1. Elites / Personalities eleven years, the obituaries began on page one and his funeral was attended by 2000 mourners. Williams [no relation to us] declined invitations from two presidents (Ford and Reagan) to become CIA director, and Lyndon Johnson once asked him to be the mayor of Washington. He was the owner of the Baltimore Orioles, controlled the Washington Redskins for years, sat on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, and was national president of the Knights of Malta since 1984. Williams was best known for his skill as a trial lawyer. His clients included Senator Joseph McCarthy, Jimmy Hoffa, Adam Clayton Powell, mobster Frank Costello, Sugar Ray Robinson, LBJ aide Bobby Baker, John Connally, the Democratic National Committee, and the Washington Post. Frequently Williams picked up the phone solved his client's problems before they went to trial, and sometimes an exasperated judge would discover that his far-flung law firm represented interests on both sides.

2. Religions and Cults Business Week, and the National Catholic Reporter. Much of "People of God" is of more interest to those who follow Catholicism closely, while NameBase is focused on Catholicism only as it affects politics and the power structure generally. But the last half of the book has sections on the Knights of Malta (also known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta or SMOM), Opus Dei (called the "Holy Mafia" by its critics), Communion and Liberation (a lay movement in Italy), and Tradition, Family, and Property (an extremist cult in South America). For Lernoux, these groups are among those struggling for the soul of the Church, and represent a counterreformation, known as the "Restoration," that threatens to reverse the gains of Vatican II.

3. Religions and Cults

KIM JONG PIL

KIM KWANG

KIRSTEIN GARY

KISSINGER HENRY A

KISSINGER NANCY

KLENETSKY MELVIN

KNIGHTS MALTA

KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

KOCH EDWARD I
KOOP C EVERETT

KOREAN CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

KOREAN CULTURAL FREEDOM FOUNDATION

KORESH DAVID

LACOVARA PHILIP A

 

4. Terrorism / Counterterrorism
KINNEBREW THOMAS RICHARD

KINTNER WILLIAM ROSCOE

KIRKPATRICK EVRON MAURICE

KIRKPATRICK JEANE J

KITSON FRANK

KMS COMPANY

KNIGHTS MALTA
KOBETZ RICHARD W

KOCH NOEL C

KRIEGEL ANNIE

KROUSHER RICHARD W
KUPPERMAN ROBERT H

KVEDERAS ROBERT A

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doesn't fit anywhere on our spectrum; he's running his own show. A conspiracy bookseller named Lloyd Miller[14] is farther out than Skousen. Miller is aware of Quigley and sells his books. While Oglesby is toying with an American ruling-class Yankee-Cowboy split that goes back a generation or so, Miller dwells on a split between the Knights of Malta and the Knights Templar going back to the year 1307. The modern derivative of this struggle provides his hypothesis that "the overt and covert organs of the Vatican and British Empire are locked in mortal combat for control of the world." In Miller's theory, Jesuit-controlled Georgetown is the Vatican headquarters on the American front, and Quigley is a Vatican agent exposing the Anglo-American connection. Miller is more sophisticated than this description allows, but I have difficulties with him. On a case by case.

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much beyond the last 100 years. Miller is mentioned because there are similarities between his analysis and the theories of Lyndon LaRouche. For anyone who wants to figure out what LaRouche is talking about, it is necessary to be conversant with esoterica concerning Freemasonry, the Knights of Malta, and British imperialism. The alternative is to see all of the above as code words for Jews, and LaRouche's enemies -- namely Chip Berlet, Dennis King, and the Anti-Defamation League -- tend to take this easy way out. I don't believe that right-wing globalist conspiracy theories in general, or LaRouche's theories in particular, can be dismissed by claiming that they are disguised anti-Semitism -- that is to say, code-word versions of the not found in other essays: knights AND Malta

