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American Committee for Cultural Freedom

American arm of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
In 1952, after the committee became embroiled in the controversy over McCarthyism, Frank Wisner wrote:
::I can understand how an American committee for cultural freedom, standing alone, and being in fact a group of American private citizens interested in cultural freedom, would feel that it would have to take a position on McCarthyism. However that is not the nature of the American Committee for Cultural Freedom which, accoding to my recollection, was inspired if not put together by this Agency for the purpose of providing cover and backstopping for the European effort. If sch is the case, we are stuck with the Committee in that we have an inescapable responsibility for its conduct, its actions and its public statements.Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, by Francis Stonor Saunders, Granta Books, 2000, p201.
Melvin Lasky described the American Committee as 'part of the endemic covert nature of the thing.'
::The Agency couldn't participate in domestic affairs, and yet you had to have an American Committee. How could you not? It would've been an inexplicable anomaly. You say you're international, so where are the Americans? It would've been like going into a prize fight with only one glove. It was the weakest side of this covert thing, but you had to have it. How not?Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, by Francis Stonor Saunders, Granta Books, 2000, p208.
==Affiliations==
*Congress for Cultural Freedom
*CIA
==References==
Category:propagandaCategory:Psychological WarfareCategory:Front Groups
American Committee for Liberation

The American Committee for Liberation (AMCOMLIB) was a CIA-controlled organisation founded in 1950 to employ political exiles from the Soviet Union. Its main project was Radio Liberty.Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.247.
==People==
*Howland Sargeant - President 1954-74
==Notes==
Category:CIA
American Committee for a United Europe

The American Committee for a United Europe was an arms-length intelligence operation founded on 29 March 1949, after Congress made European unity a central component of Marshall Aid.Stephen Dorril, MI6, Touchstone 2002, p.464.
==People==
===Founding Board===
*William Donovan - Chair
*Allen Dulles - Deputy Chair
*George S. Franklin - Secretary
Walter Bedell Smith | Arthur Goldberg | David Dubinsky | Jay Lovestone | Lucius Clay | Charles M. Spofford
===Staff===
*Thomas W. Braden - Executive Director
==External Resources==
*Aldrich, Richard J.(1997) 'OSS, CIA and European unity: The American committee on United Europe, 1948-60',Diplomacy & Statecraft,8:1,184 — 227
==Notes==
Category:US Propaganda
Category:Propaganda
American Council for Fitness and Nutrition

A lobbying and public-information body with 39 industrial members, of which 33 are food companies or associations (including the Sugar Association). The executive board consists of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, Heinz, Kraft Foods, the National Soft Drink Association, Pepsico and Coca-Cola. Other members include the American Advertising Federation, the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the Food Marketing Institute.
Category:Food lobbyists and PR consultantsCategory:GMCategory:GM Lobby Groups
American Council for Kosovo

The American Council for Kosovo is a U.S. nonprofit organisation 'dedicated to promoting a better American understanding of the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija and of the critical American stake in the province's future. 
:The Council's mission is to make accurate information and analysis about Kosovo available to officials of the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. Government; to think tanks, media, NGOs, religious and advocacy organizations; and to the general public. In particular, the Council’s educational activities will generate a heightened American awareness that an independent Kosovo – forcibly and illegally detached from Serbia, as is now being contemplated by the international community – would be harmful to U.S. national interests and to European and global security. About Us, organisational website accessed 16 June 2015 
*This organization's exempt status was automatically revoked by the IRS for failure to file a Form 990, 990-EZ, 990-N, or 990-PF for 3 consecutive years.
==People==
*Chairman:Patrick E. O'Donnell
*Deputy Chairman: James T. Pitts
*Secretary: Darren G. Spinck
*Director: James George Jatras
===Advisory Board===
*Robert Spencer
*Wanda Schindley
*Sir Alfred Sherman+ In Memoriam, with Gratitude
*The Rev. Canon Keith Roderick, D.D. 
*William J. Murray 
*Julia Gorin 
*Thomas Gambill 
*Andrew G. Bostom 
*Doug Bandow 
*Ambassador James Bissett 
==Contact details==
:Address: 1201 Pennsylvania Ave Nw 5th Flr, Washington, DC 20004-2401
:Website: http://www.savekosovo.org/
==Notes==
Category:The Balkans
American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs

