German Marshall Fund
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is, according to whistleblower Udo Ulfkotte, a CIA front group.[1] Despite the 'German' in its name, it is a fully US/CIA-controlled operation, mainly to maintain a network of influential European politicians and journalists.
According to its own presentation, it is "a nonpartisan American public policy and grantmaking institution dedicated to promoting greater cooperation and understanding between the United States and Europe." GMF does this by supporting individuals and institutions working on transatlantic issues, by convening leaders to discuss the most pressing transatlantic themes, and by examining ways in which transatlantic cooperation can address a variety of global policy challenges. In addition, GMF supports a number of initiatives to strengthen democracies[2], i.e. to marginalize dissident voices.
On June 5, 1972, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, the then West German Chancellor Willy Brandt delivered an address at Harvard University on the significance of the Marshall Plan and the programs it created for European recovery and development, Brandt announced the creation of a Marshall Plan memorial: The German Marshall Fund of the United States. The Marshall Plan also paved the way for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCED), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and today's European Union.[3]
Contents
The Marshall Plan
Of significance for the Marshall Plan was the March 12, 1947 "Truman Doctrine," that outlined in a presidential speech to Congress, that it would be U.S. policy to protect nations threatened by communism. On June 5, 1947 in a speech at Harvard, Secretary of State George C. Marshall called for an American plan to help Europe recover from World War II. On April 2, 1948 the U.S. Congress passed the Economic Cooperation Act that authorized the Marshall Plan. Paul G. Hoffman of Studebaker Corporation (a used car salesman who eventually became president of the Ford Foundation from 1950-53[4]) was appointed Administrator of the Economic Cooperation Agency (ECA), the temporary American agency created to implement the plan. Averell Harriman was appointed special representative of the ECA in Europe. Despite the Korean War, which had begun in June 1950, transfer of funds from the U. S. to Europe had totaled $13.3 billion by 1951.[5]
The speech George C. Marshall delivered was drafted by Charles E. Bohlen, a future ambassador to the Kremlin. He used a memo prepared by a State Department Policy Planning staff directed by Soviet-expert George Kennan author of the 'long telegram' which had formed the basis of (Kennan argued greatly misinterpreted) 'Containment Policy.'[6]
Undoubtedly of benefit to war ravaged Europe the plan was also motivated by American fears that after World War II the depression of the 1930s could recur: increasing prosperity in the U.S. was one goal of the Marshall Plan — as a way of boosting exports, the plan had wide appeal to American business people, bankers, workers, and farmers.[7]
GMF and US secret services
Conceived during the Cold War by Willy Brandt to tie Europe and the United States, for investigative journalists, the German Marshall Fund was 'a breeding ground for journalists, university students and politicians committed to Atlantism.' Although the Fund altered slightly with the collapse of the USSR, "it still draws the attention of the US secret service that is widely represented in its administration council."[8]
1972 was a the time of widespread protest against the Viet Nam war. The Red Army Faction had just attacked the US Head Quarters in Heidelberg to destroy the strategic computer that controlled the bombers in South-East Asia. It was also the time of the strategy of tension whereby NATO secret services manipulated right and left-wing factions to encourage a more authoritarian government. The idea behind the Fund was that it would facilitate the identification and recruitment of new “messengers of Atlantism”. With the collapse of the cold war the neoconservatives have reactivated the Atlantic networks, to use in their own project dominated by two terms coined by Joseph Nye:'Neo-liberalism' and 'soft power'.
