The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

EDUCATION 301nal goals of their creators by subsequent directors—another example ofwealth taking control of existing organizations.Some of the past and current organizations and foundations linked bymembership or funding to the plutocracy that once supported the Nazisinclude the Agency of International Development, American Civil LibertiesUnion, American Council of Race Relations, American Press Institute,Anti-Defamation League, Arab Bureau, Aspen Institute, Associationof Humanistic Psychology, Battelle Memorial Institute, Center for AdvancedStudies in the Behavioral Sciences, Center for ConstitutionalRights, Center for Cuban Studies, Center for Democratic Institutions,Christian Socialist League, Communist League, Environmental Fund,Fabian Society, Ford Foundation, Foundation for National Progress, GermanMarshall Fund, Hudson Institute, Institute for Pacific Relations,Institute on Drugs, Crime and Justice, International Institute for StrategicStudies, Mellon Institute, Metaphysical Society, Milner Group, MontPelerin Society, National Association for the Advancement of ColoredPeople, National Council of Churches, New World Foundation, RandInstitute, Stanford Research Institute, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations,Union of Concerned Scientists, International Red Cross, and theYMCA.David N. Gibbs, associate professor of political science at the Universityof Arizona, noted that the intelligence community has long taken advantageof academia to propagate their views and philosophies—as always,through the distribution of money. He wrote: “While pundits never tireof the cliché that American universities are dominated by leftist facultywho are hostile toward the objectives of established foreign policies, thereality is altogether different: The CIA has become ‘a growing force oncampus,’ according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. The‘Agency finds it needs experts from academia, and colleges pressed forcash like the revenue.’ Longstanding academic inhibitions about beingpublicly associated with the CIA have largely disappeared: in 2002,former CIA director Robert Gates became president of Texas A & MUniversity, while the new president of Arizona State University, MichaelCrow, was vice chairman of the agency’s venture-capital arm, In-Q-Tel