Date signed: Sep. 20, 1998).
31. March 2, 2007, Democracy Now!, 'Gen. Wesley Clark
Weighs Presidential Bid' (hour-long interview).
32. Oct. 3, 2007, Wesley Clark speech to the Commonwealth
Club, YouTube upload by 'FORA.tv', 'Wes Clark - America's
Foreign Policy "Coup"'.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Nov. 30, 2003, CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer,
'Interview With Wesley Clark...'.
37. stopiranwar.com/?page_id=9 (accessed: Feb. 28, 2007):
"About Us. About Wes Clark."
38. stopiranwar.com/?page_id=3 (accessed: Feb. 28, 2007; Feb.
26, 2007 post).
39. March 2, 2007, Democracy Now!, 'Gen. Wesley Clark
Weighs Presidential Bid' (hour-long interview).
40. Sep. 30, 2003, Wayne Madson or Counterpunch, 'Wesley
Clark for President? Another Neocon Con Job'.
41. Oct. 3, 2007, Wesley Clark speech to the Commonwealth
Club, YouTube upload by 'FORA.tv', 'Wes Clark - America's
Foreign Policy "Coup"'.
42. Oct. 3, 2007, Wesley Clark speech to the Commonwealth
Club, YouTube upload by 'FORA.tv', 'Wes Clark - America's
Foreign Policy "Coup"': "I went to see Don Rumsfeld [after
9/11]. I worked for him as a White House fellow in the
1970s."
43. Jan. 19, 1975, New York Times, 'The Secret Committee
Called ‘40’'; July 16, 1978, New York Times, 'Kissinger‐Colby
Briefings on C.I.A. Called Misleading by Senate Panel': "...
the 40 Committee, a high‐level group chaired by Mr.
Kissinger that approved all covert intelligence activities..."
44. 1989, CSIS, trustees and advisory board (PDF): "CSIS Board
of Trustees: ... Vice Chairmen: Maurice R, Greenberg...
Members: ... Zbigniew Brzeinski ... Henry A. Kissinger ...
Paul A. Volcker... Advisory Board, August 2, 1989:
Chairman: *Paul A. Volcker... Cochairman: * Sam Nunn...
Vice Chairmen: ... *R. James Woolsey... Members: ...
Viscount Etienne Davignon... Baron Edmond de
Rothschild... Mortimer B. Zuckerman... *steering
committee."
*) csis.org/html/csislead.html (accessed: Oct. 18, 2000; first
webarchive with Gen. Wesley Clark): "Board of Trustees:
Chairman: Sam Nunn ... Zbigniew Brzezinski ... Henry A.
Kissinger ... [Kissinger protege] Brent Scowcroft ... R. James
Woolsey... The Advisory Board [is] cochaired by Zbigniew
Brzezinski and Carla Hills... Counselors: ... Zbigniew
Brzezinski [and] Henry Kissinger. Sam Nunn. ...
Distinguished Senior Advisers: Wesley Clark..."
45. crisisweb.org/about/board.cfm (accessed: Feb. 5, 2001; July
2000 board, the first one with Clark; Zuckerman added to
the July 2000 board in retrospect, so may have joined last-
minute for that month): "George Soros ... Wesley Clark ...
Jacques Delors ... HRH El-Hassan bin Talal ... Shimon Peres
... Thorvald Stoltenberg ... Grigory Yavlinsky... Martti
Ahtisaari, Chairman. ... Stephen Solarz, Vice-Chair, ICG. ...
Morton Abramowitz... Mortimer Zuckerman..."
46. crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/board (accessed: Jan. 15, 2018;
Clark would disappear later this year): "Co-chair: Lord
(Mark) Malloch-Brown* ... George Soros ... Alexander Soros
... Carl Bildt ... Wesley Clark ... Wolfgang Ischinger ... Wim
Kok ... Andrey Kortunov ... Javier Solana ... Lawrence H.
Summers..."
47. crisisweb.org/about/board.cfm (accessed: Oct. 16, 2002;
July 2002 board, the first one with Zbigniew Brzezinski):
"George Soros ... Wesley Clark ... Carla Hills ... Zbigniew
Brzezinski [July 2002-2010, advisor anno 2013] ... Mikhail
Khodorkovsky [disappeared after his arrest by Putin in
Russia in 2003] ... [Etc.]"
48. ncafp.org/principals/index.htm (accessed: Aug. 13, 2001;
the site was reorganized from late March 2001 to July 2001;
Clark did not appear earlier.): "Officers: Honorable George
F. Kennan, Honorary Chairman. ... Trustees: ... *Kenneth J.
Bialkin, Esq. General Wesley K. Clark... Anthony Drexel
Duke... *Honorable Maxwell Rabb... Board of advisors: ...
Honorable Jeane J. Kirkpatrick ... Professor Richard Pipes ...
Nancy Soderberg..."
49. May 18, 2009, Zocalo Public Square, 'Richard N. Haass,
"When Should the U.S. Go to War?"'.
50. May/June 2009, Zbigniew Brzezinski for the CFR's Foreign
Affairs, 'A Tale of Two Wars'.
51. May 18, 2009, Zocalo Public Square, 'Richard N. Haass,
"When Should the U.S. Go to War?"'.
