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Fight For Freedom Committee

The Fight For Freedom Committee was an organisation launched in April 1941 to support US intervention in World War Two.Mark Lincoln Chadwin, The Hawks of World War II, University of North Carolina Press, 1968, pp.43-65. it was claimed as a British front in a report written that year by SOE agent Sydney Morrell.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's,1999, pp.23-24.
==People==
*Carter Glass - Honorary Chairman
*Bishop Henry W. Hobson - ChairmanMark Lincoln Chadwin, The Hawks of World War II, University of North Carolina Press, 1968, p.165.
===Executive Committee===
Ulric Bell (Committee Chairman) | Ward Cheney | Harold Guinzburg | Conyers Read | James P. Warburg | Henry W. Hobson | Herbert Agar | Allen W. Dulles | Francis Pickens Miller | Henry P. Van Dusen | Katherine Gauss Jackson | Wayne Johnson | Dorothy Overlock | Marshall Field | Mac KriendlerMark Lincoln Chadwin, The Hawks of World War II, University of North Carolina Press, 1968, p.169. 
===Policy Committee===
Mrs Calvin Coolidge | Herbert Agar | Burke Baker | Laird Bell | Henry B. Cabot | Mary Ellen Chase | Grenville Clarke | James B. Conant | William J. Donovan | Melvyn Douglas | Alen Dulles | Marshall Field | Richard M. Griffith | Harold Guinzburg | J.B.S. Hardman | Pierre Jay | Henry Goddard Leach | Dorothy Overlock | Clarence B. Randall | Conyers Read | Spyros Skouras | Dan Tobin | Henry P. Van Dusen | Sinclair Weeks | Walter White |Mark Lincoln Chadwin, The Hawks of World War II, University of North Carolina Press, 1968, p.170. 
===Sponsors===
Frank L. Rosenblum | A. Philip Randolph | Lousi Adamic | Maxwell Anderson | Edna Ferber | George S. Kaufman | Moss Hart | Russell Crouse | Marquis James | Lewis Mumford | Rex Stout | Van Wyck Brooks | Dorothy Parker | Ebdna St. Vincent Millay | Ethel Barrymore | Edward Arnold | Melvyn Douglas | Helen Gahagan | Peggy Conklin | Dorothy Stickney | Pedro de Cordoba | Ralph Morgan | Douglas Fairbanks | Janet Beecher | Henry Hull | Cass Canfield | Jay Franklin Carter | Robert S. Allen | John Farrar | Nicholas Roosevelt | Freda Kirchwey | Walter Millis | Lowell Thomas | Grenville Clark | C. M. Gile | James Speyer | LLoyd Paul Stryker | Roger Lapham | General John O'Ryan | James Gerard | E. Harold Cluett | Stanley Isaacs | Dorothy Kenyon | Edward S. Jouett | William J. Donovan | James B. Conant | William H. Standley
==Notes==
Category:WWII Hawks
Figure 11 Communications

Figure 11 Communications is a PR and lobbying firm based in Edinburgh
==Services==
Figure 11 provides a range of services to clients including: public relations and lobbying. Of the latter it says: 'We can assist our clients develop strategies that will help them engage with decision makers and get involved in the political process. Governments will only know the true effects of their policies if people are prepared to tell them.'http://www.figure11.co.uk/Page%204.html#Political Services: Political], Figure 11 Communications website, accessed August 2015
==People==
*Iain McMenemy: according to his biography, McMenemy 'started his career in communications at 18 years of age with one of the major UK political parties. Iain specialised in campaign and media management in a variety of roles for 11 years. Whilst working in politics, Iain was chosen by various Government, cross-party and international groups to carry out consultancy work in Eastern Europe immediately after the collapse of communism.'Iain McMenemy, Linkedin Profile, accessed August 2015 He was also a founder of Halogen Communications in 2002.
*Ryan Scott
*Donald Findlay QC
==Clients==
Figure 11 does not sign up to the voluntary transparency registers operated by the lobbying industry, which would require it to make public its lobbying clients.
It does list some clients on its own website including (as of August 2015):
G4S | Royal Bank of Scotland | Tulloch Homes | North British Windpower | Veolia | Godbox
==Contacts==
:Website:www.figure11.co.uk
:Address: Forsyth House, 93 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3ES
==Notes==
category:Scottish PR firmsCategory:Scottish lobbying firms
Filip Dewinter