Going East
The Fund has expanded into Eastern Europe through the establishment together with USAID of a program worth 25 million dollars, the Balkan Trust for Democracy.[9]
It is alleged that the fund has close ties with US intelligence:
- It was obvious that so much discretion tried, above all things, to hide the responsibilities of the majority of directors in the Pentagon and CIA. Lee Hamillton is the vice-president of the presidential commission on September 11, member of the Homeland Security Advisory Board and has been decorated by the CIA and DIA. Hamilton, former member of Parliament, headed one of the investigation commissions on the scandal Iran-Contras where he studied the role of another manager of the Fund, Robert M. Kimmitt, who was then executive director of the National Security Council and involved in the scandal up to his neck. Later, M. Kimmit was appointed vice-president of AOL-Time-Warner by his friend, General Colin Powell.[10]
This would seem to be reinforced by the presence of Suzanne Woolsey, the wife of R. James Woolsey, former CIA director. Recently the Fund aided in the production of A Transatlantic Strategy for Democratic Development in the Middle East[11]written by:
- Ronald D. Asmus: executive director of the Transatlantic Center of the GMF in Brussels, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from 1997-2000 and has been a senior analyst and fellow at the CIA-run Radio Free Europe, RAND, the Council on Foreign Relations, Euston Manifesto United States and and the World Security Network [12] which was started by Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)and also includes LordPeter Inge.
- Larry Diamond a director at the National Endowment for Democracy and edits their Journal of Democracy and is an adviser to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the United Nations, the U. S. State Department[13] and
- Michael McFaul, along with Diamond a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution Freedom House, the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy, the steering committee for the Europe and Eurasia division of Human Rights Watch and the International Research and Exchange Board (his areas of interest at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace are 'Democracy Promotion' and 'NATO Expansion')[14] and
- Mark Leonard director of foreign policy studies at the Centre for European Reform formerly of The Foreign Policy Centre.
The essay argues for a slight reorientation of the 'Transatlantic Alliance:
- In the 1990s, the United States and its European allies took a transatlantic relationship that was forged during the Cold War and designed to contain Soviet power and transformed it into a new partnership focused on consolidating democracy in central and eastern Europe, halting ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, and building a new partnership with Russia. Today, this relationship must again be overhauled so that it can meet a new set of challenges centered in the broader Middle East.
People
Board of Trustees
- Guido Goldman, Co-Chairman. Director, German Studies Program, Harvard Center for European Studies, Goldman's father is Nahum Goldmann who in 1936 helped organize the World Jewish Congress.[15] and was in charge of the Atlantik Brucke (the Atlantic Bridge) during the Cold War.[16]
- Marc Leland, Co-Chairman. President, Marc Leland and Associates runs an investment office in Arlington and an oil service company in Texas. He was also in charge of the Atlantik Institute in Paris during the Cold War.[17]
- Calvin M. Dooley President, Food Products Association
- Marc Grossman Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group
- David Ignatius Editorial Columnist, The Washington Post
- Nike Irvin Executive Director, Level Playing Field Institute
- Craig Kennedy President, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
- Scott Klug Chief Executive Officer, Wisconsin Trails Publishing
- Roman Martinez IV, New York, New York
- Richard Powers Managing Director, Goldman Sachs International
- J. Thomas Presby Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, retired, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
- John A. Ross New York, New York
- Barbara Shailor Executive Director Solidarity Center
- Jenonne Walker Washington, DC
- Leah Zell President, LZW Group
- J. Robinson West, Chairman, PFC Energy
- Suzanne H. Woolsey Washington, DC
Events carried out
| Event | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Brussels Forum | Belgium Brussels | Spooky annual get-together of US/European functionaries laid on by the German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2006 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2007 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2008 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2009 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2010 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2011 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2012 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2013 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2014 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The theme in 2014 was A World in Transition |
| Brussels Forum/2015 | Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Cleve | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The 2015 main theme was (R)evolution. |
| Brussels Forum/2016 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2017 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The overarching theme was "‘End of Complacency – Era of Action?" |
| Brussels Forum/2018 | Belgium Brussels | Annual 3 day spooky get-together of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and German Marshall Fund. Discussed the "Fight for Economic Equality". |
| Brussels Forum/2019 | Belgium Brussels | Annual 3 day spooky get-together of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and German Marshall Fund. Discussed the "Fight for Economic Equality". |
| Brussels Forum/2023 | Belgium Brussels | Annual 3 day spooky get-together of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the very spooky German Marshall Fund. |
