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Institute for Policy Studies
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The IPS is a highly influential, but little known source of ideas, guidance and training for the U.S. and international left.
Founded 1963, Washington, D.C.
Founded by Marcus Raskin, Richard Barnet
Head Office Washington, D.C.
Politics Far left
Website IPS website
Notable Affiliated Organizations:
Africa Action • Center for Corporate Policy • Code Pink • Demos • Jobs with Justice • Liberty Tree Foundation • Ploughshares Fund • TransAfrica Forum • TransNational Institute • United for a Fair Economy • United for Peace and Justice • Washington Office on Latin America
Notable Affiliated People:
Frances Fox Piven • Abner Mikva • Clarence Lusane • Barbara Ehrenreich • Bill Fletcher, Jr. • Derek Shearer • James Abourezk • Jodie Evans • Leon Panetta • Noam Chomsky • Michael Parenti • Robert Borosage • James Early • Tom Hayden

The Institute for Policy Studies was founded in 1963 in Washington DC and is a highly influential, but little known source of ideas, guidance and training for the U.S. and international left. It began as a revolutionary think-tank that consistently supported policies that facilitated the foreign policy goals of the Soviet Union and weakened the position of the United States.[1]

About

The Institute for Policy Studies is the largest and most influential of the far left think tanks in Washington. Since its founding in 1964 it has steadily followed a pro-Marxist line on foreign policy, defense and the economy and has spawned a large number of spin-offs, other think tanks and public affairs organizations following the same radical agenda.[2]

To put its policy recommendations into action, IPS built networks of contacts among Congressional legislators and their staffs, academics, government officials, and the national media.

In 1978, in an article in National Review, Brian Crozier, director of the London-based Institute for the Study of Conflict, described IPS as the "perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were to originate openly from the KGB."[1]

Soviet Sympathy, Disarmament and Pacifism

IPS has been particularly concerned with researching U.S. defense industries and arms sales policies to Free World countries under pressure from Soviet-supported terrorist movements. The director of IPS arms sales research, Michael Klare, is a veteran of the North American Congress on Latin America, a Castroite research group that has aided CIA defector Philip Agee, and who worked with the Center for National Security Studies, an IPS off-shoot affiliated with the Fund for Peace. Klare has made frequent trips to Havana to "lecture" on U.S. arms policies to "graduate students" at the University of Havana, and has participated in disarmament conferences sponsored by World Peace Council groups.

As at March, 1982, IPS's Arms Race and Nuclear Weapons Project was directed by Bill Arkin, who had been compiling a book of (United States) nuclear weapons data with "everything from where the bombs are stored to where weapons delivery systems are cooked up." The book was to be kept up-to-date with revisions bi-annually.

IPS played a seminal role in the formation and development of the Nuclear Research and Information Service, the World Information Service on Energy, and European Nuclear Disarmament.

World Peace Council meeting

From September 29, to October 12, 1975 the Soviet front World Peace Council sent a delegation on a ten-day tour of the United States of America, where it was "warmly and enthusiastically received". In six of the ten cities visited, the delegation was officially welcomed by the mayors' offices and presented with "keys to the city", medals and proclamations.

The delegation was composed of Romesh Chandra, Secretary General of the World Peace Council; Josef Cyrankiewicz, former Premier of Poland, for many years a prisoner at the infamous Auschwitz prison camp, "outstanding anti-fascist fighter", and Chairman of the Polish Peace Committee; Ambassador Harald Edelstam, Swedish Ambassador to Algeria, formerly Ambassador to Chile during the Allende Presidency,"renowned for his rescue of hundreds of Chileans from the fascist junta"; Purabhi Mukherji, General Secretary of the Congress Party of India, member of Parliament and formerly a minister of the Indian government ~ for 15 years; James Lamond, Labour member of British Parliament, former Mayor of Aberdeen, Scotland, and active member of the Engineering Workers Union; Yacov Lomko, Editor-in-Chief of the Moscow News, leading member of the Soviet Peace Committee, and Communist Party USA member Karen Talbot, US member of the WPC Secretariat.

