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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] | ||
| − | [[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 | + | [[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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==British and US members== | ==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 membership | + | 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.{{sfn|References to other members include: David Trimble<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/nov/08/1</ref>,Nihal Arthanayake<ref>http://danielincandela.com/2010/11/09/british-american-project/</ref>,Jordan Shields<ref>http://danielincandela.com/2010/11/09/british-american-project/</ref>,Kathleen Houlihan Motzenbecker<ref>http://danielincandela.com/2010/11/09/british-american-project/</ref>,Daniel Incandela<ref>http://danielincandela.com/2010/11/09/british-american-project/</ref>,Kathleen King<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20191023072636/http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/company/05992642/THE-BRITISH-AMERICAN-PROJECT</ref>,Elizabeth Kanter,Christopher Lincoln-Jones Defence Consultant. 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Also a Fellow in Atlantik-Brücke",David Naylor<ref>https://www.startupbootcamp.org/mentors/david-naylor/</ref> Fellow.,John Murad<ref>https://www.manhattan-institute.org/expert/jon-murad</ref> USA. Fellow.,John Bellinger<ref>https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/conversations-diplomacy-john-bellinger</ref>Legal Adviser for the U.S. Department of State and the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration.,Nichol Bradford<ref>http://oslo18.katapult.tech/speakers/nichol-bradford</ref>,Scott Porter<ref>https://www.cbre.com/people-and-offices/scott-potter</ref>,Rosiland Jordan<ref>https://en.unesco.org/world-press-freedom-day-2018/rosiland-jordan</ref>Fellow. As worked for Al Jazeera English and Unesco,"Orlando Sanchez<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Sanchez_%28politician%29</ref> US politician, Cuban exile","Terry Babcock-Lumish <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Babcock-Lumish</ref> American professor, entrepreneur, and policymaker.","Nina Easton<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Easton</ref> American author, journalist, TV commentator, and entrepreneur",Janet Bloomfield<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Bloomfield</ref>British peace and disarmament campaigner,Paul Steven Miller<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Steven_Miller</ref>,"Evan Davis<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Davis</ref> an English economist, journalist, and presenter for the BBC.",Timothy Creamer<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Creamer</ref> astronaut and a colonel in the United States Army.,Jonas S. Chartock<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_S._Chartock</ref> charter school lobbyist,"Mark Durkan<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Durkan</ref> Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, politician",Chris DeRose<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_DeRose_%28author%29</ref> US author and lawyer,Peter Florence<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Florence</ref> British journalist,"Stephen Waley-Cohen<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Waley-Cohen</ref>businessman and financial journalist, theatre manager",Andrew Wyllie<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wyllie_%28engineer%29</ref>president of the Institution of Civil Engineers.,William Crawley<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crawley</ref>Fellow. BBC journalist and broadcaster.,"Richard Holme<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Holme,_Baron_Holme_of_Cheltenham</ref> British Liberal Democrat politician. 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. She is also currently Co-Director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance.",Jody Tucker Davis<ref>https://britishamericanproject.org/</ref> US Project Director,Heather Pearson<ref name=team2019>https://web.archive.org/web/20191024111220/https://britishamericanproject.org/about-bap/meet-the-us-team/</ref>,Matthew Mackowiak<ref name=team2019/>,Adebayo Adeleke<ref name=team2019/>,Danielle Berrin<ref name=team2019/>,Sarah Binion<ref name=team2019/>,Micaela Brown<ref name=team2019/>,Jane Borochoff<ref name=team2019/>,Jeremiah Goulka<ref name=team2019/>,Michael Hermann<ref name=team2019/>,Storme Sixeas<ref name=team2019/>,R. 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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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Rabbi,Tim Ferriss<ref>http://www.olibarrett.com/page/29/</ref>,Oli Barrett <ref>http://www.olibarrett.com/page/29/</ref>,Andrea Byrne,Rachel Kearton<ref>https://uk.linkedin.com/in/rachel-kearton-13523829</ref>,Rob Beckley}} |
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Latest revision as of 23:13, 4 January 2023
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].
Contents
Annual conference
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
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Hill | “The annual [ British-American Project ] conference is an experience like no other – stimulating, challenging, always fun.” | Jane Hill | 2005 |
| 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:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Rushanara Ali | UK Labour MP on the executive committee of the British-American Project. |
| Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | British establishment Muslim journalist. |
| John Bellinger | A spook/lawyer representing the more patient and more PR-friendly approach to Empire |
| Janet Bloomfield | Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1990s; member of the British-American Project |
| John Brademas | US politician |
| Nick Butler | Academic founder of the British-American Project |
| Peter Carrington | UK Deep politician. Bilderberg chairman. President of the Pilgrims Society. Secretary General of NATO. Chairman of the UK Conservative Party. Busy guy. |
| Shami Chakrabarti | Interestingly connected UK lawyer who was a long time director of Liberty, a UK civil liberties advocacy organisation. |
| Mark Durkan | WEF NI politician who voted to support mandatory Covid certification |
| Colleen Graffy | US spook and propagandist |
| Jane Hill | One of the main presenters for BBC News. Director of the British-American Project 2006-2009. |
| Steve Hilton | British political adviser, member of the Notting Hill Set |
| Julia Hoggett | |
| Frederick Kempe | Spook and deep state actor |
| Sadiq Khan | |
| Linda LeSourd Lader | The wife of Philip Lader, the corporate networker and former US ambassador to the UK. Advised President Clinton on personal issues pertaining to religion. |
| Philip Lader | US Ambassador to the UK 1997-2001 |
| Anatol Lieven | Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at deep state King's College London |
| Cristopher Lincoln-Jones | |
| Michael Maclay | Former 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 Mandelson | Supranational deep state operative. Bilderberg, TLC, Ditchley etc. |
| Lucy Marcus | British business journalist who has written for Project Syndicate, BBC and Reuters |
| Vidal Martinez | |
| Alan Mendoza | Executive Director of The Henry Jackson Society |
| George Mitchell | Le Cercle |
| Diana Villiers Negroponte | |
| Jeremy Paxman | Broadcaster for the BBC. He has been involved with the British-American Project. |
| George Robertson | Bilderberger, ex Secretary General of NATO with unknown deep political connections. |
| Patricia Scotland | |
| Nigel Sheinwald | |
| Bob Stewart | |
| Marjorie Thompson | Chairwoman 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 Turner | Front man for George Soros-initiatives. |
| Charles Villiers | UK businessman, Chair of British Steel Corporation from 1976 till 1980. |
| David Willetts | |
| Paul Wolfowitz | An "architect" of the invasion of Iraq, World Bank President |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Is this the Epicentre of Corbyn’s Antisemitism Story? | Article | 8 April 2019 | TruePublica | We are being immersed in a disgraceful environment of political propaganda, disinformation and downright lies cooked up by those with vested interests and promoted by the billionaire offshore owners of the press and fellow travellers such as Ruth Smeeth and contriving organisations such as the British-American Project |
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