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America's First Families (Updated 7/2/2000) 2. Answering Nixon's Call (7/2/00) 3. A Shadow Government (9/1/00) 4. A "Liberal" Media? (4/6/00) 5. Pushing the Right on the Campuses (3/16/00) 6. The Federalist Society (3/16/00) 7. Newt's Impeachment Plans New! (9/23/00) 8. The "Coronation" of George W. Bush (2/29/00)) 9. Links related to this page (1/16/01) Part II (Next page): The Iran-Contra Gang Rides Again, the Council for National Policy & the frightening power of Reverend Moon within the GOP. PLUS! Great collection of Bush Links! Other articles on this web-site: | New on this site! "Blast to the Future: Iraqgate" | | How did the Bush Campaign raise all that money? | | The Attempted Overthrow Of Bill Clinton | | Flyer: The Bush (Criminal) Family History | Banners/Bumper Sticker Designs: Click here: Free and Fun! America's First Families In the nearly three decades since the New Right movement began, the main objective has been for the Right Wing Elite to extend their influence throughout the higher levels of our society. These leaders of the New Right include (notorious Clinton hater) Richard Mellon Scaife, Paul Weyrich and the Coors, DeVos (Amway), Hunt (Oil), Koch (Oil), Krieble (Loctite), Noble, Olin & Van Andel (Amway) families. In fact, oilman George Bush Sr. comes from this very same class of people. His tenure as CIA Director is but a small part of a long history with the Intelligence community, which has included Richard Mellon Scaife, and the other New Right leaders. It is highly unlikely that Bush would have been appointed CIA Director, without some prior experience within the Agency. Indeed, there have been reports that Bush was possibly a CIA operative since at least 1960. What's more, the Bush Family's CIA affiliation appears to originate with the OSS, the WWII Agency that preceded the CIA. Robert Lovett, the business partner of Bush's father Prescott, was an OSS Officer, along with Mellon Scaife's father Alan and their Mellon relatives. In fact, Paul Mellon was the OSS Station Chief in London. Prescott could not (officially at least) be involved in the OSS, since he was a Director of Union Banking. It was a major embarrassment for the Bush Family, when in 1942 Union Banking's assets were seized under the Trading With the Enemy Act, for collaborating with Nazi industrialists. [1] . (A few weeks later, another Bush venture had its assets seized as well). After the war, Prescott's partner Lovett headed a Committee bearing his name that recommended the creation of the CIA as the descendant of the OSS. Averell Harriman, another of Prescott's partners at "Brown Brothers Harriman", was likewise directly involved with the CIA. Given that many of Prescott Bush's cronies enjoyed a long association with the Agency, it is likely that Prescott was involved with the CIA as well. (Those interested in looking more deeply into the elite roots of the OSS and the CIA should read about Yale's "Skull and Bones" society -- a.k.a "the Bonesmen" [2] ). In the seventies, while George Bush Sr. was in the wings for the CIA Directorship, Richard Mellon Scaife ran Forum World Features, a CIA front for a European propaganda operation. There are also reports that Scaife was likely involved in the Heritage Foundation's funding of Iran-Contra, along with Heritage President Edwin Feulner. Contrary to what he still declares to this day, then-Vice President Bush Sr. was clearly "in the loop" of Iran-Contra, as Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's notes demonstrated. Furthermore, Admiral John Poindexter claimed that he conferred directly with Bush about the Iran-Contra scheme. Also, Bush and his assistant Donald Gregg communicated regularly with Felix Rodriguez, the notorious ex-CIA agent at the heart of the Contra Supply operation [See Lawrence Walsh's "Firewall", W.W. Norton & Co., 1997; pp. 271-272]. In recent years, the CIA Inspector General's Report confirmed that the Contras were trafficking in cocaine, under the watch of Oliver North and the CIA [3] . There is strong evidence that the Contras used North's planes (financed in part by Joe Coors) for their drug-running. Although a Congressional investigation into Contra-Cocaine was recently concluded, there remain lingering questions about the role North's team and the CIA played in this enterprise. [Click here to go beyond the headlines -- What the recent Congressional Investigations actually revealed]. During this period, both Presidents Reagan and Bush appointed Mellon Scaife to the US Advisory Committee for Public Diplomacy, which oversaw the US Information Agency. A key component of the White House Spin Machine, the USIA worked hand in hand with Walter Raymond's interagency propaganda operation. The mission of Raymond's outfit (code-named "Project Truth") was to manipulate US public opinion in favor of the Reagan-Bush foreign policies. [See Robert Parry's "Lost History" for details [4] ]. In 1983, the USIA's director, Charles Z. Wick, held a fundraiser in support of the Iran-Contra activities. With the help of Scaife's lieutenants, Wick