University of Chicago

University of Chicago   (University)
Motto	Crescat scientia, vita excolatur (Latin)
Formation	1890
Headquarters	Chicago,  USA
Type	Private nondenominational coeducational
Subgroups	University of Chicago/Law School
Sponsor of	Obama Foundation
Sponsored by	Carnegie Corporation, Hewlett Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Other name	Maroons
Subpage	•University of Chicago/Law School
One of the most important private universities in the USA

Not to be confused with University of Illinois at Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university in Illinois, the United States. It was established at the end of the 19th century and is considered one of the most important private universities founded in the USA during this period.^{[By whom?]} Its scholars have played a major role in the development of many academic disciplines, including economics, law, literary criticism, mathematics, physics, religion, sociology, and political science.

The Chicago Boys

The so-called Chicago school of economic thought, led by Milton Friedman and Robert Lucas, emerged from the university's economics department. Their neoclassical theory was one of the most important of the second half of the 20th century.

The Chicago Boys were a group of Chilean economists. They studied from 1956 to 1970 mostly at the University of Chicago and were inspired by the ideas of Friedrich August von Hayek and Milton Friedman. They became very influential in economic and socio-political terms in Chile after th CIA-backed 1973 Chilean coup d'état brought Augusto Pinochet to power. These economists sought to prove the superiority of "free markets", privatization and "deregulation". Because of the political conditions in the dictatorship, they were initially able to push through their far-reaching reform ideas without any major compromises. In the 1980s and 1990s, economists educated in Chicago (and increasingly at Ivy League faculties such as Harvard or MIT) were able to gain influence in several other Latin American countries with authoritarian governments modeled on Chile.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Victor Marchetti	“To the Clandestine Services the universities represented fertile territory for recruiting espionage agents. Most large American colleges enrolled substantial numbers of foreign students, and many of these, especially those from the Third World, were (and are) destined to hold high positions in their home countries in a relatively few years. They were much easier to recruit at American schools — when they might have a need for money, where they could be easily compromised, and where foreign security services could not interfere — than they would be when they returned home. To spot and evaluate these students, the Clandestine Services maintained a contractual relationship with key professors on numerous campuses. When a professor had picked out a likely candidate, he notified his contact at the CIA and, on occasion, participated in the actual recruitment attempt. Some professors performed these services without being on a formal retainer. Others actively participated in agency covert operations by serving as "cut-outs," or intermediaries, and even by carrying out secret missions during foreign journeys.”	Victor Marchetti	1974
Victor Marchetti	“Helms asked his staff to find out just how many university personnel were under secret contract to the CIA. After a few days of investigation, senior CIA officers reported back that they could not find the answer. Helms immediately ordered a full study of the situation, and after more than a month of searching records all over the agency, a report was handed in to Helms listing hundreds of professors and administrators on over a hundred campuses. But the staff officers who compiled the report knew that their work was incomplete . Within weeks, another campus connection was exposed in the press. The contact was not on the list that had been compiled for the Director.”	Victor Marchetti	1974

 

Group

Group	Start	Description
University of Chicago Booth School of Business	1898	Its alumni leads many big corporations

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
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.
Hewlett Foundation	Huge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects.
John M. Olin Foundation	Former (closed in 2005) "right-wing" grant-maker. CIA cut-out to select projects.
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation	"A private, independent grantmaking organization based in Milwaukee"

