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The Heritage Foundation
Power Elites
A.K. Chesterton once said: "The proper study of political mankind
is the study of power elites, without which nothing that happens
could be understood."
He added: "These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely
found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has
therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they
employ."
Chesterton described those agencies: "Their goal was to work
through such agencies, and financial support received from one or
other or all three big American foundations -- Rockefeller,
Carnegie, and Ford -- provides an infallible means of recognizing
them."
The Rockefellers made $200,000,000.00 from World War I. Henry
Kissinger's brother Walter heads the Allen Group. The super-
wealthy (with the exception of some Du Ponts and the Fords) have
long supported the Republican Party -- the party of plutocratic
oligarchy. "If not kings themselves, they are king-makers." They
have quick access to the White House no matter who is President.
Other super-rich, such as the Rockefellers, affiliate with the
Democratic Party. Politics in the U.S., no matter what party, is
under the control of the super-rich, large corporations and the
international bankers.
A.K. Chesterton said in Candour: "At times Capitalism and Communism
would appear to be in conflict, but this writer is confident that
their interests are in common and will eventually merge for
one-world control. That policy outlined previously in Woodrow
Wilson's Point Six has never been dropped.
"Capitalism and Communism, in terms of power, are merely their twin
mechanisms to destroy the sovereignty of Christian nations. They
will merge them into the projected super-state, where their
financial power will exercise full sway and masterdom through that
monopoly of atomic energy which is being sought with such feverish
and fiendish persistence. They are selling us into slavery and
using our material resources for their own nefarious world-wide
purposes. To say that in exposing their plans for world domination
we are playing the Kremlin's game is to act as an unconscious agent
of Christendom's betrayal." (1)
Paul Weyrich
Paul Weyrich is considered by conservative Powers That Be as the
most powerful man in American politics today. Weyrich founded the
immensely influential conservative think tank, Heritage Foundation,
in 1973 with funding from Joseph Coors of the Coors beer empire and
Richard Mellon-Scaife, heir of the Carnegie-Mellon fortune. (2)
http://www.heritage.org/
Over the past 25 years, Heritage has also been funded by private
foundations such as Pew Charitable Trust which has also funded many
GOALS 2000 initiatives. William Greider's bestseller, Who Will
Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy reveals other
benefactors: "Not withstanding its role as 'populist' spokesman,
Weyrich's organization, for instance, has received grants from
Amoco, General Motors, Chase Manhattan Bank [David Rockefeller] and
right-wing foundations like Olin and Bradley." (3)
Paul Weyrich served as President of Heritage Foundation until 1974
when he founded the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress
(which he heads today as the Free Congress Foundation). Heritage
Foundation guided the Reagan administration during its period of
transition and Joe Coors served in the President's "Kitchen
Cabinet." During its first year, the Reagan administration adopted
fully two-thirds of the recommendations of Heritage's Mandate for
Leadership: Policy Management in a Conservative Administration.
John Saloma's Ominous Politics, refers to Heritage as a "shadow
government" noting that "[Heritage President] (Edwin) Feulner also
served on the Reagan transition executive committee (fourteen other
Heritage staff and board members also had transition appointments),
but declined to join the administration." (4)
A 1995 Wall Street Journal observed the formidable influence of the
Heritage Foundation on government policies since the Reagan era:
"WASHINGTON -- With the Republicans' rise to control Congress,
think-tank power in the nation's capital has shifted to the
right. And no policy shop has more clout than the
conservative Heritage Foundation.
"When GOP congressional staffers met in June with conservative
leaders to help map current legislative efforts to cut federal
funding for left-leaning advocacy groups, the closed-door
meeting took place at Heritage headquarters. The group's
involvement wasn't unusual. 'Heritage is without question the
most far-reaching conservative organization in the country in
the war of ideas.' House Speaker Newt Gingrich said early
this year.
"Think tanks have long churned out studies that have wound up
in official policy proposals. During Democratic times of
power, the more liberal Brookings Institution has been a
leading player here. Now, the 21-year-old Heritage
Foundation, which rose to prominence in the Reagan years,
is taking academic involvement to a new level.
