(Biblioteca Pleyades) The following was found on the website for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) [http://www.csis.org/]. The website tells us.
by Staff Writer
“The mission of CSIS is policy impact.. Its goal is to inform and shape selected policy decisions in government and the private sector to meet the increasingly complex and difficult challenges that leaders will confront in the next century.”1
The CSIS website tells us it achieves its mission in three ways:
“By generating strategic analysis – CSIS is a source of scholarly analysis on international public policy issues…
By convening policymakers and other influential parties – CSIS has a long-standing reputation for bringing together leaders from government, the private sector, and academia from around the world…
By building structures for policy action – CSIS mobilizes government and private-sector leaders in action commissions and other high-level groups and then moves policymakers to take concrete actions.”2
Propaganda, is the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another. Propaganda is used to create false reality worlds using sleight of mind. Psycho-political operations are propaganda campaigns. Strategic psycho-political operations focus propaganda at powerful individuals, or small groups of people capable of influencing public opinion or the government of a particular country. Tactical psycho-political operations focus propaganda at the masses by interference in specific events, their comments, and their appeals through mass communication media ( i.e. newspapers, radio, television, textbooks, educational material, art, entertainment, etc. ). Both forms of propaganda are used to manipulate public opinion to attain foreign policy goals in a given period. If the operations are designed to conceal both the operation and the sponsor the operation is clandestine. If the operations are designed only to conceal only the sponsor the operation is covert.3
Conspicuously absent from the CSIS web-site are links of CSIS members to the Council on Foreign Relations. Once the links are added it becomes clear that the CSIS is run by the Council on foreign Relations. CSIS is part of the Council on Foreign Relations propaganda machine, that focuses well planned psycho-political operations at powerful individuals and the masses.
CSIS convenes 700-800 meetings, seminars, and conference each year in Washington and throughout the world. These are strategic psycho-political operations meant to influence powerful individuals at home and abroad. CSIS generates thousands of media appearances, articles, and background contacts annually. These are tactical psycho-political operations meant to influence mass public opinion.4
When the CSIS informs and shapes selected policy decisions in government and the private sector they do so to further the interests of Council on Foreign Relations members, and members of CFR branch organizations in other nations, not the American people.
Founded in 1962 and located in Washington, D.C., CSIS is a private, tax-exempt institution. Its research is non-partisan and non-proprietary. On January 1, 1999, Sam Nunn will take over for CFR member Anne Armstrong as chairman of its Board of Trustees, and CFR member Robert Zoellick will assume the presidency as CFR member David M. Abshire moves on as CSIS chancellor.5
Center for Strategic and International Studies list of “Who Leads CSIS” contains 63 people, 35 are Council on Foreign Relations members . Of the Center’s staff of 80 research specialists at least 20 are Council on Foreign Relations members.
Contributions from more than 300 corporations, foundations, and individuals constitute 85% of the revenues required to meet the Center’s budget, which in 1997 was $17 million. The remaining funds come from endowment income, government contracts, and publication sales. 6
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a public policy research institution dedicated to analysis and policy impact. CSIS is the only institution of its kind that maintains resident experts on all the world’s major geographical regions. It also covers key functional areas, such as international finance, U.S. domestic and economic policy, and U.S. foreign policy and national security issues. 7
The Center’s gateway to Asia is the Honolulu-based Pacific Forum CSIS. It is the hub of network of 20 research institutes around the Pacific Rim. Forum programs encompass current and emerging political, security, economic, and business issues. CFR member Brent Scowcroft chairs its Board of Governors and James A. Kelly is its president.8
