Atlantic Council

Atlantic Council
Formation	1961
Type	think-tank
Interests	NATO
Interest of	Atlantic Institute, Centre for European Reform
Founder of	DFR Lab, DisinfoPortal, Emerging Leaders in Environmental and Energy Policy Network
Sponsor of	A New Initiative for Poland: A Future Leader in Securing the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Sponsored by	Bertelsmann Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, ClimateWorks, Hewlett Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy, Norway/Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Smith Richardson Foundation
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The Atlantic Council is a powerful, extreme militarist influence network and think-tank, staffed with military, CIA, and their attendant politicians; and CEOs from strategic industries, like oil and media. It has strong connections to NATO, and is central in the military-industrial complex.

Introduction

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The name of the think-tank itself is meant to evoke the North Atlantic Council, the highest political decision-making body of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Atlantic Council is the biggest and most powerful member of the Atlantic Treaty Association (which has similar associates in every NATO-country).

Established in 1961 by former U.S. Secretaries of State Dean Acheson and Christian Herter, the Atlantic Council of the United States was originally conceived as a means to coordinate support for the Cold War-era NATO alliance, with the stated mission to encourage the continuation of cooperation between North America and Europe, (i.e. to control Western Europe).

The Atlantic Council is meant to secure the legitimacy of U.S. policies and neoliberal economics in the eyes of world audiences and academia, for the purpose of advancing studies legitimizing “Euro-Atlantic” interventionism and Western-backed “regime change”; spreading the cultural and ideological values of imperialism; and debunking policies favoring independent development and income redistribution among historically dispossessed and exploited nations and peoples.

Operations

In 2018, The Atlantic Council received a donation of $900,000 from the U.S. State Department for a “Peace Process Support Network” program to “promote non-violent conflict resolution” in support of Venezuela’s scattered opposition, with which the council enjoys very close ties. The council also advocates the arming of extremist militants in Syria (a “National Stabilization Force”) and a hard-line policy toward Russia.

Members

Full article: Atlantic Council/Board

Full article: Atlantic Council/Members

Full article: Atlantic Council Digital Forensic Research Lab/Member

Propaganda tentacles

• James C. Smith, CEO of the world's biggest news agency, Thomson Reuters, is on the board of Atlantic Council.

• Rupert Murdoch, owner of large parts of the private press in English-speaking countries, is on the board.

• In September 2014, The Atlantic Council hired Call of Duty: Black Ops series director Dave Anthony as a nonresident senior fellow, to make sure computer games have the desired pro-NATO angle ('Who are the good guys and bad guys'.) "Call of Duty Ghosts, for instance, you play as a U.S. soldier fighting against a red-beret wearing anti-American Venezuelan dictator, clearly based on President Hugo Chavez, while in Call of Duty 4, you follow the U.S. Army in Iraq", where Russia gets blamed for a US war crime, the 'Highway of Death'". Call of Duty: Modern Warfare featured the White Helmets in a favorable way.

Funding

Apart from legitimizing US imperial interest, the Atlantic Council also acts as a lobbying group to NATO, with many donors having strong ties to the oil and weapons industries.

The leading donors in 2020 were:

• Adrienne Arsht
• British Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Embassy of the United Arab Emirates to the United States
• Facebook, which announced in May 2018 that it was "partnering" with the Atlantic Council "to combat election-related propaganda and misinformation from proliferating on its service."

• Bahaa R. Hariri (Lebanese businessman cut-out for Saudi Arabia)

Other notable donors are: OCP Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc., System Capital Management, United States Department of State, The Wallenberg Foundations, Open Society Foundation,The Victor Pinchuk Foundation, the Pentagon and NATO, Lockheed Martin and other war industries (including the Italian Leonardo), ExxonMobil and other multinationals, the Bank of America, the Rockefeller Foundation and other financial groups.

The complete list of donors is an interesting read.

 

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
StratCom DC 2019	Washington DC	Spooky conference arranged by the powerful Atlantic Council to discuss how to expand censorship

 

Quotes by Atlantic Council

Page	Quote	Date	Source
Cold War II	“The United States remains the world’s leading power with global interests, and it cannot afford to choose between Europe and the Indo-Pacific. Instead, Washington and its allies should develop a defense strategy capable of deterring and, if necessary, defeating Russia and China at the same time.”	18 February 2022	ForeignPolicy.com
National Intelligence Council	“Other pathogens – such as the SARS coronavirus or other influenza strains – also have this potential... Outside the US, critical infrastructure degradation and economic loss on a global scale would result as approximately a third of the worldwide population became ill and hundreds of millions died.”	November 2008

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Ben Nimmo	“Ben Nimmo works for the Atlantic Council, funded inter alia by NATO. He is also on a retainer of £2,500 per month from the Integrity Initiative, in addition to payments for individual pieces of work. For his attack on Scottish Nationalists Nimmo was therefore paid by the Atlantic Council (your taxes through NATO), by the Integrity Initiative (your taxes) and by the Herald (thankfully shortly going bankrupt)... Nimmo’s role as witchfinder-general for Russian Bots appears very remunerative. His August 2016 invoice to The Institute for Statecraft, apparently the 71st invoice he had issued to various neo-con bodies that year, was for £5,000.”	Craig Murray Ben Nimmo	22 December 2018

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Jessica Ashooh	Middle East Strategy Task Force/Deputy Director	2015	2017
Andy Carvin	Academic	February 2019
Ben Judah	Academic	November 2020
Frederick Kempe	President and CEO	2007
Richard Morningstar	Director of Global Energy Center	2014