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Ali Abunimah	29 December 1971			Author Journalist	"the leading American proponent of a one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict"
Roger Altman	2 April 1946		US	Banker	US Banker, Bilderberg Steering Committee
Reginald Bartholomew	17 February 1936	26 August 2012	US	Diplomat	Friend of Leslie Gelb of the Council on Foreign Relations. Then appointed to a number of high-ranking positions. He attended the 1989 Bilderberg meeting as Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, then was appointed Ambassador to Lebanon (1983–1986), Spain (1986–1989), and Italy (1993–1997), and Permanent Representative to NATO.
Saul Bellow	10 June 1915	5 April 2005	Canada US	Author	US/Canadian writer. Member of Balkan Action Committee & Committee on the Present Danger
Bernard Berelson	1912	1979	US	Propagandist Academic Deep state functionary	US propagandist and deep state functionary
Klaus Blech	14 August 1928	30 March 2022	Germany	Diplomat	Panelist on Developments in The Soviet Union: Political And Economic Impact On The Alliance at the 1991 Bilderberg
Robert Bork	1 March 1927	19 December 2012		Academic	Solicitor General under Richard Nixon, Bork was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, but failed.
Charles Bowsher	31 May 1931		US	Civil servant	Comptroller General of the United States from 1981 to 1996
Francis Boyle	25 March 1950	30 January 2025		Academic Lawyer	Author of Biowarfare and Terrorism, which outlines how and why the US government initiated, sustained and then dramatically expanded an illegal biological arms buildup.
Nina Burleigh	1960			Author Journalist	US writer and investigative journalist.
John Buse			US	Whistleblower Doctor	When he warned of risks with GlaxoSmithKline diabetes drug Avandia, the company forced him to retract by threatening to destroy his academic career and a huge lawsuit for loss in stock value.
Agustín Carstens	9 June 1958		Mexico	Economist Central banker	BIS General Manager
Ahmed Chalabi	30 October 1944	3 November 2015	Iraq	Politician Deep state functionary	"A crafty, avuncular Iraqi exile beloved by Washington's neoconservatives" who attended the 2006 Bilderberg a month after quitting as Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq.
Liz Cheney	28 July 1966			Deep politician	Republican politician from Wyoming. Daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Ramsey Clark	18 December 1927	11 April 2021		Activist Lawyer	US Attorney General turned activist
Frank Coe	1907	2 June 1980		Spook
Avner Cohen	1951		Israel US	Academic Historian	Israeli/US historian
Andrew Cordier	1 March 1901	11 July 1975	US	Diplomat	UN official who facilitated the coup against Patrice Lumumba. Bilderberg/1962. Later President of Columbia University.
William Corson	25 September 1925	17 July 2000		Spook Soldier Academic	Spook and counterinsurgency expert who became became critical of the "American intelligence empire". Unofficial adviser to Frank Church and the Senate Intelligence Activities Committee.
Jon Corzine	1 January 1947		US	Financier Deep state functionary	6 times Bilderberger financier
Waldo Dubberstein	21 October 1907	May 1983	US	Spook	US spook shot in the head after becoming entangled in Edwin Wilson
Nejat Eczacıbaşı	5 January 1913	6 October 1993	Turkey	Chemist Deep state operative Businessperson	Triple Bilderberger Turkish businessman who co-founded Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association
Adele Edisen					"When the Warren Report was published, I was mystified and dismayed by the conclusion that Oswald acted alone, and that Jack Ruby acted alone, for my experiences told me otherwise."
Daniel Elazar	25 August 1934	2 December 1999		Academic
Larry Ellison	17 August 1944		US	Billionaire	Multi-billionaire who founded Oracle. First customer was the CIA.
Isabel Gil	22 July 1965		Portugal	Academic administrator	Attended the 2024 Bilderberg as rector of the Catholic University of Portugal.
Philip Giraldi	1946			Spook "Terror expert"	CIA/DIA spook and “terrorism expert”
Paul Goble			US	Spook	US spook working on ethnic and nationality questions in Eastern Europe
G. McMurtrie Godley	23 August 1917	1999	US	Diplomat	A US diplomat
David Graeber	12 February 1961	2 September 2020		Activist Academic Anarchism COVID-19/Premature death	Anarchist anthropologist who played a leading role in the Occupy movement. Died suddenly in 2020.
Katharine Graham	16 June 1917	17 July 2001	US	Deep state functionary Media executive	Quad Bilderberger, TLC, deep state functionary?
Jessica de Grazia
Avril Haines	29 August 1969		US	Spook Deep state actor	"The proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing". Possible central figure in several major psy-ops, including Russiagate and COVID-19.
Michael Harrington	24 February 1928	31 July 1989		Author Activist Academic	US democratic socialist whi write The Other America.
Carla Hayden	10 August 1952			Bureaucracy	US Librarian of Congress
Seymour Hersh	8 April 1937			Journalist
Gertrude Himmelfarb	8 August 1922	30 December 2019	US	Historian Neoconservatism	US neocon historian and cultural critic. Marries neocon godfather Irving Kristol, mother of William Kristol
Deane Hinton	12 March 1923	28 March 2017	US	Diplomat
James Hoge	25 December 1935	19 September 2023	US	Editor	Attended the 1998 Bilderberg as Foreign Affairs/Editor
Charles Horner	8 April 1943			Diplomat	Formerly on the staff of Senator Henry M. Jackson. Neoconservative propagandist who wants China to be in conflict with the Islamic world.
Samuel Huntington	18 April 1927	24 December 2008	US	Academic Deep state operative	US political scientist and DSO known for his Clash of Civilizations narrative
Fred C. Iklé	21 August 1924	10 November 2011	US	Deep state operative	US deep state operative in the Reagan Administration, where he was proponent of psyops and supporting insurgencies. Attended Le Cercle RAND Corporation, Smith Richardson Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy, Center for Strategic and International Studies...
Kenneth Jacobs	1958		US	Banker Deep state actor	Bilderberger financier
Xenophon Kalamatiano	14 July 1882	9 November 1923	US	Spook	American intelligence agent implicated in the 1918 Allied Plot to Kill Lenin
Burton Kanter	12 August 1930	31 October 2001		Lawyer	"One of Chicago's most prominent-and controversial-tax attorneys"
Gülten Kazgan	5 June 1927		Turkey	Academic Economist	Known as the "Doyen of Economics" in Turkey
J. Ward Keener	6 August 1908	2 January 1981	US	Businessperson	US multinational business executive who went to the 1968 Bilderberg
Craig Kennedy				Spook	president of the German Marshall Fund in the period 1996-2014
Zalmay Khalilzad	22 March 1951		US	Diplomat Academic Deep state actor	US deep state actor who has been central in shaping the US policy towards Afghanistan
Klaus Knorr	16 May 1911	25 March 1990	US	Academic	German-born political scientist who was consultant to the Department of State, the Department of Defense and the CIA.
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