Reply #111: As with any of these policy organizations...

[DavidFL]

you have to check who sits on their board of directors, or board of trustees, and check which other organizations they belong to, because it helps to understand the philosophical bent of the organization.

On the German Marshall Fund's Board of Trustees is:

1. Suzanne Woolsey. Wife of Jim "WWIV" Woolsey and, according to this Common Dreams article, her connections have helped Flour Corp., where she sits on the Board of Directors, profit off of Pentagon Iraqi reconstruction contracts.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0815-06.htm

2. Lee Hamilton. Of course, co-chair of the Sept. 11th Commission and who now has two whitewashes on behalf of the BFEE under his belt. It makes one wonder if the BFEE has dirt on Lee and if so, what kind of dirt that is.

3. J. Robinson West. Perhaps the most interesting member in this bunch. West is the chair of The Petroleum Finance Company, a Washington, D.C. based organization that serves as a strategic consultant to multinational energy (mainly oil and natural gas) companies. In June 2000, he gave a policy talk to senators about Caspian Sea infrastructure projects (http://static.highbeam.com/m/middleeastpolicy/june012000/caspianseainfrastructureprojects/).

West also served as Undersecretary of the Interior with responsiblity for offshore oil leasing policy in the Reagan Administration (http://www.pfcenergy.com/about/team/rwest.asp), and is a director of Key Energy Services, Inc., a Midland, Texas based oil well services and equipment company (http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/FromMktGuideIdPersonTearsheet.jhtml?passedMktGuideId=199768). Gee, who else do we know got their start in Midland, Texas?

West is also a director of an organization called the Atlantic Council of the U.S., where he serves with such luminaries as "WWIV" Woolsey, C. Boyden Grey, Henry Kissinger, Barry McCaffrey, Brent Scowcroft and Wesley Clark. By the way, James Baker III, Frank Carlucci, Alexander Haig and George Schultz are honorary members of this organization.

http://www.acus.org/board/Default.htm

And West is also Chair of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Institute for Peace. An honor he shares with rabid anti-Arab Christian Zionist and neocon Daniel Pipes.

http://www.usip.org/aboutus/board.html

4. Marc Leland and Jeffrey Goldstein. Present and past members, respectively, of the rightwing Brookings Institution. Goldstein was also managing director at the World Bank for corporate leadership and strategy and was also responsible for Bank's program of lending to developing countries.

http://www.brookings.edu/fp/cusf/council/

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/0,,contentMDK:20061264~menuPK:93850~pagePK:43912~piPK:44037~theSitePK:29708,00.html

5. Robert M. Solow, considered the father of neoliberal economic theory.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Robert%20M.%20Solow

6. Steven G. Rothmeier. Member of the board of directors of GenCorp., an aerospace, defense and pharmaceutical company. Rothmeier served as chairman of the board at Northwest Airlines in the 80s, a director at Honeywell, and is a director at the Center for the American Experiment, a predominately Republican organization.

http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=Gy&script=460&layout=1&item_id=74745

Rothmeier is also a director of the American Council on Germany, where he serves with such dignataries as Richard Holbrooke, Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft.

http://www.acgusa.org/board.htm


7. Scott Klug. A former Republican U.S. Representative from Wisconsin from 1991-1999. Served as an assistant to Tom DeLay when he was chosen as the House majority whip during the ascention of the Republicans after the midterm elections in 1994. Klug recently issued a statement bashing Kerry, which on Bush's website:

http://www.georgewbush.com/KerryMediaCenter/Read.aspx?ID=3554


8. Mara Liasson, NPR media whore.

9. Leah Zell Wanger. Identified as a Chicago philanthropist. Serves on the Board of Overseers to an organization at Harvard called "Fiat Pax," along with Jamie Gorelick, a Sept. 11th Commissioner.

http://www.fiatpax.net/dohe/harvard.htm

She is also a member of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and just last week, her and her husband hosted a dinner in honor of CBS media whore Bob Schieffer.

http://www.ccfr.org/events/17.htm

10. Jenonne Walker. Former ambassador to the Czech Republic during the Clinton Administration. Also serves as a councillor to the Atlantic Council of the U.S., where West is a director.

http://www.acus.org/Councillors/Default.htm

Prior to becoming ambassador, Walker was an analyst at the CIA and member of the State Department's policy planning staff and European and UN arms control.

http://www.afocr.org/directors/walker.htm

These are all the names I have time to go through now. But I'm sure the ones I didn't get to have interesting biographies as well.