 

Known members

34 of the 350 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
David Aaron	Deep state connected diplomat. Attended Bilderberg 1977 as Deputy National Security Advisor.
Dmitri Alperovitch	Spooky businessman
Judith Hippler Bello	Big Pharma lobbyist who was one of the founding members of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue
Hans Binnendijk	Dutch born academic and US deep state functionary, a member of Atlantic Council and RAND corporation, deeply involved with NATO.
Henrik Breitenbauch	II connected Danish academic
Graham Brookie	"Former U.S. government advisor on homeland security and counterterrorism" connected to the Integrity Initiative/Institute for Statecraft complex
Ian Brzezinski	Son of Zbigniew Brzezinski, member of the Integrity Initiative's US Cluster.
Victor Chu	Hong Kong-based businessman and deep state actor. GLT 1998, Chatham house governor, WEF Trustee, Atlantic Council..
Emilio Collado	Big oil, World Bank, Bilderberg Steering committee.
James Cunningham	US diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Nations in 2001
Nelson Cunningham	Well-connected Kissinger associate
Borzou Daragahi	Spooky establishment journalist
William Draper	former President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States. He also led the highly strategic United Nations Development Programme, the biggest source of multilateral development grant assistance, and the U.S. Export-Import Bank. Both institution have a huge influence on policies in countries in the global south, an influence which he also made sure was used. Skull and Bones. Atlantic Council. His father was active in population control.
Naz Durakoğlu	Turkish-American civil servant, Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs under Joe Biden.
Susan Eisenhower	Granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Member of many think tanks, has written extensively on nuclear and space issues
Daniel Fried	Spooky US diplomat
Jeffrey Gedmin	US spooky/hawkish neoconservative academic
Tom Glocer	Former CEO of Reuters, the news agency that on its own provides the majority of the world's news. Also board of deep state Atlantic Council.
Lincoln Gordon	3 Early Bilderbergs, US Ambassador to Brazil in the 1960s, where he helped arrange the 1964 military coup.
David Hobbs	Expert in oil industry structure working for Atlantic Council.
Robert Hunter	Has played a national policy role in eight U.S. presidential election campaigns and written speeches and articles for presidential candidates, three U.S. Presidents four Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State and Defense, Senators, Representatives and other political figures. As United States Ambassador to NATO during the Clinton Administration, he was principal architect and negotiator of the post-Cold War "new NATO" and of the NATO airstrike decisions in the Bosnian War.
Jan Lodal	Former Chairman of Atlantic Council
Katherine Maher	WEF YGL, Wikimedia Foundation
Terry McAuliffe	Virginia politician. Attended two Bilderbergs.
Ben Nimmo	"Nimmo is a former spokesperson for NATO, who has essentially dedicated his career to fear-mongering about Russia."
Friedbert Pflüger	German politician
Alan Riley	UK solicitor/academic who worked for the Institute for Statecraft
Ron Ritchie	Founder of Institute for Research on Public Policy. Atlantic Council, Club of Rome, Ditchley Foundation
Sally Shelton	Spooky US diplomat Atlantic Council, USAID, and NED. Married former CIA director William Colby.
Gregory Treverton	Spooky US "intelligence stalwart" interested in "terrorism"
Alexander Vershbow	SDS connected regular at the Brussels Forum
Peter Westmacott	Chatham House, UK ambassador
Damon Wilson	President of the CIA front organization National Endowment for Democracy
Anders Åslund	Quad Bilderberger, Integrity Initiative. Worked on the Russian demographic catastrophe in the 1990s.

 

Event Planned

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
2018 Brussels DisinfoLab	11 April 2018 08:30:00	11 April 2018 13:30:00	Belgium Brussels Euractiv	A 2018 conference set up jointly by the EU Disinfolab and the Atlantic Council

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Bertelsmann Foundation
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.
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.
Hewlett Foundation	Huge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects.
National Endowment for Democracy	The "traditional intermediary of the CIA", promoting the US "national interest" abroad by financing groups and individuals.
Norway/Ministry of Foreign Affairs	A significant donor to NGOs and planning organizations. Many of the recipients dovetail with NATO objectives like regime changes and controlling the narrative.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund	Rockefeller family "philanthropic" fund. One of the CIA's favorite cut-outs during the Cold War.
Smith Richardson Foundation	CIA front organization that funds select projects with $$$

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Novichok, Navalny, Nordstream, Nonsense	blog post	3 September 2020	Craig Murray	The US and Saudi Arabia have every reason to instigate a split between Germany and Russia at this time. Navalny is certainly a victim of international politics. That he is a victim of Putin I tend to doubt.
Document:The Secret Society That Rules The World	Article	7 November 2018	Bas Spliet	In his 1999 campaign autobiography, President George W. Bush mentioned his membership in passing: "My senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can’t say anything more."
Document:Upskilling to Upscale: Unleashing the Capacity of Civil Society to Counter Disinformation	project plan	June 2018	Integrity Initiative	A central II-document. The master plan for a huge network of British-directed NGOs in Europe. ‘Disinformation’ refers to everything not fitting the Western government narrative...

 

A document sourced from Atlantic Council

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
File:The Kremlin's Trojan Horses.pdf	paper	"Russian Propaganda"	18 November 2016	Alina Polyakova Marlene Laruelle Stefan Meister Neil Barnett	A cartoonishly over-the-top piece of anti-Russian hysteria from the Atlantic Council.

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