Chatham House
The Royal Institute for International Affairs - also known as Chatham House - is an important organ of the UK Deep state. It was founded in 1920 and is a lynchpin of the British Foreign Policy establishment.[1] The Chatham House Rule requires confidentiality of all meeting participants and prohibits attribution of comments.[2].
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History
The Royal Institute of International Affairs was founded in 1920 as the Institute of International Affairs following a meeting at the previous year's Paris Peace Conference. The first chairman was Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, while Lionel Curtis was honorary secretary. Arnold J. Toynbee later became director. The Council on Foreign Relations, its American sister institute, was established the following year. Chatham House, The RIIA's well-known headquarters at 10 St James's Square, London, was gifted to the institute in 1923, having previously been the home of three British Prime Ministers: Pitt the Elder, Edward Stanley and William Gladstone.
The name of the building grew to be so synonymous with the Institute that it was officially rebranded as "Chatham House" in September 2004. However, "Royal Institute of International Affairs" continues to be used interchangeably with "Chatham House".
The Chatham House building is located just a few metres from the former Libyan embassy building, and many long term staff members witnessed the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege.
On July 18, 2005, Chatham House released a paper on Security, Terrorism and the UK which stated that "[a] key problem for the UK in preventing terrorism in Britain is the government’s position as ‘pillion passenger’ to the United States' war on terror." [3]
A hotbed of "One World" propaganda
In 1965 A. K. Chesterton described it as:
Chatham House has long been a hotbed of "One World" propaganda. It was not long before I discovered that it was a platform for internationalists militantly opposed to national sovereignty and any concept of Commonwealth or Empire which had any meaning except to deceive. The next discovery was that the big American Foundations were pouring money into its various projects. After I had landed many body-blows upon the Institute in the columns of Truth, the Secretary-General asked me to lunch, during which he said: "I want to assure you that, because of its constitution, Chatham House is debarred from formulating its own policy". I replied: "I do not doubt you. Chatham House does not need to have policies of its own when it can choose men of known views to comprise its research groups and write its publications." The Secretary-General seemed not to know the answer to that one.[4]
Role
Chatham House conducts original research into a variety of regional and global issues, and describes itself as follows.
... a melting pot that brings together people and organisations with an interest in international affairs. We provide an independent forum in which academia, business, diplomats, the media, NGOs, politicians, policy makers and researchers can interact in an open and impartial environment.
The widespread recognition of the Chatham House Rule as a byword for free and frank debate is a reflection of our unique and non-aligned perspective.
Chatham House is routinely used as a source of information for media organisations seeking background or experts upon matters involving major international issues.
Chatham House reflects a pro-establishment view of the world (due to donations from large corporations, governments and other organisations), but is nevertheless membership-based and anyone may join. The relatively high annual membership fee (approx £200) tends to put access to Chatham House out of reach of many ordinary people.
In 2015, American GOP (Republican) candidates for the 2016 Presidential race, were presented at Chatham House. Each candidate was offered a chance to speak. Candidates included: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former governor of Florida Jeb Bush, Rick Perry former Texas governor, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Senator Rand Paul, and Senator Ted Cruz. It was decided Scott Walker and Chris Christie "lacked foreign policy experience". Donald Trump was not presented. Article was cited on PBS Mclaughlin Group by conservative panelist [Pat Buchanan].[5]
Chatham House Rule
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Chatham House is the origin of the confidentiality rule known as the Chatham House Rule, which provides that members attending a seminar may discuss the results of the seminar in the outside world, but may not discuss who attended or what they said. The Chatham House Rule evolved to facilitate frank and honest discussion on controversial or unpopular issues by speakers who may not have otherwise had the appropriate forum to speak freely. However, most Chatham House meetings are held 'on the record', and not under the Chatham House Rule.
The rule currently reads as follows:
"When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed". [6]
It has an American wing, the Chatham House Foundation.