CSIS Counselor CFR member Henry Kissinger chairs the semiannual meetings of The International Councillors. This group of international business leaders discuss the implications of the changing economic and strategic environment. 9
CSIS launched the National Security in the Twenty-First Century Project last year. It is co-chaired by CFR member Harold Brown and CFR member James Schlesinger. It promises a comprehensive look at what must be done to provide credible, capable defense of the nation, its interests, and its allies. The project focuses on four critical, strategic dimensions of future U.S. national security: resources, strategy and force structure, information warfare, U.S. national security decision-making. Resources for National Security: With the 1995 publication of Defense in the Late 1990’s: Avoiding the Train Wreck, CSIS was one of the first policy institutions to warn that the American drive to reduce the budget deficit threatens to severely undermine U.S. military capabilities unless entitlement spending is also cut or taxes are increased.10
Revisiting the National Security Act of 1947 is an ongoing comprehensive study overseen by former secretaries of defense CFR member Harold Brown and CFR member James Schlesinger. The study was launched eighteen months ago when CSIS first argued the pressing need to revise the 1947 Act to reflect the changing nature of U.S. foreign and defense requirements and the changing character of the tools at the disposal of U.S. policy-makers for meeting those requirements. The study will conclude in a published report in late 1998.11
CFR members on CSIS Board of Trustees include:
Council on Foreign Relations member Anne Armstrong*, former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain; Chairman, CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member Maurice R. Greenberg*Chairman, American International Group, Inc.; Vice Chairman CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member William A. Schreyer Chairman Emeritus, Merrill Lynch& Co., Inc.; Chairman, Executive Committee CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member David M. Abshire*, member CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member William E. Brock, member CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member Harold Brown, member CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member Zbigniew Brzezinski, member CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member Joseph T. Gorman, member CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member Henry A. Kissinger, member CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member John C. Sawhill, member CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member James R. Schlesinger, member CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member Brent Scowcroft, member CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member R. James Woolsey, member CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member Amos A. Jordan, Emeritus, member CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member Leonard H. Marks, Emeritus, member CSIS Board of Trustees
Council on Foreign Relations member Robert S. Strauss, Emeritus, member CSIS Board of Trustees
CSIS Advisory Board – The Advisory Board is composed of both public and private sector policymakers, including 14 members of Congress.
The Board is cochaired by Council on Foreign Relations member Zbigniew Brzezinski and Carla Hills.
Council on Foreign Relations member David M. Abshire, Chancellor (effective January 1, 1999)
Council on Foreign Relations member Robert B Zoellick, President and CEO (effective January 1, 1999)
Council on Foreign Relations member Richard M. Fairbanks III, Managing Director for Domestic and International Issues
Council on Foreign Relations member William J. Taylor, Jr., Senior Vice President for International Security Affairs
Council on Foreign Relations member Erik R. Peterson, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies
CFR CSIS Counselors are world-class strategists who have formerly held top-level government posts. They bring to the Center and extensive reserve of expertise and experience.
Council on Foreign Relations member William E. Brock
Council on Foreign Relations member Harold Brown
Council on Foreign Relations member Zbigniew Brzezinski
Council on Foreign Relations member Henry A. Kissinger
Council on Foreign Relations member James R. Schlesinger
CFR CSIS Advisers – Senior advisers and associates are an integral part of the CSIS family. They provide substantive counsel and input on the full range of Center projects.