| Brussels Forum/2024 | Belgium Brussels Hotel Le Plaza | Annual spooky get-together of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the very spooky German Marshall Fund. |
A Quote by German Marshall Fund
| Page | Quote | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Brussels Forum/2010 | “Some of us think of José Manuel Barroso as a former scholar at Georgetown University in Washington.” | March 2010 |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels Forum/2014 | “The ultimate soft power instrument in the world is the Brussels Forum” | Carl Bildt | 2014 |
| Marshall Memorial Fellowship | “I was invited by the think-tank The German Marshall Fund of the United States as a fellow. I was to visit the United States for six weeks. It was fully paid. During these six weeks I could...this think-tank has very close connections to the CIA, to this day, they acquired contacts in the CIA for me and they got me access to American politicians, to everyone I wanted. Above all, they showered me with gifts. There one told me, they knew exactly, 'hello, you were [earlier] on a diving course in Oman...' The CIA knew very precisely. And the CIA also gave me something: The diving gear. I received the diving gear in the United States, and I received an invitation from the state of Oklahoma from the governor. I went there. It was a small ceremony, and I received an honorary citizenship. I am now honorary citizen of an American state. And in this, it is written that I will only cover the US positively. I accepted this honorary citizenship and was quite proud over it. I proudly told about it to a colleague who worked in the US. He said 'Ha, I already have 31 of these honorary citizenships!' I don't tell about this to be witty, today I am ashamed, really. | Udo Ulfkotte |
Employee on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Jan Techau | Director of the Europe Program | 2016 |
Known members
36 of the 245 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| John Allen | A Retired US Marine Corps 4 star General |
| Clara Ferreira Alves | Portuguese journalist who attended the 2011 Bilderberg. Member of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund |
| Timothy Garton Ash | UK historian, Ditchley Governor with other connections. Presented a paper to the 1989 Bilderberg. Subsequently attended two more, over a span of 30 years. |
| Catherine Ashton | A woman with zero qualification or experience of foreign affairs who, in 2009, was made 'High representative for Foreign Affairs and Security policy' in a deal which finally recognised that the position was NOT going to be given to Tony Blair |
| Ali Aslan | Spooky journalist, Georgetown University, many deep state ties |
| Ronald Asmus | Expanded NATO eastwards |
| Mustafa Aydin | Turkish "security" academic. German Marshall Fund. Bilderberg/2024 |
| Jeff Bergner | Cercle attendee. Project for the New American Century. German Marshall Fund. Hudson Institute |
| Mark Cunningham | US intelligence worker specializing in creating and promoting NGOs for regime changes. |
| Larry Diamond | regime change expert |
| Karen Donfried | US spook, German Marshall Fund President 2014-2021 |
| Aaron Friedberg | US political scientist |
| Michael Froman | Serial WEF meeting visitor with many other SDS connections |
| Guido Goldman | |
| Marc Grossman | Member of Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery, attended the 1998 and 2007 Bilderbergs. |
| David Ignatius | Attender of spooky "security" conferences |
| Wolfgang Ischinger | Spooky German diplomat. Chaired the Munich Security Conference |
| Craig Kennedy | president of the German Marshall Fund in the period 1996-2014 |
| Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff | Vice President and Executive Director of the Berlin office at the German Marshall Fund, attender of a lot of deep staste events. The Alphen Group |
| Karen Kornbluh | Spook. BBG Governor |
| David Kramer | US academic with multiple deep state connections. Conduit for giving the Steele Dossier to Buzzfeed. |
| Miroslav Lajčák | Slovak diplomat with WEF AGM habit |
| Cecilia Malmström | European Commissioner for Trade 2014-2019 |
| Christoph von Marschall | Tranatlantic German journalist |
| Michael McFaul | US Ambassador to Russia 2012-2014 |
| Matthias Naß | Former Bilderberg steering committee. International correspondent for die Zeit. |
| Meghan O'Sullivan | WEF AGM, MSC, Brussels Forum, Trilateral Commission/North American Chair... |
| Minxin Pei | Single Bilderberg Chinese born academic with deep state connections |
| Kori Schake | Spooky US think-tanker |
| Robin Shepherd | Former Moscow Bureau Chief for The Times now working for intelligence think tanks. |
| Constanze Stelzenmüller | German editor and deep state operative of uncertain rank |
| Stephen Szabo | Heavy BF habit |
| Nathalie Tocci | Italian political scientist and international relations "expert" |
| Clint Watts | FBI Russia "expert" who can't speak Russian. "Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words. America’s war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America." |
| Vin Weber | Adviser to 2008 US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney |
| Cem Özdemir | German Green war-loving politician who experienced rocket career after being taken under the wings of transatlantic influence networks. MSC regular |
Sponsors
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | Private foundation, began in 1926 |
| Democracy Fund | Finances numerous organizations as part of effort to control the narrative. Founded by Pierre Omidyar in 2011. |
| Hewlett Foundation | Huge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects. |
| King Baudouin Foundation | The Belgian royal family, which made its fortune from hand-chopping in the Congo and created the first stooge NGO the International African Association, feels the urge finance new ventures. Coordinates with of a number of similar foundations owned by billionaires or NATO countries , financing select projects. |
| 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. |
| Smith Richardson Foundation | CIA front organization that funds select projects with $$$ |
References
- ↑ https://off-guardian.org/2019/10/06/watch-udo-ulfkotte-bought-journalists/
- ↑ About GMF, German Marshall Fund of the United States, accessed 25 June, 2008.