The American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs (AECZA) or the American Zionist Emeregency Council (AZEC) was established in 1939 to promote Zionist ideology among the largely non-Zionist US Jewish population.Smith (2007): 15 As a part of its propaganda efforts, AZEC itself published and distributed Theodor Herzl's The Jewish State in 1946.Smith (2007): 18 In 1949 it was renamed the American Zionist Council, and registered as a tax-exempt non-profit organization.Tivnan (1987): 34-35 It was the parent organization of AIPAC.
==Principals==
*Abba Hillel Silver - first chairman
*Louis Lipsky - chairman
*Isaiah Kenen - Information officer for AZEC and executive director of AZC
==References==
category: Israel Lobby
American Farm Bureau Federation

The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and commonly referred to as the Farm Bureau is a lobbying organization in the United States representing farmers and ranchers.
==History==
The Farm Bureau movement officially started in 1911 when John Barron, a farmer who graduated from Cornell University and worked as an extension agent in Broome County, New York. He served as a "farm bureau" representative for farmers with the Binghamton, New York Chamber of Commerce. The effort was financed by the United States Department of Agriculture and Lackawanna Railroad. The Broome County Farm Bureau soon separated from the Chamber of Commerce.
Other bureaus on a county level formed across the country.
Farmers meeting in Saline County, Missouri were the first to form a state-wide bureau in 1915.
 
The initial farm bureaus had a social and educational function furthering the extension service efforts but they developed into a lobbying organization.
The American Farm Bureau was formally created in 1919 in Chicago, Illinois. Its initial organization papers said:
The purpose of Farm Bureau is to make the business of farming more profitable, and the community a better place to live. Farm Bureau should provide an organization in which members may secure the benefits of unified efforts in a way which could never be accomplished through individual effort. 
– Statement originally approved by Farm Bureau members in 1920.
The American Farm Bureau Federation relocated its headquarters from Park Ridge, Illinois to Washington, D.C. in 2003.
== Personnel ==
* Bob Stallman, President
* Bob Young, Chief Economist
* Mark Maslyn, Executive Director, Public Policy
* Don Lipton, Director, Public Relations
==Affiliations==
==See also==
*Truth about Trade and Technology
==References==
* Farm Bureau Historical Highlights, 1919-1994
* Link to state Farm Bureaus
* The American Farm Bureau Federation Web site
==Notes==
Category:Food Industry lobby groupsCategory:GMCategory:GM Farm LobbyCategory:GM Lobby Groups
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations is a major labour federation in the United States. It was founded in 1955 with the merger of the AFL and the CIO.About Us, AFL-CIO, accessed 18 March 2010.
==People==
===Presidents===
*George Meany
*Lane Kirkland
*Thomas R. Donahue
*John J. Sweeney
*Richard Trumka
==Related Organisations==
*American Institute for Free Labor Development
*Asian American Free Labor Institute
*Free Trade Union Institute
*African-American Labor Center
*American Center for International Labor Solidarity
==External Resources==
*Fred Hirsch, An Analysis of Our AFL-CIO Role in Latin America or Under the Covers with the CIA, San Jose, California, 1974, archived at the Internet Archive
*From Meany to Sweeney: Labor's Leftward Tilt, Heritage Foundation, 4 October 1996.
*Kim Scipes, Labor Imperialism Redux?: The AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Since 1995, Monthly Review, May 2005.
*Tim Shorrock, Labor's Cold War, The Nation, 19 May 2003.
==Notes==
Category:Trade and Labour Unions
American Foundation for Resistance International

The American Foundation for Resistance International was founded in 1984 to publicise the human rights abuses of Communist regimes.Pamphlets from Latin American organisations, Commonwealth and Latin American Archives Project, University of London, accessed 16 August 2012.
==People==
===Board of Directors (1986)===
*Vladimir Bukovsky - President
*Albert E. Jolis - Executive Director
*Hon. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
*Charles W. Sutherland
*Yuri Yarim-AgaevCastro's Tropical Gulag, Resistance International, 1986.
===Advisory Committee (1986)===
*Saul Bellow
*Bruno Bettelheim
*Arnaud de Borchgrave
*William F. Buckley, Jr.
*Robert Conquest
*Midge Decter
*Hon. Robert K. Dornan
*Sidney Hook
*Hon. Jack Kemp
*Michael Ledeen
*John McClaughry
*Michael Novak
*Norman Podhoretz
*Mstistlav Rostropovitch
*Bayard Rustin
*Albert Shanker
*Jack Wheeler
*George Will[http://polarch.sas.ac.uk/pdf_documents/TropicalGulag.pdf Castro's Tropical Gulag, Resistance International, 1986.
===Staff (1986)===
*Candace de Russy - Program Officer[http://polarch.sas.ac.uk/pdf_documents/TropicalGulag.pdf Castro's Tropical Gulag, Resistance International, 1986.
==Notes==
Category:United States
American Freedom Law Center

