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SIGHTINGS
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A Short History Of Reported
CIA Fronts
By Sherman Skolnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
7-17-99
I used to teach a course on how to investigate and research
Foundation Tax Returns, originally called IRS form 990-A,
and then form 990-AR, the only tax return, by the way,
that is available as a public document. Donors Forum,
with office/libraries in many big cities, have on hand for
copying, copies of Foundation Tax Returns in that district of
the office, sometimes other districts, of their public tax
returns as a tax-exempt entity.
In a scandal that was started by Bobby Kennedy in the Spring,
of 1967, various foundations around the U.S. were identified
as part of a complicated three-level device for disguising
CIA funding of domestic operations: [1] conduits [2]
pass-throughs and [3] fronts [a technical term]. A summary
of the scandal can be seen in the numerous pages of the
New York Times "Index" for 1967, a summary of stories in that
newspaper, under the heading, Central Intelligence Agency.
Before they could accomplish a cover up, I and my associates
quickly looked up the 990-A tax returns of the CIA
foundations on the three technical levels mentioned. We
developed expertise in showing over and above the mass media
published reports, where the money came from and was
distributed. Among our disclosures, which did not endear us
to fellow peaceniks who heckled me as a trouble-maker:
1. Most liberal groups with an office and some funds for a
regular staff, got their funding through the three levels,
from CIA, including the American Civil Liberties Union, which
went out of business in 1967 and was completely taken over
by espionage groups, since then called the Roger Baldwin
Foundation of ACLU, and such. If you carefully examine the
board of overseers of what amateurs continue wrongly call the
"American Civil Liberties Union", you will see the espionage
types that run the operations throughout the U.S. They are
an early-warning system, for example, of flare-ups against
the government in the ghettos of big cities.
2. The Nation Magazine, which according to some, does some
good, fails and neglects to mention DOMESTIC operations of
CIA. A simple answer: their funding comes from, among
others, a CIA-front, called the J.M. Kaplan Fund of New York,
and a group of CIA foundations grouped under the umbrella of
the CIA-funded Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU and similar
names. Moreover, the Nation Magazine published commentaries
making vile statements against Oliver Stone, that JFK was,
in fact, the Nation says, killed by a lone assassin and
that the movie "JFK" is a phantasy and a "fraud". Thus
whitewashing the Dallas murder for what some claim was
a CIA-instigated plot against JFK.
3. The Nation Magazine did finally admit several years ago
that what they erroneously persist in calling the "AMERICAN
CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION" [which actually was taken over by the
CIA-foundations in 1967] was very close to FBI dictator/boss
J. Edgar Hoover by way of investigating and combatting
so-called "Reds" in America.
This next item is surely going to outrage some who are naive
and poorly informed.
4. Pacifica Radio, which like the Nation Magazine, has done
SOME good, has been reportedly a CIA-Foundation operation,
New York, Houston, and the Bay area, California. During
the anti-war period, some rednecks, believing that
Pacifica-Houston, was a genuine "liberal" group, purportedly
bombed the station there. A simple, though certainly not
complete answer, is that the stations were used as
provocateur operations, to lure out more independent-minded
political activists who are and were naive. For example,
however, Pacifica, Berkeley, went almost into orbit when
Dennis Bernstein of that station, without realizing I am
an independent, was unable to stop me from blurting out
condemnation of the oil industry and George Bush. Some of
his confidants informed me he almost got run over by the
station management for letting a "loud mouth" like me on
the air.
By the way, I call National Public Radio, NPR, as NATIONAL
PETROLEUM RADIO, since they try to keep oil scandals OFF
the air. A simple, though certainly not complete answer:
for some years Sharon Percy ROCKEFELLER, WIFE OF U.S. Senator
John D. Rockefeller 4th, headed NPR. [She now heads a PBS
operation in D.C. instrumental in the Jim Lehrer News Hour
on so-called Public TV.] No one in NPR, PBS, or for that
matter, in the commercial oil-soaked mass media, would dare
mention that the family of Sharon Percy Rockefeller is
reportedly in business with the CIA-created purported
"terrorist" Osama bin Laden. Their joint funds are
reportedly kept in the Harris Bank in Chicago, under many
concealed accounts. Harris Bank is a unit of the whiskey-
soaked Bronfman family, owners jointly with U.S. Senator
Peter Fitzgerald of Ill., [R., Ill.] of the Bank of Montreal
[Canada]. Bill Clinton said he would like to "freeze" bin
Laden's huge funds but cannot "find" them.
Really?
Sidebar note: son of Pacific Foundation founder was one of
three activists murdered and buried in Mississippi in an
outrageous situation about 1963. [I believe the name was
Schwerner.]
Recently, Pacifica Radio in California has fought their
part-time staff who apparently wanted a union contract
arrangement. Pacifica's New York operation, WBAI, years ago
allowed me occasionally on the air until I begin mentioning
the CIA-paid and funded provocateurs. It was too close to
home for them.
BOTTOM LINE: the CIA-linked foundations seem to know who
the real independents are in the U.S. In years past, when
I and associates of mine showed up at public meetings of
the Chicago office of the Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU,
when I asked a specific question mentioning their funding,
guess what happened? Their then district director abruptly
adjourned the meeting which never resumed. They knew we
were CIA-foundation experts, I having taught courses on
the same at a radio broadcast school, at student seminars
at some Universities, such as at the University of Illinois,
Chicago Circle Campus.
What would surely floor some simple-minded folks, is that
many of the better-funded so-called "liberal" publications,
such as IN THESE TIMES [headquartered in Chicago] reportedly
receive heavy funding from foundations that they would have
to be awfully stupid not to know were either conduits or
pass-throughs [technical foundation terms] for the American
CIA. Because of such funding that publication some years ago
made a complete U-turn regarding the October Surprise matter,
that George Herbert Walker Bush helped work a treasonous deal
in 1980, to get the Iranians to delay the release of the
52 U.S. hostages, enabling the Reagan/Bush ticket to wreck
Jimmy Carter's hope for re-election. Not being able to solve
the mess, Carter was perceived as a wimp. First supporting
the idea that something bad happened, IN THESE TIMES -
reportedly because of their funders - reversed themselves
and apparently condemned some of the more independent-minded
whistle blowers. Just another story suppressed by the liars
and whores of the press.
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I have been a court reformer since 1958. Since 1963,
founder/chairman, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up ther
Courts. Since 1991, producer, now moderator/producer of
the weekly public access Cable TV Program "Broadsides" in
Chicago, reaching some 400,000 viewers each Monday evening,
9 p.m., Channel 21 Cable in Chicago. Office, 8 a.m. to
midnight, 7 days, (773) 375-5741. Recorded phone message:
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