52. Ibid.
53. Aug. 19, 2002, abc.net.au, 'Caution urged on Iraq'.
54. Ibid.
55. May 4, 2003, New York Times, 'Selective Intelligence'; June
17, 2003, The Guardian, 'The spies who pushed for war'.
56. Aug. 19, 2002, abc.net.au, 'Caution urged on Iraq': "LEIGH
SALES: It's well known in Washington that two of the
strongest advocates of military action against Saddam
Hussein are Richard Perle, Chairman of the Defence Policy
Board, and Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of
Defence. Lawrence Eagleburger is accusing the two of
virtually misleading the President.
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER: I think they're devious. [They]
have been for years, committed to getting rid of Saddam
Hussein because they think we should have done it the first
time around. And secondly, I think they have convinced
themselves that it can be done on the cheap by using these
rebels... I am scared to death that they are going to
convince the President ... and we'll find ourselves in the
middle of a swamp because we didn't plan to do it in the
right way. ... We don't have the allies on our side. ...
LEIGH SALES: Mr Eagleburger's cautious position is
backed by ... Henry Kissinger, and Brent Scowcroft..."
57. Ibid.
58. Ibid.
59. Sep. 12, 2001, ABC News, Lawrence Eagleburger
interviewed by Peter Jennings.
60. May/June 2009, Zbigniew Brzezinski for the CFR's Foreign
Affairs, 'A Tale of Two Wars'.
61. Feb.-Mar. 2004, Library of Congress Information Bulletin,
The Case for War in Iraq: George Shultz Speaks at the
Library. loc.gov/loc/lcib/0402-3/shultz.html (accessed: Sep.
6, 2023).
 July 30, 2006, Hoover.org, 'George Shultz, Father of the
Bush Doctrine'.
62. Sep. 12, 2001, ABC News, James Woolsey interviewed by
Peter Jennings.
63. Jan. 8, 2002, Alexander Haig interview, Newsmax, 'Haig:
Target Syria Next, Not Iraq'; June 3, 2004, Joint Military
Intelligence College conference, speech of Alexander Haig'.
64. senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes
/vote1072/vote_107_2_00237.htm (accessed: Oct. 2, 2023;
gives the "yea" or "nay" votes per senator for the "Joint
Resolution (H.J.Res. 114 )", i.e. 'Authorization for Use of
Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002'.
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid.
67. Ibid.
68. Ibid.
69. Ibid.
70. Ibid.
71. Oct. 10, 2002, C-Span live broadcast from the Senate floor,
Hillary Clinton speech. c-span.org/video/?173141-1/senate-
session, 9:59:00 (accessed: Oct. 2, 2023).
72. senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes
/vote1072/vote_107_2_00237.htm (accessed: Oct. 2, 2023).
73. Oct. 10, 2002, C-Span live broadcast from the Senate floor,
Sen. Joe Biden speech. c-span.org/video/?173141-1/senate-
session, 10:40:00 (accessed: Oct. 2, 2023).
74. senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes
/vote1072/vote_107_2_00237.htm (accessed: Oct. 2, 2023).
75. Oct. 9, 2002, C-Span, live broadcast, John Kerry on the
Senate floor. c-span.org/video/?173118-1/senate-session,
 6:24:00 (accessed: Oct. 2, 2023).
76. senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes
/vote1072/vote_107_2_00237.htm (accessed: Oct. 2, 2023).
77. Oct. 10, 2002, C-Span live broadcast from the Senate floor,
Sen. Jay Rockefeller speech. c-span.org/video/?173141-
1/senate-session, 9:08:00 (accessed: Oct. 2, 2023).
78. senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes
/vote1072/vote_107_2_00237.htm (accessed: Oct. 2, 2023).
79. Ibid.
80. Ibid.
81. Ibid.
82. Ibid.
83. Ibid.
84. Ibid.
85. Oct. 9, 2002, C-Span, live broadcast, Sen. John Warner
relating a question on the Senate floor. c-span.org/video/?
173118-1/senate-session, 6:10 (accessed: Oct. 2, 2023).
86. Sep. 16, 2002, CBS News, 'Face The Nation - 9/15/02'
(transcript, the relevant one being of Sen. John Kerry)..
87. June 5, 2008, C-Span, 'Democratic Report on Prewar
Intelligence'. Presentation by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, chair of
the Senate Intelligence Committee. c-span.org/video/?
205852-1/democratic-report-prewar-intelligence (accessed:
Oct. 3, 2023).
88. Ibid.
89. Dec. 25, 1992, Los Angeles Times, 'Bush Pardons
Weinberger, 5 Others in Iran-Contra; Act Called Cover-Up'.
90. 1982, Henry Kissinger, 'Years of Upheaval: The Second
Volume of His Classic Memoirs', Chapter IV.
 91. Nov. 7, 2002, George Shultz speech at Milton Friedman's
100th birthday (freetochoose.net/media_02_1.html
(accessed: Aug. 9, 2023; PBS television series on
Friedman)).
92. June 1, 1992, minneapolisfed.org, 'Interview with Milton
Friedman'.
93. 2002, David Rockefeller, 'Memoirs', pp. 81-88
94. Sep. 13, 1970, New York Times.
95. July 30, 2006, Hoover.org, 'George Shultz, Father of the
Bush Doctrine'.