==Donors==
*Abstraction Fund - $10,000 from 2013-14
==Team==
*Robert Muise - co-founder
*David Yerushalmi - co-founder
==Advisory Board==
*Frank Gaffney -founder and president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C.
*Gerard V. Bradley - Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches legal ethics and constitutional law.
*Andrew C. McCarthy - senior fellow at the National Review Institute (NRI), a contributing editor at National Review, and the author of two New York Times bestsellers.
*Michael B. Mukasey - was 81st United States Attorney General and former district judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
*Joseph E. Schmitz - former Inspector General of the US Department of Defense from April 2002- Sept 2005.
*R. James Woolsey, the former director of the CIA, is chairman of Woolsey Partners LLC and venture partner with Lux Capital Management.
==Notes==
Category:Counterjihad
American Friends of Ateret Cohanim

The American Friends of Ateret Cohanim is a US non-profit whose official object is "Providing funding for Yeshiva Ateret Cohanim, a higher educational institution in Israel."American Friends of Ateret Cohanim, Charity Navigator, accessed 21 September 2010.
However, Haaretz reported in August 2009 that money the group donated to Ateret Cohanim was being used primarily for political purposes such as purchasing Arab land in East Jerusalem.
::Daniel Luria, chief fund-raiser for Ateret Cohanim in Israel, told Haaretz Sunday that the American organization's registration as an educational entity stemmed from tax considerations.
::"We are an umbrella organization that engages in redeeming land," he said. "Our [fund-raising] activity in New York goes solely toward land redemption."
::Although Ateret Cohanim also operates a yeshiva, Ateret Yerushalayim, in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, fund-raising for the yeshiva is handled by a different organization: American Friends of Yeshivat Ateret Yerushalayim."Uri Blau, U.S. group invests tax-free millions in East Jerusalem land, Haaretz, 17 August 2009.
==Notes==
Category:Israel Lobby
American Friends of Captive Nations

The American Friends of Captive Nations was formed in 1956 to oppose the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe. its sponsors included the International Rescue Committee, and it maintained close links with the Assembly of Captive European Nations.Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.247.
==People==
*Christopher Emmet
==Notes==
American Friends of IDC

American Friends of IDC is a not-for-profit Foundation based in New York. It is the US fund raising arm of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya - a private university in Israel with close links to Israeli intelligence and high-tech industry.
==Origins and History==
According to IDC promotional material the marketing expert and academic Yoram Wind 'played a great part in developing the IDC Herzliya Friends Association in the USA.' IDC Herzliya, by Gal Gingis According to his CV Wind co-founded IDC in 1994 and the American Friends of IDC in 1998 and served as its President until 2002. , retreived from the website of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania on 30 July 2009
==Funds==
According to accounts filed with the IRS, the Foundation received a total of $28,999,497 between 1998 and 2006 in 'gifts, grants and contributions'. The size of these donations increased substantially during that period, from $989,333 in 1999 to $10,296,706 in 2006. American Friends of IDC Form 990 filings for 2002, 2005 and 2006. Accessed via The Foundation Center US Foundations known to have donated to American Friends of IDC. include the Chais Family Foundation, The Klarman Family Foundation, the Russell Berrie Foundation, the Somekh Family Foundation and The Zilkha Foundation.
The Adelson Family Foundation donated $2.5 million to the American Friends of IDC in 2013, with a further $17.5 million approved for disbursal during the year.Adelson Family Foundation, Form 990, 2013.
It received $5,000 from the Abstraction Fund in 2014. Abstraction Fund, 990 Form, 2014 
==Personnel==
According to the organisation's 2007 accounts, it only full time executive is its Executive Director Felicia Steingard. The other executives are not remunerated and work an average of one hour a week. They include its President, the American billionaire Samuel Zell, the Treasurer Shimon Topor, the Secretary Mark Gerson, and the following board members: Stanley Chais, Jonathan Leitersdorf, Gideon Argov, Rebecca Belldegrun, Orit Gadiesh, Ronald Lauder, Gil Tenzer, Eyal Ofer, Michael Recanati, Lynn Schusterman, Paul Stern, Yoram Wind, Joey Low, Gary Heiman, David Levy, Stewart Resnick, Sheldon Adelson, Netta Korin, and Gerald Cramer. US Internal Revenue Service, 
==Affiliations==
:Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
:UK Friends of IDC
==Resources==
*
==Notes==
Category:Foundations
Category:Israel LobbyCategory:Israel
Category:Higher Education in Israel
American Friends of Likud

