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|members=Peter Mandelson, Jonathan Powell, Jeremy Paxman, Mo Mowlam, Adair Turner, Trevor Phillips, James Naughtie, Matthew Taylor, Chris Smith, Baroness Symons, Lord Robertson, Douglas Alexander, Geoff Mulgan, Baroness Scotland, Julia Hobsbawm, Steve Hilton, Benjamin Zephaniah, Bob Stewart, David Willetts, Alan Sked, Stephen Dorrell, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Charles Moore, Nick Butler, Lord Lipsey, Anatol Lieven, George R Packard, Trevor Phillips, Charles Villiers, Nick Butler, Martin Vander Weyer, Adair Turner, Michael Smeeth, David Trimble, Nihal Arthanayake, Jordan Shields, Kathleen Houlihan Motzenbecker, Daniel Incandela, Kathleen King, Elizabeth Kanter,Cristopher Lincoln-Jones, Edith Gorman-Lush, Rowan Mackinnon, Joanna Jepson, Julia Hoggett, Suzanne Hay, Lisa Henderson, Jane Hill,Stephen Hinton, Stephen Mannix, Richard O'Connor,Forence Nosegbe, Olivia Pinkney, Nicola Pitts, Sally Lines, Raphael Mokades, Karen Louise Mitchell, Lucy Marcus, Cristian May, Alan Mendoza, Derek Mills, Steven Haines, Debbie Gupta, John Baines, Robert Beckley, Dominic Dyer, Sara Gefland, Duncan Glassey, Alison Griffiths, Caroline Dalmeny, Stephen Colegrave, John Bew, Clemecy Burton-Hill, Lara Carmona, Clare Montagu, Elisabeth Stainton, Craig Wilkinson, Gillian McCallum, Lotte Jeffs, Bela Arora, Sam Barcroft, Haani Ul Hasnain, Jo Saucek
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|start=1985
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|members=Adebayo Adeleke,Griselda Aldrete, Douglas Alexander,Rushanara Ali, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Michael Allegretti, Rafael Anchia, June Andrews, Bela Arora, Nihal Arthanayake, Terry Babcock-Lumish, John Baines, Sam Barcroft,Simon Barratt,Oli Barrett, Brian Barton,Charles Barwell, Rob Beckley, Robert Beckley, John Bellinger,Paul Bental,Danielle Berrin, Lynne Berry, John Bew, Jasdeep Kaur Bhogal,Benjamin Bilski, Sarah Binion, Janet Bloomfield, Jane Borochoff, John Brademas, Nichol Bradford, Dan Branch,Sophie Brendel, George Brock, Po Bronson, Micaela Brown, Tom Burke, Tony Lamair Burks, Clemecy Burton-Hill,Julia Butler, Nick Butler, Nick Butler,Andrea Byrne, Lara Carmona, Peter Carrington, Ted Carter, Shami Chakrabarti, Jonas S. Chartock,Oliver Christian, Sarah Churchwell,Samuel Coates, Murphy Cobbing, Stephen Colegrave, Diane Coyle, Christopher Cragg, William Crawley, Timothy Creamer, Harlan Crow, Caroline Dalmeny, Francis Dannatt,Richard Dannatt, Andrew Davies, Evan Davis, Jody Tucker Davis,Chris DeRose, Tim Dobbins,Arnold Wayne Donald, Stephen Dorrell, Daniel Drezner, Mark Durkan, Dominic Dyer, Nina Easton, Christopher Eide, Michael Elliott, Amy English, Herb Enmarch-Williams, Garry Everitt,Tim Ferriss, Richard Fisher,Dan Fitz, Peter Florence, Daniel Franklin, Tad Friend, Ellen Futter,Sarah Gee, Sara Gefland,Andy Gibson, Duncan Glassey,Daniel Glazer,Julian Gluck,Ashlee Godwin,Michael Golden, Allan Golston, Allan Golston, Edith Gorman-Lush, Josh Gotbaum, Carol Gould, Jeremiah Goulka, Colleen Graffy, Lauren Greenfield,Olly Grender, Alison Griffiths,Priya Guha, Debbie Gupta, James Gwertzman,Steve Haines, Steven Haines, Ben Hammersley, Joan Harrison, Haani Ul Hasnain, Suzanne Hay, Michael Hecht, Lisa Henderson, Michael Hermann, Jane Hill, Margaret Hill,Isabel Hilton, Steve Hilton, Stephen Hinton, Julia Hobsbawm, Julia Hoggett, Richard Holme, Alison Homes,Cass Horowitz, Daniel Incandela, Lolita Jackson, Leslie Jacobs, Lotte Jeffs, Joanna Jepson, Bobby Jindal, Caroline St John-Brooks, Rosiland Jordan, Elizabeth Kanter, Bindi Karia, Lawrence Kasdan,Rachel Kearton, Frederick Kempe, Sadiq Khan, Kathleen King, Michael Klein,Lela Kogbara, Linda LeSourd Lader, Philip Lader,Justine Lancaster, Steve Leder,Sarah Lee, Patricia Lewis, Simon Lewis, Anatol Lieven, Cristopher Lincoln-Jones, Elizabeth Linder,Jo Lindley, Sally Lines, Donald Link, David Lipsey, Andrew Litton, Michael Lomax, Michael Lomax, Edward Lord, Jack Lusk, Rowan Mackinnon, Matthew Mackowiak,Michael Maclay,Nicolas Maclean,Peter Mandelson, Stephen Mannix, Lucy Marcus, Vidal Martinez, Cristian May, Gillian McCallum,Alison McGovern,Karen McHugh, Sue McLeod, Alan Mendoza, Maggie Miller, Paul Steven Miller, Derek Mills, George Mitchell, Jason Mitchell, Karen Louise Mitchell, John Mitchinson, Raphael Mokades, Clare Montagu, Charles Moore, Graham Moore, Marc Morial, Hunter Morrison, Kathleen Houlihan Motzenbecker, Mo Mowlam, Geoff Mulgan, John Murad, James Naughtie, Diana Negroponte, Forence Nosegbe, Richard O'Connor,Ben Okri,Lee Omar, Ilana Ozernoy, George R Packard, George R. Packard, Jioni Palmer, Paul Parr, Debs Paterson, Jeremy Paxman, Heather Pearson, Trevor Phillips, Olivia Pinkney, Nicola Pitts, Timothy L. Porter, Scott Porter, Tim Porter,Metthew Pottinger, Jonathan Powell, Stefan Pryor, Hugh Raven, Caroline Reynolds, Sally Reynolds, Laura-Jane Rich, Lord Robertson, Mo Rocca, Aaron Ross, David Ezra Ruebain,Oliver Rupert-Pelendrides, Rishi Santanu Saha, Paul S. Sarbanes, Jo Saucek,John Sawyers, Patricia Scotland,Nigel Sheinwald, Jordan Shields, Rita Singh, Storme Sixeas, Alan Sked, Michael Smeeth, Chris Smith, Robert I. Smith, Flora Nedelcu Smith, Sarah Southern, Elisabeth Stainton,Lisbee Stainton, Joel Stein,Barbara Stephenson, Bob Stewart, Julia Streets, Elizabeth Symons, Matthew Taylor, Robert Terry, Tania Tetlow,Marjorie Thompson, Nestor Torres, David Trimble, Adair Turner, Adair Turner,Joe Twyman,R. Jeronimo Valdez, Charles Villiers, Stephen Waley-Cohen, Willis Walker, Amy Wallace,Mark Wallace, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Miles Spencer Watkins, Andrea Westall, Martin Vander Weyer, Martin Vander Weyer, Kate Wiggs,Robert Wilde, Craig Wilkinson, David Willetts, Lucy Winskell,Paul Wolfowitz, Andrea Wong, Danielle Woodrow, Andrew Wyllie, Benjamin Zephaniah,Orlando_Sanchez
 