At an informal luncheon given by the Institute for Policy Studies, the WPC representatives had a probing and lively discussion with those present on "questions of disarmament and detente".[3]

Soviet visit

On April 10, 1982, an IPS-sponsored group visiting Moscow for a week of meetings with high-level Soviet officials responsible for disseminating disinformation and propaganda for U.S. consumption, met with U.S. reporters to serve as the unofficial means for floating the possibility that Brezhnev might agree to a New York summit meeting in New York at SSD-II. The IPS group, led by its principal spokesman, Marcus Raskin, IPS cofounder and senior fellow, included Robert Borosage, IPS director, National Lawyers Guild activist and former director of the Center for National Security Studies; Minneapolis Mayor Donald M. Fraser; Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Episcopal Bishop of New York; New York lawyer Robert S. Potter; and Roger Wilkins, journalist and senior fellow of the Joint Center for Political Studies which specializes in "black issues."

The IPS group identified only two of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee officials they met - Georgi A. Arbatov, head of the Institute of the USA and Canada, a "think-tank" that provides research and analysis and also cultivates and develops contacts with Americans at the direction of the KGB and the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee; and Vadim V. Zagladin, first deputy chief of the International Department.

In various U.S. interviews, Borosage has floated such standard Soviet themes as the Soviet Union is satisfied by "rough parity" with the United States; that the United States is restarting the arms race; that the Soviets want to go back to SALT II and get U.S. ratification; that if the United States starts another round in the arms race, it will seriously hurt the Soviet economy and ordinary Soviet citizens-but they'll still go ahead, so competition is futile; and the threat that the modern U.S. weapons proposed for deployment are "very dangerous... and would lead to much more dangerous stages that would make both sides insecure, not more secure."

Borosage took pains to say that the Soviets are "skeptical" of the disarmament movement and "they hadn't expected it. It was much more powerful and widespread than they'd ever imagined."[1]

Founders

IPS founders were Kennedy era White House staffer Marcus Raskin and State Department lawyer, the late Richard Barnet.

From the IPS website history page:[4]

It all began at a high-powered State Department meeting full of generals and defense industry executives in 1961, at the height of the Cold War. When one official declared "If this group cannot bring about disarmament, then no one can," two young men in the audience couldn’t help but snicker. The culprits, White House staffer Marcus Raskin and State Department lawyer Richard Barnet, looked across the room and decided to get to know each other.
Within two years, Raskin and Barnet had left the Kennedy Administration and founded the Institute for Policy Studies, where they could more freely "speak truth to power.” Over more than four decades, IPS public scholars have used their independence — from government, from corporate money, and from the silos of academia — to combine fresh, bold ideas with effective action. They have provided critical support for the major social movements of our time by producing seminal books, films, and articles; educating key policymakers and the general public; and crafting practical strategies in support of peace, justice, and the environment.
“IPS pioneered the modern politics of ideas in the capital. And even as conservatives were clubbing IPS, they attempted to imitate its form. The Heritage Foundation, for example, was modeled directly on IPS.” -Washington Post, 1986.

Marcus Raskin and another founder Arthur Waskow, had previously worked for Democratic Congressman Robert Kastenmeier of Wisconsin. In 1961 they co-authored a report for him that recommended unilateral disarmament for the U.S.[5]

Founding Principles

From the IPS website history page:[4]

No government funding: Since it is difficult to "speak truth to power" if one takes funds from that "power," IPS does not accept any government money.
Public scholarship: IPS turns "ideas into action" through staff who combine inter-disciplinary research and writing skills with activist experience, based on the belief that dynamic social movements drive most social change.
Building alternatives: At least half of the Institute's work focuses on positive alternatives to current policies and institutions. Some of this work is transformational and visionary, laying out alternative systems and institutions. Some offers steps toward those larger transformations.
Social inventions: IPS has created many projects that then spin off into independent organizations, such as the Government Accountability Project and the Institute for Southern Studies, or become government initiatives, such as the National Teacher Corps in the 1960s and 1970s.
The power of convening: With progressive movements often weakened by their fragmentation, IPS convenes unlikely allies to meet new challenges for peace, justice, and the environment.

Projects

Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards: 11th Annual - 1987

IPS created the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards annual ceremony/gathering to honor the memory of two IPS employees, former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt who were killed in a car bombing in Washington, D.C. September 21,1976. Several Chilean government agents were convicted for the murders. (It was later revealed through recovered documents that Letelier was carrying, that he was a Cuban DGI agent-of-influence working to restore the Allende marxists to power in Chile).

The Washington Post usually covers this event in their "Style" section as though it was just something done by a non-partisan "human rights" organization to honor two of its members, despite the well publicized Marxist ideology of its sponsor, the Institute for Policy Studies IPS.[6]

The 11th Annual Awards affair, held at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington, D.C. featured a "Who's Who" of the marxist Left, especially pertaining to Latin America, the Anti-Defense Lobby, and some hardcore leftists in Congress.