"Over the first 100 days of the current GOP Congress, Heritage
scholars testified before lawmakers 40 times -- more than any
other organization, Hill staffers say. Its scholars are
credited by congressional members and staff as key architects
of the House-passed welfare-overhaul plan and with inspiring
some provisions in the GOP balanced-budget plan. 'They talk
to me sometimes 12 times a week,' said Heritage budget analyst
Scott Hodge earlier this year, explaining his ties to the
staff of the House Budget Committee. 'We -- I mean House
members -- are putting together a final list of cuts.'" (5)
Nazi Connections
Paul Weyrich - considered the architect and mainstay of the
conservative revolution - calls for "reclaiming the culture" and
a "second American Revolution." A look at the inflammatory,
extremist rhetoric with racial and Inquisitorial overtones on the
Free Congress web site should alarm Christians as to Weyrich's real
intent:
NEXT REVOLUTION
http://www.fcref.org/Donate/nr.htm
"Are we on the verge of a second American Revolution? In the
old Soviet Union, the government seemed all-powerful -- until
one day it fell.
"Next Revolution is one of the most radical -- and most
popular -- programs on America's Voice. Each week, hosts Bill
Lind and Brad Keena say what people are thinking but are often
afraid to say: that the cultural Marxism of Political
Correctness is destroying our country, that "multicultural"
nations break apart in civil war, and that uncontrolled
immigration and rising crime are turning America into a Third
World nation. They ask the "forbidden" questions: is real
reform still possible, or will a new Revolution be necessary
to restore America's traditional -- and very successful --
culture? Is the United States Government still a legitimate
government? Is "racism" the real problem or do cries of
racism arise as a result of bad behavior by minority groups?"
VICTORIA
http://www.fcref.org/Donate/victoria.htm
"Can America in fact go the way of Bosnia? Is 'Civil War II'
part of our future? Is that what it will take to rescue our
culture? Bill Lind is now working to answer these questions
in a book-length version of Victoria -- a novel in the form of
a 'future memoir' that will rock and shock the 'Politically
Correct' Establishment...
"She was not a particularly bad bishop. She was, in fact,
quite typical of Episcopal bishops of the first quarter of the
2lst-century -- agnostic, compulsively political and radical,
and given to placing a small idol of Isis on the altar when
she said the Communion service. By 2037, when she was tried,
convicted and burned for heresy, she had outlived her era.
By that time only a handful of Episcopalians still recognized
female clergy, and it would have been easy enough to let the
old fool rant out her final years in obscurity. But we are a
people who do our duty.
"I well remember the crowd that gathered for the execution --
solemn, but not sad, relieved that at last, after so many
years of humiliation, the majority had taken back the culture.
Civilization had recovered its nerve. The flames that soared
above the lawn before the Maine statehouse that August
afternoon were, as the bishopess herself might have said,
liberating."
Weyrich is a Melkite Greek Catholic whose personal background
abounds with ties to Nazi collaborators and neo-fascist
organizations. These well-documented facts do not seem to concern
the U.S. Government, whose agencies have also been infiltrated by
post World War II Nazi emigres.
In the 1970s, Weyrich and Coors made appointments and set up
political contacts on Capitol Hill for Franz Joseph Strauss,
Bavarian head of state who helped emigre Nazi collaborators.
Another fascist, Roger Pearson, writer and organizer for the Nazi
Northern League of northern Europe, joined the editorial board of
Policy Review, the monthly Heritage publication in 1977. The Coors
Connection notes in a caption under an illustration of Pearson's
Eugenics And Race: "Dr. Roger Pearson's racialist theories are
circulated worldwide by neo-Nazi and white supremacist
organizations." (6)
Pearson was brought to the U.S. in 1965 by Willis Carto, founder of
the neo-fascist Institute for Historical Review (which denies the
Holocaust) and the anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby, which publishes the
weekly Spotlight newspaper. Pearson left Heritage after a
Washington Post expose of the racist/fascist orientation of the
World Anti-Communist League. Pearson chaired the American branch,
the Council on American Affairs from 1975-80, as well as the WACL
from 1978-79. The following brief mention of Roger Pearson on the
British Eugenics Society web site :
http://www.africa2000.com/ENDX/eug_o.htm
is an indicator of his abiding contribution to pure racial breeding:
"Hans K. Gunther, a Nazi anthropologist and eugenicist... was
assisted by Roger Pearson of the Eugenics Society, an
important figure on the racist journal, Mankind Quarterly...
