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TAKE ACTION!VIDEOSPRESENT DANGER: CHINAPOLICY PILLARSU.S. CULTURE & SOCIETYKEY RESOURCESBrian Kennedy Chairman; Former President, Claremont Institute; President of American Strategy GroupFrank Gaffney Vice Chairman; Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; President and CEO, Save the Persecuted ChristiansGreg Autry, Ph.D. Former White House Liaison NASA,; coauthor of Death by China (w. P. Navarro)Hon. Steve Bannon Former Chief Strategist to President Trump; former Chairman, Breitbart NewsHon.  William Bennett Former Secretary of Education; former Drug CzarJ. Kyle Bass Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Hayman Capital Management
<h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kyle_Bass&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2>Before founding Hayman Capital Management in 2005, Bass briefly worked at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudential_Securities" title="Prudential Securities" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Prudential Securities</a> from 1992-1994 before joining <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Stearns" title="Bear Stearns" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bear Stearns</a> in 1994.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-Drobny-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[19]</a> At <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Stearns" title="Bear Stearns" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bear Stearns</a>, he rose through the ranks rapidly, becoming a senior managing director at the age of 28 – among the youngest in the firm's history to carry such a title.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-Carney-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-OctaFinance-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[18]</a>In 2001, he joined <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legg_Mason" title="Legg Mason" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Legg Mason</a>, signing a five-year deal to form the firm's first institutional equity office in Texas. Bass told his hiring managers, "In five years and one day, I [will] be launching my own firm."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-Drobny-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[19]</a> While at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legg_Mason" title="Legg Mason" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Legg Mason</a>, Bass advised hedge funds and other institutional clients on special situation investment strategies.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-Carney-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a>In December 2005, when Legg Mason sold the portion of the business where he worked, Bass left Legg Mason and started Hayman Capital Management to serve as the investment manager to a "global special situations" hedge fund that he planned to launch. Bass launched Hayman Capital Management, L.P. with $33 million in assets under management – $5 million he had saved on his own and the balance he had raised from outside investors.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-Drobny-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[19]</a> Shortly after launching the hedge fund in February 2006, Bass became convinced that there was a residential real-estate bubble in the United States one of the few investors to successfully predict and benefit from the subprime mortgage crisis, bringing him fame in the financial services industry.In 2007, Bass testified as an expert witness before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Financial_Services_Subcommittee_on_Capital_Markets_and_Government-Sponsored_Enterprises" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises</a>. During his testimony, he addressed: i) the role of credit rating agencies in the structured finance market and ii) policy measures that could be taken to minimize inherent conflicts of interest between rating agencies and issuers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-U.S.House_of_Representatives-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[20]</a>In 2010, Bass testified before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Crisis_Inquiry_Commission" title="Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission</a>. During his testimony, he addressed his analysis of the factors that caused the crisis.After enjoying success in predicting the subprime mortgage crisis and moderate success with debt in Greece and Japan, Bass would make a string of poor bets, leading to a dramatic downsizing of his fund. In April 2014, Bass was among a very few defenders of GM for its failure to address a defect that had been tied to 13 deaths. Hayman at the time owned eight million shares of G.M., making it Hayman's single biggest holding,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[21]</a> Coming to the defense of GM, Bass said on CNBC that of the 13 passengers who had died owing to the defect, 12 "either weren’t wearing their seatbelt or were under the influence of alcohol." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[22]</a> Bass admitted in a late 2014 interview that it had been "a tough year" for Hayman due to owning a lot of GM stock, which was the fund's biggest position in 2014.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[23]</a>After the losing year in 2014, investors pulled out nearly a quarter of Hayman's capital and the firm was forced to liquidate most of its stock holdings.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-return-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[24]</a> Bass called 2015 one of his fund's worst years.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-worst-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[25]</a> By early 2019, Hayman had $423.6 million in discretionary assets under management, down from $2.3 billion at the end of 2014.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-aum-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[26]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fund performance[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kyle_Bass&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Fund performance" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2>The long term performance of Hayman Capital's flagship fund is described by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post" title="New York Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York Post</a> as "small caliber".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-return-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[24]</a> In the period from 2008 to mid-2015, the flagship fund experienced a very modest annualized performance of 1.56%.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-return-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[24]</a> The flagship fund had a tremendously successful year in 2007, having gained 212%, based on the subprime mortgage meltdown bet that brought fame to Bass.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-return-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[24]</a> The fund also gained 16% in 2012 based on bets on Greek debt. The fund lost 1.4% in 2014 and suffered its worst year in 2017 with a 19% loss (in contrast to a 19% surge of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500" class="mw-redirect" title="S&P 500" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">S&P 500</a>) due to Hayman's misplaced short on a collapse in the Chinese yuan.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-return-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[24]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Bass#cite_note-wsj-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[6]</a>Paul Berkowitz Former Professional Staff Member Asia and the Pacific House Foreign Affairs CommitteeLt. Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin, USA (Ret.) Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; former Commander, Delta ForceJosé Cardenas Former Acting Assistant Administrator of US AID; former NSC, State Department officialHon. Robert Charles Former Assistant Secretary of State; former White House official; naval intelligence officerAmb. Henry Cooper Former Director, Strategic Defense Initiative; former Ambassador, Defense and Space TalksDr. Anders Corr Former civilian staff member for U.S. military intelligence on China; published editorHon. Kenneth DeGraffenreid Former Special Assistant to the President for IntelligenceHon. Paula DeSutter Former Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation; Professional Staff Member, House Permanent Select Committee on IntelligenceGunnery Sergeant Jessie Jane Duff, USMC (Ret.) Military Advisor to the Committee on the Present Danger:ChinaSam Faddis Former CIA operations officer, published author, and national security commentatorCapt. James Fanell, USN (Ret.) Former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations, U.S. Pacific FleetRichard Fisher Senior Fellow, International Assessment and Strategy Center; Author, China?s Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global ReachKevin Freeman, CFA Author; host of Economic War Room with Kevin FreemanPastor/Dr. Bob Fu Former Chinese dissident; President, China AidRosemary Gibson Senior Advisor, The Hastings Center; author, China RxDr. Sasha Gong Former Director, VOA Mandarin Desk, author film-makerChadwick R. Gore Former Staff Director, European Subcommittee, House Foreign Affairs Committee; Fellow, Defense Forum FoundationLianchao Han Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute; one of the founders and vice-president of the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and ScholarsMark Helprin Author and essayist; Senior Fellow, Claremont InstituteRich Higgins Senior Fellow, Unconstrained Analytics; former Program Manager, Irregular Warfare, Department of DefensePeter Huessy President of Geostrategic AnalysisBradley Johnson Former Senior Operations Officer and Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency; Founder and President, Americans for Intelligence ReformDr. Phillip Karber President of the Potomac Foundation; former Director, Defense Department?s Strategic Concepts Development CenterRatko Knezevic Board Member and Chief Strategic Officer, Aiteo GroupDr. Xiaoxu Sean Lin, PhD Executive Director, Global Alliance Against Communist Disinformation and Propaganda, Microbiologist, Former US Army officer, GM of WQER-LP Radio, Survivor of Tiananmen MassacreReggie Littlejohn Founder and President Women's Rights Without FrontiersClare Lopez Former Clandestine Service Officer, CIAJay Lucas Founder and Chairman of The Lucas GroupCol. Robert Maness, USAF (Ret.) Founder and owner of Iron Liberty Group LLC, host of The Rob Maness Show at LifeZette.com?s LZTVRichard Manning President, Americans for Limited GovernmentRod Martin Former Senior Advisor to the founder of Pay Pal; Founder and CEO of the Martin OrganizationHon. Tidal McCoy Former Acting Secretary of the Air ForceFaith McDonnell Director for the Religious Liberty Programs at the Institute on Religion and DemocracyHon. Robert McEwen Former Member of Congress from Ohio; Executive Director, Council for National PolicyLt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, USAF (Ret.) Former Assistant Chief of Staff, U.S. Air ForceCol. John Mills, USA (Ret.) 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<a href="https://www.pop.org/distinguished-team-launches-the-committee-on-the-present-danger-china/">https://www.pop.org/distinguished-team-launches-the-committee-on-the-present-danger-china/</a>Distinguished Team Launches the Committee on the Present Danger: ChinaChina Expert and "Bully of Asia" Author, Steven Mosher, Joins Effort to Counter the Chinese Communist Party's Cold War Against the United StatesPRI StaffMarch 28, 2019President of the Population Research Institute, Steven Mosher, is one of the founding members of a distinguished team of China experts, national security practitioners, business leaders, human rights and religious freedom activists, and others, to launch “The Committee on the Present Danger: China” (CPDC).The United States is in a new cold war. The Chinese Communist Party poses the greatest threat to both the United States and the world since the fall of the Soviet Union. Then, as now, the threat of a totalitarian regime with an evil ideology – one that is willing to kill 400 million of its own unborn children – must be stopped.The CPDC’s mission statement:“The mission of the “Committee on the Present Danger: China” is to help defend America through public education and advocacy against the full array of conventional and non-conventional dangers posed by the People’s Republic of China. As with the Soviet Union in the past, Communist China represents an existential and ideological threat to the United States and to the idea of freedom—one that requires a new American consensus regarding the policies and priorities required to defeat this threat. And for this purpose, it is necessary to bring to bear the collective skills, expertise and energies of a diverse group of experts on China, national security practitioners, human rights and religious freedom activists and others who have joined forces under the umbrella of the “Committee on Present Danger: China.””Other founding members of the “Committee on the Present Danger: China” include: Brian Kennedy, chairman; Frank Gaffney, vice chairman; Hon. R. James Woolsey; Dr. William Bennett; Kyle Bass; Steve Bannon; Mark Helprin; Pastor Bob Fu; Kevin Freeman; Dr. Peter Pry; Dr. Sasha Gong; LTG William Boykin; Hon. Ed Timperlake; Dr. Mark Schneider; Richard Fisher; Amb. Hank Cooper; Lianchao Han; Dr. Michael Waller; Capt. James Fanell, USN (Ret.); Col./Dr. Lawrence Sellin, USA (Ret.); Dr. Dan Blumenthal; Steven Mosher; and Dr. Bradley Thayer.
You can read the full, PDF version of the press release here.
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<div style="">In March, several prominent China hawks launched Committee on the Present Danger, a new conservative advocacy group aimed at encouraging U.S. confrontation with China. The group, which includes former CIA director Jim Woolsey, has held events in New York and Washington, including an April roundtable on Capitol Hill that featured Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">While members of the committee are united on China, they are divided on Guo.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Both Waller, who is fighting Guo, and Bannon, the billionaire’s closest ally in the U.S., are members of the committee. The group also includes Gaffney, whose think tank employs Waller, and Han, who introduced Guo to Strategic Vision, only to have Guo allegedly turn around and badmouth Han as untrustworthy.</div>=nyt no lnx<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/us/politics/china-red-scare-washington.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/us/politics/china-red-scare-washington.html</a>A New Red Scare Is Reshaping Washington[pix Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Trump, restarted the Committee on the Present Danger to warn against China’s rise. Mr. Bannon, seen here with a traditional bindi during an event hosted by the committee and the National Indian American Public Policy Institute, says the fight with China is “the defining event of our time.”Credit...Alex Garcia for The New York TimesBy Ana SwansonJuly 20, 2019
WASHINGTON — In a ballroom across from the Capitol building, an unlikely group of military hawks, populist crusaders, Chinese Muslim freedom fighters and followers of the Falun Gong has been meeting to warn anyone who will listen that China poses an existential threat to the United States that will not end until the Communist Party is overthrown.If the warnings sound straight out of the Cold War, they are. The Committee on the Present Danger, a long-defunct group that campaigned against the dangers of the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, has recently been revived with the help of Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s former chief strategist, to warn against the dangers of China.Once dismissed as xenophobes and fringe elements, the group’s members are finding their views increasingly embraced in President Trump’s Washington, where skepticism and mistrust of China have taken hold. Fear of China has spread across the government, from the White House to Congress to federal agencies, where Beijing’s rise is unquestioningly viewed as an economic and national security threat and the defining challenge of the 21st century.“These are two systems that are incompatible,” Mr. Bannon said of the United States and China. “One side is going to win, and one side is going to lose.”The United States and China have been locked in difficult trade negotiations for the past two years, with talks plagued by a series of missteps and misunderstandings. Mr. Trump has responded to the lack of progress by steadily ratcheting up American tariffs on Chinese goods and finding other ways to retaliate. China has responded in kind.The two sides now appear far from any agreement that would resolve the administration’s concerns about China, including forcing American companies operating there to hand over valuable technology. Even if a deal is reached, the two sides are busy constructing broader economic barriers.In addition to placing a 25 percent tariff on roughly half of the goods China exports, the United States has restricted the kinds of technologies that can be exported to China, tried to cut off some Chinese companies, like telecom giant Huawei, from purchasing American products and rolled out hurdles for Chinese investment in the United States.American intelligence agencies have also ratcheted up efforts to combat Chinese espionage, particularly at universities and research institutions. Officials from the F.B.I. and the National Security Council have been dispatched to Ivy League universities to warn administrators to be vigilant against Chinese students who may be gathering technological secrets from their laboratories to pass to Beijing.The administration paints the crackdown as necessary to protect the United States. But there are growing concerns that it is stoking a new red scare, fueling discrimination against students, scientists and companies with ties to China and risking the collapse of a fraught but deeply enmeshed trade relationship between the world’s two largest economies.“I’m worried that some people are going to say, because of this fear, any policy is justifiable,” said Scott Kennedy, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “The climate of fear that is being created needs to help generate the conversation, not end the conversation.”[Image Concern over China’s ambitions as an economic and military power has spread across Washington, fueling what some say could be a new Red Scare.Anti-China sentiment has spread quickly, with Republicans and Democrats, labor union leaders, Fox News hosts and others warning that China’s efforts to build up its military and advanced industries threaten America’s global leadership, and that the United States should respond aggressively. Skepticism has seeped into nearly every aspect of China’s interaction with the United States, with officials questioning China’s presence on American stock markets, its construction of American subway cars and its purchase of social media networks.Yet there is little agreement on what America can or should do. The United States has tried for decades to entice and cajole China to become a more open society, but the Communist Party has steadily tightened its grip over the Chinese people and the economy. American leaders now face a choice of whether to continue down a path of engagement that could leave the country vulnerable to economic and security threats — or embark on a path of disengagement that could weaken both economies and might one day even lead to war.An increasing number of people in Washington now view the decoupling of the two economies as inevitable — including many of the members of the Committee on the Present Danger. At an inaugural meeting in April, Mr. Bannon, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, and others issued paeans to Ronald Reagan — a former member of the group — and were met with standing ovations as they called for vigilance against China.They praised Mr. Reagan’s Cold War victory over the Soviet Union and his doctrine of “peace through strength,” but there was also an air of inevitability that war might come, only this time with China.Mr. Bannon was just off the plane from Rome, with a slight shadow of a mustache and his silver hair brushed back. Clad in a black button-down and long black suit jacket, he thumped the podium as he described China as a rising power and the United States as a declining power that would inevitably clash.