The Annual Award was accepted by Joe Eldridge Joseph Eldridge, the "former director of the Washington Office on Latin America WOLA for 12 years."[7].(KW: He eventually became the head of the Religious Center at American University in the 2000s where he became embroiled in trouble due to his leftist activities).

Washington Post report Carla Hall, who wrote up the event, "The Rite for Rights", described his organization as one "which monitors and publicizes human rights abuses in Latin America" (except for most of what happened in Castro's Cuba, the Sandinistas' Nicaragua, the atrocities of the FMLN in El Salvador, and much of the communist guerrilla atrocities in South America (MIR, Sendero Luminosa, Tupamaros, FARC/ELF, etc.).

Very revealing was Eldridge's story about how WOLA was helping a Sandinista marxist lobby Congress. Hall wrote: "Like the time in 1978 when a WOLA staffer was escorting a young Sandinista, Roberto Vargas, to Capitol Hill to meet people. "I remember getting the call from the D.C. Jail," Eldridge said. "It seems that Roberto had tried to enter the Cannon House Office Building with a revolver with 50 rounds of ammunition. When he was stopped and asked why hed had a revolver, he said he needed some protection."

Hall also wrote the following which revealed a lot about IPS, the awards affair, and their supporters:

"But both Eldridge and current WOLA director Alexander Wilde reaffirmed the orgnaization's commitment to "the long haul," and Wilde said a newer challenge for the group will be "protecting people who live not in military regimes but in fragile civilian ones."

[KW: WOLA was virtually silent on the torture and murders committed by the Sandinistas of the Ortega Brothers and convicted murderer Tomas Borge but during their seizure of power from the dictatorship of Somoza, but also as they systematically emasculated the democratic opposition in the 1980s]. Template:CITation Ballanos report, 1980s.

Supporting WOLA from charges that "WOLA soft-pedals human rights abuses by governments on the left, such as Nicaragua's," was Rep. George Miller (D-CA) who said:

"What they've reported has held up over a longer period of time and under more scrutiny than anything the U.S. has concocted."

  • ***

"In his impassioned keynote speech, George Miller (D-Calif) said that Congress has a straightforward decision to make about contra aid. "A vote yes means a continuation of war; no means peace. It's as simple as that."

(KW: Miller has systematically supported communist guerrila movements in Central America and had on his staff Cynthia Arnson, an IPS fellow and veteran leftist activist who also worked on reports cited by Americas Watch)[8]

Another award winner was Paraguayan Bishop Mario Melanio Medina described by Hall as one "who founded a human rights advocacy group in Paraguay and spends most of his time working in the impoverished Chaco region of the country. He is considered one of the most outspoken opponents of Paraguayan strongman Alfredo Stroessner."

  • ***

"The awards ceremony is sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies, and its denizens are always present at the dinner as is Letelier's widow, Isabel (Letelier). Among others there last night were -


{KW: Ironically, after Congress had learned more of the increasingly dictatorial direction of Nicaragua under Daniel Ortega and his communist Sandinistas, with the suppression of the remaining free press under the Chamorros, the silencing of political parties by assassination, jailing or exilings, and the repression of the indigenous Indian populations (Miskitos, etc.), plus the winning offensives of the freedom-fighters, support for the Communists dwindled in Congress, only sustained by a hardcore of the Left. Eventually the freedom forces forced Ortega into holding free elections in 1988 in which he lost by a significant margin. Another communist beachhead had been temporarily stopped but disorganization among the non-communists eventually led to Ortega being reelected president in 2009, where he promptly began to get more Communist and Iranian arms, and made alliances with the Palestinian movement, Iran, and possibly Hamas and Hezbollah. A lot of this appeared in "West Watch" newsletter and in "The Real Secret War: Sandinista Political Warfare and its Effects on Congress", as cited previously.)


Projects: The Political Economy Program Center of IPS

A little know program of IPS, started in the early-to-mid 1975's was known as the Political Economy Program Center (PEPC)of IPS. The first newsletter issue revealed so much about IPS and this Center that it appears to have disappeared quite rapidly as it is not even mentioned (or listed) in the Index to S. Steven Powell's masterful book "Covert Cadre:Inside the Institute for Policy Studies", Greenhill, 1987.