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The '''British-American Project''' (BAP) is a transatlantic fellowship of over 1,200 leaders and opinion formers from a broad spectrum of occupations, backgrounds and political views. The purpose of the network is to groom a cadre of reliably pro-American British politicians, especially on the left side in politics, or as the 1985 conference put it, “to create, at a time of growing international strains and stresses, a closer rapport between Britain and the United States among people likely to become influential decision-makers during the next two decades” [https://www.newstatesman.com/node/149147]
 
The '''British-American Project''' (BAP) is a transatlantic fellowship of over 1,200 leaders and opinion formers from a broad spectrum of occupations, backgrounds and political views. The purpose of the network is to groom a cadre of reliably pro-American British politicians, especially on the left side in politics, or as the 1985 conference put it, “to create, at a time of growing international strains and stresses, a closer rapport between Britain and the United States among people likely to become influential decision-makers during the next two decades” [https://www.newstatesman.com/node/149147]
  
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[[BAP]] operates on a not-for-profit basis, funded through its membership and support from corporate partners. It was originally named the [[British-American Project for the Successor Generation]]<ref>''[http://www.baponline.org/historyp2.html "History of the Project"]''</ref>, and was founded in 1985 [https://www.newstatesman.com/node/149147]
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[[BAP]] operates on a not-for-profit basis, funded through its membership and support from corporate partners. It was originally named the [[British-American Project for the Successor Generation]]<ref>''[http://www.baponline.org/historyp2.html "History of the Project"]''</ref>, and was founded in 1985 <ref>https://www.newstatesman.com/node/149147</ref>. From 2006, it became a private limited company<ref>https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05992642</ref>.
  
 
==Annual conference==
 
==Annual conference==
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The [[BAP]] meets annually for a four-day conference on a topic of current concern to both countries. Each year, roughly 24 new participants are selected from either side of the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]], on the basis of service to their communities and professional achievement, and sponsored to attend the conference as Delegates. At the end of each conference, Delegates are elected Fellows of the Project. Fellows from past years attend the annual conferences at their own expense, with many returning in successive years.<ref>''[https://www.newstatesman.com/media/2007/12/pilger-bap-values-british "Tainted hands across the water: the special relationship shows up shared values"]''</ref>
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The [[BAP]] meets annually for a four-day conference on a topic of current concern to both countries. Each year, roughly 24 new participants are selected from either side of the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]], on the basis of service to their communities and professional achievement, and sponsored to attend the conference as delegates. At the end of each conference, Delegates are elected Fellows of the Project. Fellows from past years attend the annual conferences at their own expense, with many returning in successive years.<ref>''[https://www.newstatesman.com/media/2007/12/pilger-bap-values-british "Tainted hands across the water: the special relationship shows up shared values"]''</ref>
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The conference has a main conference brochure, which outlines speakers and schedules. In addition, they print a biographical book, a comprehensive and compact guide to who’s who at the conference. It’s divided into four sections; UK Delegates, US Delegates, UK Fellows, US Fellows and each page is an individual biography.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20191024032557/http://www.mbsgraphicdesign.com/content/work/british-american-project/</ref>  
  
 
Many BAP alumni are directly involved with US and UK military and defense establishments.
 
Many BAP alumni are directly involved with US and UK military and defense establishments.
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The supposedly left-liberal association holds an annual JP Morgan lecture, given by [[David Cameron]] in 2006.<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/c0d5ee34-428b-11db-8dc3-0000779e2340</ref>
  
 
==Members used to joke of CIA-funding==
 
==Members used to joke of CIA-funding==
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A ''Guardian'' article from 2004 described the purpose of the group:
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A ''[[Guardian]]'' article from 2004 described the purpose of the group:
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Here, BAP is portrayed as a Trojan horse for [[American]] foreign policy, recruiting Britons of liberal or left-of-centre inclinations and political talent and connections when they are young, indoctrinating them with propaganda about the virtues of American capitalism and America's role in the world, and then watching them approvingly as they steer British politics in an ever more pro-Washington direction. According to this analysis, the project's greatest success has been New Labour.[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/06/usa.politics1]
 
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The leftwing journalist [[John Pilger]], who has been uncovering American manipulation of other countries' politics for decades, has described BAP as a "casual freemasonry" and "by far the most influential transatlantic network of politicians, journalists and academics".
 
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The historian [[Frances Stonor Saunders]], who has written extensively about the American use of earlier, similar networks to influence western opinion during the cold war, sees close parallels with BAP: "All that's changed is that BAP are much more sophisticated."
 
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Member Yasmin Alibhai-Brown said: ""The amount of drink, the way you were treated, the dinners with everyone who was anyone..... It was money that I'd never seen at any conference before. We [the participants] used to joke, 'This is obviously funded by the CIA.'" 
 
