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Group.png Atlantic Council WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Formation1961
Typethink-tank
InterestsNATO
Interest ofAtlantic Institute, Centre for European Reform
Founder ofDFR Lab, DisinfoPortal, Emerging Leaders in Environmental and Energy Policy Network
Sponsored byBertelsmann Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, ClimateWorks, Hewlett Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy, Norway/Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Smith Richardson Foundation
SubpageAtlantic Council/Board
Atlantic Council/Chairman
Atlantic Council/Corporate Members
Atlantic Council/Distinguished Leadership Awards

The Atlantic Council is a powerful, extreme militarist influence network and think-tank, staffed with military, CIA, and their attendant politicians; and CEOs from strategic industries, like oil and media. It has strong connections to NATO, and is central in the military-industrial complex.

Introduction

The name of the think-tank itself is meant to evoke the North Atlantic Council, the highest political decision-making body of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Atlantic Council is the biggest and most powerful member of the Atlantic Treaty Association (which has similar associates in every NATO-country).

Established in 1961 by former U.S. Secretaries of State Dean Acheson and Christian Herter, the Atlantic Council of the United States was originally conceived as a means to coordinate support for the Cold War-era NATO alliance, with the stated mission to encourage the continuation of cooperation between North America and Europe, (i.e. to control Western Europe).

The Atlantic Council is meant to secure the legitimacy of U.S. policies and neoliberal economics in the eyes of world audiences and academia, for the purpose of advancing studies legitimizing “Euro-Atlantic” interventionism and Western-backed “regime change;” spreading the cultural and ideological values of imperialism; and debunking policies favoring independent development and income redistribution among historically dispossessed and exploited nations and peoples.[1]

Operations

In 2018, The Atlantic Council received a donation of $900,000 from the U.S. State Department for a “Peace Process Support Network” program to “promote non-violent conflict resolution” in support of Venezuela’s scattered opposition, with which the council enjoys very close ties. The council also advocates the arming of extremist militants in Syria (a “National Stabilization Force”) and a hard-line policy toward Russia.

Members

Full article: Atlantic Council/Board
Full article: Atlantic Council/Members
Full article: Atlantic Council Digital Forensic Research Lab/Member


Propaganda tentacles

  • James C. Smith, CEO of the world's biggest news agency, Thomson Reuters, is on the board of Atlantic Council.
  • Rupert Murdoch, owner of large parts of the private press in English-speaking countries, is on the board.
  • In September 2014, The Atlantic Council hired Call of Duty: Black Ops series director Dave Anthony as a nonresident senior fellow, to make sure computer games have the desired pro-NATO angle ('Who are the good guys and bad guys'.) "Call of Duty Ghosts, for instance, you play as a U.S. soldier fighting against a red-beret wearing anti-American Venezuelan dictator, clearly based on President Hugo Chavez, while in Call of Duty 4, you follow the U.S. Army in Iraq"[2], where Russia gets blamed for a US war crime, the 'Highway of Death'".[3]

Funding

Apart from legitimizing US imperial interest, the Atlantic Council also acts as a lobbying group to NATO, with many donors having strong ties to the oil and weapons industries.

The leading donors in 2020[4] were:

  • Adrienne Arsht
  • British Foreign and Commonwealth Office
  • Embassy of the United Arab Emirates to the United States
  • Facebook, which announced in May 2018 that it was "partnering" with the Atlantic Council "to combat election-related propaganda and misinformation from proliferating on its service."[5]

Other notable donors are: OCP Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc., System Capital Management, United States Department of State, The Wallenberg Foundations,Open Society Foundation,The Victor Pinchuk Foundation, the Pentagon and NATO, Lockheed Martin and other war industries (including the Italian Leonardo), ExxonMobil and other multinationals, the Bank of America and other financial groups, the Rockefeller and Soros foundations.

The complete list of donors is an interesting read[6].




 

An event carried out

EventLocationDescription
StratCom DC 2019Washington DCSpooky conference arranged by the powerful Atlantic Council to discuss how to expand censorship

 

A Quote by Atlantic Council

PageQuoteDateSource
Cold War II“The United States remains the world’s leading power with global interests, and it cannot afford to choose between Europe and the Indo-Pacific. Instead, Washington and its allies should develop a defense strategy capable of deterring and, if necessary, defeating Russia and China at the same time.”18 February 2022ForeignPolicy.com

 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
Ben Nimmo“Ben Nimmo works for the Atlantic Council, funded inter alia by NATO. He is also on a retainer of £2,500 per month from the Integrity Initiative, in addition to payments for individual pieces of work. For his attack on Scottish Nationalists Nimmo was therefore paid by the Atlantic Council (your taxes through NATO), by the Integrity Initiative (your taxes) and by the Herald (thankfully shortly going bankrupt)... Nimmo’s role as witchfinder-general for Russian Bots appears very remunerative. His August 2016 invoice to The Institute for Statecraft, apparently the 71st invoice he had issued to various neo-con bodies that year, was for £5,000.”Craig Murray
Ben Nimmo
22 December 2018

 

Employees on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEnd
Jessica AshoohMiddle East Strategy Task Force/Deputy Director20152017
Andy CarvinAcademicFebruary 2019
Ben JudahAcademicNovember 2020
Frederick KempePresident and CEO2007
Richard MorningstarDirector of Global Energy Center2014

 