“This is the defining event of our time, and 100 years from now, this is what they’re going to remember us for,” he said.The committee’s two earliest iterations, in the 1950s and again in the 1970s, called for an arms buildup to counter the Soviets. The second iteration, formed over a luncheon table at Washington’s Metropolitan Club in 1976, issued documents warning against Soviet expansionism, with titles like “Is America Becoming Number 2?”The group reached the height of its influence during the Reagan administration, in which dozens of its members eventually held posts, including as the national security adviser and C.I.A. director. But as the Soviet threat faded, so did the committee.The group was briefly active again starting in 2004, this time to warn against the threat of Islamic extremism. The committee’s vice chair, Frank Gaffney, is the founder of the Center for Security Policy, a think tank that argues that mosques and Muslims across America are engaged in a “stealth jihad” to “Islamize” the country by taking advantage of American pluralism and democracy.The group’s activity largely died down until concern over China rekindled interest.Today’s committee acknowledges that the threat from China is different from Soviet Russia because the American and Chinese economies are much more integrated. But Washington is increasingly reaching back into the Cold War toolbox to confront the threat.The administration has placed Chinese tech companies on an “entity list,” essentially blacklisting them from doing business with American firms. In keeping with a law passed last year, the administration has increased its checks of Chinese investment, including of minority stakes in American companies. Last June, the administration began restricting visas for Chinese graduate students in sensitive research fields like robotics and aviation. And the United States has begun barring Chinese academics from the United States if they are suspected of having links to Chinese intelligence agencies.“They’re not the Soviet Union. But this kind of government control, statism, never works for long,” Larry Kudlow, the White House chief economic adviser, said in a July 16 interview with Sinclair Broadcast Group. The possibility that China could collapse like the Soviet Union has “always been an undercurrent” in the trade war, he said.The new Cold War has not been one-sided. Many of the changes in Washington have been triggered by a darker turn in Beijing.China has increased its scrutiny of American firms, and many American companies and their employees in China now fear reprisal. In addition to detaining millions of Chinese Muslims, democracy activists and others, Chinese authorities have jailed foreign diplomats, academics and businesspeople — prompting some to cancel or delay trips to China.China is also projecting its power abroad, funding global infrastructure and constructing an archipelago of artificial islands with giant air bases reaching almost to the shores of Malaysia and Indonesia. Beijing has made it clear that it intends to help its companies dominate the industries of the future, from artificial intelligence and supercomputers to aerospace equipment. Its policies have sought to replace imports of high-tech products with Chinese-made goods, pressuring multinationals to move factories from the United States and resulting in the loss of American jobs.China has rejected entreaties by the Trump administration to curb these activities, arguing that it is simply pursuing its own economic development. In an interview after trade talks broke down in May, Liu He, China’s top negotiator, said that areas of disagreement between the United States and China focused on “major matters of principle” on which China was unlikely to bend.The chill in relations has begun to weigh on Chinese investment in the United States, along with Chinese students and tourism. Chinese investment in American residential and commercial real estate has begun to decline. Companies are increasingly diversifying away from China, wary of the president’s ongoing economic war.[Image The United States and China have been engaged in a protracted trade war, with Washington accusing Beijing of breaking a deal earlier this year.Nintendo, GoPro, Hasbro and other companies are reconsidering factories in China, choosing to source products from Vietnam, the United States, Mexico and India instead.Susan Shirk, the chair of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California at San Diego, said the United States is at risk of being gripped by “an anti-Chinese version of the Red Scare” that is driving Chinese talent away and could rupture what little good will is left between the two countries.“We’ve made this mistake once before, during the Cold War,” Ms. Shirk said. “And I don’t think we should make it again.”Chinese nationals and Americans of Chinese heritage say they have felt the chilling effects. Some suspect they are being passed over for promotions and grants. Supporters of engagement have been dismissed as apologists or even traitors.“Chinese Americans feel targeted,” said Charlie Woo, chief executive of Megatoys and a member of the Committee of 100, an organization of prominent Chinese-Americans. “And that’s really hurtful.”The Trump administration and the Committee on the Present Danger have been careful to say their targets are the Chinese government and the Communist Party, not the Chinese people. But the distinction can be a difficult one to make. In the rush to protect against new threats from China, the line between preparedness and paranoia is sometimes unclear.At a Senate hearing last year, Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, said the Trump administration was trying to “view the China threat as not just a whole-of-government threat, but a whole-of-society threat,” adding, “I think it’s going to take a whole-of-society response by us.”Many Chinese people and their defenders have bristled at the implication that the entire Chinese society poses a national security threat.Toby Smith, vice president for policy at the Association for American Universities, said that American universities were working hard to remain vigilant to espionage threats, but that they thrive on openness and access to talent and science from around the world — including from China.“The situation with China is different than the Cold War,” he said. “The concern with the Soviet Union was primarily military. Now it’s a concern about economic competitiveness.”<div>
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Steve Bannon’s Foreign Policy Crusade Against ChinaBannon joins forces with neocons and re-forms the Committee on the Present Danger to focus on China.By James Carden AUGUST 5, 2019
[Steve Bannon leaves a House Intelligence Committee meeting on Capitol Hill, January 16, 2018. (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin)
On July 21, The New York Times, having demonized Russia as America’s top enemy since at least 2012—if not longer—showed something of a change of heart, and informed readers that “given its economic, military and technological trajectory, together with its authoritarian model, China, not Russia, represents by far the greater challenge to American objectives over the long term. That means President Trump is correct to try to establish a sounder relationship with Russia and peel it away from China.”That analysis might well have come from the pen of Steven K. Bannon, who, in a surprise twist, recently teamed up with arch-neocon and noted Islamophobe Frank Gaffney to re-form the Cold War–era Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) in order to “educate and inform American citizens and policymakers about the existential threats presented from the Peoples Republic of China under the misrule of the Chinese Communist Party.”This is the fourth go-around for the CPD, which rears its head every couple of decades in order to inflame, inflate, and then capitalize on the latest hysteria gripping Washington.First founded in 1950 at the dawn of the McCarthy era, the CPD emerged just as the Truman administration adopted, via National Security Council directive 68, a militarized version of George Kennan’s containment policy. A little over a quarter-century later, in 1976, just as the budding neoconservative movement was turning its attention away from the hippies and “long-hairs” they viewed as defiling university campuses, CPD reformed and took US-Soviet policy as its focus. With the backing of cold warriors like Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, the committee agitated for the Carter administration to take a tougher line against the Soviets. As it happens, the CPD found a receptive audience in Carter’s national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose hawkish anti-Soviet policies anticipated those of the succeeding administration—so much so, that President Reagan considered asking Brzezinski to stay on as national security adviser.Reagan’s victory in 1980 was the high-water mark of the CPD’s influence. By one account, nearly a sixth of its members, including George Shultz, Paul Nitze (author of the aforementioned NSC-68), and William Casey, took up positions within the new administration.With the collapse of the USSR came the collapse of the Cold War–era CPD. But it didn’t take long for an new enemy, and hence, a new committee to emerge. In 2004, under the leadership of Gaffney, CPD reformed, this time in order to cheerlead the so-called Global War on Terror. Yet, when things went somewhat less than optimally in Iraq and elsewhere, the CPD slinked away—that is, until this past March when, under the aegis of Bannon and Gaffney, it was reestablished in order to take on China.Dr. Lyle Goldstein, research professor at the China Maritime Studies Institute at the US Naval War College, says, “The CPD will certainly not be alone among Washington think tanks in taking up extreme causes with a highly selective approach to deploying information. Still, the impact could be extremely deleterious for US-China relations.”“If Americans are serious about a genuine debate on China, they should actually welcome more analysis from scholars and diplomats with actual knowledge of China,” says Goldstein.Chas Freeman, senior fellow at the Watson Institute at Brown University, who served as deputy ambassador to China and, later, assistant secretary of defense for international affairs under President Clinton, describes the Bannon-Gaffney committee as “a who’s who of contemporary wing-nuts, very few of whom have any expertise at all about China and most of whom represent ideological causes only peripherally connected to it. Almost none speak or read Chinese. There are a few exceptions, almost all of them vocal advocates of greatly enhanced relations with Taiwan.”A look through the committee’s membership would seem to bear Freeman out. In addition to Bannon and Gaffney, the committee’s members include neocon hard-liners such as retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, William Bennett, James Woolsey, and Frank Wolf.AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT?Not surprisingly, given its personnel, the CPD paints the most alarming picture possible of China’s goals and motives. According to the committee’s “guiding principles,” in the face of the threat posed by a resurgent China, America “must mobilize all instruments of national power to protect its people, territory, human freedom, vital interests and allies from the Chinese Communist Party.”“There is,” they say, “no hope of coexistence with China as long as the Communist Party governs the country.”What’s more, a strong stench of xenophobia runs through the CPD’s bill of indictment. The committee believes the Chinese Communist Party has been successful in “undermining and subverting Western democracies from within” through its “control, domination and exploitation of Chinese diaspora communities, including overseas students, professors and researchers.”If the CPD took as its focus the economic challenge China poses to the United States, it might have been easier to take it a bit more seriously. After all, as Sherle R. Schwenninger, director of the World Economic Roundtable, tells me, “Chinese corporations are now becoming peer competitors with American corporates and the US will soon face even greater competitive pressures as a result of China’s 2025 program aimed at building national champions in more advanced sectors of the economy.” But the committee, says Schwenninger, seems to be taking “legitimate concerns over Chinese economic practices and instead is intent on blowing them up into a call for a new cold—potentially hot—war by demonizing China.”Nevertheless, the committee’s message will likely fall on fertile ground in Trump’s Washington. In addition to the trade war, the Pentagon’s national defense strategy has elevated China and Russia as the country’s principal national security threats, downgrading terrorism. Meanwhile, federal law enforcement agencies have been busy targeting Chinese college students, research scientists, and businessmen. FBI Director Christopher A. Wray has even espoused the view that “the China threat as not just a whole-of-government threat, but a whole-of-society threat” that will require “a whole-of-society response by us.”But not everyone is buying into the hysteria. “The debate on China in this country is nonsensical,” says Freeman. “We are repeatedly told that China is an enemy because it is an autocracy. But the truth is the Chinese don’t care how foreigners govern themselves—they are opposed to democracy at home; they are not opposed to democracy abroad.”According to Freeman, “The assault on China rests upon the assumption that everyone else has to be governed in the same way we are.” As Goldstein puts it, “China has not used force on a large scale (a ‘war’) in four decades and thus has shown remarkable restraint for a great power. Its defense spending is significantly lower than that of the US; it has one single base overseas, and no real alliances.”The Manichaean impulse to split the world into white hats and back hats, an impulse the CPD has embodied on and off for 70 years, leads not to peace and prosperity but to runway defense budgets, nuclear and conventional arms races, proxy wars, and the erosion of civil liberties at home.James W. Carden is a contributing writer for foreign affairs at The Nation. He served as a policy adviser to the Special Representative for Intergovernmental Affairs and the Office of Russia Affairs at the US State Department.<a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/bannon-schweizer-and-the-mercers-team-up-to-advance-conspiracy-theory-targeting-biden/">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/bannon-schweizer-and-the-mercers-team-up-to-advance-conspiracy-theory-targeting-biden/</a>When President Donald Trump yesterday urged China to investigate the business dealings of the political opponent Trump apparently fears most—former Vice President Joe Biden—his purpose was likely as much to inject some disinformation into the presidential campaign as it was a request for back-up material for his claim. Which is not to suggest that China might not have some incentive to come up with some disinformation to please Trump; he is, after all, conducting a trade war against the superpower to the East. And besides, it makes for a great diversion from all of that impeachment nonsense.<div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Trump’s attempts to prove that his opponent (who does not own hotels frequented by foreign leaders looking to do business with the United States) to be corrupt follows a script familiar to those who remember the Uranium One non-scandal with which pro-Trump players sought to tar Trump’s 2016 presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton. In fact, the allegations against Biden and his son, Hunter, are being advanced by the same crew that crafted and pushed the Uranium One narrative: Steve Bannon and Peter Schweizer.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">This part of the formula has been tried and tested: Schweizer, employed by the Bannon-founded Government Accountability Institute, writes a book full of cherry-picked facts that, without context, paint a damning portrait of Trump’s opponent.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">With such explosive claims made, mainstream outlets feel compelled to report, if not on the claims themselves, then on the fact that the allegations were stated by some person of note.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Bannon has been publicly shunned by his former patrons, Robert and Rebekah Mercer, ever since he turned up in Michael Wolff’s book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” saying unflattering things about the first family. So Bannon found a new source in Miles Kwok (Guo Wengui), a fugitive Chinese billionaire, who is said to have created a $100 million fund for Bannon’s latest enterprise, Committee for the Present Danger: China, which Bannon leads with professional Islam-hater Frank Gaffney.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Meanwhile, the Government Accountability Institute chugs along without Bannon, still receiving millions from the Mercer Family Foundation. (In 2017 alone, the foundation granted GAI $1.7 million.) The non-profit appears to exist solely to support the work of Peter Schweizer, author of the book “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” from which the Uranium One narrative sprang. Last year, Schweizer re-emerged with a new tome, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” which presents the right’s case against Biden, seeking to implicate the candidate in the business schemes of his son, who doubtlessly enjoyed opportunities granted him by virtue of his famous last name. (The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/peter-schweizer-book-alleging-biden-corruption-in-ukraine-appears-to-have-lifted-passages-from-wikipedia" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reports</a> that Schweizer apparently lifted some passages for that book from a Wikipedia entry on Patrick Daley, son of the former Chicago mayor, Richard M. Daley.)<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">But just as Schweizer was never able to prove that Hillary Clinton had any involvement with the investment of a Russian energy firm in U.S. uranium stores, he has not proven any involvement by Biden in the business dealings of his son, Hunter, in either Ukraine or China.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">In April, Bannon launched his new “committee” with an event at the St. Regis Hotel in New York. That same day, Biden was kicking off his presidential bid with an event in western Pennsylvania. Speaking at a podium in a ballroom dripping crystal chandeliers, Bannon said to his audience of right-wing hedge-fund operators and business people, “Joe Biden has to answer the question: What did you know, when did you know it, and how much money has your family, and you personally, taken from the most murderous regime of the 21st century?”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Which is a lot like that age-old example of an unfair question: When did you stop beating your wife?</div></div>=<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger</a>