Mankind Quarterly is a racist journal still pumping out venom
in 1994, still influenced by Roger Pearson. Josef Mengele's
co-researcher at Auschwitz, Von Verschuer, was on the
editorial advisory board of this journal before his death in
1970."
http://mankind.org/mqartlst.htm
Paul Weyrich also sponsored and currently works closely with Laszlo
Pasztor, a convicted Austrian Nazi-collaborator whose Coalitions of
the Americas is housed as a subsidiary in the Free Congress
Foundation, the political arm of Heritage Foundation. Martin Lee's
book, The Beast Reawakens, refers to Pasztor as Weyrich's right
hand man:
"In addition to homegrown agitators who dredged up
anti-Semitic motifs that harkened back to the 1930s, some
countries had to contend with groups that were led or
supported by profascist exiles who repatriated from the West
where they had carried on as vocal anti-Communists during the
Cold War, often with CIA support. The Free Congress
Foundation, founded by American far right strategist Paul
Weyrich, became active in eastern European politics after the
Cold War. Figuring prominently in this effort was Weyrich's
right-hand man, Laszlo Pasztor, a former leader of the
pro-Nazi Arrow Cross organization in Hungary, which had
collaborated with Hitler's Reich. After serving two years in
prison for his Arrow Cross activities, Pasztor found his way
to the United States, where he was instrumental in
establishing the ethnic-outreach arm of the Republican
national Committee." (7)
A recent SCOOP newsletter from the Heritage related National Center
for Public Policy Research mentions foreign and defense policy
meetings chaired by Laszlo Pasztor. NCPPR is a conservative
communications and research foundation which also sponsors
Wednesday luncheons frequently chaired by Weyrich and Pasztor.
Moonie Connections
The 1975 Congressional investigation of the Korean Central
Intelligence Agency (KCIA) activities in the U.S. noted a
connection between Heritage and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Edwin J.
Feulner, Jr. was recruited in 1977 by Richard Scaife to become
Heritage president, a position he holds today:
"The report of the investigation noted, 'In 1975, Ed Feulner
... was introduced to KCIA station chief Kim Yung Hwan by Neil
Salonen and Dan Feffernan of the Freedom Leadership
foundation.' Salonen was head of Sun Myung Moon's Unification
Church in the United States. The Freedom Leadership
Foundation (FLF), a political arm of Moon's Unification
network was linked to the World Anti-Communist League (WACL).
The FLF was described as 'an organization to be used to
achieve KCIA objectives,' by the Congressional report, which
was based on a KCIA document that discussed FLF." (8)
In the early 1980s, the KCIA began making donations to Heritage
Foundation. In turn, Heritage established an Asian Studies Center
which The Nation magazine of 1/23/89 states "has quartered
apologists for [So. Korean Prime Minister] Chun's regime." (9)
http://www.heritage.org/asiaoffice/
The Wall Street Journal of August 1995 does not mention Sun Myung
Moon, but references the Korea Foundation, one of Heritage's
largest donors and an affiliate of the South Korean government.
The article clearly states that Heritage Foundation promotes and
actually writes pro-Korean legislation:
"Heritage scholars, for example, have drafted specific
language for legislation that would help South Korea by
encouraging the U.S. to include Seoul more directly in U.S.
dealings with North Korea. Meantime, one of Heritage's
largest donors, the Korea Foundation, is an affiliate of the
South Korean government, according to Yoo Lee, a spokesman for
South Korea's embassy here. Heritage's President Edwin
Feulner says he isn't aware that the Korea Foundation is an
arm of their government...
"While Heritage has gotten most of its attention on domestic
issues, it also has been an active proponent for an array of
trade and other policies supported by South Korea and Taiwan.
Such efforts, it says, reflects "the growing importance of the
Asia-Pacific community." In December, Heritage scholar Daryl
Plunk provided language for a draft resolution, essentially
calling for the administration to adopt a U.S. policy more in
line with the wishes of South Korea, to Colorado GOP Rep.
Scott McInnis. Rep McInnis, who last year was escorted on a
trip to South Korea by Mr. Plunk, introduced a provision in
Congress containing similar language.
"Heritage's Mr. Feulner himself has taken an active role in
promoting South Korean issues in Congress through actions such
as testifying before committees to promote the think tank's
pro-South Korea positions. Meantime, one in six of Heritage's
24 known major donors last year -- gifts of $100,000 or more
-- were Taiwanese or South Korean concerns. Over the past
three years, Heritage has received nearly $1 million from the
Korea Foundation which is funded by South Korea's Foreign
Ministry, says the embassy's Mr. Lee." (10)
The Heritage offices in Washington, D.C. have housed and employed
a number of Unification Church operatives:
"Heritage's Director of Administration in 1980 was Michael
Warder, who was a key leader of Moon's Unification network in
the United States ...