Filip Dewinter is the Vlaams Belang leader in the Flemish Parliament. He was born in Bruges (11.09.1962), but lives in Antwerp, where he also leads the Vlaams Belang group in the municipal council.Introduction, Vlaams Belang, accessed 7 December 2008.
==Views==
Following the emergency lockdown in Brussels a week after the November 2015 Paris attacks, Dewinter tweeted a series of anti-Islam comments (See images on the righthand side).
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In an interview during a visit to Hungary he said:
:"Migration is the trojan horse of terrorism" Twitter: Filip Dewinter ‏@FDW_VB, accessed 26 November 2015 
==Activities==
===2007===
In October 2007, Dewinter spoke at the CounterJihad Brussels 2007 conference, and Vlaams Belang became an affiliate of the CounterJihad Europa network which emerged from the event.Counterjihad Brussels 2007 Conference, CounterJihad Europa, accessed 6 December 2008.
Vlaams Belang's participation was defended by Robert Spencer:
::The counterjihad conference that touched all this controversy off -- since VB and SD reps attended it -- was openly pro-Israel, featuring an address by Andrew Bostom on antisemitism and another by the decidedly non-dhimmi Israeli politician Aryeh Eldad. There was nothing white supremacist or neo-Nazi about it, and in fact it seemed to herald a new phase of cooperation between European and American anti-jihadists, although its genuine work has been completely overwhelmed by the ensuing controversy.Vlaams Belang, Charles Johnson, and all that, by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, 15 November 2007.
===2015===
====Parliamentary visit to Syria====
In March 2015 Dewinter led a Belgian parliamentary delegation on a visit to Damascus in Syria.
====PEGIDA rally speaker====
In early December 2015 Dewinter is due to speak at a PEGIDA conference in Dresden, Germany.
==Controversies==
In 2012 his then 19-year-old daughter An-Sofie posed in a bikini and Islamic headdress in a 'shocking poster for the Vlaams Belang party’s campaign against Islamization and discrimination of women using the slogan: ‘Freedom or Islam? Dare to choose.’ This campaign was in collaboration with the organisation 'Vrouwen Tegen Islamisering' (ie, “Women against Islamization”). article, Bare Naked Islam blog, accessed 26 November 2015 
==Social media==
Twitter: Filip Dewinter ‏@FDW_VB 
==Affiliations==
*Vlaams Belang
*CounterJihad Europa
*Stop Islamisation of Europe
==References==
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Filippo Marino

Italian-born security consultant and co-founder with Mario Scaramella of the Environmental Crime Protection Program.
::Filippo Marino, acknowledged having worked for years in close cooperation with Lou Palumbo, who spent 22 years with the CIA, according to Palumbo's own curriculum vitae, which is posted online.
::Also, in telephone conversations monitored by the Italian police, Robert Lady, the former CIA chief of Station in Milan who coordinated the kidnapping of Abu Omar, is repeatedly heard talking to his wife about his partner "Filippo."
::Marino said he worked with Lady and had known him since his CIA days in Milan.How one man insinuated himself into poisoning case, by Claudio Gatti, International Herald Tribune, 9 January 2007.
==Affiliations==
*Environmental Crime Protection Program
==Connections==
*Mario Scaramella
*Lou Palumbo (CIA Agent)
*Robert Seldon Lady
==References==
Financial Executives International

Financial Executives International describes itself as "the preeminent association for CFOs and other senior finance executives. FEI provides networking, timely updates, and continuing professional education on subjects including: financial management and reporting; Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance; regulatory updates from the SEC and FASB; career management & executive level finance jobs and other finance & accounting jobs" 
==Funding==
===strategic partners===
*Deloitte
*Ernst & Young 
*Grant Thornton 
*IBM 
*KPMG 
*Longview Solutions 
*Microsoft
*NYSE 
*Oracle Corporation 
*Parson Consulting
*PricewaterhouseCoopers
*Marsh Inc.
*NASDAQ 
*Robert Half Management Resources 
*SmartPros
*Watson Wyatt
==Notes==
# Financial Executives International Web site Home page Last accessed 31st may 2007
Financial Leaders Group