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The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) is an <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">American</a> <a title="Foreign policy interest group" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_interest_group">foreign policy interest group</a>. Its current stated single goal is "to stiffen American resolve to confront the challenge presented by terrorism and the ideologies that drive it"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger#cite_note-CPD_Mission-0">[1]</a> through "education and advocacy".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger#cite_note-CPD_Today-1">[2]</a> Throughout its three iterations — in the 1950s, the 1970s, and the 2000s, it influenced the <a title="President of the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States">Presidential administrations</a> of <a title="Dwight D. Eisenhower" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D.Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>, <a title="Jimmy Carter" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter">Jimmy Carter</a>, <a title="Ronald Reagan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger#cite_note-soviet_book-2">[3]</a>, and <a title="George W. Bush" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush">George W. Bush</a>, and is still active as of 2008<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Committee_on_the_Present_Danger&action=edit" rel="nofollow" class="external text">[update]</a>.

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The focus of the committee, which is non-partisan,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger#cite_note-CPD_Mission-0">[1]</a> is evidenced by its name; to lobby <a title="Washington, D.C." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.">Washington</a> to take what the committee sees as needed action to counter a perceived <a title="Clear and present danger" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_and_present_danger">present danger</a> to the <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a> and its <a title="Sphere of influence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_of_influence">sphere of influence</a>.

