Principle directors, associates and research analysts involved
with the Council for Inter-American Security. Compiled by the
Interhemispheric Resource Center, Group Watch Reports, Box 4506,
Albuquerque, NM 87196-4506. On PeaceNet, IRC's Group Watch
archive can be found on cdp:pra.reactionary; this excellent
archive is maintained by Political Research Associates.
L. Francis Bouchey, president; Lt. Gen. Gordon Sumner, Jr.
(USA-Ret.), chairman; Larry D. Pratt, secretary; Richard W.
Powell, treasurer; Michael Connelly, general counsel. Directors:
Robert W. Searby (Deputy Undersecretary for International
Affairs, Department of Labor), Patrick J. Buchanan (former
communications director for President Reagan); Michael Carricarte
(Carricarte Corp); Col. Samuel T. Dickens (American Security
Council); Ronald F. Docksai (president emeritus); Francis P.
Graves (Republican National Committee); Lewis A. Tambs (U.S.
Ambassador to Colombia, Costa Rica); Andy Messing (National
Defense Council); Robert Emmet Moffit (former senior Legislative
Assistant for Foreign Affairs). David Hirschmann, research
director; Max Primorac, research fellow; Clemens Michel, research
fellow; David Spencer, research fellow; Michael Caputo; John
Lenczowski, consultant. James Whelan, president of the
Inter-Security Educational Institute, co-publisher of West Watch.
Michael Waller, West Watch editor and former research director.
General John K. Singlaub (USA, Ret.); advisory board. Members of
the first Committee of Santa Fe: L. Francis Bouchey, Roger W.
Fontaine, David C. Jordan, Gordon Sumner, Lewis Tambs editor.
Members of the second Committee of Santa Fe: L. Francis Bouchey,
Roger Fontaine, David C. Jordan, Gordon Sumner. Inter-American
Security Educational Institute: Fr. Enrique T. Rueda, project
director.
NOTES AND SOURCES
[1] see in particular: Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky,
_Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media_,
New York, Pantheon Books, 1988; Noam Chomsky, _Necessary
Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies_, Boston,
South End Press, 1989; Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon,
_Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in the Media_,
New York, Lyle Stuart, 1990; see, in particular, chapters 10-12
[2] Ross Gelbspan, _Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The
Covert War Against the Central America Movement_, Boston, South
End Press, 1991; for background on COINTELPRO see: Ward
Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, _Agents of Repression: The FBI's
Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American
Indian Movement_, Boston, South End Press, 1990
[3] Gelbspan, op. cit., pp. 76-77. Currently J. Michael Waller
is a leading spokesperson for the Washington, D.C.-based,
American Foreign Policy Council; a rightist think-tank.
[4] ibid., pp. 32-34
[5] cited in Chip Berlet, _The FBI and Right-Wing Spy Networks_,
New York, Center for Constitutional Rights, 1991, p. 4
[6] Gelbspan, op. cit., pp. 124-125
[7] Holly Sklar, _Washington's War On Nicaragua_, Boston, South
End Press, 1988, p. 58
[8] Frederick Clarkson, "'Privatizing' the War," _Covert Action
Information Bulletin_, Washington, D.C., Number 22 (Fall 1984),
p. 33
[9] Alan Crawford, _Thunder On The Right: The "New Right" and
the Politics of Resentment_, New York, Pantheon Books, 1980, p.
197
[10] Sara Diamond, _Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and
Political Power in the United States_, New York, The Guilford
Press, 1995, pp. 348-349 Marvin Liebman, a reactionary leader of
the "China Lobby" organized the American-Chilean Council with
funds supplied by "private Chilean contributions which were
transmitted to us by the Consejo Chileno Norteamericano."
According to Dr. Diamond, ACC founders included: Professor James
D. Atkinson, Murray Baron, Professor A.T. Bouscaren, Ralph de
Toledano, Lev Dobriansky, Ronald Docksai, Walter Judd, David
Keene, Anthony Kubeck, Eugene Lyons, Stefan Possony, David Rowe.
Ronald Docksai was the founder and first president of CIS.
[11] Sklar, op. cit., p. 58
[12] ibid.
[13] Interhemispheric Resource Center, _Group Watch Project:
Council for Inter-American Security_, Albuquerque, 1991
[14] Nelson Blackstock, _COINTELPRO: The FBI's War On Political
Freedom_, New York, Pathfinder Press, 1988; Frank Donner,
_Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in
America_, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1990
[15] Edward S. Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan, _The "Terrorism"
Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of
Terror_, New York, Pantheon Books, 1989, p. 100
[16] Diamond, op. cit., p. 46
[17] Herman and O'Sullivan, op. cit., p. 100
[18] Clarkson, op. cit., p. 33; Herman & O'Sullivan, op. cit., p.
