Brookings Institution

Brookings Institution
Abbreviation	Brookings
Motto	Quality. Independence. Impact.
Formation	1916
Headquarters	1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Leader	Brookings Institution/President
Type	think tank
Interest of	Frederic Adrian Delano
Sponsored by	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, ClimateWorks, Democracy Fund, Hewlett Foundation, Koch family foundations, Lumina Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Markle Foundation, Omidyar Network, Open Philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, PepsiCo, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation
Subpage	•Brookings Institution/President •Brookings Institution/Vice President
Membership	•  Leonard Abramson •  George A. Akerlof •  Graham T. Allison •  Dillon Anderson •  Michael Armacost •  Elizabeth E. Bailey •  Martin N. Baily •  Zoë Baird •  A. Doak Barnett •  Peter Beinart •  C. Fred Bergsten •  Irving Bernstein •  Alan S. Blinder •  Richard C. Blum •  Geoffrey T. Boisi •  David F. Bradford •  Robert S. Brookings •  Richard C. Bush III •  Vannevar Bush •  Earl Butz •  Derek Chollet •  James W. Cicconi •  Priscilla A. Clapp •  Stephen P. Cohen •  William Cohen •  William T. Coleman Jr •  Arthur H. Compton •  Karl T. Compton •  Jeffrey Connaughton •  Donald T. Critchlow •  Arthur Culvahouse •  Ivo Daalder •  Kenneth W. Dam •  Robert A. Day •  C. Douglas Dillon •  E. J. Dionne •  Thomas E. Donilon •  Mario Draghi •  Ken Duberstein •  Mickey Edwards •  Douglas W. Elmendorf •  Bruce Fein •  Lawrence K. Fish •  Richard W. Fisher •  Henry H. Fowler •  Jeffrey A. Frankel •  Richard Freeman •  William E. Frenzel •  Stephen Friedman •  Ann M. Fudge •  Jason Furman •  James K. Galbraith •  Robert Gallucci •  Raymond L. Garthoff •  Leslie H. Gelb •  William H. Gleysteen •  Stephen M. Goldfeld •  James M. Goldgeier •  James Goodby •  Kermit Gordon •  Lincoln Gordon •  Mary Graham •  Edward M. Gramlich •  C. Boyden Gray •  Jeffrey W. Greenberg •  Brian L. Greenspun •  Zvi Griliches •  Joseph A. Grundfest •  Richard Haass •  Avril Haines •  Lee H. Hamilton •  Mary W. M. Hargreaves •  John F. Harris •  Arthur A. Hartman •  Rita E. Hauser •  Teresa Heinz •  Warren Hellman •  Peter Blair Henry •  Stephen Hess •  Stephen Horn •  Constance J. Horner •  Amo Houghton •  Glenn Hubbard •  Samuel P. Huntington •  Glenn H. Hutchins •  Joel Hyatt •  Martin Indyk •  Shirley A. Jackson •  Kenneth Jacobs •  James A. Johnson •  Suzanne Nora Johnson •  Ann Dibble Jordan •  Michael H. Jordan •  Arnold Kanter •  Robert A. Katzmann •  Breene M. Kerr •  Marie L. Knowles •  Lawrence J. Korb •  Thomas G. Labrecque •  Nicholas R. Lardy •  Robert Z. Lawrence •  Flynt Leverett •  Jacob J. Lew •  John P. Lewis •  Samuel W. Lewis •  Bobo Lo •  James Thomas Lynn •  Paul W. MacAvoy •  Thomas E. Mann •  John Mearsheimer •  Jessica Tuchman Mathews •  Donald F. McHenry •  John E. McLaughlin •  Robert McNamara •  James C. Miller III •  Ron Nessen •  Janne E. Nolan •  Edwin G. Nourse •  Michael O'Hanlon •  Arthur M. Okun •  Gilbert S. Omenn •  Peter R. Orszag •  Alfred E. Osborne Jr •  Henry D. Owen •  William A. Owens •  Mark R. Parris •  Bill Paxon •  Frank H. Pearl •  Merton J. Peck •  Susan M. Phillips •  Victor Pinchuk •  Kenneth Pollack •  Bill Poole •  John Edward Porter •  Adam Posen •  Trevor Potter •  Edward C. Prescott •  Hugh B. Price •  Steven Rattner •  Diane Ravitch •  Robert D. Reischauer •  Susan E. Rice • 40px Rozanne L. Ridgway •  Bruce Riedel •  Alice Rivlin •  Charles W. Robinson •  James D. Robinson III •  Judith Rodin •  J. Stapleton Roy •  Warren Rudman •  Haim Saban •  Jeffrey Sachs •  Hal Saunders •  Henry B. Schacht •  Leonard D. Schaeffer •  Cynthia P. Schneider •  Charles L. Schultze •  Bernard L. Schwartz •  Donna Shalala •  Martin Shubik •  Helmut Sonnenfeldt •  Joan Spero •  James B. Steinberg •  Paula Stern •  Lawrence H. Summers •  Harold R. Swearer •  Strobe Talbott •  Stuart Taylor Jr •  Ruy Teixeira •  Shibley Telhami •  Larry D. Thompson •  John L. Thornton •  Andrew H. Tisch •  Vincent J. Trosino •  Laura D. Tyson •  Peter S. Watson •  John C. Whitehead •  Juan Williams •  Stephen M. Wolf •  James Wolfensohn •  Howard Wolpe •  Paul Wonnacott •  Janet L. Yellen •  Daniel Yergin •  Charles W. Yost •  Mort Zuckerman •  Constanze Stelzenmüller •  George Pagoulatos •  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala •  Lilia Shevtsova •  John Porter •  Leana Wen •  Jean-Marie Guéhenno •  Justin Vaïsse •  Robert Schaetzel •  Sebnem Kalemli-Özcan •  Leon Wieseltier •  Thomas Donahue •  Bruce Katz