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BAP-member Martin Vander Weyer admitted: "The British membership is quite a concentrated elite," he admits. "There was a stage where ... a lot of the people who emerged as part of the [[New Labour]] leadership group happened - and I say happened, because it is partly chance - to be members of BAP ...<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/06/usa.politics1 "Friends in high places"]''</ref> 
 
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==British members==
 
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Given the number of members, this is an incomplete list. Nevertheless, because of the Project's secrecy, this is the most complete compilation existing in public. UK members of the British-American Project include (2004):
 
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*[[Peter Mandelson]] EU trade commissioner
 
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*[[Jonathan Powell]] [[Tony Blair]]'s chief of staff
 
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*[[Jeremy Paxman]] broadcast journalist and author
 
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*[[Mo Mowlam]] former Labour Northern Ireland secretary
 
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*[[Adair Turner]] head of pensions commission
 
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*[[Trevor Phillips]] former chair of the [[Equality and Human Rights Commission]]
 
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*[[James Naughtie]] broadcast journalist and author
 
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*[[Matthew Taylor]] Downing Street head of policy
 
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*[[Chris Smith]] former Labour culture secretary
 
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*[[Baroness Symons]] Foreign Office minister
 
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*[[Lord Robertson]] former Nato secretary-general
 
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*[[Douglas Alexander]] Foreign Office and trade minister
 
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*[[Geoff Mulgan]] former head of Downing Street's policy and strategy unit
 
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*[[Baroness Scotland]] Home Office minister
 
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*[[Julia Hobsbawm]] public relations consultant
 
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*[[Steve Hilton]] Conservative special adviser
 
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*[[Benjamin Zephaniah]] poet and activist
 
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*Colonel [[Bob Stewart]] former commander of British forces in Bosnia
 
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*[[David Willetts]] Conservative shadow work and pensions secretary
 
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*[[Alan Sked]] founder of [[UKIP]]
 
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*[[Stephen Dorrell]] former Conservative health secretary
 
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*[[Yasmin Alibhai-Brown]] columnist and broadcaster
 
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*[[Charles Moore]] former editor of the Daily Telegraph
 
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*[[Nick Butler]] BP group vice-president, strategy and policy development
 
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*[[Lord Lipsey]] Labour peer and author
 
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*[[Anatol Lieven]] historian
 
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*[[George R Packard]] (United States)  international relations academic
 
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*Sir [[Charles Villiers]] businessman
 
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*[[Nick Butler]]
 
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*[[Martin Vander Weyer]]
 
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*[[Adair Turner]]
 
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*[[David Trimble]]<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/nov/08/1</ref>
 
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*[[Nihal Arthanayake]]<ref>http://danielincandela.com/2010/11/09/british-american-project/</ref>
 
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*[[Jordan Shields]]<ref>http://danielincandela.com/2010/11/09/british-american-project/</ref>
 
  
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*[[Kathleen Houlihan Motzenbecker]]<ref>http://danielincandela.com/2010/11/09/british-american-project/</ref>
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:Here, BAP is portrayed as a Trojan horse for [[American]] foreign policy, recruiting Britons of liberal or left-of-centre inclinations and political talent and connections when they are young, indoctrinating them with propaganda about the virtues of American capitalism and America's role in the world, and then watching them approvingly as they steer British politics in an ever more pro-Washington direction. According to this analysis, the project's greatest success has been New Labour.[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/06/usa.politics1]
  
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*[[Daniel Incandela]]<ref>http://danielincandela.com/2010/11/09/british-american-project/</ref>
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:The leftwing journalist [[John Pilger]], who has been uncovering American manipulation of other countries' politics for decades, has described BAP as a "casual [[freemasonry]]" and "by far the most influential transatlantic network of politicians, journalists and academics".  
  
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*[[Kathleen King]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20191023072636/http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/company/05992642/THE-BRITISH-AMERICAN-PROJECT</ref>
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:The historian [[Frances Stonor Saunders]], who has written extensively about the American use of earlier, similar networks to influence western opinion during the cold war, sees close parallels with BAP: "All that's changed is that BAP are much more sophisticated." Member [[Yasmin Alibhai-Brown]] said: ""The amount of drink, the way you were treated, the dinners with everyone who was anyone..... It was money that I'd never seen at any conference before. We [the participants] used to joke, 'This is obviously funded by the CIA.'" 
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*[[Elizabeth Kanter]]
 
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*[[Edith Gorman-Lush]]
 
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*[[Rowan Mackinnon]]
 
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*[[Joanna Jepson]]
 
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*[[Julia Hoggett]]
 
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*[[Suzanne Hay]]
 
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*[[Lisa Henderson]]
 
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*[[Jane Hill]]
 
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*[[Stephen Hinton]]
 
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*[[Richard O'Connor]]
 
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*[[Forence Nosegbe]]
 
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*[[Olivia Pinkney]]
 
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*[[Nicola Pitts]]
 
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*[[Sally Lines]]
 
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*[[Alison Griffiths]]
 
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*[[Stephen Colegrave]]
 
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*[[John Bew]]
 
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*[[Clemecy Burton-Hill]]
 
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*[[Lara Carmona]]
 
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*[[Clare Montagu]]
 
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*[[Elisabeth Stainton]]
 
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*[[Craig Wilkinson]]
 
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*[[Gillian McCallum]]
 
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*[[Lotte Jeffs]]
 
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*[[Bela Arora]]
 
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*[[Sam Barcroft]]
 
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*[[Haani Ul Hasnain]]
 
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*[[Jo Saucek]]<ref>https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jo-saucek-570a6815</ref>
 
  
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:BAP-member [[Martin Vander Weyer]] admitted: "The British membership is quite a concentrated elite," he admits. "There was a stage where ... a lot of the people who emerged as part of the [[New Labour]] leadership group happened - and I say happened, because it is partly chance - to be members of BAP ...<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/06/usa.politics1 "Friends in high places"]''</ref>
  
