ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP: SPONSORED BY CIA's FORD FOUNDATION?

by bob feldman

Part 10:

POLITICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES' EDELMAN-BUNDY CONNECTION

In a 1998 book that was subsidized by the MacArthur Foundation, the
Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation,
entitled THE COLOR OF TRUTH: MC GEORGE BUNDY AND WILLIAM BUNDY: BROTHERS
IN ARMS, a contributing editor of Katrina vanden Heuvel's NATION
magazine, Kai Bird, recalled that in June 1968, then-Ford Foundation
President McGeorge "Bundy arranged fellowships totaling $131,000 for
eight members of" the mysteriously-slain Robert F. "Kennedy's campaign
staff." Bird also noted that recipients "included Frank Mankiewicz
($15,000 for a study of the Peace Corps in Latin America), Adam Walinsky
($22,200 for a study of community action programs) and Peter Edelman
($19,090 for a study of community development programs around the
world)."

In recent years Peter Edelman has been sitting on the board of a
foundation, the Public Welfare Foundation, which subsidizes the
alternative media work of Chip Berlet's Political Research Associates
[PRA] group. In 2002, for instance, Peter Edelman's Public Welfare
Foundation gave a $50,000 grant to Political Research Associates to
provide "general support for research center that collects and
disseminates information on extremist groups and provides information
and training to local, state, and national organizations working to
counter extremist activity." PRA's form 990 also indicates at least
$90,000 in additional grant money was given to Political Research
Associates by Peter Edelman's Public Welfare Foundation between 1993 and
1996; and in 1999, another grant of $50,000 was given to the Political
Research Associates group by the Public Welfare Foundation.

Prior to working as a staffperson for RFK and then receiving his Ford
Foundation fellowship from former National Security Affairs advisor
Bundy, Public Welfare Foundation board member Edelman worked as a law
clerk to a Supreme Court Justice named Arthur Goldberg. According to the
1982 book Rooted In Secrecy: The Clandestine Element in Australian
Politics by Joan Coxsedge: "Arthur Goldberg, the General Counsel of the
CIO engineered the expulsion of the Left from this organization...After
the left-wing purge of the CIO, Goldberg worked to achieve union with
the conservative American Federation of Labor [AFL] headed by rabid
anti-communist and long-time CIA stooge, George Meany, and what was left
of the CIO." Public Welfare Foundation board member Edelman is also both
the political godfather/rabbi of U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham-Clinton and
a former Clinton Administration official. According to the Center for
Responsive Politics' web site, Public Welfare Foundation board member
Peter Edelman also gave two campaign contributions, totalling $1,500, to
Hillary Rodham-Clinton's campaign on September 26, 2000 and another
$1,000 campaign contribution to SenatorRodham-Clinton's campaign on
November 9, 2000. Marian Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund NGO also
gave a $1,000 campaign contribution to Hillary Rodham-Clinton on
November 9, 2000.

In the late 1990s, the Massachusetts-based Political Research Associates
[PRA] was also given a $120,000 grant by the San Francisco Foundation.
The board of trustees and/or the investment committee of the San
Francisco Foundation has included the following members of the Bay Area
Establishment in recent years: 1. Levi Strauss Foundation Board Member
Peter Haas Jr.; 2. Advent Software Inc. Chair and U. of
California-Berkeley Foundation board member Stephanie Marco; 3. Equidex
Inc. Chair and former U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg James Hormel; 4.
Oakland Private Industry Council CEO Gay Plair Cobb; 5. Brookings
Institute Trustee Emeritus and U. of California-Berkeley Foundation
board member F. Warren Hellman; 6. Stanford University Trustee Leslie
Hume; 7. Pacific Gas & Electric [PG&E] Chief Finance Officer Kent Hardy;
8. Seneca Capital Management Founder Gail Seneca; and 9. Foundation for
Chinese Democracy Chair/President Rolland C. Lowe. In addition, the San
Francisco Foundation presently controls over $695 million in assets and
takes in about $15 million a year in investment income from its
corporate stock portfolio.

Contributions exceeding $5,000 were also made to Political Research
Associates by the following other individuals or foundations between
1993 and 1996: William & Robie Harris ($32,000); Jean Hardisty
($125,588), Thomas P. Jalkut ($85,000), Hannah Kranzberg ($5,000),
Sister Fund ($20,000), CS Fund ($30,000); Funding Exchange ($12,000);
Haymarket Peoples Fund ($17,000); Ms. Foundation for Women ($15,000);
Nathan Cummings Foundation ($80,000); the Stresand Foundation ($7,500);
Threshold Foundation ($27,825); Tides Foundation ($69,260); Unitarian
Universalist Veatch ($50,000; Sylvia Goodman ($11,000); Michael
Kieschnick ($29,279); Albert A. List Foundation ($75,000); US Trust
($5,032); The New Land Foundation ($5,000); and PRRAC ($10,000). In
1999, additional contributions exceeding $5,000 were made to Political
Research Associates by the following individuals and foundations:
Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program ($25,000); The Prentice Foundation
($5,000); Stephen & Diana Goldberg Foundation ($10,000); Tides
Foundation ($57,550); Albert A. List Foundation ($25,000); Carol
Bernstein ($5,000); Irving Harris Foundation ($25,000); Nathan Cummings
Foundation ($55,000); Thomas Jalkut ($15,000); Nancy Meier ($15,025);;
Warsh-Mott Legacy ($20,000); Chambers Family Fund ($25,000); and the Ms.
Foundation For Women ($15,000).

At least $11,000 in politically partisan campaign contributions have
also been made by a Jean Hardisty of Political Research Associates since
1992, according to the Center for Responsive Politics web site. On
November 15, 1999, for instance Ms. Hardisty gave a $1,000 campaign
contribution to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. And on
September 12, 2000, Ms. Hardisty gave a $1,000 campaign contribution to
KidPAC.

In the acknowledgment section of the 1995 Eyes Right! book which Chip
Berlet edited, the Establishment Foundation-sponsored Political Research
Asociates executive wrote: "An extra tip of the hat to Matthew
Rothschild of The Progressive for his special assistance."
Coincidentally, in recent months Berlet joined PROGRESSIVE magazine
editor Rothschild in attempting to smear and marginalize 9/11 conspiracy
journalists and researchers, while apparently failing to do much
political research into possible links between the Ford Foundation, the
Trilateral Commission, the Carlyle Group and/or the Bush White House.


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