The Brookings Institution is a think tank started in 1916.

September 11, 2001

Full article: 9-11

On 22 May 2002, the Brookings Institution published Protecting the American Homeland - A Preliminary Analysis about the attacks of September 11, 2001, authored by Michael E. O'Hanlon, Peter R. Orszag, Ivo H. Daalder, I. M. Destler, David L. Gunter, Robert E. Litan and James B. Steinberg.

Leadership

Billionaire David M. Rubenstein became co-chairman in 2014. Since 1927, the Brookings Institution has had a President.

Funding

The Qatari government was named by The New York Times as "the single biggest foreign donor to Brookings", having reportedly made a $14.8 million, four-year contribution in 2014.

 

Quotes by Brookings Institution

Page	Quote	Date	Source
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine/Preparation	“Russia behind the Headlines has published an interview with Gorbachev, who was Soviet president during the discussions and treaty negotiations concerning German reunification. The interviewer asked why Gorbachev did not “insist that the promises made to you [Gorbachev]—particularly U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the East—be legally encoded?” Gorbachev replied: “The topic of ‘NATO expansion’ was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. … Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement was made in that context… Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled.” Gorbachev continued that “The agreement on a final settlement with Germany said that no new military structures would be created in the eastern part of the country; no additional troops would be deployed; no weapons of mass destruction would be placed there. It has been obeyed all these years.” To be sure, the former Soviet president criticized NATO enlargement and called it a violation of the spirit of the assurances given Moscow in 1990, but he made clear there was no promise regarding broader enlargement.”	November 2014	Russia Behind the Headlines
NATO	“Russia behind the Headlines has published an interview with Gorbachev, who was Soviet president during the discussions and treaty negotiations concerning German reunification. The interviewer asked why Gorbachev did not “insist that the promises made to you [Gorbachev]—particularly U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the East—be legally encoded?” Gorbachev replied: “The topic of ‘NATO expansion’ was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. … Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement was made in that context… Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled.” Gorbachev continued that “The agreement on a final settlement with Germany said that no new military structures would be created in the eastern part of the country; no additional troops would be deployed; no weapons of mass destruction would be placed there. It has been obeyed all these years.” To be sure, the former Soviet president criticized NATO enlargement and called it a violation of the spirit of the assurances given Moscow in 1990, but he made clear there was no promise regarding broader enlargement.”	November 2014	Brookings Institution, Russia Beyond The Headlines