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==British and US members==
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Given the number of members, this is an incomplete list. Especially British politicians, aware that participation is potentially incriminating, carefully leave BAP membership out their CVs. 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Resigned from  chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Commission after media smear campaing","Caroline St John-Brooks<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_St_John-Brooks</ref>The Times Educational Supplement, The Sunday Times",June Andrews<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Andrews</ref> Fellow and member of the Advisory Board. Professor in Dementia Nursing,Leslie Jacobs<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Jacobs</ref> US Charter school lobbyist,Carol Gould <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Gould_%28writer%29</ref> an American writer and broadcaster who lives in England.,Shami Chakrabarti<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shami_Chakrabarti</ref> British Labour Party politician and member of the House of Lords.,"Patricia Lewis<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lewis_%28physicist%29</ref> British and Irish nuclear physicist and arms control expert, who is currently the Research Director for International Security at Chatham House. 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Jeronimo Valdez<ref name=team2019/>,Willis Walker<ref name=team2019/>,Allan Golston<ref name=team2019/> Advisory board,Josh Gotbaum<ref name=team2019/> Advisory board,Joan Harrison<ref name=team2019/> Advisory board,Lolita Jackson<ref name=team2019/> Advisory board,Michael Lomax<ref name=team2019/> Advisory board,Jack Lusk<ref name=team2019/> Advisory board,Vidal Martinez<ref name=team2019/> Advisory board,Marc Morial<ref name=team2019/> Advisory board,Tim Porter<ref name=team2019/> Advisory board,Lisbee Stainton<ref name=board2019>https://web.archive.org/web/20191024111941/https://britishamericanproject.org/about-bap/meet-the-uk-team/</ref>,Robert Wilde<ref name=board2019/>,Joe Twyman<ref name=board2019/>,Andy Gibson<ref name=board2019/>,Priya Guha<ref name=board2019/>,Michael Maclay<ref name=board2019/> Advisory Board,Rushanara Ali<ref name=board2019/> Advisory Board,Dan Fitz<ref name=board2019/> Advisory Board,"Isabel Hilton<ref name=board2019/> Advisory Board.  The Independent, The Guardian, BBC",Nicolas Maclean<ref name=board2019/> Advisory Board,John Mitchinson<ref name=board2019/> Advisory Board,Nigel Sheinwald<ref name=board2019/> Advisory Board,Simon Lewis<ref name=board2012>https://web.archive.org/web/20120708002218/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/advisoryboard.asp</ref>,Lynne Berry<ref name=board2012/>,Francis Dannat<ref name=board2012/>,Andrew Davies<ref name=board2012/> general. British Lord,Colleen Graffy<ref name=board2012/>,Trevor Phillips<ref name=board2012/>,Olly Grender<ref name=board2012/>,George R. Packard<ref name=board2012/>,Martin Vander Weyer<ref name=board2012/>,John Brademas<ref name=board2012/>,Harlan Crow<ref name=board2012/>,Linda LeSourd Lader<ref name=board2012/>,Richard Fisher<ref name=board2012/>,Michael Lomax<ref name=board2012/>,Marc Morial<ref name=board2012/>, Diana Negroponte<ref name=board2012/>She must be related to John Negroponte.,Timothy L. Porter<ref name=board2012/>,Paul S. Sarbanes<ref name=board2012/>,Robert I. Smith<ref name=board2012/>,Peter Carrington<ref name=board2012/>,Philip Lader<ref name=board2012/>Patron.  former U.S. Ambassador to Britain,George Mitchell<ref name=board2012/> Patron. former United States Senate Majority Leader,Christopher Eide<ref name=board2012/> Patron,Kathleen King<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120701044358/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/ukexecutivecommittee.asp</ref> aka Kiki King?,Rowan Pelling<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120701044358/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/ukexecutivecommittee.asp</ref> UK. The Daily Telegraph,Tania Tetlow<ref name=board2012/> USA,Danielle Woodrow<ref name=board2012/> USA,Ted Carter<ref name=board2012/> USA Charter School lobbyist,Murphy Cobbing<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20141223134058/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/ukexecutivecommittee.asp</ref>Vice Chair. BBC Presenter,"Laura-Jane Rich<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150711234035/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/ukexecutivecommittee.asp</ref>Presenter, Programme-Maker & Professional Composer, London","Rob Beckley<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150711234035/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/ukexecutivecommittee.asp</ref>Chief Operating Officer, College of Policing, London",Debs Paterson<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160606050035/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/ukexecutivecommittee.asp</ref>USA Charter School lobbyist,Jason Mitchell<ref name=board2014>https://web.archive.org/web/20140906224145/http://britishamericanproject.org/ukexecutivecommittee.asp</ref>,Brian Barton<ref name=board2014/><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140906224145/http://britishamericanproject.org/ukexecutivecommittee.asp</ref>,Maggie Miller<ref name=board2013>https://web.archive.org/web/20130304045338/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/usexecutivecommittee.asp</ref>,Jioni Palmer<ref name=board2013/>,Stefan Pryor<ref name=board2013/>,Donald Link<ref name=board2013/>,James Gwertzman <ref name=board2013/>,Michael Allegretti<ref name=board2013/>,Amy Wallace<ref name=board2013/>,Hunter Morrison<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130123040534/http://www.britishamericanproject.org:80/usexecutivecommittee.asp</ref>,Alison Homes<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130123040534/http://www.britishamericanproject.org:80/usexecutivecommittee.asp</ref>,Michael Hecht<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130123040534/http://www.britishamericanproject.org:80/usexecutivecommittee.asp</ref>,Sadiq Khan<ref name=Wikipedia>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British-American_Project</ref>Mayor of London since 2016,Bobby Jindal<ref name=Wikipedia/> Governor of Louisiana,Rafael Anchia<ref name=Wikipedia/> Texas House of Representatives,Dan Branch<ref name=Wikipedia/> Texas House of Representatives,Hugh Raven<ref name=Wikipedia/> UK. 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Latest revision as of 23:13, 4 January 2023