96. 2004, James Mann (long-time L.A. Times and Washington
Post journalist; ), 'Rise of the Vulcans'.
97. May/June 2009, Zbigniew Brzezinski for the CFR's Foreign
Affairs, 'A Tale of Two Wars'.
98. Sep. 18, 2009, Daily Beast, 'How Obama Flubbed His
Missile Message', interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski.
99. csis.org/scholars/alpha.htm (accessed: Nov. 8, 2001; Mann
doesn't appear yet in the previous Oct. 10 webarchive):
"Antony J. Blinken, Senior Fellow, Writer-in-Residence,
International Security Program. ... James Mann, Senior
Writer-in-Residence, International Security Program."
100. Youtube clip from C-Span, 'Dick Cheney ex-director of CFR
talks to David Rockefeller', uploaded: November 30, 2006.
youtube.com/watch?v=BbnpN07J_zg (accessed: Sep. 3,
2023). The clip was included in: 2004, John Birch Society,
'The Free Trade Area of The Americas.'.
101. Feb. 15, 2002, C-Span Live from a CFR meeting that opened
the CFR's Geoeconomic Center, David Rockefeller to
speaker Dick Cheney
102. See Condoleezza Rice's biography in ISGP's Managed
Democracy for details and sources..
103. Jan. 7, 2006, Counterpunch, 'AIPAC on Trial'.
104. Ibid.
105. *) Over the years I have found nothing what Gene Wheaton
said to be incorrect. On the contrary, over time everything
he says seems to make perfect sense. Doesn't mean he
doesn't have any ulterior motives, but his information
seems to be reliable.
*) January 4, 2002, Gene Wheaton, an intelligence insider
and whistleblower since Iran-Contra, during an interview
of Matt Ehling on Declassified Radio. For lengthy quote, see
ISGP's Cercle article.
106. * Men working under deputy defense secretary Frank
Carlucci all visited Ted Shackley's Cercle group.
*) Gene Wheaton again (January 4, 2002, to Matt Ehling on
Declassified Radio): "Ted Shackley and Vernon Walters and
Frank Carlucci and Ving West and a group of these guys
used to have park-bench meetings in the late 70s in
McClean, Virginia so nobody could overhear their
conversations. They basically said, "With our expertise at
placing dictators in power," I’m almost quoting verbatim
one of their comments, "why don’t we treat the United
States like the world’s biggest banana republic and take it
over?" And the first thing they had to do was to get their
man in the White House, and that was George Bush."
*) 2005, Joseph J. Trento, Prelude to Terror, pp. 124-125:
"Turner's hiring of Frank Carlucci to replace Hank Knoche
was manipulated by Shackley and Bush," William Corson
said.3 Carlucci was close to Donald Rumsfeld, who had
engineered Bush's appointment by President Ford. Carlucci
also had total loyalty to General Richard Secord... and Erich
von Marbod. ... According to Shirley Brill, Carlucci and
Shackley were also very close friends. Shackley and Clines
knew Carlucci from the Chile operations. ... Shackley,
according to Soghanalian, had later worked with Calucci in
setting up Portugal as a major arms transshipping point for
the Middle East. "They played Turner like a violin to get
Carlucci the job," Shirley Brill said. ... Weisz told him that
"George Bush and James Angleton had been instrumental
in putting Weisz where he was.""
*) 2005, Joseph Trento, 'Prelude to Terror', p. 283: "In the
early 1980s, George Bush helped Shackley get established
in Kuwait and in the oil business as a consultant. Shackley
started Theodore Shackley and Associates and several
other companies, which he used as a cover for his work for
Bush. For the first time in his life, he was making large
amounts of money. … He even told friends that he still had
hopes of becoming DCI someday in a future Bush
administration. The admiration of Israel by the neocons
was shared by Ted Shackley."
*) 2001, Joseph Trento, 'The Secret History of the CIA', pp.
410, 426: "Colby understood - as did Kissinger and Ted
Shackley... - that the Israeli account was a large source of
Angleton's power. For one thing, it had given them access
to five American presidents. ...
For the government of Israel, the loss of James Angleton
was a major blow, but one for which it was prepared. The
Israelis had other friends in the U.S. intelligence
community. Colby and Kissinger's changes in the CIA
included cutbacks in Clandestine Services, as a result of
which many of the CIA's most experienced officers were out
of work and embittered. ...
Meanwhile, Shackley made the Israeli account his own. He
kept the relationship personal, as Angleton had done.
According to Crowley and other Agency officials, Shackley
told no one in the chain of command anything he was
doing with respect to Israel. ...
[Shackley] introduced George Bush to many of his old
Cuban friends in Miami. A decade earlier, they had been
the heart of the CIA's anti-Castro effort. Now, they were a
powerful political force Bush could use in his quest to fulfill
political ambitions that went beyond the CIA."
*) George H. W. Bush was a senior counselor of the Carlyle
Group 1993-2003, under the chairmanship during all this
time of Frank Carlucci.
*) 2002, Volume XXV, Number 1 and 2, AFIO magazine
Periscope: "2001 donors [life members]: ... Inman, Bobby R.
... Gittinger, John W. ... Hugel, Max ... Jenkins, Carl E. ...
Schlesinger, James R. ... Shackley, Theodore ... Spencer, Jr.
Thomas R. ... Wannall, W. Raymond ... Webster, William H.