The Financial Leaders Group (FLG) was formed in 1996 during the negotiations for the Financial Services Agreement (FSA) by the US-based Coalition of Service Industries (CSI) and British Invisibles. The group includes financial leaders from Europe, North America, Japan and Hong Kong representing such banking giants as Barclays, Chase Manhattan, Goldman Sachs, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. FLG broadened support for financial services deregulation and played a key role in reaching the 1997 Financial Services Agreement.Sharon Beder, Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda, Earthscan, London, 2006, pp. 138-40. 
FLG consists of two tiers: a high level group of CEOs and chairpeople of corporations, supported by a Financial Leaders Working Group with lower level corporate executives. FLG relies on the power of this coalition of corporate heavy weights in its high level group to have influence:'The unanimity in the Financial Leaders Group became a message to governments that the US and European financial community wanted meaningful liberalization and a substantial success, and that the negotiators should co-operate to achieve it. The strategy clearly worked.'Erik Wesselius, Behind GATS 2000: Corporate Power at Work, Amsterdam, Transnational Institute, May 2002, p. 7 
The formation of FLG was encouraged by EU Trade Commissioner Leon Brittan. During the negotiations Brittan, who had ‘learned from the negotiations the importance of the American private sector in advising the US administration on deal-making’, encouraged ‘the European private sector to make contact with their counterparts across the Atlantic so as to build up a partnership in favour of a permanent deal.’ Leon Brittan, A Diet of Brussels: The Changing Face of Europe, London, Little, Brown and Company, 2000, p.131.
The creation of FLG was also ‘spurred by the World Economic Forum, which has been the catalyst for key international meetings among US and EC negotiators, and business representatives.’Robert Vastine, Hearing on World Trade Organization Singapore Ministerial Meeting, Congress Subcommittee on Trade of the House Committee on Ways and Means, 26 February 1997
==People==
*Leon Brittan, initiator.
*Andrew Buxton, first co-chair.
*Ken Whipple, first co-chair.
==References==
Category:Financial sector lobbying
Financial Services Club

According to The Financial Services Club website the club is a unique service aimed at Senior Executives and Decision Makers from banks, insurance companies, technology firms, consultancies ... In fact, any firm that is interested in understanding and planning for the future operating environment for the UK Financial Services markets. Is this just another Club? Not at all. The Financial Services Club bridges the gap between today and tomorrow. It allows you to network with hundreds of professionals all sharing a common interest in the future of the industry. The Club runs ten events a year, with keynote speakers and luminaries from the industry airing their views on the future of financial services. Our illustrious speaker list is targeted to cover all aspects of the industry from practitioners to legislators to futurists.
==People==
*Chris Skinner
== Notes ==
# Financial Services Club website Financial Services Club website
Financial Services Strategy Group

The Financial Services Strategy Group, set up in March 2005, is a joint industry-government strategy for financial services in Scotland.
Membership of the Financial Services Strategy Group is:
* Mike Jones - Lloyds TSB Scotland
* Ben Thomson - Noble Group
* Otto Thoresen - Aegon
* David Wallace - Abbey
* Margaret Wallace - Morgan Stanley
* Willie Watt - Martin Currie
* Sandy Boyle - Amicus
* Graeme Dickson - Scottish Executive
* Jim McFarlane - Scottish Enterprise
* Martin Togneri - Scottish Development International
* HM Treasury observer
* Ian Ferguson - Norwich Union
John Campbell states that:
"The Financial Services Strategy Group has successfully aligned the interests of the industry and government in Scotland" and that "A strong relationship between government and the industry founded on mutual understanding and shared goals is key to ensuring the ongoing success of the financial services industry in Scotland. We look forward to continuing to work with the Scottish Executive as part of the new Financial Services Advisory Board and Implementation Group to improve the business environment Scotland provides for financial services companies." 
==Notes==
# Financial Services Strategy Press Release Last Accessed (17/03/2005)
Financial Times

