American Foreign Policy Council

American Foreign Policy Council
Abbreviation	AFPC
Motto	Dedicated to bringing information to those who make, influence the foreign policy of the United States and to assisting world leaders with building democracies and market economies
Formation	1982
Headquarters	Washington DC, United States
Type	think tank
Interests	U.S. Foreign Policy
Sponsored by	Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation
Membership	•  Paula Dobriansky •  James S. Gilmore III •  Newt Gingrich •  Bob Kasten •  Richard T. McCormack •  Tom Ridge •  William Schneider Jr •  Manisha Singh •  Dov S. Zakheim •  Ilan Berman •  Herman Pirchner
US semiofficial think tank publishing plans to destroy Russia, disguised as "forecasts".

Not to be confused with the American Foreign Policy Institute

The American Foreign Policy Council AFPC) is officially a non—governmental analytical center under the US Congress, located in Washington DC, operating since 1982.

The main objects of the Council's research are Russia and other countries of the former USSR, China, Eurasia as a whole, and Iran. The Council publishes strategic reports and other documents, monitoring the policies of these countries in the field of missile defense, arms control, energy security, espionage, the development of democracy and a market economy in these countries - or put another way, a think tank where "the plans of the American establishment are presented as forecasts."

Activity

The Council provides information to members of the US Congress and influences the development of the US foreign policy strategy. Research papers published by it staff are regularly discussed in the US Congress, the academic community of US political scientists, as well as world leaders from other countries.

The council's analysts regularly appear in corporate American media, forming public opinion, for example:

• In the fall of 2010, Ilan Berman gave an interview to the BBC about the situation in Iran and Russia's supply of S-300 missile systems.
• In the summer of 2012, in an interview with the Voice of America radio station, he commented on the consequences of the war in Georgia in 2008.
• In the spring of 2013, Ilan Berman published an article in The Washington Times newspaper "The Russian roots of the Boston terrorist attack".
• In the fall of 2013, Ilan Berman published an article in USA Today newspaper "Russia on the way to fall".

Activities in Russia

In 2001, the President of the Council, Hermann Pershner, visited Russia 44 times.

In 2001, Pershner and his wife, Elizabeth Wood, an employee of the US Foreign Policy Council, met with the then Chairman (1994-2002) of the Russian Republic (region) of Buryatia M. I. Semenov during a two—week trip to Siberia.

Also in 2001, Hermann Pershner visited Primorsky Krai, where he got acquainted with the political and economic situation in the region, held a meeting with Governor S. Darkin, and also visited the city of Nakhodka in Primorsky Krai, having a meeting with then Mayor V. Gnezdilov. At the meeting, questions related to the situation in the Russian banking system, the geopolitical situation in the Asia-Pacific region, and Nakhodka's foreign economic relations.

In 2003, Herman Pershner and his wife visited the Chelyabinsk Region, holding talks with the regional administration on space technologies, nuclear submarine recycling and oil supplies. Also in 2003, Pershner visited Samara.

KAROS

In 2011, the Center for Social Conservative Policy of the United Russia Party, together with the Council, established the Consultative American-Russian Public Council (KAROS) in Russia. The coordinator of this project was the Foundation for the Study of Problems of Democracy and the Foundation "Russian Socio-Political Center".

The Chairman of the KAROS Council was Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evgeny Velikhov. The co—chairman from the American side was Dr. William Schneider, from the Russian side — A. Trubetskoy.

Plans disguised as forecast

Vice-president of the Council Ilan Berman in 2013 in his book Implosion. The End of Russia and What it Means for America gave the following forecast:

• By 2020, Muslims will cease to be a small minority, by then making up 20% of the Russian population.
• By 2050, the population of Russia may decrease by 25%.
• In 30 years, Russia will be forced to give China the Far East and Siberia, in an attempt to restore its status in the international arena, the leadership of the state will start a war with Ukraine, and on the territory of Russia there will be a confrontation with numerous radical Islamists.

Andrei Saveliev, Doctor of Political Sciences, gave the following assessment of Berman's forecasts: "The forecasts Bergman made are similar to those made by American analysts for many decades. In general, political futurology is very developed there as a genre of journalism. The plans of the American establishment are presented as forecasts. This is wishful thinking."

Members

Board of advisors as of May 2023.

Funding

Selection of funders as of 2006. Other funders include The Carthage Foundation, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, William H. Donner Foundation, Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, and Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation

 

Known members

2 of the 11 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Paula Dobriansky	Spookily connected US politician
Richard McCormack	Deep politician a long history and connections back to Vietnam, Nixon administration, succeeded Ted Shackley as US Chair of Le Cercle.

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Sarah Scaife Foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation	CIA front organization that funds select projects with $$$

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