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Daniel Benjamin	Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy Studies	December 2006	May 2009
Eugene Black	Chairman	1962	1968
Morton Halperin	Senior fellow	1969	1973
Edward Hamilton	Brookings Institution/Vice President, Brookings Institution/Senior Fellow	1969	1970	Attended Bilderberg/1969
Martin Indyk	Brookings Institution/Vice President	2001	2018
Donald Kohn	Chair in International Economics and Senior Fellow	2010
Cheng Li	Director of the John L. Thornton China Center	2014
Kenneth M. Pollack	Senior Fellow and Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy	2002	2015	Propagandist for the 2003 Iraq war; suspected Israeli operative
Thomas Wright	Director and Senior Fellow	2017	2022

 

Known members

80 of the 199 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
George Akerlof	American economist married to Janet Yellen. Was given the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Graham Allison	Attended the Bilderberg in 2007 after a 33 year break. First attended, as a speaker, in 1970, aged 30. Multiple deep state connections.
Dillon Anderson	Spooky US National Security Advisor
Michael Armacost	President of the Brookings Institution, Acting US Secretary of State for 5 days in 1989
Zoë Baird	Spookily connected US lawyer
C. Fred Bergsten	Brookings Institution, CFR, 5 Bilderbergs ...
Alan Blinder	Princeton economist. Advisor to President Bill Clinton. vice chairman of the Federal Reserve from June 1994 to January 1996.
James W. Cicconi	George H. W. Bush connected insider.
William Cohen	United States Secretary of Defense 1997-2001, various deep state connections
Arthur Culvahouse	Iran-Contra Counsel to U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Brookings Institution. Ambassador to Australia from 2019 to 2021.
Ivo Daalder	USDSO who co-authored Protecting the American Homeland - A Preliminary Analysis, a book published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution about 9/11
Kenneth Dam	Economist who was US Deputy Secretary of State, with a heavy Bilderberg habit.
Robert Day	Bilderberg billionaire businessman. Brookings Institution.President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
Douglas Dillon	Bilderberg, Brookings, Committee on the Present Danger, CFR, US/Secretary of the Treasury...
Thomas Donahue	Spooky US Labor leader, CFR, two Bilderbergs. Later Vice-Chair of the CIA-front National Endowment for Democracy.
Tom Donilon	Spooky Bilderberger. Has advised the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Joe Biden, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, designing policy, managing conventions, preparing candidates for debates, and overseeing presidential transitions. His brothers are also deep state operatives.
Mario Draghi	Bilderberg bankster and "craven moneyman". In 2021 as Prime Minister of Italy, pushed mandatory vaccines
Stephen Friedman	Chairperson of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, Director of the National Economic Council, Goldman Sachs Partner since 1973
Jason Furman	US Bilderberger economist
James K. Galbraith	economist
Robert Gallucci	Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs.
Leslie Gelb	President of the Council on Foreign Relations and opinion-making New York Times journalist.
Kermit Gordon	Influential economic advisor during the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson administrations. Later President of Brookings Institution.
Lincoln Gordon	3 Early Bilderbergs, US Ambassador to Brazil in the 1960s, where he helped arrange the 1964 military coup.
C. Boyden Gray	George H. W. Bush's White House Counsel
Jeffrey Greenberg	Brother of Evan Greenberg, son of Maurice Greenberg. Brookings, TLC
Jean-Marie Guéhenno	French globalist diplomat with many ties to the making of defense and security policies.
Richard Haass	Bilderberger, CFR President
Avril Haines	"The proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing". Possible central figure in several major psy-ops, including Russiagate and COVID-19.
Lee H. Hamilton	Having chaired some key house committees, Hamilton appears to have established himself as a safe pair of hands for handling potentially damaging information, explaining his choice as fallback vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission.
Arthur Hartman	4 times Bilderberger
Teresa Heinz	Inherited $500 million fortune after husband died in aircraft accident, later married John Kerry.
Amo Houghton	US multi-millionaire politician. Attended the 1972 Bilderberg as CEO of family company Corning, on the verge of becoming world's leading manufacturer of optical fiber.
Glenn Hubbard	Single Bilderberger
Samuel Huntington	US political scientist and DSO known for his Clash of Civilizations narrative
James D. Robinson III	Attended Bilderberg/1988 as CEO of American Express.
Martin Indyk	US Ambassador to Israel, Vice president of Brookings, Founded the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Kenneth Jacobs	Bilderberger financier
James Johnson	US politician, Bilderberg Steering committee, various USDS connections, "chairman of the universe".
Sebnem Kalemli-Özcan	US-Turkish Bilderberger economist who in 2021 pushed COVAX jab initiative for poor countries, since "no economy recovers until everyone recovers".
Arnold Kanter	Spooky US deep state functionary. Special Assistant to President George H. W. Bush, part of Brent Scowcroft’s National Security Council staff.
Bruce Katz	Brookings Institution urban planner who predicted that "cities and metropolitan areas will be the engines of economic prosperity and social transformation in the United States". Attended the 2014 Bilderberg.
Lawrence Korb	Military-industrial complex functionary whose entire career has been a revolving door between government jobs, military contractors, and think tanks that pays him for media attendances pushing higher military spending.
Flynt Leverett
Samuel Lewis	Single Bilderberg US Ambassador to Israel for 8 years
Jessica Mathews	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace President, Far heavier Bilderberg habit than her husband (a US general), former(?) Steering Committee member
Donald McHenry	Attended 2 Bilderbergs as ex-US Permanent Representative to the UN
Robert McNamara	US Deep state actor, War criminal, Defense secretary, World Bank president, Brookings, CFR...
Michael O'Hanlon	Suspected US deep state operative who co-authored Protecting the American Homeland - A Preliminary Analysis for Brookings
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala	GAVI/SDS connected Nigerian banker, twice Nigeria's Minister of Finance, and possible deep state functionary
... further results