==Background==
The Financial Times is a subsidiary of Pearson PLC. The Financial Times also owns half of The Economist Group.
==Britain must negotiate a new relationship with Europe==
In October 2009 the Financial Times published an open letter entitled Britain must negotiate a new relationship with Europe.Global Vision, Britain must negotiate a new relationship with Europe, Global Vision, 17-October-2007, Accessed 13-April-2011.
==People==
===Journalists===
Clive Cookson | Phil Gunson | Richard Lapper | Bronwen Maddox
===Board Members===
*Dennis Stevenson
==Notes==
Category:journalismCategory:Mediacategory:journalistsCategory:Media Industry
Category:Newspapers
Finmeccanica

==Revolving door controversy== 
Sir Kevin Tebbit was employed at the MoD during negotiations that led to a £1 billion procurement contract secured by Finmeccanica’s subsidiary Agusta Westland to build 70 Future Lynx helicopters to be deployed in Afghanistan. The helicopter contract was seen as absolutely vital to Augusta Westland. Documents released under the UK's freedom of information (FOI) rules show that in July 2005 the company “had a very limited order book and were very dependent on Future Lynx”. Exactly why and how Agusta Westland won the contract, which was signed in June 2006, has been heavily criticised ever since by politicians and military experts. 
Tebbit's role in this is controversial. He was permanent under-secretary at the MOD from 1998 to November 2005, according to official records. He then moved to Finmeccanica UK in July 2007. Although there are no documents showing Tebbit had direct control over the helicopter contract, the key decisionmaking happened on his watch.
The government, under FOI laws, has admitted it had meetings with Agusta Westland in May 2004 and January 2005. However it has refused to release the minutes of these meetings, citing commercial confidentiality.
Tebbit was quick to exploit his contacts since leaving the MOD. Just after the year-long rule that banned him from directly lobbying ministers on Finmeccanica's behalf had expired in July 2007, Tebbit wrote to the then secretary of state for defence, Des Browne to say “how much I am looking forward to working with you in my new capacity.” The letter went on to say: “I shall be based at Finmeccanica’s London HQ with the objective of strengthening the Group’s position in the UK, as well as internationally”.
Two months later Lord Drayson, the then minister for defence equipment and support, told Tebbit that he was 'glad that Finmeccanica had appointed someone with such a strong knowledge of the MOD'. Manuela Mesco and Andy Rowell, Revolving Doors Revealed, Spinwatch, 26 July 2011 
==Parliamentary lobbying==
==Notes==
Category:Revolving DoorCategory:Arms Industry
Finnish Association of Marketing Communication Agencies

Finland 
 
Markkinointiviestinnän Toimistojen Liitto MTL
Finnish Association of Marketing Communication Agencies MTL
Vuorikatu 22 A
SF-00100 HELSINKI
Tel.: (358-9) 625 300
Fax : (358-9) 625 305
http://www.mtl.fi
 
Managing Director
Mr. Markus LEIKOLA
markus.leikola@mtl.fi
 
President
Mr Jari-Pekka RAUTAMAA
Publicis Helsinki Oy Ltd
CEO
Tammasaarenkatu 1
FI-00180 Helsinki, FINLAND
Tel.: 00 358 207 758 758
jari-pekka.rautamaa@publicis.fi
 
Project Assistant
Ms. Laura KESTI
laura.kesti@mtl.fi
==Notes==
Finsbury International Policy & Regulatory Advisors