"Christian Voice is one Moon-connected group that has operated
out of the Heritage building. A 'former' Moon operative, Gary
Jarmin, attacked critics of Moon and gave an interview to a
Moon-controlled newspaper after he joined the Christian Voice
(CV) staff. CV's chair, Robert Grant, has been a leader of
Moon's Unification network front groups such as the American
Freedom Coalition, which fundraised for Oliver North." (11)
In the 1970s, Richard Viguerie became the direct-mail fundraiser
for Weyrich's Committee for Survival of a Free Congress. Viguerie
developed the direct-mail enterprise into a mult-million dollar
business which has used its considerable power to influence the
election of conservative candidates for political office. During
the 70s, Viguerie trained a political cadre and established,
staffed, and funded new organizations, transforming the New Right
into "an institutionalized, disciplined, well-organized, and
well-financed movement of loosely-knit affiliates" that formed a
political base for the conservative revolution of the next decade.
In 1976, Weyrich, Viguerie and Howard Phillips attempted a takeover
of the American Independent Party and, in the wake of failure,
turned to Jerry Falwell to form the Moral Majority. When Rev. Moon
was indicted in 1981 for fraud and criminal tax evasion, Falwell
unexpectedly joined with other religious leaders to present an
amicus curiae, (friend of the court) brief on behalf of the
Reverend Moon. A 1987 Seattle Times explained "How Rev. Moon Got
Ensconced with the New Right" via Paul Weyrich's network:
"Ron Godwin, an influential former vice president of Falwell's
Moral Majority, is one of several who experienced a conversion.
"In 1984 Godwin attacked another fundamentalist leader for
taking Moonie money. 'It strikes me as peculiar,' observed
Godwin, himself an evangelical Christian, 'that (he) should
accept financial support from a church whose founder believes
he's divine ... It's a little like the Jewish National Fund
accepting money from (PLO leader Yasir) Arafat.'
"Eighteen months later, Godwin joined the Moonie - owned
Washington Times as a senior vice president, where he also
serves as emissary to conservative Christian leaders.
"Then there's Richard Viguerie, until recently more than $1.5
million in debt, according to Fairfax, Va., court records.
They indicate that in mid-October the U.S. Property
Development Corp. paid $10.06 million to 7777 Associates for
the suburban Virginia office building including Viguerie's
headquarters. Viguerie owned 72 percent of 7777 Associates,
according to Virginia records, and U.S. Property's president
is Moon's right-hand man, Bo Hi Pak.
"Viguerie now serves with Abernathy on the five-man board of
the Moonie-dominated American Freedom Coalition. The
coalition, which claims a 'house list' of more than 300,000
member-contributors, is also Viguerie's biggest new
direct-mail client." (12)
More recently, when Falwell's Liberty University was in danger of
bankruptcy, Sun Myung Moon came to the rescue through one of his
front groups, which funnelled $3.5 million to the Reber-Thomas
Christian Heritage Foundation which had purchased the school's debt
of $73 million. Ron Godwin, former executive director of the Moral
Majority, and now vice president of Moon's Washington Times,
accompanied Falwell to South Korea in January of 1994 for a meeting
with representatives of the Unification Church.
Communist Connections
Following the historic Reagan/Gorbachev meeting at the Geneva
Summit and prior to Gorbachev's visit to the U.S. in 1986, Heritage
President Edwin Feulner was appointed by President Reagan as
Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
The Commission's report to the Congress and the President on the
U.S. Information Agency and the activities of the U.S. Government
concerning public diplomacy included the following recommendation
for expediting a signed Soviet/American Educational Exchange
Agreement:
"Exchanges and International Visitors: The Commission urges
USIA, the Department of State, and the relevant private sector
organizations to move quickly to develop specific programs for
U.S.-Soviet exchanges pursuant to the General Exchanges
accord, other exchange initiatives undertaken at the Geneva
Summit, and the agreement by President Reagan and General
Secretary Gorbachev to review these programs at their next
meeting."
The report stated "The U.S.-Soviet exchanges agreement negotiated
by USIA and signed at Geneva will expand academic, cultural and
scientific exchanges, including Fulbright scholars and teachers..."
A Five Minute Report quoted Feulner as having said, "We should
permit Soviet journalists to speak to American people and the U.S.,
in turn, be permitted to bring ideas and perspectives to the
Soviets."
