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

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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