Markle Foundation
 Markle Foundation  (Foundation)       | |
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| Formation | 1927 |
| Founder | • John Markle • Mary R. Markle |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Sponsor of | CNN, The Children's Television Workshop, Infonautics, Crossover Technologies, MIT, RAND Corporation, Carnegie-Mellon University, Brookings Institute, PBS |
| Membership | • Suzanne N. Johnson •  Zoë Baird• Steven Denning • Cheryl C. Effron • Margaret Hoover • Christopher Howard • Gilman Louie • James Manyika • Kathleen A. Murphy • Herbert Pardes • Stanley S. Shuman • Gilman Louie • Beth F. Cobert •  Denis McDonough•  John Hamre• James L. Barksdale •  Philip Zelikow |
| Spooky grant-maker and think-tank with focus is technology, health care, and national security. | |
Markle Foundation is a spooky New York-based private "philanthropic" foundation established in 1927 by American industrialist/financier John Markle and his wife, Mary. Its focus is technology, "health care", and "national security".
Zoë Baird, President of Markle since 1998, has "led broad collaborations to drive transformative change for the economic security, health, and national security". Previously, she directed Markle’s efforts to use information technology to reform the intelligence community "to meet current threats", and to drive improvements in the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care, work that led to passage of major federal laws and transformation of business practice. [1]
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History
Formally incorporated on April 26, 1927,[2] as the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation,[3] the organization began by funding traditional social welfare programs as well as projects that focused on medicine and medical research. In 1969, Lloyd Morrisett, the Markle Foundation's president at that time, shifted the foundation's focus to mass communications in a democratic society.
In 1948, the Foundation established an award to assist qualified people wishing to remain in academic medicine.[4]
Electronic health records
In 2006 the CIA-backed venture capital firm In-Q-Tel was investing money in Initiate Systems, a company that sells software used for managing electronic health records. The Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration uses Initiate Systems' Identity Hub software to help match patient records in a three-state regional health information organization, which has backing from the Markle Foundation's Connecting for Health.[5]
Spooky task force
Markle convened the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age to "help create a collaborative environment for information sharing". The bipartisan Task Force developed policy and information technology recommendations for "protecting America against the threats of the modern era". Many of the recommendations of the Task Force informed the 9/11 Commission Report and have been incorporated in executive orders and legislation, including the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 and the Protect America Act of 2007.[6]
Some members of the Markle Foundation Task Force under Dr. John Hamre included[7][8]:
- Philip Zelikow: executive director of the 911 Commission.
- Judith A. Miller: The New York Times reporter whose articles on Saddam Hussein's WMD program proved to be fictional.
- Stewart A. Baker: Chief counsel, NSA.
- William P. Crowell: CEO of Cylink, Inc. in Santa Clara, California. Crowell came to Cylink from the NSA, where he had a series of senior positions, including deputy director of operations and deputy director.
- Eric Benhamou: vice chairman, Israel21c, a non-profit organization that seeks, according to its website, to "promote the 21st century Israe that exists beyond the conflict."
- Paul Schott Stevens: Under President Reagan, special assistant for national security affairs, executive secretary and legal adviser of the NSC.
- Robert M. Bryant: former assistant director of the FBI, CEO of the National Insurance Crime Bureau. In November 1999, after 31 years of work there, he retired as deputy director of the FBI, where he presided over the Bureau's strategic plan, and was the agency's chief operations officer. While at the FBI, he directed a number of high-profile investigations, including the Aldrich Ames spy case, the Oklahoma City bombing and the Montana Freeman standoff.
- John O. Marsh: Former Secretary of the Army and Virginia Congressman. A member of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction. Recently, the Panel released its second annual report entitled "Toward a National Strategy for Combating Terrorism."
- Morton Halperin: Director of the Washington office of the Open Society Institute. Halperin is a director of policy planning staff at the Department of State. He was special assistant to President Clinton and a senior director at the NSC, 1994-1996. Other positions include director of the Center for National Security Studies, and director of the ACLU's Washington D.C. office.
- Margaret Hamburg, MD: VP of biological programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
- Wesley Clark: War profiteer and former "liberal" presidential candidate.
- Gilman Louie: President and CEO of In-Q-Tel, a CIA front that delivers new technologies to the intelligence community.
- Michael Okerlund Leavitt; Republican governor of Utah, first elected in 1992. Leavitt resigned his office in November 2003, and was sworn in as the administrator of the EPA under Bush the next day. He was confirmed to this office on October 28, 2003. Leavitt also sits on the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
- Ashton Carter: Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs, International Security Program.
Sponsors
Markle does not publish a complete list of grantees. Some known Markle grant recipients and partners includes CNN, The Children's Television Workshop, Infonautics, Crossover Technologies, MIT, RAND Corporation, Carnegie-Mellon University, The Brookings Institute[9] and PBS.
People
The board members (top,right) are from October 2021[10], plus some additional names. Former board member Gilman Louie worked/works for the CIA. Philip Zelikow.[11]
For fiscal year 2008, Ms Baird's compensation from this tax exempt charitable organization was recorded as $505,750.00, in the Form 990-PF filed by Markle.[12]
Presidents
- John Markle and Mary R. Markle 1927-1933
- JP Morgan Jr 1933-1942
- Thomas William Lamont 1942-1947
- George Whitney 1948-59; Chairman 1960 to 1963
- John McFarlane Russell John McFarlane Russell 1960-1969
- Lloyd N. Morrisett 1969-1998
- Zoë Baird 1998-
Employee on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoë Baird | President | 1998 | Attended Bilderberg/2015 |
Known members
3 of the 16 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Zoë Baird | Spookily connected US lawyer |
| John Hamre | US MICC insider |
| Philip Zelikow | Bush-administration insider and Chair of 911 Commission later head of the University of Virginia's COVID Commission Planning Group |
References
- ↑ https://www.markle.org/about-markle/expert/zo-baird
- ↑ "Markle Foundation Ready to Operate". The New York Times. April 30, 1927. p. 6.
- ↑ "Incorporation of Markle Foundation Sought: J.P. and Junius Morgan Jr. Among Signers". The New York Times. February 4, 1927. p. 2.
- ↑ Markle Foundation Scholarships in Medicine". Nature. 163 (4142): 437–438. 1949-03-19. Bibcode:1949Natur.163S.437.. doi:10.1038/163437c0. ISSN 1476-4687
- ↑ https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/cia-backed-investment-stirs-health-privacy-fears
- ↑ https://www.markle.org/national-security/markle-task-force-national-security/
- ↑ https://www.markle.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/nstf_report2_full_report.pdf
- ↑ https://constantinereport.com/the-path-to-911-part-three-choicepointcsismarkle-foundation-connections/
- ↑ https://constantinereport.com/the-path-to-911-part-three-choicepointcsismarkle-foundation-connections/
- ↑ https://www.markle.org/about-markle/#board-of-directors
- ↑ https://www.markle.org/about-markle/expert/1146-philip-zelikow/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110106150830/http://www.markle.org/downloadable_assets/markle_2008_990pf.pdf
