Fulbright Program
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The Fulbright Program (or Fulbright Scholarship) is a program directed by the US Department of State for selecting foreign potential leaders to receive scholarships or grants to study, conduct research, teach, or exercise their talents in the United States; US citizens may qualify to do the same abroad.
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Overview
The program provides approximately 8,000 grants annually, comprising roughly 1,600 grants to U.S. students, 1,200 to U.S. scholars, 4,000 to foreign students, 900 to foreign visiting scholars, and several hundred to teachers and professionals.[1] While (presumably) not all are selected for further cultivation, the program makes the possibility of recruitment as CIA assets or other binding ties much easier.
44 Fulbright alumni have become heads of state or government.[2]
"Our alumni...helping us to achieve our overall policy goals"
In a 2013 internal document, the US State Department boasted that:
The newly-elected German Bundestag convened last week and of its 631 members, 64 are alumni of US Government funded exchanges. Several of these alumni are prominent members of their political parties and are expected to play an important role in the next cabinet. Our alumni represent all four political parties and include current cabinet members Peter Altmaier (CDU, Minister of Environment) and Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU, Minister of Interior). Other prominent figures are SPD Chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück, SPD Party Chair Sigmar Gabriel, SPD Parliamentary Whip Thomas Oppermann, and SPD Secretary General Andrea Nahles. Further alumni may be appointed to prominent non-cabinet posts once coalition talks conclude. Most are alumni of the International Visitor Leadership Program, which identifies up and coming leaders. In addition, several other exchange programs are represented, including Fulbright, USEU/NATO tour participants, and for the first time, the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) program[...] helping us to achieve our overall policy goals. The impact of these programs is underscored when alumni continue their upward rise, achieving elected office or other prominent positions.[3]
Carlos Vecchio
With only a partial command of English, Carlos Vecchio, a favored Venezuelan politician, applied several times for the State Department-sponsored Fulbright Scholarship, until he finally was successful in 1998. Vecchio writes about memorizing basic replies in order to prepare for the interview, noting that "if they took me off-script it would ruin everything." Fortunately for him, when he was asked impromptu what he would do "if he were Venezuela’s finance minister," a sympathetic panelist allowed him to answer in Spanish. Vecchio left the meeting brimming with confidence. A few months later, while sitting in his office at Mobil, Vecchio received word from the US embassy that he’d won a complete scholarship. "We’re going to pay for everything," the embassy informed him. By January 1999, Vecchio was in Washington DC with a US-funded scholarship in hand.[4] He later became an "Ambassador" in a fictional exile government, a title that was not recognized in actual Venezuela.
Known members
36 of the 196 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| George Akerlof | American economist married to Janet Yellen. Was given the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. |
| Peter Altmaier | German politician who was Head of the Chancellery 2013-2018. |
| Marcia Angell | "It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine." |
| Mustafa Aydin | Turkish "security" academic. German Marshall Fund. Bilderberg/2024 |
| Klaus Blech | Panelist on Developments in The Soviet Union: Political And Economic Impact On The Alliance at the 1991 Bilderberg |
| Josep Borrell | Spanish Euro-politician in the forefront of a censorship drive. Attended his first Bilderberg in 2023 |
| Fernando Henrique Cardoso | President of Brazil for 8 years, co-signed the Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19 declaration |
| Ingvar Carlsson | Took over as Sweden's PM upon the assassination of Olof Palme. He resigned unexpectedly in August 1995 for "health reasons" the day after two off-duty policemen were discovered on his roof. |
| Bob Carr | Influential Australian Labor Party politician with a love for lucrative public–private partnerships. In 2021, wants to make the "unvaccinated" pay for their own medical expenses. |
| Donald Easum | US diplomat with deep state connections. |
| Peter Eigen | Founder of Transparency International |
| Milton Friedman | |
| Sigmar Gabriel | German deep state operative, Atlantik-Brücke Chairman since 2019 |
| Austan Goolsbee | Skull and Bones economist. Obama advisor. One of the WEF's 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow. Fan of heavy COVID-19 bailouts |
| Larry Gostin | American law professor who specializes in creating tyrannical laws under the pretext of "public health" |
| Reed Irvine | Founded the conservative media censorship pressure group Accuracy in Media |
| Charles Kennedy | British Liberal Democrat politician leader and 2003 Iraq war opponent, pressured to resign for alcoholism in 2006. |
| Henry Kissinger | US deep politician, 40+ Bilderbergs, Nobel peace prize, war criminal |
| Peter Lavelle | Journalist for RT. |
| Birgy Lorenz | Estonian Institute for Statecraft member |
| Daniel Moynihan | US diplomat who pushed the "war on terror" |
| Thomas Oppermann | German politician who suddenly died en-route to be interviewed in a talk show after voicing criticism of the governments Covid-19 measures. |
| Robert Pickus | Spooky "peace activist" who proposed that in "the current political climate, war is essential for justice to prevail". |
| Sebastián Piñera | Elected twice President of Chile |
| John Scott Redd | "Scott Redd may be the most important person you've never heard of." |
| Maria Ressa | Founder of the Philippine news website and "fact checker" Rappler. 'Author-in-Residence at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research. |
| Gianni Riotta | Transatlantic oriented Italian journalist and editor-in-chief |
| Paul Samuelson | RAND economist |
| Hans Seidel (Austrian) | Single Bilderberger Austrian economist |
| Peer Steinbrück | Chancellor-candidate of the German Social Democratic Party in the 2013 federal election. Attended Bilderberg/2011 |
| Joseph Stiglitz | "The Globalizer Who Came In From the Cold" |
| Rishi Sunak | Very rich Goldman Sachs bankster installed as UK Prime Minister in 2022. Resigned in 2024. |
| Felipe VI | King of Spain since 2014 |
| Carlos Vecchio | |
| Shirley Williams | UK politician |
| Muhammad Yunus | Bangladeshi banker who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. In 2024, made Bangaldeshi PM |
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221206045721/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fulbright_alumni
- ↑ https://eca.state.gov/fulbright/fulbright-alumni/notable-fulbrighters
- ↑ https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?searchText=%22International%20Visitor%20Leadership%20Program%22&beginDate=&endDate=&publishedBeginDate=&publishedEndDate=&caseNumber=
- ↑ https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14572/