Category:Public relations firmsCategory:Lobbying firms
Finsbury International Policy & Regulatory Advisers (Fipra) is a European public affairs consultancy network specialising in advice on political and regulatory issues. It claims to be the only consultancy with public affairs advisers in Brussels, throughout the Member States of the European Union (EU), as well as the Commonwealth of Independent States and China. 
It is made up of a network of senior public policy and regulatory advisers specialising in 'strategic government relations'. Advice includes: UK and EU political contact programmes; select committee training; and integrated political and media campaigns.Fipra website, accessed Feb 2009
Work is handled either locally by the companies in our group or centrally by Fipra EU - a company owned by its UK Partner Finsbury, a financial, regulatory and political communications firm."Finsbury website, accessed November 2008
At some point in its history it appears to have changed its name from Finsbury to Foresight International Policy and Regulatory Advisers (FIPRA).About, Fipra website, accessed Jan 2018
==EU lobbying==
FIPRA International were among the top spending UK based lobbying firms offering lobby services to paying clients operating in Brussels in 2014, spending between €3,250,000 and €3,500,000. The lobbying company declares 26 lobbyists with 21 of those holding European Parliament passes, allowing the bearer virtually unlimited access to the Parliament's buildings. Finance industry is UK's biggest lobbyist in Brussels Lobby Facts, 26 January 2015, accessed 3 February 2015 
==People==
*Peter-Carlo Lehrell, chairman, Fipra International Ltd (London-based)
*Laura Batchelor, director of Fipra Brussels office
===Revolving door===
*John Bowis - former British MEP who joined Fipra as a 'special adviser' for health and environmental policy in June 2009. John Bowis, Fipra, accessed 4 November 2014 Bowis was one of a number of MEPs involved in an EU lobbying scandal in 2008, when it was revealed they sat on a special board for 28 multinational companies that had set up a lobbying office in the European Parliament using a parliamentary telephone number and address.The European Alliance of EU-Critical Movements, Secret multinationals’ office revealed in the European Parliament, www.teameurope.info, 24 April 2008, accessed 5 March 2010
==Contacts==
Website: http://www.fipra.com
BRUSSELS
:Rue de la Loi 227
:1040 Brussels
:Belgium
:Tel.: +32 2 613 2828
:Fax: +32 2 613 2849
LONDON
:Tenter House
:45 Moorfields
:London EC2Y 9AE England
:Tel.:+44 207 251 3801
:Fax:+44 207 256 9552
==References==
Category: Lobbying firms
Category: EU Lobbying firms
Category: Revolving Door
Fiona Burns

Fiona Burns was a lobbyist at Saltire Public Affairs in 2002.
Fiona Burns, Policy Adviser, Shepherd & Wedderburn views on her placement with the SPBE:
:An invaluable insight into the working life of an MSP - it has certainly added to my understanding of the Parliament and the role it plays for Scottish businessWhat's Happening in the Scottish Parliament Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange Parliamentary programme, 29 April-2 May 2002
==Notes==
Burns, Fiona
Fiona Cohen

Fiona Cohen is the head of healthcare at financial services lobbying consultancy Cicero Group.
==Career==
From 1985 to 1991 Cohen was an account director at Rowland. In 1993 she joined Manning Selvage & Lee (now MSL Group) as a director, then deputy managing director and in 2001 was appointed managing director of Greater China.
In 2007 she was head of pharma communications at global healthcare company Roche and then senior director of communications in Europe, Middle East and Asia at Baxter Healthcare in 2010. In July 2014 she worked as a director of corporate communications at pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca.
In March 2015 she was appointed head of healthcare at Cicero Group. Linkedin Fiona Cohen, accessed 23 March 2014 
==Notes==
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Fiona Gilmore

Acanchi Profile:
Our people include...
Fiona Gilmore – Chairman and FounderFiona’s career spans nearly 30 years during which time she has advised on brand positioning, communications strategy, innovation, corporate identity and internal communications for companies, countries, cities and regions. Fiona has advised a broad range of corporate clients including, Vodafone, Unilever, Lloyd’s, Giorgio Armani and Saudi Telecom. She has given counsel to Governments, Public Sector, Private Sector and NGOs for Bahrain, the Isle of Man, the Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Wales, Northern Ireland, Belfast, Britain, Hong Kong, Zambia and the Blue Mountains of Australia.After several years at an advertising agency, Fiona moved to Michael Peters and Partners where she became Managing Director. She then co-founded Brand and Design Consultancy Springpoint, which under her leadership developed into an international consultancy, with offices in three countries. In 2001, Springpoint was acquired by the international group IPG and in 2003 Fiona left the group and founded Acanchi.Fiona is the author of three books, Brand Warriors, Warriors on the High Wire and Brand Warriors China and several journal articles. Fiona is a Board Member of the United Learning Trust and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
==Affiliations==
*Acanchi
==Notes==