The committee first met in 1950, founded by <a title="Tracy Voorhees" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Voorhees">Tracy Voorhees</a>, to promote the plans proposed in <a title="NSC-68" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSC-68">NSC-68</a> by <a title="Paul Nitze" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Nitze">Paul Nitze</a> and <a title="Dean Acheson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Acheson">Dean Acheson</a>. It lobbied the government directly and sought to influence <a title="Public opinion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion">public opinion</a> through a publicity campaign, notably a weekly television broadcast on <a title="NBC" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC">NBC</a> throughout 1951.[<a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a>] This iteration of the CPD was disbanded in 1953 when its leaders were offered positions in the Presidential administration of <a title="Dwight D. Eisenhower" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>.[<a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a>]

It was privately revived in March 1976 to try to influence the <a title="United States Presidential election, 1976" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Presidential_election,_1976" class="mw-redirect">presidential candidates</a> and their advisors.[<a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a>] After Jimmy Carter won the election, CPD went public again and spent the next four years lobbying, particularly against <a title="Détente" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9tente">détente</a> and the <a title="SALT II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SALT_II" class="mw-redirect">SALT II</a> agreement. Its hawkish conclusions influenced the CIA's future reporting on the Soviet threat, but, ultimately, proved to have provided a highly inaccurate worst-case scenario. This iteration of the CPD provided 33 officials to the <a title="Presidency of Ronald Reagan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Ronald_Reagan">Ronald Reagan administration</a>.

In June 2004, <a title="The Hill (newspaper)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill_%28newspaper%29">The Hill</a> reported that a third incarnation of CPD was being planned, to address the <a title="War on Terrorism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism" class="mw-redirect">War on Terrorism</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger#cite_note-TheHill_Kirchick_20040630-3">[4]</a> This incarnation of the committee is still active as of 2008.

<h3>[<a title="Edit section: First CPD (1950-1953)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Committee_on_the_Present_Danger&action=edit&section=3">edit</a>] First CPD (1950-1953)</h3>

The CPD, according to <a title="PublicEye.org (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PublicEye.org&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">PublicEye.org</a>, was originally "formed in 1950 by top <a title="Eastern establishment (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eastern_establishment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">eastern establishment</a> luminaries.[<a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a>] It was designed as a 'citizen's lobby' to alert the nation to the <a title="Soviet Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union">Soviet</a> 'present danger,' and the resultant need to adopt the <a title="United States National Security Council" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council">National Security Council</a>'s <a title="NSC-68" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSC-68">NSC-68</a> agenda in order to survive. NSC-68 was a top secret document written by <a title="Paul H. Nitze" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_H.Nitze" class="mw-redirect">Paul H. Nitze</a> promoting a huge military build-up for the purpose of rolling back communist influence and attaining and maintaining U.S. military supremacy in the world. In 1951 the CPD launched a three-month scare campaign over the NBC network. Every Sunday night thereafter the group used the <a title="Mutual Broadcasting System" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Broadcasting_System">Mutual Broadcasting System</a> to talk to the nation about the 'present danger' and the need to take action. As a result of efforts such as these both in and out of government, the recommendations of NSC-68 were adopted. President <a title="Harry S. Truman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S.Truman">Harry S. Truman</a> adopted a policy of containment militarism and the military budget escalated even more than the targeted factor of three times. The Cold War and an era of interventionist policies became a political reality in the United States.