- ↑ Library of Congress For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan, accessed 16 September 2008
- ↑ http://www.smokershistory.com/PHoffman.htm Much Intrigue surrounds Hoffman's role:
- "During his stay in Washington, Jean Monnet had been in more or less direct contact with a lot if not with all members of the Committee for Economic Development and more generally with American businessmen involved in the war effort. Paul Hoffman and Averell Harriman were in particular two of his close acquaintances. This group was therefore a key element in the American side of the bridging network." Monnet, officially the head of the French Supply Council (CFA), also developed ties with Robert Nathan of the US War Production Board; George Ball, a lawyer employed by the CFA; Eugen [sic] Rostow; and Harvard Law School antitrust specialist Robert Bowie, who in 1948 became General Counsel to the American High Commissioner in Germany, John McCloy: "He had met Jean Monnet and worked with him in the 1930s when the latter was an investment banker with the American firm of Blair and Company. Dwight Morrow, a Morgan Banker who later became American Ambassador to Mexico, was an old professional acquaintance of Jean Monnet from the late 1920s. Morrow had significant clout in Washington and he was also the open door to the Morgan world and networks. Dean Acheson and after him John Foster Dulles were two powerful Secretaries of State of the Eisenhower era. Both were closely related, through previous professional and personal interactions with Jean Monnet. To these politicians and statesmen should be added the names of a few star journalists - such as Walter Lippman, who wrote in the New Republic and in the New York Herald Tribune, James Reston from the New York Times or Katherine and Philip Graham from The Washington Post."
- ↑ Library of Congress For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan, accessed 16 September 2008
- ↑ David W. Ellwood The Marshall Plan A Strategy That Worked eJournal USA, posted on the State Department Website, April 2008
- ↑ Library of Congress For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan, accessed 16 September 2008
- ↑ Thierry Meyssan (2004) A Cold War Freak for Covert Action: The German Marshall Fund, a Fund for Secret Action Specialists? Voltaire Net, 5 October, accessed 16 September 2008
- ↑ http://www.gmfus.org/balkantrust/
- ↑ Thierry Meyssan (2004) A Cold War Freak for Covert Action: The German Marshall Fund, a Fund for Secret Action Specialists? Volttaire Net, 5 October, accessed 16 September 2008
- ↑ republished in The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Spring 2005) pp. 7-21.
- ↑ http://www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/corp/dsp_iab3.cfm
- ↑ http://www.hoover.org/bios/diamond.html
- ↑ http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/faculty/mcfaul.html
- ↑ http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/vishnevo/v_pages/vstories_nahum_goldman.html
- ↑ Thierry Meyssan (2004) A Cold War Freak for Covert Action: The German Marshall Fund, a Fund for Secret Action Specialists?
- ↑ Thierry Meyssan (2004) A Cold War Freak for Covert Action: The German Marshall Fund, a Fund for Secret Action Specialists? Volttaire Net, 5 October, accessed 16 September 2008