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BAP.jpg
Formation1985
FounderNick Butler.jpg Nick Butler
Interest ofJulia Hobsbawm, Michael Smeeth
Membership•  Adebayo Adeleke
•  Griselda Aldrete
•  Douglas Alexander
•  Rushanara Ali
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.jpg Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
•  Michael Allegretti
•  Rafael Anchia
•  June Andrews
•  Bela Arora
•  Nihal Arthanayake
•  Terry Babcock-Lumish
•  John Baines
•  Sam Barcroft
•  Simon Barratt
•  Oli Barrett
•  Brian Barton
•  Charles Barwell
•  Rob Beckley
•  Robert Beckley
• John Bellinger.jpg John Bellinger
•  Paul Bental
•  Danielle Berrin
•  Lynne Berry
•  John Bew
•  Jasdeep Kaur Bhogal
•  Benjamin Bilski
•  Sarah Binion
• Janet Bloomfield.png Janet Bloomfield
•  Jane Borochoff
• John Brademas.jpg John Brademas
•  Nichol Bradford
•  Dan Branch
•  Sophie Brendel
•  George Brock
•  Po Bronson
•  Micaela Brown
•  Tom Burke
•  Tony Lamair Burks
•  Clemecy Burton-Hill
•  Julia Butler
• Nick Butler.jpg Nick Butler
• Nick Butler.jpg Nick Butler
•  Andrea Byrne
•  Lara Carmona
• Lord-Carrington.jpg Peter Carrington
•  Ted Carter
• Shami Chakrabarti.jpg Shami Chakrabarti
•  Jonas S. Chartock
•  Oliver Christian
•  Sarah Churchwell
•  Samuel Coates
•  Murphy Cobbing
•  Stephen Colegrave
•  Diane Coyle
•  Christopher Cragg
•  William Crawley
•  Timothy Creamer
•  Harlan Crow
•  Caroline Dalmeny
•  Francis Dannatt
•  Richard Dannatt
•  Andrew Davies
•  Evan Davis
•  Jody Tucker Davis
•  Chris DeRose
•  Tim Dobbins
•  Arnold Wayne Donald
•  Stephen Dorrell
•  Daniel Drezner
•  Mark Durkan
•  Dominic Dyer
•  Nina Easton
•  Christopher Eide
•  Michael Elliott
•  Amy English
•  Herb Enmarch-Williams
•  Garry Everitt
•  Tim Ferriss
•  Richard Fisher
•  Dan Fitz
•  Peter Florence
•  Daniel Franklin
•  Tad Friend
•  Ellen Futter
•  Sarah Gee
•  Sara Gefland
•  Andy Gibson
•  Duncan Glassey
•  Daniel Glazer
•  Julian Gluck
•  Ashlee Godwin
•  Michael Golden
•  Allan Golston
•  Allan Golston
•  Edith Gorman-Lush
•  Josh Gotbaum
•  Carol Gould
•  Jeremiah Goulka
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•  Lauren Greenfield
•  Olly Grender
•  Alison Griffiths
•  Priya Guha
•  Debbie Gupta
•  James Gwertzman
•  Steve Haines
•  Steven Haines
•  Ben Hammersley
•  Joan Harrison
•  Haani Ul Hasnain
•  Suzanne Hay
•  Michael Hecht
•  Lisa Henderson
•  Michael Hermann
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•  Margaret Hill
•  Isabel Hilton
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•  Stephen Hinton
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•  Julia Hoggett
•  Richard Holme
•  Alison Homes
•  Cass Horowitz
•  Daniel Incandela
•  Lolita Jackson
•  Leslie Jacobs
•  Lotte Jeffs
•  Joanna Jepson
•  Bobby Jindal
•  Caroline St John-Brooks
•  Rosiland Jordan
•  Elizabeth Kanter
•  Bindi Karia
•  Lawrence Kasdan
•  Rachel Kearton
•  Frederick Kempe
• Sadiq Khan.jpg Sadiq Khan
•  Kathleen King
•  Michael Klein
•  Lela Kogbara
• Linda LeSourd Lader.jpg Linda LeSourd Lader
•  Philip Lader
•  Justine Lancaster
•  Steve Leder
•  Sarah Lee
•  Patricia Lewis
•  Simon Lewis
• Anatol Lieven - Chatham House 2012.jpg Anatol Lieven
•  Cristopher Lincoln-Jones
• Elizabeth J Linder.jpg Elizabeth Linder
•  Jo Lindley
•  Sally Lines
•  Donald Link
•  David Lipsey
•  Andrew Litton
•  Michael Lomax
•  Michael Lomax
•  Edward Lord
•  Jack Lusk
•  Rowan Mackinnon
•  Matthew Mackowiak
• Maclay.jpg Michael Maclay
•  Nicolas Maclean
• Peter Mandelson.jpg Peter Mandelson
•  Stephen Mannix
•  Lucy Marcus
• Vidal Martinez.jpg Vidal Martinez
•  Cristian May
•  Gillian McCallum
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•  Karen McHugh
•  Sue McLeod
•  Alan Mendoza
•  Maggie Miller
•  Paul Steven Miller
•  Derek Mills
• George Mitchell.jpg George Mitchell
•  Jason Mitchell
•  Karen Louise Mitchell
•  John Mitchinson
•  Raphael Mokades
•  Clare Montagu
•  Charles Moore
•  Graham Moore
•  Marc Morial
•  Hunter Morrison
•  Kathleen Houlihan Motzenbecker
• Mo mowlem informal image.jpg Mo Mowlam
•  Geoff Mulgan
•  John Murad
•  James Naughtie
• Diana Villiers Negroponte.jpg Diana Negroponte
•  Forence Nosegbe
•  Richard O'Connor
•  Ben Okri
•  Lee Omar
•  Ilana Ozernoy
•  George R Packard
•  George R. Packard
•  Jioni Palmer
•  Paul Parr
•  Debs Paterson
• Jeremy Paxman.jpg Jeremy Paxman
•  Heather Pearson
• Trevor Phillips.jpg Trevor Phillips
•  Olivia Pinkney
•  Nicola Pitts
•  Timothy L. Porter
•  Scott Porter
•  Tim Porter
•  Metthew Pottinger
• Jonathan Powell.jpg Jonathan Powell
•  Stefan Pryor
•  Hugh Raven
•  Caroline Reynolds
•  Sally Reynolds
•  Laura-Jane Rich
• George Robertson.jpg Lord Robertson
•  Mo Rocca
•  Aaron Ross
•  David Ezra Ruebain
•  Oliver Rupert-Pelendrides
•  Rishi Santanu Saha
•  Paul S. Sarbanes
•  Jo Saucek
•  John Sawyers
• Patricia Scotland.jpg Patricia Scotland
•  Nigel Sheinwald
•  Jordan Shields
•  Rita Singh
•  Storme Sixeas
•  Alan Sked
• Michael Smeeth.jpg Michael Smeeth
•  Chris Smith
•  Robert I. Smith
•  Flora Nedelcu Smith
•  Sarah Southern
•  Elisabeth Stainton
•  Lisbee Stainton
•  Joel Stein
•  Barbara Stephenson
•  Bob Stewart
•  Julia Streets
•  Elizabeth Symons
•  Matthew Taylor
•  Robert Terry
•  Tania Tetlow
• Marjorie Thompson.png Marjorie Thompson
•  Nestor Torres
•  David Trimble
• Baron Turner of Ecchinswell FRS.jpg Adair Turner
• Baron Turner of Ecchinswell FRS.jpg Adair Turner
•  Joe Twyman
•  R. Jeronimo Valdez
•  Charles Villiers
•  Stephen Waley-Cohen
•  Willis Walker
•  Amy Wallace
•  Mark Wallace
•  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
•  Miles Spencer Watkins
•  Andrea Westall
•  Martin Vander Weyer
•  Martin Vander Weyer
•  Kate Wiggs
•  Robert Wilde
•  Craig Wilkinson
•  David Willetts
•  Lucy Winskell
• Paul Wolfowitz.jpg Paul Wolfowitz
•  Andrea Wong
•  Danielle Woodrow
•  Andrew Wyllie
•  Benjamin Zephaniah
•  Orlando_Sanchez

The British-American Project (BAP) is a transatlantic fellowship of over 1,200 leaders and opinion formers from a broad spectrum of occupations, backgrounds and political views. The purpose of the network is to groom a cadre of reliably pro-American British politicians, especially on the left side in politics, or as the 1985 conference put it, “to create, at a time of growing international strains and stresses, a closer rapport between Britain and the United States among people likely to become influential decision-makers during the next two decades” [1]

BAP operates on a not-for-profit basis, funded through its membership and support from corporate partners. It was originally named the British-American Project for the Successor Generation[1], and was founded in 1985 [2]. From 2006, it became a private limited company[3].

