Abt Associates (CIA Front) and Allendé Overthrow From: "Operation Condor: U.S. Responsibility for the Coup in Chile," By Daniel Brandt [...] A U.S. firm under contract to Project Camelot, Abt Associates, developed a simulation game called Politica, which was purchased by the Pentagon in 1966. Politica is fed information from a computer that links the files of the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, and the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Crisis situations are simulated and used in the training of Third World police officials at the army's Military Police Training School at Fort Gordon, Georgia. Such a simulation may have eventually played a role in anti-Allende strategy in Chile.42 It is known that Rand Corporation sponsored in-depth studies of Chilean women and farmers between 1970 and 1973, which were identified by the CIA as the key anti-Allende factions.... ___________________________ Mae Brussell reported in an unpublished manuscript, "Operation CHAOS," that the Central Intelligence Agency "prepared for defense aganist American youth unrest in1965, the same year as Camelot and Politica." Politica was "the game plan for overthrowing Salvador Allendé's elected government in Chile, arranged by Abt Associates, Cambridge, Mass., in 1965. Part of these manipulations was titled Operation CHAOS. Abt was a front for the Pentagon and CIA." ___________________________ Abt Associates Inc. 55 Wheeler Street, Cambridge MA 02138 USA (617) 492-7100 Current Board of Directors * Henry J. Aaron * Clark C. Abt * Brian E. Boyle * Wendell J. Knox * Deval Patrick * John A. Shane * Kathryn J. Whitmire -------------------------------------- Henry J. Aaron is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he directed the Economic Studies Program from 1990 through May 1996. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the year 1996-97 and has served as vice president and member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association. He is president-elect of the Association for Public Policy and Management and is Chairman of the Board of the National Academy of Social Insurance and a member of the Board and Chair of the Finance Committee of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He has also served on the board of the College Retirement Equities Fund of Georgetown University. Clark C. Abt is Chairman, Abt Associates Inc., Associate, Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University and a founding Director of the Roxbury Entrepreneur's Club. He was Research Professor of International Relations at Boston University from 1991 to 1995. In 1995 he organized and directed in Moscow the 4th Russian-American Entrepreneurial Workshop in Defense Technology Conversion for Russian and US Nuclear Weapons Scientists. In 1997, he conducted research and presented papers in the United States at the United Nations, China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Kazakhstan on renewable energy and environmentally sustainable economic development. Brian E. Boyle has an extensive background in engineering and operations research which he has applied to a number of business enterprises. He is currently Vice Chairman of Boston Communications Group, a provider of switched call processing services to the cellular and wireless telecommunications industry, as well as Chairman of the Board of Boyle Leasing Technologies, Inc., the parent of a "micro-ticket" leasing company. Prior to that, he served as CEO of a number of software service, telecommunications, and leasing companies. Currently, he is on the Board of Directors of DentAMed, Inc., Healthcare Bancorp, Inc., Innovative Telecom Corporation, Radio Telephone Systems, Inc., and Saville Systems. He earned his Ph.D. in Operations Research, as well as several Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degrees, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wendell J. Knox has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Abt Associates Inc. since June, 1992. A staff member of Abt Associates since 1969, he has served the Company in various capacities including Executive Vice President, Area Manager, Project Director and principal developer of the firm's private sector research and consulting business. Mr. Knox serves as a member of the Board of Directors/Trustees of Eastern Bank, Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, The Partnership and several other civic, academic and social service organizations that serve Greater Boston communities. He is a graduate of Harvard College. Deval Patrick is the General Counsel and a Vice President of Texaco Inc., a multinational energy company. Previously, he was a partner of Day, Berry & Howard, specializing in the areas of employment litigation, civil rights, governmental investigations, fair lending and commercial litigation. He also served three years as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division under President Clinton. Prior to Mr. Patrick's federal service and while he was in private law practice in Boston, he served as Director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and as a member of its Executive Committee. Mr. Patrick is a cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, a member of several Bar Associations and is active in various civic and charitable organizations, and serves on one other corporate board. Mr. Shane was the founder and has been President of Palmer Service Corporation, a venture capital management company, since 1972. Mr. Shane is also a director of several privately owned companies and a director or trustee of the following publicly traded or regulated companies: Arch Communications Group, Inc., Eastern Bank, Gensym Corporation, Summa Four, Inc., TNE Funds Group, United Asset Management Corporation and USA Mobile Communications Inc. II. He is a cum laude graduate of Princeton University in Economics and the Harvard Business School with distinction. Kathryn J. Whitmire served for five terms as Mayor of the City of Houston from 1982 to 1992. Prior to serving as Mayor, she was elected City Controller for two terms. While Mayor, she also served as President of both the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the Texas Municipal League. Currently she is Director of National Programs for the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland. She has also served on the faculties of Rice University, Harvard University and the University of Houston. She is a member of the Board of the New York Stock Exchange and an Advisor to the Kellogg Foundations' National Leadership Program. A Certified Public Accountant, Ms. Whitmire received the Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Science in Accountancy degrees from the University of Houston. - Alex Constantine
