University of Chicago
University of Chicago (University) | |
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Motto | Crescat scientia, vita excolatur (Latin) |
Formation | 1890 |
Headquarters | Chicago, USA |
Type | Private nondenominational coeducational |
Subgroups | University of Chicago/Law School |
Sponsor of | Obama Foundation |
Sponsored by | Carnegie Corporation, Hewlett Foundation, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation |
Other name | Maroons |
Subpage | •University of Chicago/Law School |
One of the most important private universities in the USA |
Not to be confused with University of Illinois at Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private university in Illinois, the United States.
The University of Chicago was established at the end of the 19th century and is considered one of the most important private universities founded in the USA during this period. Its scholars have played a major role in the development of many academic disciplines, including economics, law, literary criticism, mathematics, physics, religion, sociology, and political science.
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The Chicago Boys
- Full article: neoliberalism
- Full article: neoliberalism
The so-called Chicago school of economic thought, led by Milton Friedman and Robert Lucas, emerged from the university's economics department. Their neoclassical theory was one of the most important of the second half of the 20th century.
The Chicago Boys are a group of Chilean economists. They studied from 1956 to 1970 mostly at the University of Chicago and were inspired by the ideas of Friedrich August von Hayek and Milton Friedman. They became very influential in economic and socio-political terms in Chile under the rule of Augusto Pinochet. These economists were convinced of the superiority of free markets, which they sought to realize through privatization and deregulation measures. Because of the political conditions in the dictatorship, they were initially able to push through their far-reaching reform ideas without any major compromises. In the 1980s and 1990s, economists educated in Chicago (and increasingly at Ivy League faculties such as Harvard or MIT) were able to gain influence in several other Latin American countries with authoritarian regimes modeled on Chile.
Related Quotations
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Victor Marchetti | “To the Clandestine Services the universities represented fertile territory for recruiting espionage agents. Most large American colleges enrolled substantial numbers of foreign students, and many of these, especially those from the Third World, were (and are) destined to hold high positions in their home countries in a relatively few years. They were much easier to recruit at American schools — when they might have a need for money, where they could be easily compromised, and where foreign security services could not interfere — than they would be when they returned home. To spot and evaluate these students, the Clandestine Services maintained a contractual relationship with key professors on numerous campuses. When a professor had picked out a likely candidate, he notified his contact at the CIA and, on occasion, participated in the actual recruitment attempt. Some professors performed these services without being on a formal retainer. Others actively participated in agency covert operations by serving as "cut-outs," or intermediaries, and even by carrying out secret missions during foreign journeys.” | Victor Marchetti | 1974 |
Victor Marchetti | “Helms asked his staff to find out just how many university personnel were under secret contract to the CIA. After a few days of investigation, senior CIA officers reported back that they could not find the answer. Helms immediately ordered a full study of the situation, and after more than a month of searching records all over the agency, a report was handed in to Helms listing hundreds of professors and administrators on over a hundred campuses. But the staff officers who compiled the report knew that their work was incomplete . Within weeks, another campus connection was exposed in the press. The contact was not on the list that had been compiled for the Director.” | Victor Marchetti | 1974 |
Group
Group | Start | Description |
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University of Chicago Booth School of Business | 1898 | Its alumni leads many big corporations |
Sponsors
Event | Description |
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Carnegie Corporation | Established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, with large grants especially to form the education sector. Lots of grants to "security" think tanks too. |
Hewlett Foundation | Huge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects. |
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation |
Alumni on Wikispooks
Person | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
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Roger Altman | 2 April 1946 | US | Banker | US Banker, Bilderberg Steering Committee | |
Reginald Bartholomew | 17 February 1936 | 26 August 2012 | US | Diplomat | US ambassador who worked for Merrill Lynch on retirement. Friended of President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Leslie H. Gelb. |
Saul Bellow | 10 June 1915 | 5 April 2005 | Canada US | Author | US/Canadian writer. Member of Balkan Action Committee & Committee on the Present Danger |
Bernard Berelson | 1912 | 1979 | US | Propagandist Academic Deep state functionary | US propagandist and deep state functionary |
Klaus Blech | 14 August 1928 | 30 March 2022 | German | Diplomat | Panelist on Developments in The Soviet Union: Political And Economic Impact On The Alliance at the 1991 Bilderberg |
Robert Bork | 1 March 1927 | 19 December 2012 | Academic | Solicitor General under Richard Nixon, Bork was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, but failed. | |