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	Very influential and rich foundation established to take leadership of global health.
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.
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation	Private foundation, began in 1926
ClimateWorks	Large funder of projects intended to steer public opinion and take control over all government policy under the pretext of fighting climate change. Part of "a blob" of similar very wealthy interconnected foundations with opaque structures. Backers include Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg.
Democracy Fund	Finances numerous organizations as part of effort to control the narrative. Founded by Pierre Omidyar in 2011.
Hewlett Foundation	Huge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects.
Koch family foundations	Controlled by the billionaire Koch brothers, who finance the 'right' in US politics when they say the right things.
Lumina Foundation
MacArthur Foundation	Finances non-profit organizations and select people in approximately 50 countries around the world, buying immense cultural and political influence. It often coordinates its priorities with other deep state foundations, creating a mesh of grants, cross-grants and sub-grants that is very hard to analyze.
Markle Foundation	Spooky grant-maker and think-tank with focus is technology, "health care", and "national security".
Omidyar Network	Foundation owned by the the deep state-connected billionaire Pierre Omidyar, financing preferred NGOs
Open Philanthropy	Grant maker funneling deep state money among other things to pandemic planning. Financed Event 201.
Open Society Foundations	A NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered.
PepsiCo	U.S. Multinational corporation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund	Rockefeller family "philanthropic" fund. One of the CIA's favorite cut-outs during the Cold War.
Rockefeller Foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation	CIA front organization that funds select projects with $$$

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