Known members

32 of the 349 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
David AaronDeep state connected diplomat. Attended Bilderberg 1977 as Deputy National Security Advisor.
Dmitri AlperovitchSpooky businessman
Judith Hippler BelloBig Pharma lobbyist who was one of the founding members of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue
Hans BinnendijkDutch born academic and US deep state functionary, a member of Atlantic Council and RAND corporation, deeply involved with NATO.
Henrik BreitenbauchII connected Danish academic
Graham Brookie"Former U.S. government advisor on homeland security and counterterrorism" connected to the Integrity Initiative/Institute for Statecraft complex
Ian BrzezinskiSon of Zbigniew Brzezinski, member of the Integrity Initiative's US Cluster.
Victor ChuHong Kong-based businessman and deep state actor. GLT 1998, Chatham house governor, WEF Trustee, Atlantic Council..
James B. Cunningham
Nelson CunninghamWell-connected Kissinger associate
Borzou DaragahiSpooky establishment journalist
William Draperformer President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States. He also led the highly strategic United Nations Development Programme, the biggest source of multilateral development grant assistance, and the U.S. Export-Import Bank. Both institution have a huge influence on policies in countries in the global south, an influence which he also made sure was used. Skull and Bones. Atlantic Council. His father was active in population control.
Naz DurakoğluTurkish-American civil servant, Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs under Joe Biden.
Susan EisenhowerGranddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Member of many think tanks, has written extensively on nuclear and space issues
Daniel FriedSpooky US diplomat
Jeffrey GedminUS spooky/hawkish neoconservative academic
Tom GlocerFormer CEO of Reuters, the news agency that on its own provides the majority of the world's news. Also board of deep state Atlantic Council.
Lincoln Gordon3 Early Bilderbergs, US Ambassador to Brazil in the 1960s, where he helped arrange the 1964 military coup.
David HobbsExpert in oil industry structure working for Atlantic Council.
Robert HunterHas played a national policy role in eight U.S. presidential election campaigns and written speeches and articles for presidential candidates, three U.S. Presidents four Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State and Defense, Senators, Representatives and other political figures. As United States Ambassador to NATO during the Clinton Administration, he was principal architect and negotiator of the post-Cold War "new NATO" and of the NATO airstrike decisions in the Bosnian War.
Jan LodalFormer Chairman of Atlantic Council
Terry McAuliffeVirginia politician. Attended two Bilderbergs.
Ben Nimmo"Nimmo is a former spokesperson for NATO, who has essentially dedicated his career to fear-mongering about Russia."
Friedbert PflügerGerman politician
Alan RileyUK solicitor/academic who worked for the Institute for Statecraft
Ron RitchieFounder of Institute for Research on Public Policy. Atlantic Council, Club of Rome, Ditchley Foundation
Sally SheltonSpooky US diplomat Atlantic Council, USAID, and NED. Married former CIA director William Colby.
Gregory TrevertonSpooky US "intelligence stalwart" interested in "terrorism"
Alexander VershbowSDS connected regular at the Brussels Forum
Peter WestmacottChatham House, UK ambassador
Damon WilsonPresident of the CIA front organization National Endowment for Democracy
Anders ÅslundQuad Bilderberger, Integrity Initiative. Worked on the Russian demographic catastrophe in the 1990s.

 

Event Planned

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
2018 Brussels DisinfoLab11 April 2018 08:30:0011 April 2018 13:30:00Belgium
Brussels
Euractiv
A 2018 conference set up jointly by the EU Disinfolab and the Atlantic Council

 

Sponsors

EventDescription
Bertelsmann Foundation
Carnegie CorporationEstablished by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, with large grants especially to form the education sector. Lots of grants to "security" think tanks too.
ClimateWorksLarge funder of projects intended to steer public opinion and take control over all government policy under the pretext of fighting climate change. Part of "a blob" of similar very wealthy interconnected foundations with opaque structures. Backers include Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg.
Hewlett FoundationHuge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects.
National Endowment for DemocracyThe "traditional intermediary of the CIA", promoting the US "national interest" by "soft power".
Norway/Ministry of Foreign AffairsA significant donor to NGOs and planning organizations. Many of the recipients dovetail with NATO objectives like regime changes and controlling the narrative.
Rockefeller Brothers FundRockefeller family "philanthropic" fund. One of the CIA's favorite cut-outs during the Cold War.
Smith Richardson FoundationCIA front organization that funds select projects with $$$

 

Related Documents

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Novichok, Navalny, Nordstream, Nonsenseblog post3 September 2020Craig MurrayThe US and Saudi Arabia have every reason to instigate a split between Germany and Russia at this time. Navalny is certainly a victim of international politics. That he is a victim of Putin I tend to doubt.
Document:The Secret Society That Rules The WorldArticle7 November 2018Bas SplietIn his 1999 campaign autobiography, President George W. Bush mentioned his membership in passing: "My senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can’t say anything more."
Document:Upskilling to Upscale: Unleashing the Capacity of Civil Society to Counter Disinformationproject planJune 2018Integrity InitiativeA central II-document. The master plan for a huge network of British-directed NGOs in Europe. ‘Disinformation’ refers to everything not fitting the Western government narrative...

 

A document sourced from Atlantic Council

TitleTypeSubject(s)Publication dateAuthor(s)Description
File:The Kremlin's Trojan Horses.pdfpaper"Russian Propaganda"18 November 2016Alina Polyakova
Marlene Laruelle
Stefan Meister
Neil Barnett
A cartoonishly over-the-top piece of anti-Russian hysteria from the Atlantic Council.
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