... Wedemeyer, Albert D. ... 26 Anonymous Donors... Special
volunteers of time & talent: ... Shackley, Ted; Spencer, Jr.,
Thomas R. ... New Member Sponsors for 2001: ... Angleton,
James ... Critchfield, James; Critchfield, Lois ... Spencer,
Thomas ... Corporate partners 2001: Du Pont Investment
Bankers, Hill & Associates, Institute of World Politics, ...
Lockheed Martin (M&DS), ... Motorola, ... SAIC, ... TRW. ...
Current Members of the AFIO Board of Directors: Honorary
Board of Directors: Co-Chairmen: Hon. George H. W. Bush;
 Hon. Gerald R. Ford; Mr. John Barron; Hon. Shirley Temple
Black; Hon. Frank C. Carlucci; Dr. Ruth M. Davis; Adm.
Bobby R. Inman, USN (Ret); Professor Ernest R. May; Mr.
John Anson Smith; Hon. William H. Webster; Hon. R. James
Woolsey. ... Board Members: ... Mr. Theodore G. Shackley;
Thomas R. Spencer Jr., Esq. ... Present Board Members Re-
elected for Another Term in 2002: Ted Shackley (Ret)...
Officers: President: Mr. S. Eugene Poteat [confirmed Gulf of
Tonkin incident was used by White House as a false flag
event.]"
107. Oct. 15, 2002, Los Angeles Times, 'Perle's Passion Is Served':
"Jackson had gathered a brain trust that included Perle,
Wolfowitz, Frank Gaffney ... and Charles Horner, now at
the Hudson Institute."
108. Ibid.
109. Ibid.
110. 1998, Anne Cahn, 'Killing Detente: The Right Attacks the
CIA', p. 150.
111. Ibid., p. 148.
112. 2008, Justin Vaisse (adjunct professor Sciences Po 1999-
2007, SAIS at Johns Hopkins University 2007-2013; senior
fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution around
2007-2013; director of Policy Planning at the French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2013-2019), 'Neoconservatism:
The Biography of a Movement', p. 119: "In 1963 [Perle]
attended the London School of Economics (where one of
his classmates was Edward Luttwak…) … Wohlstetter,
Nitze and Acheson wanted to help Jackson defeat
Symington and were in need of research assistance. In
addition to Perle, they hired… Paul Wolfowitz, the son of
 celebrated mathematician Jacob Wolfowitz, with whom
Wohlstetter himself had studied. (Two other researchers
would later be added to the staff: Peter Wilson and Edward
Luttwak.)"
113. Ibid. And: Nov. 11, 1985, Los Angeles Times, 'Perle Wages
Behind-the-Scenes Crusade Against Kremlin: Soviets'
Mortal Foe Lurks at Pentagon': "Perle interrupted his
studies at USC to spend the 1962-63 academic year at the
London School of Economics. His roommate was Edward
N. Luttwak..."
114. Dec. 6, 2002, The Guardian, 'Democrat hawk whose ghost
guides Bush: Scoop Jackson's body is 20 years in the grave
but his spirit goes marching on': "Paul Wolfowitz and Doug
Feith ... and Richard Perle ... are all former Democrats who
worked for Jackson in the 70s, and looked on him as their
mentor."
115. Ibid.: "This week President Bush put another Jackson
protege, Elliott Abrams, in charge of White House policy in
the Middle East."
116. Report of the Conference to Plan a Strategy for Peace, p. 132,
but not clear from which year.
117. Ibid.
118. *) BBC, 'Project for the New American Century'
(news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/ panorama/3032147.stm
(accessed: March 24, 2010; original date unknown)): "The
Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was founded
in 1997 by the right wing thinkers William Kristol and
Robert Kagan."
*) newamericancentury.org/ aboutpnac.htm (accessed:
Feb. 5, 2002): "The Project is an initiative of the New
 Citizenship Project (501c3); the New Citizenship Project's
chairman is William Kristol... Project Directors: William
Kristol, Chairman."
119. March 22, 1974, Wall Street Journal, 'Encounter Magazine
of Britain to Be Sold To Illinois Publisher; Prestigious
Literary Monthly, Once Funded by the CIA, Is Set to Go to
Carus Corp.': "Encounter was founded in London in 1953 by
Irving Kristol and Stephen Spender and, for its first 10
years, its deficits were underwritten by the Congress for
Cultural Freedom, which Mr. Lasky described as a CIA
front."
120. Dec. 20, 2018, New York Post, 'Ex-official with ties to
McCain gave BuzzFeed access to Steele dossier: court
filing': "A BuzzFeed reporter got the dossier ... during a
meeting with David Kramer, a McCain Institute fellow and
former deputy assistant secretary of state, according to the
court document."
121. *) June 1, 2009, Senza Soste (Livorno, Italy), 'Giancarlo
Valori, il nuovo capo della P2 ricevuto in pompamagna a
Livorno' ('Giancarlo Valori, the new head of the P2,
received in grand style in Livorno'): "The shareholders'
meeting of Italintesa SpA awarded him the honorary
presidency of the company. Among the shareholders are
the American political scientist Edward Luttwak, a former
consultant of Italintesa and regular columnist in the papers
of the Gruppo Monti and Sicilian Gazzetta del Sud. Like
Valori, Luttwak has a contiguous past involving the
Atlantic powers that is more or less hidden."