A Document by Chatham House
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Security Terrorism and the UK.pdf | briefing paper | 1 July 2005 | "Terrorism" "National security" | A quintessentially UK Establishment view on Security and Terrorism in the UK. |
Employees on Wikispooks
Known members
30 of the 291 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Amir Attaran | Canadian "Dr. Doom" epidemiologist pushing for Trudeau's emergency rule, masks forever, and "accelerated" safety standards for jabs. |
| Samantha de Bendern | UK deep state-connected polyglot "international civil servant" with a masters degree in Wealth Management, fellow of the Institute for Statecraft, associate fellow of Chatham House |
| Mathieu Boulègue | Chatham House member named in Document:CND Gen list 2, from the Integrity Initiative/Leak/4. |
| Robert Brinkley | Retired UK diplomat, Chatham House |
| Marjorie Buchser | expert from Chatham House and the World Economic Forum |
| Victor Bulmer-Thomas | UK academic and Latin America specialist. Director at Chatham House from 2001 until 2006. |
| Lyse Doucet | Canadian journalist, Chatham House, heavy MSC habit |
| Simon Fraser | Former UK Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Deputy Chairman of Chatham House. |
| Scott Freidheim | Managing partner of Freidheim Capital. WEF/Young Global Leaders 2006. Council on Foreign Relations. Chatham House. |
| Ryan Gawn | British political and strategic communications expert, giving advice to those "seeking to influence" foreign elections. RUSI member. |
| Keir Giles | Russophobic UK deep state operative, member of Integrity Initiative. |
| Nigel Gould-Davies | Chatham House, Integrity Initiative |
| Amil Khan | Security cleared Chatham House fellow who was proposed to be one of the 3 directors of the EXPOSE Network (together with Chris Donnelly of the Institute for Statecraft and Louis Brooke of the Zinc Network |
| Mariot Leslie | Chatham House, UK's Permanent Representative to NATO |
| John Lough | Suspected deep state operative, joined the Institute for Statecraft in 2008, director of the Future Of Russia Foundation, Chatham House |
| Robin Niblett | Chatham House Director/Chief executive from 2007-2022... |
| Jim O'Neill | Coined the acronym BRIC for the growing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China |
| Alex Pravda | Directed the The Britain-Russia Centre and the British East-West Centre. |
| Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Member of the Rothschild family and leading member of deep state networks |
| Stuart J. Russell | Chatham House Artificial intelligence specialist |
| Richard Sakwa | "NATO exists to manage the risks created by its existence." |
| Farzana Shaikh | Pakistani analyst |
| Jamie Shea | Chatham House, spooky conference attender. As NATO spokesman during the Kosovo War he popularized the propaganda term "collateral damage". |
| James Sherr | Member of the Institute for Statecraft, Chatham House, RUSI Director |
| Lilia Shevtsova | Moscow State Institute of International Relations, 5 Bilderbergs from 1999 to 2004 |
| Sanam Vakil | Chatham House, single Bilderberg |
| John Ward | |
| Peter Westmacott | Chatham House, UK ambassador |
| Elizabeth Wilmshurst | Legal Adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who resigned in the run-up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. |
| Andy Wood | UK Ambassador to Russia (1995-2000), Institute for Statecraft... |
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. |
| 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. |
| Mercator Foundation | German foundation financing projects of deep state interest and buying control over the narrative, especially on "climate change" and pro-migration. Frequently connected to censorship initiatives. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Rockefeller Foundation |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Death Wish 2023 | blog post | Craig Murray | "The practical problem with James Sherr’s call for total war is that Ukraine really does not have the population numbers to sustain to victory a total war against Russia. It is just going to run out of people, as indeed the much trumpeted counteroffensive appears to have done." | |
| Document:Jeremy Corbyn’s Chatham House speech | Article | 12 May 2017 | The Spectator | "Weapons supplied to Saudi Arabia, when the evidence of grave breaches of humanitarian law in Yemen is overwhelming, must be halted immediately." |
| 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." |
A document sourced from Chatham House
| Title | Type | Subject(s) | Publication date | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Mendez-Chatham House lecture.pdf | report | Torture | 10 September 2012 | Juan Méndez |
See Also
References
- ↑ "Chatham House on Linkedin"
- ↑ "About Chatham House"
- ↑ Security, Terrorism and the UK
- ↑ https://ia803109.us.archive.org/13/items/TheNewUnhappyLords1965/1965%20-%20New%20Unhappy%20Lords%20-%20A.%20K.%20Chesterton.pdf page 176
- ↑ https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/londons-role-in-the-republican-race-1.1458012
- ↑ Chatham House Rule