==See Also==
*American Friends of Likud
*Likud-Herut UK Ltd Company number 11008030 Since 27 October 2020 (Previously Likud UK 	01 Jul 2020 - 27 Oct 2020; Likud-Herut Ltd 11 Oct 2017 - 01 Jul 2020)
*Herut UK registered in 2020 (Directors Damon Lenszner and Harry Saul Markham)
*Merger of	Gahal (Herut and Liberal Party), Free Centre, National List and Movement for Greater Israel
*Youth wing	Likud Youth
*LGBT wing	Likud Pride
*European affiliation	European Conservatives and Reformists Party (regional partner)
*International affiliation	International Democrat Union
*World Likud - affiliate of the World Zionist Organisation
American Friends of Vietnam

The American Friends of Vietnam was founded by Joseph Buttinger in early 1955. It had close links to the International Rescue Committee and effectively functioned as an unofficial lobby for the South Vietnamese regime until 1965 when it shut down after its links to that government were exposed in the July 1965 issue of Ramparts.Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.247
==People==
*Joseph Buttinger - Founder
*Gilbert Jonas - Executive Secretary 1956-57
*William O. Douglas - National Committee member
==Notes==
Category:United States
American Friends of the Henry Jackson Society

The American Friends of the Henry Jackson Society is a body which receives funds from US donors for the Henry Jackson Society (HJS).Donations, Henry Jackson Society, accessed 11 October 2013.
==Funding==
In 2011, the American Friends of the Henry Jackson Society received a $10,000 dollar grant for general support from the New York-based Abstraction Fund.The Abstraction Fund - Form 990, 2011, foundationcenter.org.
According to the Abstraction Fund filing, the American Friends of the Henry Jackson Society is based at 1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 150 Alexandria. VA 22314-2840.The Abstraction Fund - Form 990, 2011, foundationcenter.org. This is the address of the Charities Aid Foundation of America, a US non profit which allows US donors to retain the ability to make tax deductible payments to bodies outside the US.About, CAF America, accessed 11 October 2013.
==Notes==
Category:United States
American Friends of the Jonathan Institute

The American Friends of the Jonathan Institute was created in New York City in 1977 to support the Israel based Jonathan Institute a think tank created by Benjamin Netanyahu and named after his brother Jonathan Netanyahu.Guidestar American Friends of the Jonathan Institute, accessed 31 August 2012 It continues to exist (in 2011), though the Jonathan Institute appears to be defunct. Its mission statement stated its orientation:
:American friends of the Israel Defense Force whose objective is the support and encouragement of educational & cultural activities aimed at increasing public awareness of jewish history, the values of judaism, the role of the state of israel as the spiritual center of the jewish people, the dynamics of conflict & peace in the middle east and the origin of the potential solutions for acts of terrorism in the world.
==People==
Jay Zises, Chairman circa 2009, 2010, 2011Form 990 American Friends of the Jonathan Institute, 2008-9, received 20 May 2009, (Login required).
==Officers and Trustees circa 2008/9 and 2009/10==
Julius Berman | Kenneth Bialkin | Samuel Eisenstat, Secretary | Marvin Josephson | Alfred Mackler (Deceased March 2000), Treasurer | Jay Zises, President | Selig Zises Form 990 American Friends of the Jonathan Institute, 2009-10, received 17 May 2010, (Login required).Form 990 American Friends of the Jonathan Institute, 2010-11, received 3 August 2011, (Login required).
==Notes==
Category:Israeli Think Tanks
American Friends of the Reut Institute

American Friends of the Reut Institute (AFRI) is a non-profit organization based in the United States that primarily funds Tel Aviv-based Israeli think tank the Reut Institute.
Its Federal ID number is 20-3585888.
==Activities==
AFRI is the Reut Institute's main source of funds. Its website states that it will also consider grant applications from other organisations that share its mission "to strengthen the vision of the state of Israel as a Jewish, democratic and prosperous state."Mission, American Friends of the Reut Institute, accessed June 2 2012 
AFRI describes the Reut Institute as "currently focused on national security and particularly on the challenge of dealing with the Palestinians".Grants, American Friends of the Reut Institute, accessed June 2 2012 
==Funding==
According to the Electronic Intifada website, AFRI's public filings show that it sent almost $2 million to the Reut Institute in 2006 and 2007.Ali Abunimah, Israel's new strategy: "sabotage" and "attack" the global justice movement, The Electronic Intifada, accessed June 2 2012.
*Russell Berrie Foundation
==Affiliations==
*Reut Institute
==Contact==
:Address:
:American Friends of the Reut Institute
:9100 Wilshire Blvd. 
:Suite 400W
:Beverly Hills, CA 90212
:USA
:Email: info@americanfriendsofreut.org
:Website: http://www.americanfriendsofreut.org/
==Notes==
Category:Israel Lobby
American Immigration Control Foundation

