ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP:
SPONSORED BY CIA's FORD FOUNDATION?
Part 8:
FORD FOUNDATION, THE CIA & U.S. ESTABLISHMENT
CONSPIRACY — part 2
For 13 years, a former national security affairs advisor in
the Kennedy and Johnson White House during the Vietnam War Era,
McGeorge Bundy, was the Ford Foundation's president. As James
Ledbetter recalled in his book MADE POSSIBLE BY... "The Ford effort
took a new twist in 1966, when the Foundation began plotting a
system that would unite satellite communication with educational
broadcasting. McGeorge Bundy, the former national security advisor
who had personally ordered American bombing raids on North Vietnam
in early 1965, left the government and moved to the Ford Foundation
to oversee this plan...Bundy obtained his position without being
knowledgeable about, or even comfortable with, the medium of television..."
In a September 26, 1996 press release that was issued by the
Ford Foundation following its former long-time president's death,
the Trustees of the Ford Foundation stated:
"The Trustees of the Ford Foundation are deeply saddened by
the death of McGeorge Bundy on September 16 [1996]. Mr. Bundy
served as President of the Foundation from 1966 to 1979. He forged
new lines of work in such critically important areas as civil
rights, overseas development, and security and arms control. His
intellect, candor, and high standards left an indelible mark on
the Foundation's culture. The work of the Foundation today builds
on Mac's legacy and we are in his debt."
Yet evidence exists that former Ford Foundation President McGeorge
Bundy was apparently one of the White House officials responsible
for planning crimes against humanity during the Vietnam War Era,
in violation of the Nuremberg Accords.
On May 11, 1961, for instance, former Ford Foundation President
McGeorge Bundy signed "National Security Action Memorandum 52"
which approved a program for covert action against North Vietnam
that included forming "network of resistance, covert bases and
teams for sabotage and light harassment" in North Vietnam. And
on September 10, 1964, former Ford Foundation President McGeorge
Bundy signed "National Security Action Memorandum No. 314," which
approved the resumption of naval patrols and covert maritime operations
off the coast of North Vietnam.
According to THE PENTAGON PAPERS, each maritime operation against
North Vietnam after October 1964 had to be approved in advance
by former Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy. And among
the maritime operations approved in advance by the now-deceased
former Ford Foundation president were "ship-to-shore bombardment
of North Vietnam radar site" and "underwater demolition team assaults
on bridges along coastal roads, bridges and rails" in North Vietnam.
In a February 7, 1965 memorandum to Democratic Party Leader
Lyndon Johnson, former Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy
next recommended that the U.S. adopt "a policy of `sustained reprisal'"
against North Vietnam; and on March 2, 1965 the Johnson White
House's "Rolling Thunder" bombing campaign against North Vietnam
was begun.
On April 6, 1965, former Ford Foundation President Bundy signed
"National Security Action Memorandum No. 328," in which he stated:
"We should continue roughly the present slowly ascending tempo
of ROLLING THUNDER Operation...We should continue to vary the
type of target, stepping up attack on lines of communication in
the near future, and possibly moving in a few weeks to attacks
on the rail lines north and northeast of Hanoi.
"Leaflet operations should be expanded to obtain maximum practicable
psychological effect on the North Vietnamese population.
"Blockade or aerial mining of North Vietnamese ports needs further
study and should be considered for future operations...Air operations
in Laos...should be stepped up to the maximum remunerative rate..."
By the time McGeorge Bundy retired as Ford Foundation president
in 1979, millions of people in Indochina and over 57,000 U.S.
military personnel had lost their lives, as a result of the militaristic
actions authorized by the "National Security Action Memorandum"
which the former Ford Foundation president personally signed.
A few years before his death in 1996, the former Ford Foundation
president had been named as a "Scholar-in-Residence" by the same
Carnegie Corporation of New York foundation which was to give
a $25,000 grant to Pacifica in 1996 to launch the DEMOCRACY NOW!
show. As the Carnegie Corporation of New York's "Scholar-in-Residence,"
former Ford Foundation President Bundy co-authored a 1993 book
with Stanford University Professor Sidney Drell and former Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff William J. Crowe (who also sat on
the board of directors of a Big Oil company called Texaco in the
early 1990s), entitled REDUCING NUCLEAR DANGER.
In the acknowledgement section of their book, Bundy and his
co-authors noted that "the book is the product of a decision in
1990 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to invite the three
of us to work as co-chairmen of a Carnegie Commission on Reducing
the Nuclear Danger;" and "we must express our warmest personal
thanks to Dr. David A. Hamburg, the president of the Carnegie
Corporation" and "the staff of the Carnegie Corporation has helped
with unfailing kindness and understanding."
Former Ford Foundation President Bundy and his co-authors then
expressed their support for the immoral 1991 high-technology U.S.
military attack on the people of Iraq, on behalf of Big Oil's
special interests, by writing:
"Saddam Hussein has provided a sharp reminder of a different
nuclear danger--that nuclear weapons may come into the hands of
unpredictable and adventurous rulers. We learned in Iraq that
when international awareness, will, and capability are all three
sufficient, it is possible to take effective action against such
danger...The case of Saddam is unique both in the breadth of the
international judgment that a bomb under his control would be
unacceptably dangerous and in the strength of the American presence
and engagement created by his aggression against Kuwait. Multinational
action against the Iraqi bomb has been effective, at least in
the short run...
"It is now evident that if Saddam's effort had not been interrupted
by the war he provoked, he would probably have had nuclear weapons
sometime in the 1990s--quite possibly in the first half of the
decade. Knowing Saddam as it now does, the world has been shocked
by this narrow escape. It is not surprising that an effective
conscensus has developed, growing in strength as the process of
inquiry and dismantling has continued in Iraq, that the international
community should see to it that leaders such as Saddam do not
get the bomb."
Yet three years after the former Ford Foundation president who
was one of the U.S. Establishment leaders responsible for crimes
against humanity in Vietnam joined his co-authors in rationalizing
a pro-war policy in relation to Iraq, the Ford Foundation board
of trustees asserted in 1996 that "the work of the Foundation
today builds on Mac's legacy and we are in his debt."
Perhaps a brief look at some of the corporate connections of
those who sit on the Ford Foundation board of trustees--and at
how the Ford Foundation operates--might indicate how "the Foundation
today builds on Mac's legacy" by, for instance, sponsoring alternative
media groups which generally attempt to marginalize anti-war/anti-corporate
9/11 conspiracy journalists and researchers?.
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