The publication of the PEPC was entitled "BENCHMARX" - A periodic report from the Political Economy Program Cetner of the Institute for Policy Studies, March 1975. It was so heavily laden with marxist analysis and ideology, that it is no wonder that it disappeared so quickly. It had revealed too much about IPS as a marxist organization, not as a "liberal think-tank" as the Washington Post and other mainstream media liberal newspapers liked to characterize it.

Because of the importance of this newsletter, a significant segment of it is being reproduced below.

"The Political Economy Program Center (PEPC) was created to strengthen the work of the Institute for Policy Studies in the area of political economy. PEPC's primary focus has been on research and support for workers and community struggles and movement. Its work emphasizes principles of:

  • (1)decentralized, democratic control of resources;
  • (2) community-controled economic and social development; and
  • (3) self-organization of labor."

"Some current PECP projects include:

  • --Studying the impact of managerially-controlled work processes in specific sectors on work relations, workers consciousness, and workers movements.
  • --Organizing a national conference of municipal, county and state officials on radical programs. (KW: THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF THE SUCCESS IN PULLING IN NON-MARXISTS TO THE IPS CREATION, "National Conference on Alternative State and Local Policies" (NCASLP)}.
  • --Advising on labor action-policy responses to the current economic crisis.
  • --Working through the Transnational Institute of IPS on international political economy and labor questions and alternative health care institutions."

BENCHMARX Staff: "BENCHMARX: Published periodically by the Political Economy Program Center of the Institute for Policy Studies, 1901 Que St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20009 (202) 234-9382.

Project: The Washington School

The IPS founded the Washington School (WS) in 1979 as a means of running a marxist-oriented "school" under the guise of presenting an "alternative" view/voice on both US domestic and foreign policies. They not only gave "fellowships" to hardcore marxists and known/identified members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), but to other loosely affiliated marxists, socialists, and liberals. They also aimed at recruiting members of Congress to teach a class, thus sucking in some liberals who might not have participated if they had knowledge of IPS's marxist history and funding.

The highly informative "Information Digest" (ID) publication, April 30, 1982, produced a combined "faculty members" list for the years 1979, 1980, the Fall 1981 semester, and the Spring 1982 semester. It contains a number of Members of Congress, the news media, former U.S. defense officials, and key members from labor, pro-communist Latin America guerrilla movement support operations, members of the "Hanoi Lobby", the "PLO Lobby" and the "anti-Defense Lobby." The list is reproduced as it appeared in ID.(No identifications of these individuals was provided by ID so KW is adding a brief description of them).

Later affiliated with the marxist Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

ID added the following paragraph at the end of the above list:

"It is noted that the IPS/TWS listing of faculty and those who have directed IPS/TWS classes omits many of those who have taught courses and are listed in TWS brochures as panelists. The Fall 1981 curriculum listed as teaching "Workplace Democracy Randy Barber, co-director of the People's Business Commission (PBC); Douglas Carmichael, social psychiatrist; Peter Knight and Peter Movic, economists at the World Bank. Only Knigt was entered on the faculty list."

ID identified other classes also taught during the Fall 1981 term which included:

  • Dave Dickson - Nature Magazine, led a group on "Energy, Environment and Safety: Examining the Reagan Agenda" focusing on "counterstrategies developed by opposition groups"
  • Gene Frankel - energy policy staff member of the House Committee on Science and Technology
  • Carol MacLennan - Department of Transportation anthropologist
  • Howard Wachtel - chairman of the Department of Economics, American University, taught "Fnding a Progressive Responsive" to the U.S. economic system. Wachtell has been associated with the marxist economics group known as URPE Union of Radical Political Economists
  • David E. Landau - ACLU legislative counsel
  • Bob Borosage Robert Borosage - IPS director, who was former head of the far-left Center for National Security Studies (CNSS), a key leader of the "Anti-Intelligence Lobby" and network.
  • John Shattuck - director of the ACLU Washington Office, who examined "the reemergence of elements of the internal security apparatus of the 50s" and "strategies for developing political and Congressional opposition to legislation strengthening internal security and counter-intelligence investigations under the guise of protecting privacy and defending civil liberties."

IPS Twentieth Anniversary Celebration and Committee including Members of Congress

An IPS Twentieth Anniversary Celebration Committee (in formation) was created to celebrate the 20 years since the creation of the IPS. Almost no one in the national media wrote about this event and Committee with the possible exception of the weekly conservative newspaper, "Human Events", in its April 2, 1983 edition. As HE noted, there was a very impressive list of present and former members of Congress who signed on as sponsors. They will be listed immediately below as a separate grouping, while their names will appear again in the official list of Committee members that will follow it.