<h3>[ Second CPD (1972-1981)</h3>

The post Vietnam era, however, saw the reemergence in the American public of anti-interventionist sentiment. In Congress, new policies of <a title="Détente" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9tente">détente</a> and arms control reflected a more conciliatory attitude toward East-West relations. Such trends were anathema to the CPD's bipolar view of the world. Led once again by <a title="Eugene V. Rostow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Rostow">Eugene V. Rostow</a> and Nitze, members of the CPD regrouped for action.

The revitalization of the CPD grew out of an independent group called <a title="Team B" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B">Team B</a>. Team B was authorized in 1976 by President <a title="Gerald R. Ford" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R.Ford" class="mw-redirect">Gerald R. Ford</a> and organized by then-<a title="CIA" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA" class="mw-redirect">CIA</a> chief, <a title="George Herbert Walker Bush" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert_Walker_Bush" class="mw-redirect">George Herbert Walker Bush</a>. The purpose of Team B was to develop an independent judgment of Soviet capabilities and intentions. Team B was headed by <a title="Richard Pipes" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pipes">Richard Pipes</a> and included Paul Nitze, <a title="Foy Kohler (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foy_Kohler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Foy Kohler</a>, <a title="William R. Van Cleave (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_R.Van_Cleave&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">William R. Van Cleave</a>, Lt. Gen. <a title="Daniel O. Graham" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O.Graham">Daniel O. Graham</a> (ret.), <a title="Thomas Wolf" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wolf">Thomas Wolf</a> of <a title="RAND Corporation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation">RAND Corporation</a> and Gen. <a title="John Vogt, Jr." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vogt,Jr." class="mw-redirect">John Vogt, Jr.</a> (ret.). Also a part of Team B were five officials still active in government: Maj. Gen. <a title="George Keegan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Keegan">George Keegan</a>, Brig. Gen. <a title="Jasper Welch (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jasper_Welch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Jasper Welch</a>, <a title="Paul Dundes Wolfowitz" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dundes_Wolfowitz" class="mw-redirect">Paul Dundes Wolfowitz</a> of the <a title="Arms Control and Disarmament Agency" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_Control_and_Disarmament_Agency">Arms Control and Disarmament Agency</a>, and <a title="Seymour Weiss" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Weiss">Seymour Weiss</a> of the State Department. Team B was housed in the offices of the <a title="Coalition for a Democratic Majority" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_for_a_Democratic_Majority">Coalition for a Democratic Majority</a>.

The political base for CPD II was in the <a title="Coalition for a Democratic Majority" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_for_a_Democratic_Majority">Coalition for a Democratic Majority</a>, a group formed in 1972 by the hard-line, anti-Soviet wing of the Senate, led by Sen. <a title="Henry M. " scoop="Scoop" jackson="Jackson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M.%22Scoop%22_Jackson" class="mw-redirect">Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson</a>. These conservative Democrats contended that communism was a great evil and that the U.S. had a moral obligation to eradicate it and foster democracy throughout the world. The 193 individual members of the revitalized CPD comprise a who's who of the Democratic Party establishment and a cross-section of Republican leadership. Eventually, 13 of the 18 members of the Foreign Policy Task Force of the CDM, lead by Eugene V. Rostow, joined the CPD. Notable among them were <a title="Jeane J. Kirkpatrick" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_J.Kirkpatrick" class="mw-redirect">Jeane J. Kirkpatrick</a>, <a title="Leon Keyserling" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Keyserling">Leon Keyserling</a>, <a title="Max M. Kampelman (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max_M.Kampelman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Max M. Kampelman</a>, <a title="Richard Shifter (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Shifter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Richard Shifter</a>, and <a title="John P. Roche (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_P.Roche&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">John P. Roche</a>.

CPD II is a nonprofit organization established to 'facilitate a national discussion of the foreign and national security policies of the U.S. directed towards a secure peace and freedom.' CPD II broadened its base considerably from the original group by including in its ranks top labor officials, Jewish liberals and <a title="Neo-conservative" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-conservative" class="mw-redirect">neo-conservative</a> intellectuals. It managed this feat by including in its ideology not only a strong anti-Soviet policy, but also one which promoted growth and expansion. These members donated their time to the organization. The CPD presented an alternative to the cooperative vision of empire put forth by the <a title="Trilateral Commission" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission">Trilateralists</a> with an imperial, unilateral philosophy of power retention through military strength. President <a title="Jimmy Carter" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter">Jimmy Carter</a> chose to follow the philosophy of the Trilaterals, but the CPD and its cohorts became dominant with the election of <a title="Ronald Reagan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>.

Other proponents of the CPD position include the <a title="American Security Council" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Security_Council" class="mw-redirect">American Security Council</a> (ASC), the ASC's Congressional lobby group--the <a title="National Coalition for Peace through Strength (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Coalition_for_Peace_through_Strength&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">National Coalition for Peace through Strength</a>.

Advocate of nuclear superiority, the CPD helped to create the myth of U.S. nuclear inferiority and the concept of 'windows of vulnerability.' CPD has expressed longstanding opposition to all types of arms control. Founding member William R. Van Cleave said, 'Arms control has had a depressant effect not only on our military programs but also on our ability to deal with the Soviets. It has thoroughly muddled our thinking.'

Some of its members lobbied for, and were members of, the 1976 <a title="Team B" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B">Team B</a> providing an opposing view to the <a title="Central Intelligence Agency" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency">CIA</a>'s Team A.

CPD provided 33 officials of the Reagan administration, including <a title="Director of Central Intelligence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_Central_Intelligence">Director of Central Intelligence</a> <a title="William Casey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Casey" class="mw-redirect">William Casey</a>, <a title="National Security Advisor (United States)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Advisor%28United_States%29">National Security Advisor</a> <a title="Richard V. Allen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_V.Allen">Richard V. Allen</a>, <a title="United States Ambassador to the United Nations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_the_United_Nations">United States Ambassador to the United Nations</a> <a title="Jeane Kirkpatrick" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Kirkpatrick">Jeane Kirkpatrick</a>, <a title="Secretary of the Navy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_the_Navy" class="mw-redirect">Secretary of the Navy</a> <a title="John Lehman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lehman">John Lehman</a>, <a title="United States Secretary of State" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State">Secretary of State</a> <a title="George Shultz" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Shultz" class="mw-redirect">George Shultz</a> and <a title="United States Assistant Secretary of Defense" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Assistant_Secretary_of_Defense">Assistant Secretary of Defense</a> <a title="Richard Perle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Perle">Richard Perle</a>. Reagan himself was a member in <a title="1979" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979">1979</a>.

<h3>[ Third CPD (2004)</h3>

In June 2004, <a title="The Hill (newspaper)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill_%28newspaper%29">The Hill</a> reported that a third incarnation of CPD was being planned, to address the <a title="War on Terrorism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism" class="mw-redirect">War on Terrorism</a>. The head of the 2004 CPD, PR pro and former <a title="Ronald Reagan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan">Reagan</a> adviser <a title="Peter Hannaford (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Hannaford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Peter Hannaford</a>, explained, "we saw a parallel" between the Soviet threat and the threat from terrorism. The message that CPD will convey through lobbying, media work and conferences is that the war on terror needs to be won, he said.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger#cite_note-TheHill_Kirchick_20040630-3">[4]</a>

Members of the 2004 CPD include Vice President for Policy <a title="Larry Haas (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larry_Haas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Larry Haas</a>, Senator <a title="Joseph I. Lieberman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_I.Lieberman" class="mw-redirect">Joseph I. Lieberman</a>, former CIA director <a title="R. James Woolsey, Jr." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.James_Woolsey,Jr.">R. James Woolsey, Jr.</a>, former National Security Advisor to President Reagan, <a title="Robert C. McFarlane" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C.McFarlane" class="mw-redirect">Robert C. McFarlane</a> and Reagan administration official and 1976 Committee founder <a title="Max M. Kampelman (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max_M._Kampelman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Max M. Kampelman</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger#cite_note-TheHill_Kirchick_20040630-3">[4]</a> At the July 20, 2004 launching of the 2004 CPD, Lieberman and Senator <a title="Jon Kyl" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl">Jon Kyl</a> were identified as the honorary co-chairs.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger#cite_note-WashingtonPost_Lieberman_20040719-4">[5]</a> Other notable members listed on the CPD website include <a title="Laurie Mylroie" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Mylroie">Laurie Mylroie</a>, <a title="Norman Podhoretz" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Podhoretz">Norman Podhoretz</a>, <a title="Frank Gaffney" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gaffney">Frank Gaffney</a>, <a title="Danielle Pletka" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Pletka">Danielle Pletka</a> and other associates of the <a title="American Enterprise Institute" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute">American Enterprise Institute</a>, <a title="Heritage Foundation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Foundation" class="mw-redirect">Heritage Foundation</a>, <a title="American-Israel Public Affairs Committee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-Israel_Public_Affairs_Committee" class="mw-redirect">American-Israel Public Affairs Committee</a> and the <a title="Boeing Company" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Company" class="mw-redirect">Boeing Company</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger#cite_note-CPD_Members-5">[6]</a>