Annual conference

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The BAP meets annually for a four-day conference on a topic of current concern to both countries. Each year, roughly 24 new participants are selected from either side of the Atlantic, on the basis of service to their communities and professional achievement, and sponsored to attend the conference as delegates. At the end of each conference, Delegates are elected Fellows of the Project. Fellows from past years attend the annual conferences at their own expense, with many returning in successive years.[4]

The conference has a main conference brochure, which outlines speakers and schedules. In addition, they print a biographical book, a comprehensive and compact guide to who’s who at the conference. It’s divided into four sections; UK Delegates, US Delegates, UK Fellows, US Fellows and each page is an individual biography.[5]

Many BAP alumni are directly involved with US and UK military and defense establishments.

The supposedly left-liberal association holds an annual JP Morgan lecture, given by David Cameron in 2006.[6]

Members used to joke of CIA-funding

A Guardian article from 2004 described the purpose of the group:

Here, BAP is portrayed as a Trojan horse for American foreign policy, recruiting Britons of liberal or left-of-centre inclinations and political talent and connections when they are young, indoctrinating them with propaganda about the virtues of American capitalism and America's role in the world, and then watching them approvingly as they steer British politics in an ever more pro-Washington direction. According to this analysis, the project's greatest success has been New Labour.[2]
The leftwing journalist John Pilger, who has been uncovering American manipulation of other countries' politics for decades, has described BAP as a "casual freemasonry" and "by far the most influential transatlantic network of politicians, journalists and academics".
The historian Frances Stonor Saunders, who has written extensively about the American use of earlier, similar networks to influence western opinion during the cold war, sees close parallels with BAP: "All that's changed is that BAP are much more sophisticated." Member Yasmin Alibhai-Brown said: ""The amount of drink, the way you were treated, the dinners with everyone who was anyone..... It was money that I'd never seen at any conference before. We [the participants] used to joke, 'This is obviously funded by the CIA.'"
BAP-member Martin Vander Weyer admitted: "The British membership is quite a concentrated elite," he admits. "There was a stage where ... a lot of the people who emerged as part of the New Labour leadership group happened - and I say happened, because it is partly chance - to be members of BAP ...[7]

British and US members

Given the number of members, this is an incomplete list. Especially British politicians, aware that participation is potentially incriminating, carefully leave BAP membership out their CVs. Nevertheless, because of the Project's secrecy, the list on Wikispooks is the most complete compilation existing in public today.[76]


 

Related Quotations

PageQuoteAuthorDate
Jane Hill“The annual [ British-American Project ] conference is an experience like no other – stimulating, challenging, always fun.”Jane Hill2005
Marjorie Thompson“Another Labour figure who has had an experience with the BAP is Emma Dent Coad who was the party’s first ever MP for Kensington, serving from 2017-19, and is now leader of the Labour Group on the borough’s council. 

She told Declassified that a friend who was a senior official in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) tried to recruit her to the BAP in the 1980s. Coad later found out this person “worked with the CIA”.  At the time, the US government had, according to an official memo leaked to the Washington Post, initiated a "propaganda exercise in Britain, aimed at neutralising the efforts of CND".

“In the late 80s, I was a journalist working in design and architecture and very busy at the time, travelling around a lot and writing for various magazines,” Coad told us. “At the time, a local friend who was senior in CND started talking to me about this project that she was involved in." "She basically said that if I was able to go to Washington and give a talk about the work I was doing, I’d have a lovely dinner, it would all be paid for, and then I’d be part of this international group who were just trying to improve life," Coad added. “Then I would be part of that group forever and I’d be invited to things periodically, and it would give me a really good profile."

Coad thought about it and discussed it with her then husband. "But I just felt there was something a bit smelly about it frankly,” she says. “It didn’t ring true, something so generous just for me being there, so I politely declined." 

“Later I found out what the British-American Project was all about," she adds. “Then I found out a couple of years later that this friend – who had by then moved out of the area and I’d lost contact with her – worked with the CIA, and I was absolutely appalled."

Coad says she was good friends with the husband of the alleged CIA operative, and that he told her she was working for the agency as soon as he found out. 

"There was something not quite right. I was just a jobbing journalist really, in a faintly glamorous environment, why would I be of interest to this international group?"

But Coad can understand why she was a target. "I’ve always been a socialist, I always had those values from school,” she says. “I was political at college, at university, I had roles in the unions, I’d always been political. So clearly she knew that."

She adds: “I started writing a book on Spanish design architecture, so I was busy, and I think my stock was rising at the time. The recruiter was very prominent in CND, which I supported.”

After Coad was told about the CIA connection "it began to drop into place," she says. Coad then looked up the recruiter who had moved on from CND to PR firm Saatchi & Saatchi, which has funded the BAP. 

“I thought, ‘that’s interesting, a bit of a leap from what they were doing before’. I thought it was very strange that they would go from CND to working for a right-wing advertising agency, so it rang true, and I believed it.””		Emma Dent Coad
Matt Kennard
Marjorie Thompson

 

