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From: copa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 02:20:05 -0400
To: Alex Constantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Chip" Berlet's Funding
Good work. I am regularly attacked by Berlet, he even had one of his
minions in Toronto come to a lecture and slam me in a local rag called
The Sun. He likes to lump me in with the political right wing because I
used to speak to Fletcher Prouty. He does lots of guilt by association
and little association by guilt. He also was quoted in an LAT hit piece
linking me to Holocaust deniers falsely, where he said I am not even a
"mainstream conspiracy theorist". In my reply I said that was an
oxymoron. He has slammed me in print in the Columbia Journalism Review,
among other publications, and basically tries to position PRA and
himself as the only credible sources of information about right wing and
fascist penetration of the government, at the cost of everyone else's
reputation. I see this same tendency in the bourgeois preeners at the
Institute for Policy Studies. By actively disassociating themselves from
"conspiracy theorists" they try to avoid the tar from the brush. Then
they use the same brush to paint us even blacker. "He's one of theose
CT's, I'm not!" Like those who named names for McCarthy. Beacon has a
history as a CIA conduit, including to Tom Hayden. Berlet also gets
funds from the ADL and was bucking for a leadership position there. He
was implicated in the ADL spy scandal on progressive groups because he
supplied information to them. I never saw parts one to five, could you
send them in one email please, sorry.
JJ
Alex Constantine wrote:
>
> Propaganda, Espionage & John Foster ³Chip² Berlet, Part Six
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> Excerpt from ³Will The Real John Foster ŒChip¹ Berlet Please Stand Up?¹ By
> Ace Hayes, June, 1993.
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> NOTE: An introduction to one of John Foster ³Chip² Berlet¹s primary
> benefactors, Richard J. ³Soy Bean King² Dennis -- Richard Dennis has
> conducted dirty business deals with Senator Fred Thompson (R, Tenn.)
> involving Hollywood film profits disguised as soybean deals. But this is a
> mild charge compared to some that have been directed Dennis¹s way. George
> Bush, Sr. and Ollie North have both been implicated in CIA drug trafficking
> and money laundering in the South. The pelf was also channelled through
> Chicago¹s Garfield Ridge Trust & Savings Bank. Garfield¹s chief shareholder
> at this time was Congressman Dan Rostenkowski -- who is currently serving a
> prison sentence for defrauding the House of Representatives¹ bank. The last
> stop for the dirty money raised by Bush and Thompson was the Chicago Board
> of Trade. -- AC
> ==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> Part Six
>
> ³While this may be the latest chapter in how JFB serves the same roll as
> John Rees and both work for the same ruling elite, there is also an old list
> of questions about JFB and PRA which also need to be public knowledge and
> which deserve answers.
>
> ³Why, precisely, is the ³Beacon Fund,² which is one of PRA¹s foundation
> donors listed on p. 17 of PRA¹s A Ten Year Report: 1981-1991, entitled
> Unmasking the Political Right. The director of PRA, Jean Hardisty, has
> refused to answer questions about this funder. She passed the buck to David
> Romeyn hunter who has also refused to answer questions about it. There is no
> Beacon Fund in any recent foundation directory. The last and only known
> Beacon Fund was a CIA dummy foundation which was exposed in 1967 by everyone
> from Ramparts to the Washington Post.
>
> ³Why does Richard Dennis seem to drop money on PRA in direct proportion to
> JFB¹s trashing of someone whom the US government loves to hate? When John
> Foster Berlet put out Clouds Blur the Rainbow in 1988, Richard Dennis
> dropped $75k into PRA. There was a payment of $112,500 in 1990 when the
> first edition of Right Woos Left was hitting the stands.
>
> ³This raises the question, who is Richard Dennis? This is a very important
> question. I have discovered some information on Mr. Dennis which I outlined
> in a letter to a fellow researcher in December 1992.
>
> ³Richard Dennis is a director of the now defunct Roosevelt Center for
> American Policy Studies. Funding comes from the Ford Foundation (85K), NED
> (25K), Markele Foundation (55K), Richard Dennis (90K), etc. for 1988 -- on
> one schedule. Another schedule shows additional Œcontributions in excess of
> $5,000,² and these included Hewlett Foundation, Ford Foundation, Joyce
> Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, R.J. Dennis, Principal Foundation....
>
> ³All this read out CIA to me, both on money in and projects out. And it get
> more Byzantine with Dennis¹ Chicago Resource Center, which gets money from
> both Dennis and RCAPS and $112,500 to PRA in 1990. In 1990, Richard Dennis¹
> brother Thomas gave $4,270,000 to CRC while Richard was in for a mere 50K --
> that year. However, William Eckhardt put in $2,000,000, so they were OK.
>
> ³Then one can switch over to the ŒFifth Horseman Political Action
> Committee,¹ which is largely funded and run by the self-same Troika while it
> also receives money from PRA¹s Hardisty, among others. It gives money to
> people like Senator Kerry, John McCain, Jim Leach, Jim Traficant, etc.
>
> ³I find all these interlocks and inter-funding most interesting. It seems to
> me that PRA is really only part of a much larger network of dirty tricks,
> dirty money and dirty disinformation.... PRA and John Foster Berlet are part
> of a much larger and more sinister network than most people can even begin
> to imagine. The CIA is truly ubiquitous.
>
> ³Richard Dennis is also president of The Center for the Study of Democratic
> Institutions.
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> End of Part Six
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