*) September 16, 2008, Farnesina: Ministero degli Affari
Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, 'Press release
 detail': "At 9:15 tomorrow morning Minister for Foreign
Affairs Franco Frattini will open the sessions of the
conference "Italy, Europe and Israel: how to build a
privileged partnership" arranged by the Aspen Institute
and held in the International Conference Room of the
foreign ministry in Rome. ... In addition to Israeli Minister
of Welfare Isaac Herzog, who will also hold a meeting with
Minister Frattini, other participants are to include ...
Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs Tremonti and
former Minister for Foreign Affairs Massimo D'Alema,
business world such as Carlo De Benedetti [protege of the
Agnellis], Piero Gnudi, Giancarlo Elia Valori, and
journalism, including Renato Mannheimer, Edward
Luttwak, Arrigo Levi, as well as major representatives of
the Jewish community such as Chief Rabbi Di Segni and
President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities
Gattegna." Luttwak and Valori (Le Cercle, P2, and major
behind-the-scenes player in Italy) both have also been
involved in the company Italintesa.
122. 2014, Johannes Grossmann, 'Die Internationale der
Konservativen. Transnationale Elitenzirkel und private
Außenpolitik in Westeuropa seit 1945', p. 544: "Aus Italien
stiessen in den 1980er Jahren lediglich der fruhere
Generalkommandant der Carabinieri, Umberto Cappuzzo,
und der evenfalls in Vaduzer Institut engagierte Giancarlo
Valori zum Cercle"
123. June 1, 2009, Senza Soste (Livorno, Italy), 'Giancarlo Valori,
il nuovo capo della P2 ricevuto in pompamagna a Livorno'
('Giancarlo Valori, the new head of the P2, received in
grand style in Livorno'): "Valori enrolled in the P2 (card
283) and with Licio Gelli he is one of the instigators of the
reactionary right in the period of the new Argentine
president Peron, in which they create the conditions for the
military dictatorship of 1976-1983 [of Videla and the P2's
Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera]. But Gelli, on the pretext
of his frequent Vatican visits, expels Valori from the P2, to
successfully become the main reference point for
politicians in Buenos Aires. Valori doesn't mind that much
and continues his frequent visits to the intelligence
community and the underbelly of politics. He knows
[SISMI head] General [Giuseppe] Santovito, also a P2
member; [P2 member] Mino Pecorelli, [the Banco
Ambrosiano and Bologno bombing-linked] Francesco
Pazienza and other protagonists of the conspiracies in
those years. Because these ties are certainly not ordinary
among Italian managers and entrepreneurs, Valori is
repeatedly called to testify in key investigations of the early
80s, those of the Rome prosecutors into the P2, of Judge
Carlo Palermo into arms trafficking, of Rosario Priore's
report on his relations with the Arab countries, in the
context of the investigation into the massacre of Ustica. ...
In 1981, when the P2 lists are discovered, Giancarlo Elia
Valori is the only one who has been "expelled", so the
investigation only touches him marginally. It is said that
Tina Anselmi, president of the Parliamentary Commission
of Inquiry [into the P2 Lodge], absolutely doesn't want to
talk about him: "I have nothing to say about that
gentleman." ... Valori likes to present himself as a professor
of international politics and his views are similar to those
of the far right Zionists. And he is one of the sponsors of the
 grotesque Islamic repentent Magdi Allam, and a theorist of
a clash of civilizations against Islam. In the preface of a
book of Allam he writes: "It is the defense of Israel that is
the new platform of European and US grand strategy... The
book of Magdi Allam is a good start for this project." He is
firmly opposed to the idea of a Palestinian state, indeed,
the very idea of Palestinian people: "We need to change the
register: Palestine, which does not exist as a geopolitical
entity, is not the solution, but the problem. Speaking of the
Palestinian people … means accepting their independence,
at least in semantics." Valori proposes the attribution to
Israel of most of the occupied territories, while the Gaza
Strip and the West Bank should be assigned respectively to
Egypt and Jordan."
124. 1976, Pike Report, pp. 112-113: "Upon hearing testimony from
Helms in February 1973, Senator Church's Multinational
Corporations Subcommittee informed the CIA on 21
February 1973 that it had found “significant discrepancies”
between Helms’s testimony and data ITT had supplied. On
that same day, Theodore Shackley (Chief, Western
Hemisphere Division, DP) took the first step to limit
damage to the Agency. He recommended to DCI
Schlesinger that the Agency should work [through Senators
Stennis or Symington who "could be persuaded" to agree to
a "controlled appearance" for the DCI before the
Multinational Corporations Subcommitte] … Two days
later, on 23 February 1973, Agency officers began quiet
efforts with the help of Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, a
close friend of the CIA, to blunt Senator Church's scrutiny
of CIA, Chile, and Richard Helms. Jackson offered his
 protective assistance in a remarkable backstage meeting
he had with Ted Shackley and CIA Congressional liaison
chief John Maury the next day. … [Jackson made several
suggestions on how to protect the CIA, as written down by
Shackley] … Jackson pledged to work with CIA "to see that
we got this protection." Shackley noted that Senator
Jackson, who had been "extremely helpful," believed that it
was "essential" to prevent the establishing of any
procedure that could call upon CIA to testify before a wide
variety of Congressional committees. Following that
meeting, Shackley and Maury at once briefed Colby, who
was then CIA's Executive Director, and Tom Keramessines,
the DDP. DCI Schlesinger then asked Senator Jackson to set
the wheels in motion for Senator McClellan to call a special
meeting of his Oversight Committee. Three weeks later, on
13 March, CIA’s senatorial friends arranged to shield the
Agency from unwanted scrutiny… McClellan, Symington,
Jackson, John Pastore (D-RI), Strom Thurmond (R-SC, and
Roman Hruska R-NE). Colby, Shackley, and Maury
accompanied DCI Schlesinger." p. 173: "[CIA legal counsel
Mitchell] Rogovin … accused Pike's staff of having stolen a
copy of the [Ted Shackley] memorandum outlining the
sensitive meeting of CIA officers with Senator "Scoop"
Jackson in May 1973…"