The American Immigration Control Foundation (AIC) was founded in 1983. According to its website it is one of the nation’s oldest immigration reform organizations. It produces publications and material advocating for a reduction in immigration.
==Aims==
According to its website it aims to 'educate' US citizens on the 'disastrous effects of uncontrolled immigration' Website: American Immigration Control Foundation Accessed April 26, 2008.
==Activities==
The AIC Foundation has produced and distributed numerous books, monographs, pamphlets and videos. 
AIC boasts that Congressmen and other policy-makers have commended its materials.
==People==
* AIC President: John Vinson
==Links==
Official Website: http://www.aicfoundation.com
==Notes==
Category: Anti-immigration Lobbies
Category: Immigration
American International Group, Inc.

American International Group, Inc. is an American insurance corporation. On Fortune Global 500, they ranked 19 in 2005, 20 in 2006, 23 in 2007 and 35 in 2008.CNN, Fortune Global 500, accessed 07 April 2010.
==People==
Richard Holbrooke, who was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1999 to 2001 and a Member of President Clinton's cabinet, has been a board member of AIG since 2001.Business Week, Executive Profile: Richard Holbrooke, accessed 07 April 2010.
In 2004 James Prior, Lord Prior of Brampton, declared in the Register of Lords’ Interests that he was a member of the Advisory Council of American International Group.UK Parliament, Register of Lords' Interests, Web Archive 24 January 2008, accessed 07 April 2010.
==Lobbying firms==
*Finsbury Agency Register September to November 2014 PRCA, accessed 29 January 2015 
==Contact==
:Website::http://www.aigcorporate.com/index.html
==Resources==
*Business Week, Executive Profile: Richard Holbrooke, accessed 07 April 2010.
*CNN, Fortune Global 500, accessed 07 April 2010.
*UK Parliament, Register of Lords' Interests, Web Archive 24 January 2008, accessed 07 April 2010.
==Notes==
Category: Financial Revolving Door
American Islamic Congress

|250px|thumb|right|American Islamic Congress logo, circa 2015 Credit: [http://www.aicongress.org/ American Islamic Congress] 
The American Islamic Congress (AIC) describes itself as a ' nonprofit, non-religious, civil society development organization serving Muslims and Non-Muslims by promoting civil and human rights through advocacy, engagement and education.'AIC’s Mission and Principles, American Islamic Congress, accessed 2 April 2014.
==Funding==
Writer Max Blumenthal has charged that 'the AIC is funded largely by a pool of right-wing donors responsible for bankrolling key players in America’s Islamophobia industry'.Max Blumenthal, Weddady’s Free Arabs, American Islamic Congress and the pro-Israel funders who helped them rise, Electronic Intifada, 7 May 2013.
Conservative donors such as the Klarman Family Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation‎‎ have given large sums, the latter donating USD $325,000 Center for American Progress’s 2011 report Fear Inc to the AIC between 2005-2011, and another $100,000 between 2012-2015. IRS Form 990s reviewed by Spinwatch 
The Klarman Family Foundation has funded American Islamic and Palestinian organisations, with the aim, Max Blumenthal argues, of driving "a wedge through mainstream Muslim-American organising".Max Blumenthal, "American Task Force on Palestine finds funding from anti-Palestinian billionaire and a repressive monarchy," Mondoweiss, 27 Nov 2013
AIC has refused to engage with mainstream Muslim civil rights groups and forbade 'members of its student arm, Project Nur, from discussing Palestine-related issues on campus'.
==Key grants==
Grants received by the American Islamic Congress in $ USD Data compiled from yearly 990 forms 
Organisation
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Total 2009-2015
Klarman Family Foundation
-
50,000-
50,000-
40,000
40,000
-
-
180,000
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation‎‎
-
40,000
35,000
25,000
25,000
25,000
20,000
170,000
TOT
==Notes==
Category:United StatesCategory:Counterjihad