collected over $400,000 in private funds from the likes of the Smith Richardson and Olin Foundations [5] . [Also, see the National Security Archive's "Iran-Contra Collection", May 1983]. Later, Frank Shakespeare, yet another Heritage board member, served as the USIA's Director. Ultimately, President George Bush dealt the final blow to Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh's prosecution of the Iran-Contra affair. Less than a month before leaving office, Bush pardoned Caspar Weinberger and the other defendants awaiting trial. Bush also issued sweeping pardons to those previously convicted ["Firewall", p. 493]. In so doing, Bush clearly abused his Presidential power to avoid further exposure of his Iran-Contra role, which had been definitely established by Weinberger's notes. (Table of Contents) Answering Nixon's Call The truth of the matter is that the CIA does not exist to serve the American people, the American Government or even the President. The real mission of the CIA is to serve the interests of American Big Business. In particular, the CIA obeys the dictates of its inner circle -- the Bushes, Dulles, Harrimans, Lovetts, Rockefellers and Mellon Scaifes [6] -- who have always been front row center. Indeed, the CIA has been consumed in serving this Client -- with decades of supporting military coups, backing Right Wing Dictators amenable to US business interests and waging propaganda wars [See Mark Zepezauer's "The CIA's Greatest Hits"; Odonian Press, 1994]. As a consequence, the Agency has woefully neglected its stated mission of collecting and analyzing intelligence information. This was most embarrassingly obvious when the CIA failed to predict (or disclose--as the case may be) the demise of the Soviet Union. While the CIA has greatly influenced the affairs of other countries, it has been constrained by federal law from doing the same within our borders. In order to skirt these restrictions, Walter Raymond left his CIA post in 1983 to run an interagency taskforce to manipulate the US Media [See "Lost History", Robert Parry; The Media Consortium, 1999; pg. 60-61]. Likewise, Scaife, Coors and the other New Right Leaders used their tax-exempt foundations to fund a network of private organizations, in large part to perform CIA-type operations in America. In fact, it was Richard Nixon who first called for the building of such an "establishment" to counter the rise of Liberalism -- especially the Civil Rights and Anti-War movements [7] . Paving the way was Paul Weyrich, who, armed with Coors and Scaife seed money, founded the Heritage Foundation in 1973. Later Weyrich would found and continue to head its sister, the Free Congress Foundation. It is thought that Free Congress' role is complementary to that of Heritage, and that together they head the Right Wing Network. Weyrich's proxy on the Heritage Board appears to be Frederic Rench, who also sits on the Free Congress Board under Weyrich. After Nixon's resignation, it was his former Treasury Secretary, William Simon, who led the charge towards building Nixon's "establishment". Simon was certainly the right man for the job, partly due to his considerable acumen, but mostly because he was the "treasurer" for the Olin Foundation. Olin is another Right Wing cash cow like the Scaife and Coors foundations. Recently deceased, Wm. Simon was a long-time member of the Heritage Board. (Table of Contents) A Shadow Government Today, Heritage (with Free Congress) sits at the head of this array of organizations. The Right Wing Network has been called a "Shadow Government" by several investigative journalists [8] , including John Saloma in his "Ominous Politics". During his George Magazine interview by JFK Jr., Scaife himself dubbed Larry Klayman's Judicial Watch "almost a Shadow Justice Dept." [9] . This is the Scaife-backed organization that has filed several lawsuits against the Clintons. The Heritage Foundation is considered the most influential organization in the Republican Party. Most notably, the Heritage team drafted the massive policy paper in 1981, "The Mandate For Leadership", that provided "the blueprint" for the Reagan Administration. Years later, this team likewise would make a major contribution towards Gingrich's "Contract With America." Heritage Board members include: President Edwin Feulner (who has spooky ties to the Korean CIA and Reverend Moon); Vice Chairman Richard Mellon Scaife; Holland Coors; the Amway's Jay and Barb Van Andel; and former Secretary of the Navy J. William Middendorf II. Most of the members on the Heritage board head "charitable" foundations that form the financial backbone of Heritage and the New Right. For example, Chairman David Brown manages the Noble Foundation, which has been a prime cash cow for Heritage and other right wing organizations. In addition, many of the trustees have extensive backgrounds in the intelligence community -- particularly propaganda operations. This is especially true for Feulner, Scaife, Frank Shakespeare, Midge Decter and William "Jerry" Hume. For more details, please visit the Heritage web-page to read about the Board of