Charles Bowsher | 31 May 1931 | US | Civil servant | Comptroller General of the United States from 1981 to 1996 | |
Nina Burleigh | 1960 | Author Journalist | US writer and investigative journalist. | ||
John Buse | US | Whistleblower Doctor | When he warned of risks with GlaxoSmithKline diabetes drug Avandia, the company forced him to retract by threatening to destroy his academic career and a huge lawsuit for loss in stock value. | ||
Agustín Carstens | 9 June 1958 | Mexico | Economist Central banker | BIS General Manager | |
Ahmed Chalabi | 30 October 1944 | 3 November 2015 | Iraq | Politician Deep state functionary | "A crafty, avuncular Iraqi exile beloved by Washington's neoconservatives" who attended the 2006 Bilderberg a month after quitting as Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq. |
Liz Cheney | 28 July 1966 | Deep politician | Republican politician from Wyoming. Daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. | ||
Ramsey Clark | 18 December 1927 | 11 April 2021 | Activist Lawyer | US Attorney General turned activist | |
Frank Coe | 1907 | 2 June 1980 | Spook | ||
Avner Cohen | 1951 | Israel US | Academic Historian | ||
Andrew Cordier | 1 March 1901 | 11 July 1975 | US | Diplomat | UN official who facilitated the coup against Patrice Lumumba. Bilderberg/1962. Later President of Columbia University. |
William Corson | 25 September 1925 | 17 July 2000 | Spook Soldier Academic | Spook and counterinsurgency expert who became became critical of the "American intelligence empire". Unofficial adviser to Frank Church and the Senate Intelligence Activities Committee. | |
Jon Corzine | 1 January 1947 | US | Financier Deep state functionary | 6 times Bilderberger financier | |
Waldo Dubberstein | 21 October 1907 | May 1983 | US | Spook | US spook shot in the head after becoming entangled in Edwin Wilson |
Nejat Eczacıbaşı | 5 January 1913 | 6 October 1993 | Turkey | Chemist Deep state operative Businessperson | Triple Bilderberger Turkish businessman who co-founded Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association |
Adele Edisen | |||||
Daniel Elazar | 25 August 1934 | 2 December 1999 | Academic | ||
Isabel Gil | 22 July 1965 | Portugal | Bureaucrat | Attended the 2024 Bilderberg as rector of the Catholic University of Portugal. | |
Philip Giraldi | 1946 | Spook "Terror expert" | CIA/DIA spook and “terrorism expert” | ||
Paul Goble | US | Spook | US spook working on ethnic and nationality questions in Eastern Europe | ||
G. McMurtrie Godley | 23 August 1917 | 1999 | US | Diplomat | A US diplomat |
David Graeber | 12 February 1961 | 2 September 2020 | Activist Academic Anarchism COVID-19/Premature death | Anarchist anthropologist who played a leading role in the Occupy movement. Died suddenly in 2020. | |
Katharine Graham | 16 June 1917 | 17 July 2001 | US | Deep state functionary Media executive | Quad Bilderberger, TLC, deep state functionary? |
Jessica de Grazia | |||||
Avril Haines | 29 August 1969 | US | Spook Deep state actor | "The proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing". Possible central figure in several major psy-ops, including Russiagate and COVID-19. | |
Michael Harrington | 24 February 1928 | 31 July 1989 | Author Activist Academic | US democratic socialist whi write The Other America. | |
Carla Hayden | 10 August 1952 | Bureaucracy | US Librarian of Congress | ||
Seymour Hersh | 8 April 1937 | Journalist | |||
Gertrude Himmelfarb | 8 August 1922 | 30 December 2019 | US | Historian Neoconservatism | US neocon historian and cultural critic. Marries neocon godfather Irving Kristol, mother of William Kristol |
Deane Hinton | 12 March 1923 | 28 March 2017 | US | Diplomat | |
James F. Hoge | 1935 | US | Editor | Attended the 1998 Bilderberg as Foreign Affairs/Editor | |
Charles Horner | 8 April 1943 | Diplomat | Formerly on the staff of Senator Henry M. Jackson. Neoconservative propagandist who wants China to be in conflict with the Islamic world. | ||
Samuel Huntington | 18 April 1927 | 24 December 2008 | US | Academic Deep state operative | US political scientist and DSO known for his Clash of Civilizations narrative |
Fred C. Iklé | 21 August 1924 | 10 November 2011 | US | Deep state operative | US deep state operative in the Reagan Administration, where he was proponent of psyops and supporting insurgencies. Attended Le Cercle RAND Corporation, Smith Richardson Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy , Center for Strategic and International Studies... |
Kenneth Jacobs | 1958 | US | Banker Deep state actor | Bilderberger financier | |
Xenophon Kalamatiano | 14 July 1882 | 9 November 1923 | US | Spook | American intelligence agent implicated in the 1918 Allied Plot to Kill Lenin |
Burton Kanter | 12 August 1930 | 31 October 2001 | Lawyer | "One of Chicago's most prominent-and controversial-tax attorneys" | |
Gülten Kazgan | 5 June 1927 | Turkey | Academic Economist | Known as the "Doyen of Economics" in Turkey | |
J. Ward Keener | 6 August 1908 | 2 January 1981 | US | Businessperson | US multinational business executive who went to the 1968 Bilderberg |
Craig Kennedy | Spook | president of the German Marshall Fund in the period 1996-2014 | |||
Zalmay Khalilzad | 22 March 1951 | US | Diplomat Academic Deep state actor | US deep state actor who has been central in shaping the US policy towards Afghanistan | |
Klaus Knorr | 16 May 1911 | 25 March 1990 | US | Academic | German-born political scientist who was consultant to the Department of State, the Department of Defense and the CIA. |
Edward H. Levi | 26 June 1911 | 7 March 2000 | Academic Lawyer | US Attorney General 1975-1977 | |
Joaquim Levy | 17 February 1961 | Brazil | Politician Banker | Attended a WEF Annual Meeting while Finance Minister of Brazil | |
Siro Lombardini | 1924 | October 2013 | Italy | Economist | Italian economist who attended the 1973 Bilderberg meeting. |
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