Talk:Council on Foreign Relations

message: Is there any evidence to suggest that the CFR has supported Israel in the past, or that it continues to defend Israeli policies to this day ? I have been reading several documents produced by the CFR and I got the impression was that it did have such pro-Israel sentiment. ADM (talk) 11:09, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Check out the names of many of the members and make that deduction for yourself (not being anti-semitic, just pointing out a fact).99.120.56.76 (talk) 02:59, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Check out the bio of CFR member Elliott Abrams,convicted of withholding information to Congress in the Iran-Contra Affair investigation, who took a leading role in pushing the U.S. into the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Activist (talk) 11:51, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Support for Israel

message: For some reason, my change pointing out that Epstein was a member of the CFR was reverted and replaced with a deliberately misleading sentence (hidden in the "charity" section) claiming that Epstein was not a member of the CFR. Epstein was a member of the CFR. I have edited the sentence to reflect reality. It should probably moved from the charity section as well, but I figure I shouldn't push my luck. From the Washington Post: "Epstein was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, whose 5,000 members include many big names in the business, government and media elites, from 1995 until 2009, at least two years after he came under investigation for sexual abuse of minors, according to council donor lists and Haass’s memo." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/council-on-foreign-relations-another-beneficiary-of-epstein-largesse-grapples-with-how-to-handle-his-donations/2019/09/10/1d5630e2-d324-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.5.41.224 (talk) 12:10, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Epstein is not an intro-worthy aspect of the CFR, more of a detail at best. What you tried to describe as large amounts of money. What you tried to describe as large donations simply aren't, on the CFR scale; over the course of 15 years, the total amount he gave is about 1/2 of one percent of CFR's annual budget. It does not speak to the core of what they are and what they do. --Nat Gertler (talk) 14:36, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Epstein

message: A few things have happened since then.  Ttulinsky (talk) 23:13, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Then add them! -- Nat Gertler (talk) 23:29, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  History stops in 1979?? 

message: I just finished reading the article, and making a few minor edits to grammar etc. I had previously known about the CFR mainly as being the target of "conspiracy theories." I expected to see this mentioned and was surprised to not. BookeWorme (talk) 05:29, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Object of conspiracy theories  

message: The final line of the introductory section reads: 
"Richard N. Haass stepped down as company president in June 2023, with Michael Froman replacing him."
Two requests, one more objective than the other: 
1) CFR is not a "company" but a nonprofit organization. 
2) Froman has been president for 10 months. Can we consider deleting this line, or rearranging it to note Froman's presidency directly?  I came across this issue because Google was incorrectly answering the query "president of the Council on Foreign Relations" while incorrectly snippetting this line.  Google's procedural errors are not Wikis responsibility, but it would still improve the information environment. 
Disclosure: I am an employee of CFR, and came across these issues in the course of my work. 96.239.71.174 (talk) 01:15, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor change request for top section