Council on Foreign Relations member, Fred C. Iklé (in residence), CSIS Distinguished Senior Scholars
Council on Foreign Relations member Bernard Lewis (Princeton University) CSIS Distinguished Senior Scholars
Council on Foreign Relations member William J. Crowe. Jr., CSIS Distinguished Senior Adviser
Council on Foreign Relations member J. Carter Bees, CSIS Senior Advisers
Council on Foreign Relations member Richard R. Burt, CSIS Senior Advisers
Council on Foreign Relations member Arnaud de Borchgrave, CSIS Senior Advisers
Council on Foreign Relations member Diana Lady Dougan, CSIS Senior Advisers
Council on Foreign Relations member Dante B. Fascell, CSIS Senior Advisers
Council on Foreign Relations member Amos A. Jordan, CSIS Senior Advisers
Council on Foreign Relations member Max M. Kampelman, CSIS Senior Advisers
Council on Foreign Relations member Robert H. Kupperman, CSIS Senior Advisers
Council on Foreign Relations member David McCurdy, CSIS Senior Advisers
Council on Foreign Relations member Stephen J. Solarz, CSIS Senior Advisers12
CFR CSIS research specialists
Council on Foreign Relations Member David Manker Abshire, President
Council on Foreign Relations Member M. Delal Baer, Deputy Director, Americas Program, Director, Mexico Project
Council on Foreign Relations Member Richard Burt, Senior Adviser
Council on Foreign Relations Member Joseph J. Collins Senior Fellow, Political-Military Studies
Council on Foreign Relations Member L. Gray Cowan, Senior Associate, African Studies
Council on Foreign Relations Member Arnaud de Borchgrave, Project Director, Global
Council on Foreign Relations Member Diana Lady Dougan Senior Adviser and Chair, International Communications Studies
Council on Foreign Relations Member Richard M. Fairbanks III Managing Director, Domestic and International Issues
Council on Foreign Relations Member Charles M. Herzfeld Senior Associate
Council on Foreign Relations Member Shireen T. Hunter, Program Director, Islamic Studies
Council on Foreign Relations Member Fred C. Iklé Distinguished Scholar
Council on Foreign Relations Member Amos A. Jordan, President Emeritus, Senior Adviser, Pacific Forum/CSIS
Council on Foreign Relations Member Max M. Kampelman, Senior Adviser
Council on Foreign Relations Member Judith Kipper, Codirector, Middle East Studies Program
Council on Foreign Relations Member Helen Kitchen Chairman, African Studies
Council on Foreign Relations Member Robert H. Kupperman Senior Adviser
Council on Foreign Relations Member Edward N. Luttwak Chair, New Italy Project
Council on Foreign Relations Member Richard W. Murphy, Senior Associate
Council on Foreign Relations Member Erik R. Peterson, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies
Council on Foreign Relations Member Stephen J. Solarz, Senior Adviser
Council on Foreign Relations Member William J. Taylor Jr., Senior Vice President, International Security Affairs, Director, Political-Military Studies
Council on Foreign Relations Member Howard J. Wiarda, Senior Associate, Political-Military Studies
Council on Foreign Relations Member Dov S. Zakheim, Senior Associate, Political-Military Studies
Council on Foreign Relations Member Robert B. Zoellick, Senior Associate13
References
[1] What is the CSIS Mission?- http://www.csis.org/html/csismiss.html , 09/13/98
[2] How does CSIS implement this mission? http://www.csis.org/html/csismiss.html#implement , 09/13/98
[3] Pollock, Daniel C Project Director & Editors De Mclaurin,Ronald, Rosenthal, Carl F., Skillings, Sarah A., The Art and Science of Psychological Operations: Case Studies of Military Application Volume One, Pamphlet No. 725-7-2, DA Pam 525-7-2, Headquarters Department of the Army Washington, DC, 1 April 1976 Vol 2 pg 825 – Ways and Means of US Ideological Expansion, By A. Valyuzhenich, bio lists him as a soviet analyst; no further information available — the article was printed in International Affairs (Moscow) magazine February 1971, pp. 63-68;
[4] How does CSIS communicate? http://www.csis.org/html/csiscomm.html , 09/13/98
[5] What is CSIS? http://www.csis.org/html/mission1.html , 09/13/98
[6] Who funds CSIS?http://www.csis.org/html/csiscomm.html#fund , 09/13/98
[7] What is CSIS? http://www.csis.org/html/mission1.html , 09/13/98
[8] ibid
[9] How is CSIS Organized? The International Councillors, http://www.csis.org/html/csisorg.html , 09/13/98
[10] Political and Military Studies, National Security Priorities in the 21st Century and Military Culture, http://www.csis.org/polmil/ , 09/13/98
[11] Political and Military Studies, Revisiting the National Security Act: , http://www.csis.org/polmil/ , 09/13/98
[12] Who leads CSIS? (CSIS) http://www.csis.org/html/csislead.html , 09/13/98
[13] CSIS Scholars, http://www.csis.org/html/4scholars.html , 09/13/98
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