Academic

Academic

Academics generally work either teaching or researching in universities or colleges.

Decreasing independence

“In academic institutions, freedom of thought and expression is in retreat in many areas. Administrators of universities have become top-down representatives of government, rather than defenders of the independence of their institutions. Funding is sought from corporations as well as governments: "market forces" is a euphemism for conformity to corporate demands.”
Ivo Mosely (2013) 

 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

Name	From	To	Description
Jonathan Ward	February 2024
Patrik Oksanen	January 2021
Ben Judah	November 2020
John E. McLaughlin	2020		Former acting Director of Central Intelligence
Andy Carvin	February 2019
Maria de Goeij	April 2018		Deleted this piece of history from her LinkedIn. Now called "thinktank" and having no resignation date.
Johanna Möhring	November 2013		Also programme director
Hannah Fry	2012		Inadvertently exposed the the preplanning of Covid in BBC "documentary".
Joris Voorhoeve	2011
Rosa Brooks	2007
Dibyesh Anand	2007
Christopher Kojm	2007
Hannes Adomeit	2007	2017	Also headed the German cluster of the Integrity Initiative.
Louise Fresco	2006	July 2014
Salome Zourabichvili	2006	2014	In between jobs ruling Georgia
Andrew Ng	2002		Attended Bilderberg 2013
Robbie Sutton	November 2001	July 2005
Robbie Sutton	February 2000	October 2001
Norman Fenton	2000
Jordan Peterson	1998	2021
António Nogueira Leite	1995
Seymour Lipset	1990	2006
John Lough	1989	1995
James Sherr	1986	2008	International Relations
Chris Exley	1984	2021	Pressured out by university management because of his research into the toxicity of aluminium
Daniel Meltzer	1982	2009
Bob Langer	1981
Seymour Lipset	1979	1990
Phillip Karber	1978
Richard McCormack	1975	1977
Curt Gasteyger	1974	1994	Bilderberg/1975 and Bilderberg/1978. Participated in the Volcker Commission.
Abraham Rotstein	1973	2008	Attended Bilderberg/1971
James Petras	1972
Michael Boskin	1970
Chris Donnelly	1969	1973
Jacques Lévesque	1969
Basil Kafiris	1968	1981	While working in the US, one of the founders of PASOK with Andreas Papandreou. Later bank director in Greece. Bilderberg/1985.
Charles Burton Marshall	1965	1975
Franjo Tuđman	1963	1967	Attended Harvard/International Seminar/1966
Pierre Salmon	1959	1993	Attended 1977 Bilderberg as President of the department of Social Sciences
Isaiah Berlin	1957	1967
Jaap Kymmell	1955	1973	Attended Bilderberg 1967
Alfred Grosser	1955	1992
Sheldon Wolin	1954	1970	Created the concept of inverted totalitarianism
Hans Zetterberg	1953	1964
Robert Scalapino	1949	1990	Attended Bilderberg/1972 and Bilderberg/1994
Georges Vedel	1949	1979	Attended Bilderberg/1970
Thorkil Kristensen	1947	1960	Attended Bilderberg 1958
Carl Burckhardt	1932	1937

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
John le Carré	“Big Pharma is also engaged in the deliberate seduction of the medical profession, country by country, worldwide. It is spending a fortune on influencing, hiring and purchasing academic judgement to a point where, in a few years' time, if Big Pharma continues unchecked on its present happy path, unbought medical opinion will be hard to find.”	John le Carré
Donald Jeffries	“The way history is presented to Americans, from the youngest schoolchildren to the doctorate-level Ivy Leaguers, mirrors the way news is presented to the public. Much as it is difficult to find a single issue or event which the mainstream media has reported on accurately, it is just as difficult to find any historical event, or historical figure, portrayed honestly by establishment historians. We still see everyone from history professors to late-night comedians referring to any opponent of the establishment with a mean-spirited, impossibly caricatured negativity.”	Donald Jeffries	2019
Dan Kovalik	“I make $3,000 for my 3-credit course, sometimes teaching over 50 students in my class at one time. In turn, these students pay between $36,000 and $46,000 in tuition a year, depending on their state residency. Averaging this out to $40,000 a year on tuition, and assuming students take around 30 credits a year, I figure out that for my class of 50, the school brings in a total of $100,000 and gives me $3,000 of that. In other words, while I make a very meager pay, and absolutely no benefits, the Law School is making a hefty profit - a profit that is sucked up by the growing class of administrators and by the few tenured faculty left. Pretty nice for an allegedly nonprofit institution.”	Dan Kovalik	2021
Victor Marchetti	“To the Clandestine Services the universities represented fertile territory for recruiting espionage agents. Most large American colleges enrolled substantial numbers of foreign students, and many of these, especially those from the Third World, were (and are) destined to hold high positions in their home countries in a relatively few years. They were much easier to recruit at American schools — when they might have a need for money, where they could be easily compromised, and where foreign security services could not interfere — than they would be when they returned home. To spot and evaluate these students, the Clandestine Services maintained a contractual relationship with key professors on numerous campuses. When a professor had picked out a likely candidate, he notified his contact at the CIA and, on occasion, participated in the actual recruitment attempt. Some professors performed these services without being on a formal retainer. Others actively participated in agency covert operations by serving as "cut-outs," or intermediaries, and even by carrying out secret missions during foreign journeys.”	Victor Marchetti	1974
Victor Marchetti	“Helms asked his staff to find out just how many university personnel were under secret contract to the CIA. After a few days of investigation, senior CIA officers reported back that they could not find the answer. Helms immediately ordered a full study of the situation, and after more than a month of searching records all over the agency, a report was handed in to Helms listing hundreds of professors and administrators on over a hundred campuses. But the staff officers who compiled the report knew that their work was incomplete . Within weeks, another campus connection was exposed in the press. The contact was not on the list that had been compiled for the Director.”	Victor Marchetti	1974
PRIO	“Researchers who question the legitimacy of US wars seem to experience being ousted from their positions in research and media institutions.”	Ola Tunander	6 March 2021

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