<h2>[Connections</h2>

<h3>[] Government connections</h3>

Thirty-three members of CPD received appointments in Reagan's first administration, more than twenty of them in national security posts.[<a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a>] They were:

<ul>

<li><a title="Kenneth L. Adelman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_L._Adelman" class="mw-redirect">Kenneth L. Adelman</a>, U. S. Deputy Representative to the <a title="United Nations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations">United Nations</a></li>

<li><a title="Richard V. Allen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_V._Allen">Richard V. Allen</a>, assistant to the president for National Security Affairs</li>

<li><a title="Martin Anderson (U.S. Government) (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_Anderson%28U.S.Government%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Martin Anderson</a>, assistant to the president for Policy Affairs</li>

<li><a title="James L. Buckley" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Buckley">James L. Buckley</a>, Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology</li>

<li><a title="W. Glenn Campbell (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=W._Glenn_Campbell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">W. Glenn Campbell</a>, chairman of the <a title="Intelligence Oversight Board" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Oversight_Board" class="mw-redirect">Intelligence Oversight Board</a> and member of the <a title="President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Foreign_Intelligence_Advisory_Board" class="mw-redirect">President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board</a></li>

<li><a title="William J. Casey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Casey">William J. Casey</a>, director of the Central Intelligence Agency</li>

<li><a title="John B. Connally" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Connally" class="mw-redirect">John B. Connally</a>, member of the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board</li>

<li><a title="Joseph D. Douglass, Jr. (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_D.Douglass,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Joseph D. Douglass, Jr.</a>, assistant director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency</li>

<li><a title="John S. Foster, Jr. (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_S.Foster,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">John S. Foster, Jr.</a>, member of the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board</li>

<li><a title="Amoretta M. Hoeber (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amoretta_M._Hoeber&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Amoretta M. Hoeber</a>, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Research and Development</li>

<li><a title="Fred Charles Ikle (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_Charles_Ikle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Fred Charles Ikle</a>, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy</li>

<li>Max M. Kampelman, chairman, <a title="U.S. Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S._Delegation_to_the_Conference_on_Security_and_Cooperation_in_Europe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">U.S. Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe</a></li>

<li><a title="Geoffrey Kemp" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Kemp">Geoffrey Kemp</a>, staff of the National Security Council</li>

<li>Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, U.S. representative to the United Nations</li>

<li><a title="John F. Lehman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Lehman" class="mw-redirect">John F. Lehman</a>, Secretary of the Navy</li>

<li><a title="Clare Booth Luce" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Booth_Luce" class="mw-redirect">Clare Booth Luce</a>, member of the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board</li>

<li>Paul H. Nitze, chief negotiator for <a title="Theater Nuclear Forces" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theater_Nuclear_Forces" class="mw-redirect">Theater Nuclear Forces</a></li>

<li><a title="Edward F. Noble (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_F._Noble&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Edward F. Noble</a>, chairman of <a title="Synthetic Fuels Corporation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_Fuels_Corporation">Synthetic Fuels Corporation</a></li>

<li><a title="Michael Novak" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Novak">Michael Novak</a>, representative on the <a title="Human Rights Commission of the Economic and Social Council (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Commission_of_the_Economic_and_Social_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Human Rights Commission of the Economic and Social Council</a> of the United Nations</li>

<li><a title="Peter O'Donnell, Jr. (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_O%27Donnell,_Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Peter O'Donnell, Jr.</a>, member of the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board</li>

<li><a title="Richard Perle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Perle">Richard Perle</a>, assistant secretary of Defense for Intl Security Policy</li>

<li>Richard Pipes, staff of the National Security Council</li>

<li>Eugene V. Rostow, director of Arms Control and Disarmament Agency</li>

<li><a title="Paul Seabury" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Seabury">Paul Seabury</a>, member of the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board</li>

<li><a title="George P. Shultz" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P._Shultz">George P. Shultz</a>, Secretary of State and chairman of the President's <a title="Economic Policy Advisory Board" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Policy_Advisory_Board" class="mw-redirect">Economic Policy Advisory Board</a></li>

<li><a title="R. G. Stilwell (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R.G.Stilwell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">R. G. Stilwell</a>, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy</li>

<li><a title="Robert Strausz-Hupe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Strausz-Hupe" class="mw-redirect">Robert Strausz-Hupe</a>, ambassador to Turkey</li>

<li><a title="Charles Tyroler II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tyroler_II">Charles Tyroler II</a>, member of the <a title="Intelligence Oversight Board" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Oversight_Board" class="mw-redirect">Intelligence Oversight Board</a></li>

<li>William R. Van Cleave, chairman-designate of the General Advisory Committee, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency</li>

<li><a title="Charles E. Walker (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_E._Walker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Charles E. Walker</a>, member of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board</li>

<li>Seymour Weiss, member of the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board</li>

<li><a title="Edward Bennett Williams" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bennett_Williams">Edward Bennett Williams</a>, member of the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.</li>

</ul>

In 1979, Ronald Reagan was appointed to the CPD's executive committee. <a title="Dean Rusk" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Rusk">Dean Rusk</a>, former Secretary of State was on the original board.

The original board of CPD included a number of people who had served as ambassadors for the U.S.: <a title="John M. Allison" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M.Allison" class="mw-redirect">John M. Allison</a>, Japan, Indonesia, and Czechoslovakia; <a title="Eugenie Anderson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenie_Anderson">Eugenie Anderson</a>, Denmark; <a title="Jacob D. Beam" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_D.Beam">Jacob D. Beam</a>, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union; <a title="John M. Cabot" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Cabot" class="mw-redirect">John M. Cabot</a>, Sudan, Colombia, Brazil, and Poland; and <a title="Walter Dowling (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walter_Dowling&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Walter Dowling</a>, Germany.

Charles Tyroler II was the director of Manpower Supply for the Defense Department and chair of the Democratic Advisory Council in the <a title="Dwight D. Eisenhower" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D.Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> administration. He also served as Assistant Secretary of Defense under <a title="Anna M. Rosenberg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_M.Rosenberg">Anna Rosenberg</a> during the life of CPD I.

Ray Cline served in the <a title="Office of Strategic Services" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services">Office of Strategic Services</a> (precursor to the CIA) and was a deputy director of the CIA. Cline has close connections with the <a title="World Anti-Communist League" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Anti-Communist_League" class="mw-redirect">World Anti-Communist League</a> and its former U.S. chapter, the <a title="U.S. Council for World Freedom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Council_for_World_Freedom" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Council for World Freedom</a>.

Max Kampleman was the chief U. S. negotiator to the Geneva arms talks with the Soviet Union.

<h3>[] Private connections</h3>

The CPD is a member of the Coalition for Peace Through Strength (CPTS), an ad hoc lobby group of the American Security Council which is modeled after the <a title="Emergency Coalition Against Unilateral Disarmament (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emergency_Coalition_Against_Unilateral_Disarmament&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Emergency Coalition Against Unilateral Disarmament</a>. The Emergency Coalition was set up by the CDM in 1976. CPTS, which has 191 members of Congress in its ranks, serves as a link or umbrella for the <a title="New Right" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Right">New Right</a>, the neoconservatives and the <a title="Military-industrialists (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Military-industrialists&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">military-industrialists</a>. It is the public face of the American Security Council, a group established in the 1950s by the <a title="Military-industrial complex" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex" class="mw-redirect">military-industrial complex</a> to ferret out 'internal subversives.'

<a title="Rita E. Hauser (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rita_E._Hauser&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Rita E. Hauser</a> of the CPD was chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the <a title="American Jewish Committee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jewish_Committee">American Jewish Committee</a>.