In 1995, Charlotte Iserbyt identified conservative "Wolves in
Sheep's Clothing" who not only gave the Soviets access to American
education, but whose act of treason "virtually merged the two
educational systems." Leading the pack for an educational exchange
initiative were:
"Edwin Feulner, President of Heritage Foundation, strongly
supported the U.S.-Soviet education agreements, has an office
in Moscow, supports Soviet-style magnet schools (i.e., tax
supported choice/charter schools), and has state affiliate
organizations across the nation writing charter school
legislation that reads like it has been written by the U.S.
Department of Education, the Carnegie Corporation and the
National Education Association...
"Paul Weyrich's American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
gave an award to Oregon's Department of Education for its
education reform, especially the work force training component
and its certificate of initial mastery (CIM) necessary to get
a job. Weyrich has served as an advisor to Russian President
Boris Yeltsin of recent Chechnyan genocide fame. In 1986 he
wrote an article in The Washington Post which virtually
recommended a new Constitution and form of government for the
U.S." (13)
U.N. Connections
The Heritage mission statement describes the foundation as a
"research and educational institute -- a think tank -- whose
mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies
based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government,
individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong
national defense." Since Heritage claims to have never compromised
its traditional values, it may surprise other conservatives that
the 1993 U.S. Commission on Improving the Effectiveness of the
United Nations included Edwin Feulner. A 1993 Mantooth Report
revealed:
"Sixteen people, drawn from the public and private sectors,
have been busy with plans to 'reinvent the world.' Not the
U.S. government - its the UN world government.
"The purpose of this group, a commission established by
Congress, was to hold hearings and study ways to make the U.N.
more effective in the post-Cold War world, and a world needing
a firm hand in the 21st Century...
"The membership of the Commission is a motley crew, a diverse
and suspect collection of one world believers. We'll start
with Walter Hoffman. He is Executive Vice President of the
World Federalist Association, and co-Treasurer of the
Commission.
"Secretary of the Commission is Harris O. Schoenberg. He is
Director of the United Nations Affairs for B'nai B'rith
International, and into a lot of other things. There are
religionists and bankers and, of course, Jeanne J.
Kirkpatrick, who needs no introduction. And there's a
smattering of CFR members. And there are New Right and
Sovereign Military Order of Malta...
"Edwin J. Feulner, Jr. and Charles M. Lichenstein were
appointed by the House Minority Leader. Feulner is President
of the Heritage Foundation. Paul Weyrich was founder of
Heritage, and its assortment of 'fellows' became powerful
enough to issue the mandates that ran the Reagan and Bush
administrations. Weyrich is strategist for all the so-called
New Right organizations which he steers behind the political
objectives of leaders reaching for the world.
"You always find Feulner in a vital position to advance these
objectives. Lichenstein is a 'Distinguished Fellow' of
Heritage, a long-time Republican activist who has held senior
positions in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. Under Reagan
he was attached to the Security Council.
"If you haven't already figured it out, what we've been
describing here is a tight group representing the merger of
the left and the right." (14)
Sources:
1. A. K. Chesterton, "The New Unhappy Lords, An Exposure of Power
Politics" (Hawthorne, CA: Christian Boys Club of America, 1969).
2. Russ Bellant, The Coors Connection (South End Press, 1989), p.
2; John Saloma, Ominous Politics (NY: Hill & Wang, 1984), p. 14.
3. William Greider, Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of
American Democracy (Touchstone Books, 1993), p. 28.
4. Ominous Politics, p. 14, 17.
5. "Conservative Heritage Foundation Finds Recipe for Influence:
Ideas + Marketing = Cloud," Wall Street Journal, August 10, 1995,
p. A12.
6. The Coors Connection, p. 8.
7. Martin Lee, The Beast Reawakens, Little, Brown & Co., p. 303.
8. The Coors Connection, pp. 3, 4.
9. The Coors Connection, p. 6.
10. The Wall Street Journal, op. cit.
11. The Coors Connection, pp. 5, 6, 9.
12. "How Rev. Moon Got Ensconced with the New Right: His Aid is
Varied and Plentiful," The Washington Times, December 31, 1987.
13. Charlotte Iserbyt, "Wolves in Sheep's Clothing," The Christian
Conscience, April 1995, p. 12.
14. Don Mantooth, The Mantooth Report (RR 1, Box 387, Salem, IN
47167).
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