93
[19] Louis Wolf and Frederick Clarkson, "Arnaud de Borchgrave
Board's Moon's Ship," _Covert Action Information Bulletin_,
Washington, D.C., Number 24, Summer 1985, p. 35
[20] Clarkson, op. cit., p. 33
[21] Frederick Clarkson, "Moon's Law: God Is Phasing Out
Democracy," _Covert Action Information Bulletin_, Washington,
D.C., Number 27, Spring 1987, p. 40
[22] Kai Hermann, "Klaus Barbie: A Killer's Career," _Covert
Action Information Bulletin_, Washington, D.C., Number 25, Winter
1986, p. 19
[23] Stewart Klepper, "The United States in El Salvador," _Covert
Action Information Bulletin_, Washington, D.C., Number 12, April
1981, p. 9
[24] Herman and O'Sullivan, op. cit., p. 96
[25] Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson, _Inside the League:
The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis and Latin American
Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League_,
New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1986, p. 13
[26] Christopher Simpson, _Blowback: The First Full Account of
America's Recruitment of Nazis, and Its Disastrous Effect On Our
Domestic and Foreign Policy_, New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1988, p. 269
[27] Diamond, op. cit., p. 157
[28] Anderson & Anderson, op. cit., p. 93
[29] ibid., p. 98
[30] for background on "Gladio" and NATO's "stay behind" network,
see: Arthur E. Rowse, "Gladio: The Secret U.S. War to Subvert
Italian Democracy," _Covert Action Quarterly_, Washington, D.C.,
Number 49, Summer 1994 and, Anti-Fascist Action (AFA), "Staying
Behind: NATO's Terror Network," _Fighting Talk_, London, Issue
11, May 1995
[31] Anderson & Anderson, op. cit., pp. 98-99 and Stuart
Christie, _Stefano Delle Chiaie, Portrait of a Black Terrorist_,
London, Anarchy Magazine/Refract Publications, 1984
[32] Anderson & Anderson, op. cit., pp. 71-81
[33] ibid., p. 138
[34] ibid., p. 147
[35] ibid., p. 177
[36] Sklar, op. cit., p. 83
[37] ibid., pp. 84-86; for Israel's role in Central America see,
Jane Hunter, _Israeli Foreign Policy: South Africa and Central
America_, Boston, South End Press, 1987, pp. 95-181
[38] Ellen Ray, "Argentina Activates International Death Squads,"
_Covert Action Information Bulletin_, Washington, D.C., Number
16, March 1982, pp. 14-16 and, same issue, "Salvadoran Deserter
Discloses Green Beret Torture Role," pp. 17-18
[39] Sklar, op. cit., pp. 238-239
[40] Anderson & Anderson, op. cit., p. 102
[41] ibid., p. 92
[42] ibid. pp. 150-155
[43] Herman & O'Sullivan, op. cit., p. 69 Supporting counter-
revolutionary terror was a very profitable enterprise indeed.
GeoMilitech, founded by Singlaub and his partner, Barbara
Studley, procured $5.3 million in weapons which were transferred
to Contra leader, Adolfo Calero, in June 1985; a cozy
relationship all around.
[44] Dele Olojede, "D.C. think tank was an apartheid tool," _San
Francisco Examiner_, Sunday, July 16, 1995, p. C-7; for
background on the International Freedom Foundation see, David
Ivon, "Touting for South Africa: International Freedom
Foundation," _Covert Action Information Bulletin_, Washington,
D.C., Number 31, Winter 1989, pp. 62-64
[45] Russ Bellant, _The Coors Connection: How Coors Family
Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism_, Cambridge, MA,
Political Research Associates, 1990, p. 65
[46] Ruth Conniff, "The War on Aliens: The Right calls the
shots," _The Progressive_, Madison, WI, October 1993, p. 24
[47] Diamond, op. cit., p. 348
[48] Anderson & Anderson, op. cit., p. 153
[49] ibid., p. 273
[50] Hunter, op. cit., pp. 118-127 and, Sara Diamond, _Spiritual
Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right_, Boston, South End
Press, 1989, pp. 164-168
[51] Michael Novick, _White Lies, White Power: The Fight Against
White Supremacy and Reactionary Violence_, Monroe, Maine, Common
Courage Press, 1995, pp. 188-189
[52] ibid., p. 267
[53] Gelbspan, op. cit., p. 219
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