125. May 20, 2007, The American Prospect, 'The Apprentice'.
126. Sep. 8, 2006, Senate Committee on Intelligence, 'The Use
by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by
the Iraqi National Congress', pp. 5-6.
127. Ibid.
128. March 22, 1974, Wall Street Journal, 'Encounter Magazine
of Britain to Be Sold To Illinois Publisher; Prestigious
Literary Monthly, Once Funded by the CIA, Is Set to Go to
Carus Corp.'.
129. S. Hrg. 103-296. Hearing before the Select Committee on
Intelligence of the United States, nomination of R. James
Woolsey to be director of Central Intelligence, Tuesday,
February 2, and Wednesday, February 3, 1993, p. 32:
"Member, Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., 1974-Present. ... Friends of
the National Zoo, National Zoological Park, Member, 1975-
Present. ... Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 1990-Present. ...
The Atlantic Council of the United States, Director, 1992-
Present, 1981-1989. ... Center for Strategic & International
Studies, Member, Board of Trustees, 1988-1989 & 1991-
Present. ... Council on Foreign Relations, Member, 1975-
Present. ... Senator CHAFEE. Mr. Chairman, I would also
like to add that we have an extraordinary array of Rhodes
Scholars here today. It seems to be a Mafia that has
suddenly taken over the Administration. And as- I watched
Senator Lugar praise Mr. Woolsey, I thought there was a
connection there. Senator JOHNSTON. It's called the "Old
Boy Network." Senator CHAFEE. That's right. I don't know
what the secret, grip is, but -- [General laughter.] ... Senator
KERREY of Nebraska. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. -
Ambassador Woolsey, you may have noted earlier that -I
am not a Rhodes Scholar, and in fact many people in
Nebraska-wonder how it is possible for me to serve on any
Committee called the Intelligence Committee. [General
laughter.] ... Chairman DECONCINI: ... [Woolsey's]
 academic and professional credentials are impeccable. A
graduate of Stanford, where he became a Rhodes scholar,
with a graduate degree from Oxford and a law degree from
Yale Law School"
130. Ibid.
131. August 2, 1989, CSIS board document. (PDF)
132. S. Hrg. 103-296. Hearing before the Select Committee on
Intelligence of the United States, nomination of R. James
Woolsey to be director of Central Intelligence, Tuesday,
February 2, and Wednesday, February 3, 1993, p. 32:
"Clients Billed More than $500 Worth of My Services
Durina Past 5 Years: - Aerospace Corporation - Bell
Communications Research, - Bolt, Baranek & Newman -
The Carlyle Group - Center for Strategic & International
Studies - Center for Naval Analysis - Clean Sites - Cornell
University - DynCorp.- - Fairchild Industries. - . General
Dynamics - Insilco - Litton Industries - Martin Marietta
Corporation - McDonnell Douglas Corporation - M.I.T.
Lincoln Laboratory - NationalAcademy of Sciences -
National Security-Council - Newmont - Penn -Central
Corporation - Plessey, - Rockwell -International
Corporation - SAIC - Shack & Kimball - Southern Steamship
Ltd. - Thiokol - Thomson, CSF - The Titan Corporation -
United Technologies Corporation - Young & Rubicam." Also
lists directorships in some of these corporations.
133. *) S. Hrg. 103-296. Hearing before the Select Committee on
Intelligence of the United States, nomination of R. James
Woolsey to be director of Central Intelligence, Tuesday,
February 2, and Wednesday, February 3, 1993: "Includes
also: "Joint Strategic Targetting and Planning Staff,
 Scientific Advisory Group, Offutt AFB, Nebraska, 68113,
advisor, 1987-1988.""
*) Suzanne Woolsey: Wife of James Woolsey. BA Stanford
psychology. Doctorate in Social and Clinical Psychology
from Harvard. Research program director at the
Rockefeller-funded Urban Institute 1975-1977, with trustees
over the years as Katharine Graham, Cyrus Vance, John
Deutch, Warren Buffett (close to Larry King of Franklin
Affair and Offutt - see ISGP's 9/11 article for details), Robert
McNamara, Carla Hills, Henry G. Cisneros and Vernon
Jordan (Lazard). Partner of Coopers & Lybrand 1980-1989.
