The CIA-Ford-NGO-Congress Govt-NAC-AAP nexus Part 1 WHAT CIA SEEKS TO ACHIEVE THROUGH FORD FOUNDATION James Petras, retired Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and adjunct professor at Saint Marys University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, wrote a damning article on 18 September 2002, exposing the Ford Foundation’s sinister choice of beneficiaries of its donations. He accused the CIA of using “philanthropic foundations as the most effective conduit to channel large sums of money to Agency projects without alerting the recipients to their source”. Beginning the 1950s, “50 per cent of the 700 grants in the field of international activities by the principal foundations were funded by the CIA,” he wrote, citing a US Congressional investigation in 1976 that said the CIA considered foundations such as Ford “the best and most plausible kind of funding cover”. This article will go beyond the professor’s findings that showed that the Ford Foundation-CIA connection was a deliberate, conscious joint effort to strengthen U.S. imperial cultural hegemony and to undermine left-wing political and cultural influence. Frances Stonor Saunders wrote in his book, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, 2001, At times it seemed as if the Ford Foundation was simply an extension of government in the area of international cultural propaganda. The Ford Foundation had a record of close involvement in covert actions in Europe, working closely with Marshall Plan and CIA officials on specific projects. That should keep India safe because the US claims to further the cause of democracy while India is the largest democracy, right? Wrong. The Americans often follow an Indira Gandhi-like policy: Romancing with nefarious elements till they serve as Pentagon’s puppets. A deep probe into the cia-on-campus.org site reveals that the Ford Foundation has dirty pro-Islamic businesses it would rather be silent on. There have been a number of reports by journalists about it funding anti-Israel NGOs. It is also worth noting that Henry Ford created the Ford Foundation while he was involved in and impressed by Nazi Germany, two years before he received his award. Remember, Ford also had a factory in Imperial Japan and, for some unexplained reason in Mar 1945, Japan sent orders for a pro-Independance committee to be formed in Indonesia. Former Ford Foundation President Richard Bisell acknowledged that the purpose of the Ford Foundation was not so much to defeat the leftist intellectuals in dialectical combat as to lure them away from their positions. In other words, you make them work in harmless activities, and not in those that may eventually pose a threat to the interests of the US Administration. Almost exactly 50 years ago, reports writer and documentary filmmaker G Edward Griffin, an unusual meeting took place between one Roland Gaither, then President of the enormously wealthy Ford Foundation, and a Norman Dodd, then chief investigator for the Congressional Committee to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations. Gaither asks Dodd, Would you be interested in knowing what we do here at the Ford Foundation? Dodd replies, Yes! That’s exactly why I am here. I would be very interested, sir. Gaither tells him, Mr Dodd, we operate in response to directives, the substance of which is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States so that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union. When he recovers from his shock, Dodd asks whether Gaither believes he doesn’t have an obligation to disclose this aim of one of the wealthiest tax-exempt foundations in the country to the American people. Gaither replies, We would never dream of doing such a thing. So, even the American citizenry is not supposed to know what the Ford Foundation is up to!
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:00:40 +0000
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