Known members

37 of the 271 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Rushanara AliUK Labour MP on the executive committee of the British-American Project.
Yasmin Alibhai-BrownBritish establishment Muslim journalist.
John BellingerA spook/lawyer representing the more patient and more PR-friendly approach to Empire
Janet BloomfieldChair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1990s; member of the British-American Project
John BrademasUS politician
Nick ButlerAcademic founder of the British-American Project
Peter CarringtonUK Deep politician. Bilderberg chairman. President of the Pilgrims Society. Secretary General of NATO. Chairman of the UK Conservative Party. Busy guy.
Shami ChakrabartiInterestingly connected UK lawyer who was a long time director of Liberty, a UK civil liberties advocacy organisation.
Mark DurkanWEF NI politician who voted to support mandatory Covid certification
Colleen GraffyUS spook and propagandist
Jane HillOne of the main presenters for BBC News. Director of the British-American Project 2006-2009.
Steve HiltonBritish political adviser, member of the Notting Hill Set
Julia Hoggett
Frederick KempeSpook and deep state actor
Sadiq Khan
Linda LeSourd LaderThe wife of Philip Lader, the corporate networker and former US ambassador to the UK. Advised President Clinton on personal issues pertaining to religion.
Philip LaderUS Ambassador to the UK 1997-2001
Anatol LievenChair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at deep state King's College London
Cristopher Lincoln-Jones
Michael MaclayFormer British diplomat and journalist with lots of spooky connections. Early member of the British American Project, recruited by Robert Maxwell and Lord Weidenfeld to their projects, director at Hakluyt, advisor to Carl Bildt...
Peter MandelsonSupranational deep state operative. Bilderberg, TLC, Ditchley etc.
Lucy MarcusBritish business journalist who has written for Project Syndicate, BBC and Reuters
Vidal Martinez
Alan MendozaExecutive Director of The Henry Jackson Society
George MitchellLe Cercle
Diana Villiers Negroponte
Jeremy PaxmanBroadcaster for the BBC. He has been involved with the British-American Project.
George RobertsonBilderberger, ex Secretary General of NATO with unknown deep political connections.
Patricia Scotland
Nigel Sheinwald
Bob Stewart
Marjorie ThompsonChairwoman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament with next job in Margaret Thatcher's favorite PR-agency Saatchi & Saatchi. Suspected of working with the CIA. British-American Project.
David Trimble
Adair TurnerFront man for George Soros-initiatives.
Charles VilliersUK businessman, Chair of British Steel Corporation from 1976 till 1980.
David Willetts
Paul WolfowitzAn "architect" of the invasion of Iraq, World Bank President

 