Labor connections in the CPD have included: <a title="Lane Kirkland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_Kirkland">Lane Kirkland</a>, head of the <a title="AFL-CIO" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL-CIO">AFL-CIO</a>; <a title="Sol Chaikin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Chaikin" class="mw-redirect">Sol Chaikin</a> of the <a title="International Ladies Garment Workers Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Ladies_Garment_Workers_Union" class="mw-redirect">International Ladies Garment Workers Union</a> (ILGWU); <a title="Evelyn Du Brow (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Du_Brow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Evelyn Du Brow</a>, legislative director of the ILGWU; <a title="William Du Chessi (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Du_Chessi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">William Du Chessi</a>, executive vice president of the <a title="Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgamated_Clothing_and_Textile_Workers_Union" class="mw-redirect">Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union</a>; <a title="Albert Shanker" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Shanker">Albert Shanker</a>, chair of the <a title="American Federation of Teachers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Federation_of_Teachers">American Federation of Teachers</a> (AFT); <a title="Rachelle Horowitz (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rachelle_Horowitz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Rachelle Horowitz</a>, director of the Committee on Political Education of the AFT; <a title="Martin J. Ward (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_J.Ward&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Martin J. Ward</a>, president of the <a title="Plumber and Pipefitters International Union (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plumber_and_Pipefitters_International_Union&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Plumber and Pipefitters International Union</a>; <a title="John H. Lyons (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_H.Lyons&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">John H. Lyons</a>, president of the <a title="Ironworkers International Union (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ironworkers_International_Union&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Ironworkers International Union</a>; <a title="Bayard Rustin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin">Bayard Rustin</a> (deceased), former president of <a title="A. Philip Randolph Institute" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Philip_Randolph_Institute">A. Philip Randolph Institute</a>; <a title="J. C. Turner (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.C._Turner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">J. C. Turner</a>, president of the <a title="International Union of Operating Engineers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Union_of_Operating_Engineers">International Union of Operating Engineers</a>; and <a title="Jay Lovestone" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lovestone">Jay Lovestone</a>, consultant to the AFL and ILGWU.

Lane Kirkland serves on the board of the <a title="National Endowment for Democracy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy">National Endowment for Democracy</a> (NED), a private organization created to channel <a title="U.S. Information Agency" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Information_Agency" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Information Agency</a> (USIA) funds earmarked for democracy-building projects. Kirkland also serves on the boards of the <a title="Free Trade Union Institute (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free_Trade_Union_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Free Trade Union Institute</a> (FTUI) and the <a title="American Institute for Free Labor Development" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_for_Free_Labor_Development">American Institute for Free Labor Development</a> (AIFLD) and is president of the <a title="AfricanAmerican Labor Center (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AfricanAmerican_Labor_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">AfricanAmerican Labor Center</a> (AALC) and the <a title="Asian-American Free Labor Institute (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asian-American_Free_Labor_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Asian-American Free Labor Institute</a> (AAFLI). All of these organizations are a part of the AFL-CIO's Department of International Affairs, a far-reaching international operation which works with third world labor groups. Since the AFL-CIO receives a great deal of its funding from the government, these groups often work to carry out U.S. foreign policy. Kirkland is also an honorary chairperson of the <a title="Bayard Rustin Fund (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bayard_Rustin_Fund&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Bayard Rustin Fund</a>, a group closely associated with the A. Philip Randolph Institute.

Albert Shanker currently serves on the boards of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority and <a title="Freedom House" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House">Freedom House</a>, an organization that studies countries and governments around the globe to determine whether or not they qualify as democratic. Shanker is also on the boards of FTUI, NED, and the <a title="Social Democrats, USA" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democrats,_USA" class="mw-redirect">Social Democrats, USA</a> (SD/USA), a neoconservative group that sees labor as the cutting edge for social and political change. He was on the boards of AALC and AAFLI. Shanker is treasurer of the <a title="League for Industrial Democracy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_for_Industrial_Democracy">League for Industrial Democracy</a> (LID), a group working closely with SD/USA. (17) In 1988, he was vice president of the AFL-CIO and on the board of trustees of AIFLD.

Rachelle Horowitz serves on the boards of LID and the <a title="National Democratic Institute for International Affairs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Institute_for_International_Affairs">National Democratic Institute for International Affairs</a> (NDIIA), a group established by NED to channel grants for democracy-building activities in third world nations. She is the wife of <a title="Thomas Donohue (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Donohue&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Thomas Donohue</a> who is the secretary of the AFL-CIO.

Bayard Rustin was chairman of the executive committee of Freedom House, chairman of SD/USA, vice president of LID, and on the board of CDM. Rustin also served as the vice presintl of the <a title="International Rescue Committee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Rescue_Committee">International Rescue Committee</a>, a private voluntary organization which assists refugees from 'totalitarian oppression.'

Jeane Kirkpatrick is on the board of the <a title="Committee for the Free World" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Free_World">Committee for the Free World</a>, a group founded by <a title="Midge Decter" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_Decter">Midge Decter</a>. CFW envisioned itself as an organization committed to the defense of the non-communist world 'against the rising menace of totalitarianism.' CFW is stridently anticommunist and presents its case to the public through ads in major newspapers and other major media. Kirkpatrick is a resident scholar at the conservative <a title="Think tank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank">think tank</a>, the <a title="American Enterprise Institute" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute">American Enterprise Institute</a> (AEI), and is a syndicated columnist for the New York Times.

Max Kampleman was vice chair and served on the board of the CDM. He is chairman of the board of Freedom House.

<a title="Frank Barnett" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Barnett">Frank Barnett</a>, director of the <a title="National Strategy Information Center (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Strategy_Information_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">National Strategy Information Center</a>, a lobbying organization and think tank dedicated to the preservation of <a title="Containment militarism (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Containment_militarism&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">containment militarism</a>, opened an office in Washington DC in 1976. According to <a title="Jerry Sanders" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sanders">Jerry Sanders</a> in Peddlers of Crisis, the major reason behind the DC office was to be more effective in the promotion of CPD policy. The Washington office is directed by <a title="Roy Godson (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roy_Godson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Roy Godson</a> who is also the director of Georgetown's <a title="International Labor Program (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=International_Labor_Program&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">International Labor Program</a>. In 1983, seven CPD members were on the staff of the Intl Labor Program.

Industry was represented on the founding board of CPD by <a title="David Packard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packard">David Packard</a> of <a title="Hewlett Packard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett_Packard" class="mw-redirect">Hewlett Packard</a>; Richard V. Allen president of the <a title="Potomac International Corp (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Potomac_International_Corp&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Potomac International Corp</a>; <a title="William Connell (bussinessman) (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Connell%28bussinessman%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">William Connell</a>, president of <a title="Concept Associates (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Concept_Associates&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Concept Associates</a>; <a title="Henry Fowler" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fowler">Henry Fowler</a>, partner at <a title="Goldman, Sachs & Co." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman,Sachs%26_Co." class="mw-redirect">Goldman, Sachs & Co.</a> investment brokerage house; David Harper of <a title="Gateway National Bank (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gateway_National_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Gateway National Bank</a> of St. Louis; <a title="James A. Linen (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_A.Linen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">James A. Linen</a>, director and former president of <a title="Time, Inc." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time,Inc." class="mw-redirect">Time, Inc.</a>; <a title="Hobart Lewis (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hobart_Lewis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Hobart Lewis</a>, chairman of <a title="Reader's Digest" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader%27s_Digest">Reader's Digest</a>; <a title="Sarason D. Liebler (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarason_D.Liebler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Sarason D. Liebler</a>, president of <a title="Digital Recording Corp. (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_Recording_Corp.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Digital Recording Corp.</a>; <a title="Donald S. MacNaughton (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald_S.MacNaughton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Donald S. MacNaughton</a>, chairman and CEO of The <a title="Prudential Insurance Company of America" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudential_Insurance_Company_of_America" class="mw-redirect">Prudential Insurance Company of America</a>; <a title="Thomas S. Nichols (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_S.Nichols&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Thomas S. Nichols</a>, president of <a title="Nichols Co. (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nichols_Co.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Nichols Co.</a> and former chairman of the executive committee of the <a title="Olin Corp." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olin_Corp." class="mw-redirect">Olin Corp.</a>; <a title="George H. Olmsted" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.Olmsted">George H. Olmsted</a>, chairman and CEO of <a title="International Bank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank">International Bank</a> in Washington; <a title="Charles E. Saltzman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E.Saltzman">Charles E. Saltzman</a>, partner in Goldman, Sachs & Co.; and <a title="Harold W. Sweatt (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harold_W.Sweatt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Harold W. Sweatt</a>, former chairman of the board of <a title="Honeywell, Inc." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell,Inc." class="mw-redirect">Honeywell, Inc.</a>

Think tank representatives on the original board of directors included <a title="Donald G. Brennan (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald_G.Brennan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Donald G. Brennan</a>, director of National Security Studies at the <a title="Hudson Institute" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Institute">Hudson Institute</a>, a conservative <a title="Think tank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank">think tank</a> in Indiana; <a title="George Tanham" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tanham">George Tanham</a>, vice president and trustee of the <a title="RAND Corporation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation">RAND Corporation</a>; Glenn Campbell, director of the <a title="Hoover Institution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Institution">Hoover Institution</a> on War, Revolution and Peace at <a title="Stanford University" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University">Stanford University</a>; <a title="Harris Huntington (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harris_Huntington&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Harris Huntington</a>, trustee at the <a title="Brookings Institution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution">Brookings Institution</a>; Ray Cline, director of the Center for Strategic and Intl Studies; and <a title="J. C. Hurewitz" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.C._Hurewitz">J. C. Hurewitz</a>, director of Columbia's <a title="Middle East Institute" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Institute">Middle East Institute</a>.