Trustees. Especially worth noting is that a former board member and still close associate is Jeb Bush. What then is the hierarchy under Heritage that orders the roles of these different New Right Think Tanks? Are all major strategies decided by the Heritage Board, with members such as Scaife, Coors, Feulner and Van Andel at the helm? Do these plans then get passed to the rest of the Network, through a chain of command? Does the Washington Legal Foundation, whose members include Barr, DeLay, Helms and other Radical Right Congressman, follow the dictates of the Heritage board in targeting the activities of Congress? Similarly, does the Federalist Society, the exclusive legal club with members such as Ken Starr, Orrin Hatch, Robert Bork and Judge Silberman, ultimately serve the Heritage board in targeting the Courts? What roles do the other Scaife/Coors organizations play in this plan? How do Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation and the Council for National Policy serve to integrate the agenda of the Religious Right with the rest of the Right Wing Network? As a co-founder of the Council for National Policy and other organizations, Sen. Jesse Helms has played an integral role in building and managing the Right Wing Network [See Hedrick Smith's "The Power Game"; Ballantine Books, 1989; pp. 64-66]. There are literally dozens of these Think Tanks, societies and publications, whose functions probably extend well beyond their purported mission statements. This was greatly facilitated when President Reagan signed an Executive Order permitting private funding of US Intelligence operations. And -- just like certain US Intelligence Agencies -- the Think Tanks work to expand the domestic and international interests of their Corporate contributors. In fact, many Think Tank board members are the CEO's of these Corporate clients. Some of the most important Think Tanks include the American Enterprise Institute (where Robert Bork and Newt Gingrich are now employed), the Bradley Organization, the Heartland Institute, the Hoover Institution, the Hudson Institute, the Manhattan Institute (founded by famous CIA Spook William Casey) and the National Legal Center for the Public Interest. Think Tanks have even been established solely for targeting individual states. In addition to the Think Tanks, there are a number of PR firms that serve the Right Wing Network. Of course, leading the charge for the Right is an army of lobbyists. The idea that the Right Wing Think Tanks are organized into a "Shadow Government" is further indicated by their interlocking directorates and fellowships. For example, Richard Mellon Scaife is on both the Heritage and Hoover Institution boards; Fredric Rench is a Director of both Heritage and Free Congress; Midge Decter is on the Heritage and Jamestown Foundation boards; Ed Meese, Reagan's former Attorney General, is a senior Heritage fellow and a Federalist Society Director, etc. (Please go here for a suggested "Anatomy of the New Right".) (Table of Contents) A "Liberal" Media? "The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media." --Former CIA Director William Colby In the past, the Right Wing penetrated the Media through such CIA programs as Operation Mockingbird, which had placed most of the US Media leaders on the CIA payroll. In the 70's, the Church and Pike Reports to Congress exposed this and other illegal domestic CIA operations. Then, in a Rolling Stone expose (10/20/77), Carl Bernstein reported that there had been over 400 US journalists on the CIA's books. He also named such high-level Mockingbird operatives as Katherine Graham (Washington Post), Henry Luce (Time), William Paley (CBS), the Sulzbergers (New York Times) and "publishing magnate" Richard Mellon Scaife. After this embarrassment, it was necessary for the Right to use its own private network to replace Mockingbird. As a result, there is now the Cato Institute, with Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch (Fox, NY Post, TV Guide) on the Board with ATT/TCI's Malone [10] . Another big contributor to Cato is Viacom, which recently acquired CBS. Consequently, CBS/Viacom is now headed by Sumner Redstone, who is yet another powerful right wing figure with a WWII intelligence background [11] and apparent ties to OSS/CIA figures [12] . Cato serves the purpose of infusing the Media with Right Wing Propaganda, along with such organizations as Accuracy in Media(AIM), the Independent Women's Forum, the Western Journalism Center and -- of course -- the Heritage Foundation (See Main Page for Details). The difference between the days of Operation Mockingbird and the present situation is that, instead of actually placing network executives, publishers, editors, reporters and pundits on the CIA payroll, their contemporary counterparts are now members of the Right Wing Think Tanks*. In addition to Cato's Murdoch, some high profile examples are MSNBC's Laura Ingraham (a notorious "Scaifette" from the Independent Women's Forum [13] ) and ABC's John Stoss <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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