Married to James Woolsey around 1970. 1977, Government
Research Corporation, National Journal, p. 256: "[Suzanne
Woolsey] had been on the staff of the Urban Institute for
two years..." Associate director U.S. Office of Management
and Budget 1977-1980. Executive director of the
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and
Education at the National Academy of Sciences/National
Research Council 1989-1993. Chief Operating Officer of the
NAS/NRC 1993-2000. Chief communications officer
NAS/NRC 2001-2003.
134. S. Hrg. 103-296. Hearing before the Select Committee on
Intelligence of the United States, nomination of R. James
Woolsey to be director of Central Intelligence, Tuesday,
February 2, and Wednesday, February 3, 1993, p. 32:
"Jamestown Foundation. Director 1986-1989. ... Member,
board of Advisors: 1992-Present. Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs: Member, Advisory Board 1988-
1989, 1991-Present."
135. *) Senator Henry Jackson was a co-founder and early board
member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
(according to a 2011 JINSA email to ISGP).
*) December 14, 1986, Gadsden Times, 'Conservative
scholar believed key figure in Iran deal': "Ledeen has been
identified in Israel and in the United States as being a key
player in the initial talks that eventually resulted in the sale
of weapons – through Israel – to Iran in the summer of
1985. … Ledeen’s name was also raised in connection with
a 1985 meeting with arms merchant Manucher
Ghorbanifar, an Iranian expatriate, who, along with Adnan
Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian, were middlemen in the deals.
… Ledeen told associates that he met Ghorbanifar several
times in Europe between July and December 1985, the
Chicago Tribune reported a month ago. … Israeli officials in
Jerusalem said Ledeen told former Israeli Prime Minister
Shimon Peres in the early spring of 1985 that the United
States wanted to re-establish contact with Iran. … Hours
after speaking with Ledeen, peres talked to Al Schwimmer,
the U.S.-born founder of Israel Aircraft Industries,
according to a report in Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper. … It
was Schwimmer’s idea to bater weapons for Buckley’s
freedom, and Schwimmer turned for help to Israeli arms
dealer Yaacov Nimrodi, according to the paper. Ledeen is a
founder of the Jewish Institute for National Security
Affairs." February 2, 1987, Boca Raton News, p. 3A: "
[Michael] Ledeen said he has spent a month in Israel on
two occasions, staying with his family at quarters
furnished at favorable rates by the privately funded
Jerusalem Foundation. He said he has been an editor and
 board member of the Jewish Institute for National Security
Affairs, which advocates close U.S.-Israeli military ties."
136. *) Jackson and Cline were both involved in the American
Security Council.
*) 2006, Joseph Trento, 'Prelude to Terror', p. 283: "The
admiration of Israel by the neocons was shared by Ted
Shackley. One of Shackley's friends and business
associates was Michael Ledeen... Lawrence Walsh, the
Iran-Contra special prosecutor, wrote in his book 'Firewall':
"Ledeen was more than a messenger. He had pressed
McFarlane to open discussion with (Shimon) Peres and
had become the Washington spokesman for the Israeli
arms merchants and Ghorbanifar. It was Ledeen who
would use Shackley--and his influence with Bush--to
orchestrate what would become the arms-for-hostages
scheme with Israel as a partner. Ledeen was a certified
good guy to the private intelligence network. He had
lobbied hard against the prosecution of Tom Clines and
Richard Secord over EATSCO."
*) In 1980, Ledeen worked for the Italian military
intelligence service as a "risk assessment" consultant. In
1981, Michael Ledeen then became Special Adviser to
secretary of state Alexander Haig.
*) July 2006, Vanity Fair, 'The War They Wanted, the Lies
They Needed': "The first took place in 1980, when
Francesco Pazienza, a charming and sophisticated
Propaganda Due operative at the highest levels of SISMI,
allegedly teamed up with an American named Michael
Ledeen, a Rome correspondent for The New Republic.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Pazienza said he first
met Ledeen that summer, through a SISMI agent in New
York who was working under the cover of a U.N. job. ... A
1985 investigation by Jonathan Kwitny in The Wall Street
Journal reported that the New Republic article was part of
a larger disinformation scam run by Ledeen and SISMI to
tilt the election, and that “Billy Carter wasn’t the only one
allegedly getting money from a foreign government.”
According to Pazienza, Kwitny reported, Michael Ledeen
had received at least $120,000 from SISMI in 1980 or 1981
for his work on Billygate [with Arnaud de Borchgrave] and
other projects. Ledeen even had a coded identity, Z-3, and
had money sent to him in a Bermuda bank account,
Pazienza said. Ledeen told the Journal that a consulting
firm he owned, I.S.I., worked for SISMI and may have
received the money. He said he did not recall whether he
had a coded identity. ... Pazienza was subsequently
convicted in absentia on multiple charges, including
having used extortion and fraud to obtain embarrassing
facts about Billy Carter. Ledeen was never charged with
any crime, but he was cited in Pazienza’s indictment,
which read, “With the illicit support of the SISMI and in
collaboration with the well-known American ‘Italianist’
Michael Ledeen, Pazienza succeeded in extorting, also
using fraudulent means, information … on the Libyan
business of Billy Carter, the brother of the then President of
the United States.” In an interview with Vanity Fair, Ledeen
denied having worked with Pazienza or Propaganda Due as
part of a disinformation scheme. “I knew Pazienza,” he
explained. “I didn’t think P-2 existed. I thought it was all
nonsense—typical Italian fantasy.” He added, “I’m not
 aware that anything in [the Billygate] story turned out to be
false.” Asked if he had worked with SISMI, Ledeen told
Vanity Fair, “No,” then added, “I had a project with SISMI—
one project.” He described it as a simple “desktop” exercise
in 1979 or 1980, in which he taught Italian intelligence how
to deal with U.S. officials on extradition matters. His fee, he
said, was about $10,000."