Members or Former Members of Congress Who Were Members of the IPS 20th Anniversary Celebration Committee:

  • Sen. Gary Hart - (D-Co)
  • Sen. Christopher Dodd - (D-Conn)

Representatives - Present Members:

Former Members of Congress:

Key Participants and Attendees:

"Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore) is not listed as a member of the anniversary committee, but his comments about IPS were included in the invitation to the affair. Hatfield said, 'I respect the often thoughtful and scholarly work of these individuals. I have no doubt that theirs is a legitimate and useful role in the formulation of national policy."

Members of the "IPS Twentieth Anniversary Celebration Committee (in formation) identifications provided by KW:

Hon. Philip Burton - hardcore communist sympathizer

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The War Called Peace: Glossary, published 1982
  2. ↑ Communists in the democratic party, page 68
  3. ↑ World peace council Tour USA. 1975, pages 6 and 7 , wpc information centre, Lonnrotinkatu 25 A 5 krs 00180 Helsinki 18 Finland
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 IPS history
  5. ↑ Communists in the Democratic party, page 70
  6. ↑ Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies, S. Steven Powell, 1987; The War Called Peace: The Soviet Peace Offensive, Western Goals, 1982; The Revolution Lobby, Allan C. Brownfeld & J. Michael Waller, Council for Inter-American Security, CIS, 1985; The Real Secret War: Sandinista Political Warfare and its Effects on Congress, L. Francis Bouchey (editor, J. Michael Waller, Steve Baldwin, CIS, 1987; "West Watch" Newsletter, CIS, 1980s; Pink Sheet on the Left newsletter, 1971-1988, various issues; Congressional Record, many pieces by Rep. Larry McDonald (D-GA)from 1975-1983; Destructive Generation:Second Thoughts About the Sixities, Peter Collier, David Horowitz, Encounter Books, 1989; Wall Street Journal, various articles over the years; Heritage Foundation reports; Capitol Research Center reports, 1980s, etc.; Human Events newspaper, 1960s thru 80s; Washington Post newspaper; Washington Evening Star newspaper; Washington Times newspaper; www.frontpagemagazine.com and "DiscoverTheNetwork.org", etc.
  7. ↑ The Washington Office on Latin America, monograph, Allen Brownfeld, Council for Inter-American Security, ca. 1978, Wash. D.C.; the afforementioned "The Revolution Lobby", 1985 and "The Real Secret War" 1987; and "Second Front: Advancing American Revolution in Washington", Studies in Organization Trends, #1, S. Steven Powell, Capital Research Center, 1986, Wash. D.C.
  8. ↑ The Revolution Lobby, Brownfeld and Waller, 1985, pp. 50 & 77
  9. ↑ Annual Report of the Committee on Un-American Activities for the year 1953, Feb. 6, 1954, P. 70, House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA)
  10. ↑ personal communication 2/03/2012, from writer Max Friedman, who had numerous letters published in the Washington Star that tore Fritchey's columns apart on inaccuracy. The WP would not publish any of Friedman's letters nor those of other known Washington anti-communist writers. Friedman noted that Fritchey, like columnist Walter Lippman, made their reputations for being consistently wrong in what they wrote
  11. ↑ Communication from Max Friedman, 2/03/2102. He interviewed LaRocque at a Fund for Peace conference and found him to be the most naive, weak-spined admiral he had ever spoken too. LaRocque had a distinguised battle career during WW2, but in the 70's he emerged as one of the top former military officers in the "dove" grouping. He told Friedman that, despite having commanded a carrier task force in the Mediterranean, air craft carriers were supposed to be used mainly for "self-defense". The conference was in 1974.

Cities for Progress

The IPS project, Cities for Progress, is based in in Washington, D.C. It is a network of locally-elected officials and community-based activists taking on other issues including Universal Healthcare and opposing Wal-Mart expansion.[1]


Marxist Connection

On Monday, October 12, 2009, David Schwartzman gave a presentation at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC on the science and politics of catastrophic climate change. The event was sponsored by the Metro DC chapter of the Marxist Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and the DC Metro Science for the People.

Renee Carter chaired the meeting which was attended by over 20 mostly activists and representatives of environmental and progressive organizations. After David’s in-depth, but clear explanation of the complex science of both climate change and how the catastrophic results can be prevented, Ted Glick of CCAN spoke about the latest environmental legislation and the organizing of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, a major environmental group in the Washington area.