<h2>[] Funding</h2>

The start-up grant for CPD-II came from <a title="David Packard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packard">David Packard</a> of Hewlett-Packard. In 1984, the $300,000 budget came from 1,100 contributors, with a limit of $10,000 per year per source. Grants given by <a title="Richard Mellon Scaife" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife">Richard Mellon Scaife</a> (Gulf Oil) from the Carthage Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Trust of the Grandchildren of Sarah Mellon Scaife to CPD between 1973 and 1981 total $300,000.[<a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a>]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger#cite_note-6">[7]</a>

<ul>

<li><a title="Neocons" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocons" class="mw-redirect">Neocons</a></li>

<li><a title="Foreign policy interest group" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_interest_group">Foreign policy interest group</a></li>

<li><a title="Balkan Action Committee (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Balkan_Action_Committee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new">Balkan Action Committee</a></li>

<li><a title="Citizens for a Free Kuwait" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_a_Free_Kuwait">Citizens for a Free Kuwait</a></li>

<li><a title="Committee for the Free World" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Free_World">Committee for the Free World</a></li>

<li><a title="Committee for the Liberation of Iraq" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Liberation_of_Iraq">Committee for the Liberation of Iraq</a></li>

<li><a title="Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_Peace_and_Security_in_the_Gulf">Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf</a></li>

<li><a title="Institute on Religion and Democracy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_on_Religion_and_Democracy">Institute on Religion and Democracy</a></li>

<li><a title="Prodemca" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodemca" class="mw-redirect">Prodemca</a> (Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America)</li>

<li><a title="Project for the Republican Future" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_Republican_Future">Project for the Republican Future</a></li>

</ul>

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<h2><a title="View in context" href="http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a1976cpdneocons#a1976cpdneocons">1976: Neoconservatives, Cold Warriors Revive Committee on the Present Danger; Group Heralds Ideological Split in GOP</a></h2>

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A group of hardline Cold Warriors and neoconservatives revive the once-influential Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) in order to promote their anti-Soviet, pro-military agenda. The CPD is an outgrowth of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM), itself a loose amalgamation of neoconservatives and Democratic hawks.</div></div>

Confederation of Establishment Conservatives, Neoconservatives, and Hawkish Democrats - The CPD is led by Eugene Rostow, the head of the CDM’s foreign policy task force. Others include CIA spymaster William Casey; iconic Cold War figure and “Team B” member Paul Nitze (see <a onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://www.historycommons.org/item.jsp?item=a0176nitzeabandonstalks" onmouseover="return OL('January 1976: Former Arms Negotiator Now Calls for Escalation against Soviet Union')">January 1976</a> and <a onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://www.historycommons.org/item.jsp?item=alate1176teambsovietfears" onmouseover="return OL('Late November, 1976: Team B Breaches Security to Successfully Whip up Fears of Soviet Threat')">Late November, 1976</a>); established neoconservatives such as Norman Podhoretz and Team B leader Richard Pipes (see <a onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://www.historycommons.org/item.jsp?item=aearly76teamb" onmouseover="return OL('Early 1976: Neoconservative ‘Team B’ of Outside Intelligence Analysts Created')">Early 1976</a>); rising neoconservative stars like Jeane Kirkpatrick, Midge Decter, Donald Brennan, and Richard Perle; conservative Democrats such as Nitze and former Secretary of State Dean Rusk; established Republicans such as House representative Claire Booth Luce (R-CT), David Packard, Nixon’s deputy secretary of defense, Andrew Goodpaster, Eisenhower’s National Security Adviser, millionaire Richard Mellon Scaife; and famed military officers such as Admiral Elmo Zumwalt. <cite>[<a onmouseout="return nd()" target="blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/978-0743280754/centerforcoop-20" onmouseover="return OL('Craig Unger, ">The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America\'s Future (New York City: Scribner, 2007)., 58-59.')">Unger, 2007, pp. 58-59</a>; <a onmouseout="return nd()" target="blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/978-0-670-01882-6/centerforcoop-20" onmouseover="return OL('J. Peter Scoblic, ">US Vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America\'s Security (New York City: Viking, 2008)., 99-100.')">Scoblic, 2008, pp. 99-100</a>]</cite>

No 'Realists' - Author Craig Unger will write: “Ultimately, in the CPD, one could see the emerging fault lines in the Republican Party, the ideological divide that separated hardline neocons and Cold Warriors from the more moderate, pragmatic realists—i.e. practitioners of realpolitik such as Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, George H. W. Bush, and James Baker. All of the latter were conspicuously absent from the CPD roll call.” <cite>[<a onmouseout="return nd()" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/978-0743280754/centerforcoop-20" onmouseover="return OL('Craig Unger, ">The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America\'s Future (New York City: Scribner, 2007)., 58-59.')">Unger, 2007, pp. 58-59</a>]</cite>

Advocates US First Strike against USSR - Like the CDM and Team B, the CPD believes that the entire concept of detente with the Soviet Union is an abject failure, and the only way to deal with the ravenously hegemonical USSR is through armed confrontation. Like Team B (see <a onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://www.historycommons.org/item.jsp?item=a1176teambversusteama" onmouseover="return OL('November 1976: Team B Browbeats CIA Analysts, ‘Proves’ Soviets Far Ahead of US in Military, Nuclear Capabilities')">November 1976</a>), the CPD insists, without proof, that the USSR has made far greater strides in increasing the size and striking power of its nuclear arsenal; and like Team B, no amount of debunking using factual information stops the CPD from making its assertions (see <a onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://www.historycommons.org/item.jsp?item=a1176teambfactsirrelevant" onmouseover="return OL('November 1976: Team B Chief Says Facts Don’t Matter, Understanding Soviet ‘Mindset’ Does Matter')">November 1976</a>). The US must drastically increase its stockpile of nuclear and conventional weapons, it maintains, and also be prepared to launch a nuclear first strike in order to stop the USSR from doing the same. In April 1977, the CPD evokes the familiar neoconservative specter of appeasement by writing, “The Soviet military build-up of all its armed forces over the past quarter century is, in part, reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s rearmament in the 1930s.” Author J. Peter Scoblic will observe, “The CPD saw itself as a collection of [Winston] Churchills facing a country of [Neville] Chamberlains.” In 1978, the CPD predicts, “The early 1980s threaten to be a period of Soviet strategic nuclear superiority in which America’s second-strike capability will become vulnerable to a Soviet pre-emptive attack without further improvements in US weapons.” <cite>[<a onmouseout="return nd()" target="blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/978-0743280754/centerforcoop-20" onmouseover="return OL('Craig Unger, ">The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America\'s Future (New York City: Scribner, 2007)., 58-59.')">Unger, 2007, pp. 58-59</a>; <a onmouseout="return nd()" target="blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/978-0-670-01882-6/centerforcoop-20" onmouseover="return OL('J. Peter Scoblic, ">US Vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America\'s Security (New York City: Viking, 2008)., 99-100.')">Scoblic, 2008, pp. 99-100</a>]</cite>

Spreading Propaganda - According to a 2004 BBC documentary, the CPD will produce documentaries, publications, and provide guests for national talk shows and news reports, all designed to spread fear and encourage increases in defense spending, especially, as author Thom Hartmann will write, “for sophisticated weapons systems offered by the defense contractors for whom neocons would later become lobbyists.” <cite>[<a onmouseout="return nd()" target="blank" href="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1207-26.htm" onmouseover="return OL('Thom Hartmann, “Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit--And Power,” ">Common Dreams (.org), 7 December 2004.')">Common Dreams (.org), 12/7/2004</a>; <a onmouseout="return nd()" target="blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/3755686.stm" onmouseover="return OL('">BBC, “The Power of Nightmares: Baby It\'s Cold Outside,” 14 January 2005.')">BBC, 1/14/2005</a>]</cite>

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