*) 2005, Daniele Ganser, 'Nato's Secret Armies', pp. 74-75:
"Frank Gigliotti [Presbyterian/Methodist priest; one-time
assistant to a hypnotist; worked with teenaged boys, for
whom he organized a social club with the peculiar name
Giuseppe Mazzini Club; OSS Italy; Mason] of the US
Masonic Lodge personally recruited Gelli and instructed
him to set up an anti-Communist parallel government in
Italy in close cooperation with the CIA station in Rome. 'It
was Ted Shackley [Le Cercle], director of all covert
operations of the CIA in Italy in the 1970s', an internal
report of the Italian anti-terrorism unit confirmed, 'who
presented the chief of the Masonic Lodge to Alexander
Haig'. According to the document, Nixon's Military adviser
General Haig [later Pilgrims Society executive], who had
commanded US troops in vietnam and thereafter from 1974
to 1979 served as NATO's SACEUR, and Nixon's National
Security Advisor Henry Kissinger [Pilgrims Society; Le
Cercle] 'authorized Gelli in the fall of 1969 to recruit 400
high ranking Italian and NATO officers into his lodge'. (60)
137. *) 1993, JINSA, 'Security Affairs', p. 12: "Officers: ... Vice
Chairman - Morris J. Amitay [executive director AIPAC] ...
Advisory Board: Amb. Max Kampelman, Chr.; Douglas
Feith, Vice Chr., ... The Hon. Jack Kemp, The Hon. Jeane J.
 Kirkpatrick, ... Prof. Michael Ledeen, ... Joshua Muravchik,
The Hon. Richard Perle, ... Prof. Eugene V, Rostow, Adm.
Sumner Shapiro (Ret.), ... Gen. John Vogt (Ret.), Adm. Elmo
Zumwalt (Ret.). ... Amb. Paul D. Wolfowitz, now Co-
Chairman of JINSA's Board of Advisors... "
*) JINSA website, advisory council (accessed: July 11, 2001):
"Hon. John Bolton ... Hon. Dick Cheney ... Adm. David
Jeremiah ... Amb. max M. Kampelman ... Hon. Jack Kemp ...
Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick ... Prof. Michael Ledeen ... The Hon.
Richard Perle ... Prof. Eugene Rostow ... R. Adm. Sumner
Shapiro ... Hon. R. James Woolsey." Bolton and Cheney gone
by December 18 checkup, but the rest is still there. Bolton
later returned to the board.
138. January 18, 2012, Forward magazine, 'JINSA Leadership in
Flux After Ouster Perle and Woolsey Quit Hawkish Jewish
Security Think Tank': "The Jewish Institute for National
Security Affairs recently terminated the second-highest-
ranking staff member, who has been with the organization
for more than three decades. The move, a culmination of
months of internal struggle, prompted several conservative
icons to quit the group’s advisory board in protest. Among
those turning their back on JINSA were former CIA director
James Woolsey, former top Pentagon official Richard Perle
and neoconservative figure Michael Ledeen. ... JINSA, was
founded in 1976, three years after Israel’s Yom Kippur War;
one of its main goals was to ensure strong military
cooperation between the United States and Israel by
educating the American defense establishment on Israel’s
strategic importance. ... News of JINSA’s troubled internal
relations surfaced January 10 with the announcement that
Shoshana Bryen, until recently senior director for security
policy, had joined the Jewish Policy Center, an up-and-
coming conservative Jewish think tank associated with the
Republican Jewish Coalition. The statement marked the
end of a months-long battle between Bryen and her bosses.
Bryen had been at JINSA for 32 years and, according to a
prominent lay leader, was considered its “public face.” She
served as JINSA’s executive director from 1981 to 1991 and is
credited with transforming the organization from a small
think tank into a player in the Washington conservative
scene. She later took charge of issues relating to defense
policies and was the main author of the group’s reports and
position papers. Bryen’s blunt analysis of the Middle East
gave her a reputation as a hawkish straight shooter, short
on nuance and willing to take on the conventional wisdom.
For instance, she opposed talks with the Palestine
Liberation Organization even when negotiations were
endorsed by a Republican administration; even now,
defying much of the rhetoric of supporters of Benjamin
Netanyahu’s government, she thinks an Israeli attack on
Iran is unlikely. It is this style that, according to a key JINSA
lay leader, got Bryen in trouble. Accounts provided to the
Forward by board members and individuals close to the
organization, speaking on condition of anonymity because
of the personal nature of the dispute, portrayed a tense
relationship between Bryen and JINSA’s president, David
Ganz, a successful Boston businessman who is also the
group’s largest single donor. The two have sparred over
issues relating to JINSA’s future and the focus of its
programs. Officials involved with the group said that Ganz
 viewed Bryen’s direct style and her open opposition to
decisions made by the board as problematic."
139. See ISGP's article on the supranational suspects behind 9/11
for details.