Talk:Ford Foundation

message: From http://www.lewrockwell.com/yates/yates99.html
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:The source for this quote  is a televison producer who specializes in conspiracies and fringe ideas. I think that we can do better. -Will Beback 03:30, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Less than noble purpose of the Ford Foundation 

message: This is a newspaper clipping from the New York Times 15/02/76  Could this be of any interest in exploring the alleged link with the CIA?
--Jambalaya 17:41, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  CIA-link mentioned in the New York Times 

message: Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine", Penguin, 2008, isbn, 978-0-141-02453-0 - Ford Foundation's involvement in the 'Southern Cone' (South Americas region) and Indonesia, is a fascinating tale of intellectual sponsorship of fascist intellectuals such as those following Milton Friedman's Chicago School econonomics, embarrasment of the aftermath, followed by sponsorship of human rights organisations. Thx. BadCop666 (talk) 10:02, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further Reading Suggestion 

message: For an article that's not readily accessible, citation 12 is sure used as evidence to back up a spitfire claim. Can either the wording be changed or someone let me know how the John Birch Society "revealed" its involvement in a Communist conspiracy? At least provide more in the wiki article to elaborate?
(Clevomon) 11:48, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Revealed" It? 

message: The Ford Foundation has updated their URL from fordfound.org to fordfoundation.org after making it known a few months ago. Sp07019 (talk) 04:06, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  URL Change 

message: In the section on Further Reading four titles suggest the strong link between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Ford Foundation, yet no mention of this is to be found within the article itself. Should it not be discussed and the article consequently added to ? __meco (talk) 14:07, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connection to the CIA well established 

message: The prestigious Groupuscule Commission recommends some revisions to the article:
* More or less scrap the current section on programs, which reads like an advertisement.
* Fold in these different issues with discussions of the Foundation's activities in those different domains—i.e., a section on "education" will include information about education reform in 1968 and in 2012.
* Retain a "history" section for institutional history not applicable to the specific subject areas. This would include founding, legal changes, presidents, new section on CIA (does 1967 CIA disclosures need its own article?), possibly the "Ford Foundation Building" section, and probably more.
* Move most of "Controversy" section into issue specific areas, retaining general issues such as the Joan Roelofs argument mentioned currently. Possibly rename to "Criticism".
* Pictures are nice...
OK, thoughts? Salaam, groupuscule (talk) 13:15, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revisions to the article 

message: Should we include the participation of Ford Foundation to the establishment of International Rice Research Institute in 1960's
http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=3d-6iv9xQT0C&pg=PR13&lpg=PR13&dq=rockefeller+ford+irri+1960&source=bl&ots=JBOEJEE_A2&sig=ifmdZbpjtxKHm0GvdEIqWPjvBZY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=N8s8T87bAuuNiAeNju3nBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=rockefeller%20ford%20irri%201960&f=false
All Book References:
http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=fil&tbo=d&tbm=bks&q=Ford+Foundation%2B+International+rice+research+institute&btnG=
Bonvallite (talk) 06:02, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  International Rice Research Institute 

message: Wikipedia sure is useless at talking about the truth! Or maybe they are just dithering cowards, does it really matter?
Some links I came across: www.rupe-india.org/35/app1.html 
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/FordFandCIA.html
"The CIA uses philanthropic foundations as the most effective conduit to channel large sums of money to Agency projects without alerting the recipients to their source. From the early 1950s to the present the CIA's intrusion into the foundation field was and is huge. A U.S. Congressional investigation in 1976 revealed that nearly 50% of the 700 grants in the field of international activities by the principal foundations were funded by the CIA (Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders, Granta Books, 1999, pp. 134-135). The CIA considers foundations such as Ford "The best and most plausible kind of funding cover" (Ibid, p. 135). The collaboration of respectable and prestigious foundations, according to one former CIA operative, allowed the Agency to fund "a seemingly limitless range of covert action programs affecting youth groups, labor unions, universities, publishing houses and other private institutions" (p. 135). The latter included "human rights" groups beginning in the 1950s to the present. One of the most important "private foundations" collaborating with the CIA over a significant span of time in major projects in the cultural Cold War is the Ford Foundation."  
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"By the late 1950s the Ford Foundation possessed over $3 billion in assets. The leaders of the Foundation were in total agreement with Washington's post-WWII projection of world power. A noted scholar of the period writes: "At times it seemed as if the Ford Foundation was simply an extension of government in the area of international cultural propaganda. The foundation had a record of close involvement in covert actions in Europe, working closely with Marshall Plan and CIA officials on specific projects" (Ibid, p.139). This is graphically illustrated by the naming of Richard Bissell as President of the Foundation in 1952. In his two years in office Bissell met often with the head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, and other CIA officials in a "mutual search" for new ideas. In 1954 Bissell left Ford to become a special assistant to Allen Dulles in January 1954 (Ibid, p. 139). Under Bissell, the Ford Foundation (FF) was the "vanguard of Cold War thinking".
Someone rectify this historical whitewashing please. Omgtotallyradical (talk) 00:46, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Still no mention of it being a CIA front group to maintain US hegemony 

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