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References

  1. ↑ "History of the Project"
  2. ↑ https://www.newstatesman.com/node/149147
  3. ↑ https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05992642
  4. ↑ "Tainted hands across the water: the special relationship shows up shared values"
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20191024032557/http://www.mbsgraphicdesign.com/content/work/british-american-project/
  6. ↑ https://www.ft.com/content/c0d5ee34-428b-11db-8dc3-0000779e2340
  7. ↑ "Friends in high places"
  8. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/nov/08/1
  9. ↑ http://danielincandela.com/2010/11/09/british-american-project/
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  14. ↑ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jo-saucek-570a6815
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  17. ↑ https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05992642/filing-history?page=6
  18. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tlburks2
  19. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-dobbins-a8b7261b
  20. ↑ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/grahamdmoore
  21. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/englishamy
  22. ↑ https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/MP.html
  23. ↑ https://uk.linkedin.com › mikeklein89
  24. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com › mrbenhammersley
  25. ↑ http://www.mbsgraphicdesign.com/content/work/british-american-project/
  26. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Golston
  27. ↑ https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/people/lucy-winskell-obe-dl
  28. ↑ https://www.mmv.org/about-us/people-governance/board-directors
  29. ↑ https://www.startupbootcamp.org/mentors/david-naylor/
  30. ↑ https://www.manhattan-institute.org/expert/jon-murad
  31. ↑ https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/conversations-diplomacy-john-bellinger
  32. ↑ http://oslo18.katapult.tech/speakers/nichol-bradford
  33. ↑ https://www.cbre.com/people-and-offices/scott-potter
  34. ↑ https://en.unesco.org/world-press-freedom-day-2018/rosiland-jordan
  35. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Sanchez_%28politician%29
  36. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Babcock-Lumish
  37. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Easton
  38. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Bloomfield
  39. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Steven_Miller
  40. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Davis
  41. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Creamer
  42. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_S._Chartock
  43. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Durkan
  44. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_DeRose_%28author%29
  45. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Florence
  46. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Waley-Cohen
  47. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wyllie_%28engineer%29
  48. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crawley
  49. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Holme,_Baron_Holme_of_Cheltenham
  50. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_St_John-Brooks
  51. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Andrews
  52. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Jacobs
  53. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Gould_%28writer%29
  54. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shami_Chakrabarti
  55. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lewis_%28physicist%29
  56. ↑ https://britishamericanproject.org/
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  59. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z https://web.archive.org/web/20120708002218/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/advisoryboard.asp
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  61. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120701044358/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/ukexecutivecommittee.asp
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  63. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150711234035/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/ukexecutivecommittee.asp
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  65. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160606050035/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/ukexecutivecommittee.asp
  66. ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20140906224145/http://britishamericanproject.org/ukexecutivecommittee.asp
  67. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140906224145/http://britishamericanproject.org/ukexecutivecommittee.asp
  68. ↑ a b c d e f g https://web.archive.org/web/20130304045338/http://www.britishamericanproject.org/usexecutivecommittee.asp
  69. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130123040534/http://www.britishamericanproject.org:80/usexecutivecommittee.asp
  70. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130123040534/http://www.britishamericanproject.org:80/usexecutivecommittee.asp
  71. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130123040534/http://www.britishamericanproject.org:80/usexecutivecommittee.asp
  72. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British-American_Project
  73. ↑ http://www.olibarrett.com/page/29/
  74. ↑ http://www.olibarrett.com/page/29/
  75. ↑ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/rachel-kearton-13523829
  76. ↑ References to other members include: David Trimble[8],Nihal Arthanayake[9],Jordan Shields[10],Kathleen Houlihan Motzenbecker[11],Daniel Incandela[12],Kathleen King[13],Elizabeth Kanter,Christopher Lincoln-Jones Defence Consultant. Chiron Information & Analysis,Edith Gorman-Lush aka Edi Lush,Rowan Mackinnon,Joanna Jepson,Julia Hoggett,Suzanne Hay,Lisa Henderson,Jane Hill Journalist,"Stephen Hinton Managing Director, Thorn Hinton Limited.",Stephen Mannix,Richard O'Connor,Forence Nosegbe,Olivia Pinkney,Nicola Pitts,Sally Lines,Raphael Mokades,Karen Louise Mitchell,Lucy Marcus,Christian May,Alan Mendoza,Derek Mills,Steven Haines,Debbie Gupta,John Baines,Robert Beckley,Dominic Dyer,Sara Gefland,Duncan Glassey,Alison Griffiths,Caroline Dalmeny,Stephen Colegrave,John Bew,Clemecy Burton-Hill,Lara Carmona,Clare Montagu,Elisabeth Stainton,Craig Wilkinson,Gillian McCallum,Lotte Jeffs,Bela Arora,Sam Barcroft,Haani Ul Hasnain,Jo Saucek[14],Andrea Westall [15],Paul Parr,Flora Nedelcu Smith,Garry Everitt,Jasdeep Kaur Bhogal,Bindi Karia,David Ezra Ruebain Solicitor,Robert Terry Senior Policy Adviser [16],Rishi Santanu Saha [17],Caroline Reynolds,Sally Reynolds,Miles Spencer Watkins,Rita Singh,Herb Enmarch-Williams misspelled Herbert Wnmarch-Williams,Sarah Churchwell,Kate Wiggs,Sarah Southern,Aaron Ross,Julia Streets,Tony Lamair Burks (US) [18],Tim Dobbins[19],Graham Moore[20],Amy English[21],Tom Burke[22],Michael Klein[23],Ben Hammersley[24]Wired UK,Sue McLeod[25],Allan Golston[26] President of the United States Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,Lucy Winskell[27],"Elizabeth Linder[28] Board member Medicines for Malaria Venture, mainly financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Also a Fellow in Atlantik-Brücke",David Naylor[29] Fellow.,John Murad[30] USA. Fellow.,John Bellinger[31]Legal Adviser for the U.S. Department of State and the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration.,Nichol Bradford[32],Scott Porter[33],Rosiland Jordan[34]Fellow. As worked for Al Jazeera English and Unesco,"Orlando Sanchez[35] US politician, Cuban exile","Terry Babcock-Lumish [36] American professor, entrepreneur, and policymaker.","Nina Easton[37] American author, journalist, TV commentator, and entrepreneur",Janet Bloomfield[38]British peace and disarmament campaigner,Paul Steven Miller[39],"Evan Davis[40] an English economist, journalist, and presenter for the BBC.",Timothy Creamer[41] astronaut and a colonel in the United States Army.,Jonas S. Chartock[42] charter school lobbyist,"Mark Durkan[43] Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, politician",Chris DeRose[44] US author and lawyer,Peter Florence[45] British journalist,"Stephen Waley-Cohen[46]businessman and financial journalist, theatre manager",Andrew Wyllie[47]president of the Institution of Civil Engineers.,William Crawley[48]Fellow. BBC journalist and broadcaster.,"Richard Holme[49] British Liberal Democrat politician. Resigned from chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Commission after media smear campaing","Caroline St John-Brooks[50]The Times Educational Supplement, The Sunday Times",June Andrews[51] Fellow and member of the Advisory Board. Professor in Dementia Nursing,Leslie Jacobs[52] US Charter school lobbyist,Carol Gould [53] an American writer and broadcaster who lives in England.,Shami Chakrabarti[54] British Labour Party politician and member of the House of Lords.,"Patricia Lewis[55] British and Irish nuclear physicist and arms control expert, who is currently the Research Director for International Security at Chatham House. She is also currently Co-Director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance.",Jody Tucker Davis[56] US Project Director,Heather Pearson[57],Matthew Mackowiak[57],Adebayo Adeleke[57],Danielle Berrin[57],Sarah Binion[57],Micaela Brown[57],Jane Borochoff[57],Jeremiah Goulka[57],Michael Hermann[57],Storme Sixeas[57],R. Jeronimo Valdez[57],Willis Walker[57],Allan Golston[57] Advisory board,Josh Gotbaum[57] Advisory board,Joan Harrison[57] Advisory board,Lolita Jackson[57] Advisory board,Michael Lomax[57] Advisory board,Jack Lusk[57] Advisory board,Vidal Martinez[57] Advisory board,Marc Morial[57] Advisory board,Tim Porter[57] Advisory board,Lisbee Stainton[58],Robert Wilde[58],Joe Twyman[58],Andy Gibson[58],Priya Guha[58],Michael Maclay[58] Advisory Board,Rushanara Ali[58] Advisory Board,Dan Fitz[58] Advisory Board,"Isabel Hilton[58] Advisory Board. The Independent, The Guardian, BBC",Nicolas Maclean[58] Advisory Board,John Mitchinson[58] Advisory Board,Nigel Sheinwald[58] Advisory Board,Simon Lewis[59],Lynne Berry[59],Francis Dannat[59],Andrew Davies[59] general. British Lord,Colleen Graffy[59],Trevor Phillips[59],Olly Grender[59],George R. Packard[59],Martin Vander Weyer[59],John Brademas[59],Harlan Crow[59],Linda LeSourd Lader[59],Richard Fisher[59],Michael Lomax[59],Marc Morial[59], Diana Negroponte[59]She must be related to John Negroponte.,Timothy L. Porter[59],Paul S. Sarbanes[59],Robert I. Smith[59],Peter Carrington[59],Philip Lader[59]Patron. former U.S. Ambassador to Britain,George Mitchell[59] Patron. former United States Senate Majority Leader,Christopher Eide[59] Patron,Kathleen King[60] aka Kiki King?,Rowan Pelling[61] UK. The Daily Telegraph,Tania Tetlow[59] USA,Danielle Woodrow[59] USA,Ted Carter[59] USA Charter School lobbyist,Murphy Cobbing[62]Vice Chair. BBC Presenter,"Laura-Jane Rich[63]Presenter, Programme-Maker & Professional Composer, London","Rob Beckley[64]Chief Operating Officer, College of Policing, London",Debs Paterson[65]USA Charter School lobbyist,Jason Mitchell[66],Brian Barton[66][67],Maggie Miller[68],Jioni Palmer[68],Stefan Pryor[68],Donald Link[68],James Gwertzman [68],Michael Allegretti[68],Amy Wallace[68],Hunter Morrison[69],Alison Homes[70],Michael Hecht[71],Sadiq Khan[72]Mayor of London since 2016,Bobby Jindal[72] Governor of Louisiana,Rafael Anchia[72] Texas House of Representatives,Dan Branch[72] Texas House of Representatives,Hugh Raven[72] UK. The Daily Telegraph,Christopher Cragg[72] UK.Financial Times,George Brock[72] The Times,Michael Elliott[72] The Economist,Daniel Franklin[72] The Economist,Diane Coyle[72] The Independent,Mo Rocca[72] CBS,Tad Friend[72] The New Yorker,Frederick Kempe[72] The Wall Street Journal,"Daniel Drezner[72] The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Slate,",Joel Stein[72] LA Times,Margaret Hill[72] BBC current affairs producer,Andrea Wong[72] CEO Lifetime Television,Lawrence Kasdan[72] Motion Picture Director,Lauren Greenfield][72] Photographer,"Ellen Futter[72] President, American Museum of Natural History",Po Bronson[72] Author,Nestor Torres[72] flautist,"Andrew Litton[72] Director, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra of Norway",Sally Phillips[72] writer,Phoebe Waller-Bridge[72] actress,Edward Lord[72] City of London,Steve Leder[72] USA. Rabbi,Tim Ferriss[73],Oli Barrett [74],Andrea Byrne,Rachel Kearton[75],Rob Beckley.
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