Walter Teague discussed the political and strategic issues of prevention of C3 and Renee Carter described the political work and approach of CCDS. Valuable contacts both new and renewed were made and the impassioned discussion continued for over two hours.

Presented as an IPS/SALSA CLASS, David Schwartzman’s address on the threat of catastrophic climate change ("C3") that now confronts all humanity, explored the questions: “What are the biggest obstacles to prevention? Why this challenge is also an unprecedented opportunity to end the global rule of capital. Why is it critical to take seriously the sciences of climatology and thermodynamics for C3 prevention and to construct the other world that is possible? And why 21st Century Socialism will either be Ecosocialism or simply will remain the narrow vision of political sects?” [2]


Sources About the Institute for Policy Studies

This section will contain various sources about IPS, ranging from items/chapters in books to newspaper article, to items inserted into the Congressional Record. It will function as a bibliography of items on IPS for researchers to consult.

  • Capital Research Center - Monograph, "Second Front: Advancing Latin American Revolution in Washington", Studies in Organization Trends, #1, S. Steven Powell, 1986
  • Capital Research Center - a research organization that specialized in the left and its various manifestations in organizations, how they were funded, who belonged to them, and how they interlocked with other groups. IPS was featured in many of their 1980s reports and newsletters, "Second Front", being one of them.
  • Concerned Voters, Inc. - a conservative research organization produced the book "Communists in the Democratic Party", Wilson C. Lucom, 1990, softback, which showed the links between IPS and many members of Congress and some of their staff.
  • Council for Inter-American Security (CIS) and its Inter-American Security Educational Institute - an anti-communist, pro-freedom research organization that had a significant effect in helping to expose Communist operations in Latin America and their U.S.-based support networks. Their greatest media campaign was the exposure of the late Congressman, Representative George S. Crockett, Jr. (D-MI), as a secret Communist Party member/adherent (he may not have had an official Party dues card but the Party referred to him as a "communist political prisoner" because of his jailing in the 1950's relating to the handling of the Rosenberg spy case. See his KW page for details about the source.

Among CIS' two most important publications, besides the newsletter "West World", were :

  • "The Revolution Lobby", Allan Brownfield and J. Michael Waller, CIS/IASEI, 1985, and
  • "The Real Secret War: Sandinista Political Warfare and its Effect on Congress", L. Franchis Bouchey, J. Michael Waller and Steven Baldwin, CIS/IASEI, 1987
  • Information Digest. A privately published research publication on the extremist Left and Right in the U.S. and around the world, including terrorism/terrorist groups. It was available by a limited subscription but some of its materials were published in the Congressional Record. It was based on insider information gathering within the Left and its accuracy has been literally unchallenged over the decades.
  • Midstream Magazine, "A Monthly Jewish Review"
  • Issue of June/July 1980, "The Institute for Policy Studies: Empire on the Left", Rael Jean Isaac, about the history, tactics, strategies and people who created, run, and were affiliated with IPS, as well as its activities, fronts, funding, and ties to the communist movement from the Soviet Union to Cuba. Has 46 "footnotes" to people and items cited in the story.
  • Issue of February, 1981, "The Fight Around the Institute for Policy Studies: Replies to Rael Jean Isaac" and "Rael Jean Isaac Responds". The IPS counterattack against the Isaac article, as written by Robert Borosage, its' Executive Director (later a leader of George Soro's Open Society Institute and Peter Weiss, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, an oldline CPUSA supporter, husband of Hanoi Lobby leader Cora Weiss, and member of the communist/marxist dominated law firm at Kunstler, Kinoy, Hirschkopf - short term, Michael Kunstler - deceased, Stavis CPUSA, and Weiss National Lawyers Guild, among other CPUSA fronts. Several other people wrote "comments" about either IPS or organizations mentioned in the Isaac piece. Isaac answered them all in her attached "Response".
  • Pink Sheet on the Left and its name-change successor, The American Sentinel. A national newsletter on the Left, published from 1971 thru 1988 by Phillips Publishing Co. before being sold to another party who let it decline to nothing. Featured small stories on IPS meetings, fronts, events, and members.
  • Heritage Foundation - a conversative think-tank that published various research studies and reports, some of which included IPS operations.

References

  1. ↑ About
  2. ↑ http://www.cc-ds.org/discussion/metroDC_presents_Eco-socialism.html

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