7. Air Commando Association
and for its Guatemalan clinic as well as donating 45,000 pounds of rice that ACA distributed in three areas of Guatemala.(13) The Conservative Caucus, a rightwing Washington lobby group, arranged for shipment of 30,000 pounds of medical supplies and equipment to ACA operations in El Salvador.(6) Part of the shipment was provided by the elitist rightwing Catholic group, the Knights of Malta.(6) ACA has been using Refugee Relief International, a paramilitary group connected with Soldier of Fortune magazine "for getting the medicine and supplies to people [in Central America] who need them."(18)

8. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research president of the short-lived Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, a group funded by the Unification-church owned Washington Times which was supposed to funnel aid to the Nicaraguan contras.(30,31) William Simon was chairman of the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund. He is or was on the board of AmeriCares and is a longtime member of the Knights of Malta, both of which were a part of the Nicaraguan contra supply network.(30,38,39) Simon served on the national council of PRODEMCA (Friends of the Democratic Center in (Central America). He is or was an international business counselor at CSIS where "The William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy" is awarded annually to scholars of the free enterprise system.(27,41) Simon is or was a trustee at the Heritage Foundation and has been connected

9. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 36. Foundation Grants Index, 17th edition, 1988. 37. Complete Catalog of Books, AEI, Fall 1989. 38. AmeriCares brochure, undated. 39. Penny Lernoux, "Who Knows? Knights of Malta Know," National Catholic Reporter, May 5, 1989. 40. National Security Archive, The Chronology (New York, NY: Warner Books, 1987).
41. Programs & Activities, Center for Strategic and International 10. American Freedom Coalition
1988, the AFC-NM helped promote and organize a fundraising dinner for Oliver North. The event was sponsored by the Oliver North Defense Fund, an ad hoc organization headed by former New Mexico state senator Mickey Barnett. Local activist Greg Shade was a principal organizer of the event.(33,35) Francis (Frank) V. Ortiz, a member of the speakers bureau of AFC-NM, is a member of the Knights of Malta.(48) Misc: The Rev. Moon has said that he wants to form a "Christian political party" that would encompass all religious groups.(22) Members of the American Freedom Coalition like civil-rights veterans Ralph Abernathy and James Bevel have become champions for Moon and his followers. Abernathy, for instance, has compared 11. American Freedom Coalition 46. Elton Manzione, "The Private Spy Agency," The National Reporter, Summer 1985. 47. Coalition for Religious Freedom brochure, 1986. 48. Francoise Hervet, "Knights of Darkness:

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta," Covert Action Information Bulletin, #25, Winter 1986. 12. Accuracy In Media of the right-wing journal Commentary is her husband.(12,13) Decter was also on the Board of Directors of the now defunct Nicaraguan Freedom Fund.(14) Decter is a Heritage Foundation trustee, an Ethics and Public Policy Center trustee, a Hudson Institute fellow, and an advisory board member of The National Interest.(19) Clare Booth Luce is a Dame of the Knights of Malta.(15) She was a director of the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, a fundraising group set up in 1985 by the Washington Times, a paper owned by Rev. Sun Myung

Moon's Unification Church, to provide funds to the contras.(12,15,17,18) Luce was on the Board of the Washington Times.(17) She also served with the Coalition for Peace Through Strength (CPTS) and the Committee on the Present Danger.(21,23) William Simon is on the advisory committee of AmeriCares and was on the national council of the Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America (PRODEMCA). Simon was also the chair of the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund and is a member of the Knights of Malta.(12,15,18) Dr. Edward Teller was a member of the Committee on the Present Danger as of 1983. The Committee is an anticommunist organization which has advocated strict containment policies towards the Soviet Union.(21) Teller also created the H-Bomb.(20) Teller was also on the advisory board of the Western Goals Foundation and served with

13. Accuracy In Media 13. Midge Decter, "Governor Dukakis Is Toying With Defense, and America," The New York Times, October 3, 1988. 14. Masthead of Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, from 1985 income tax return Form 990. 15. Martin A.Lee, "Who are the Knights of Malta?" National Catholic Reporter, October 11, 1983. 16. Foundation Grants Index, 16th & 17th editions. 17. Francoise Hervet, "Knights of Darkness: The Soveriegn Military Order of Malta," Covert Action Information Bulletin, Winter, 1986. 18. Summary of La Prensa Grant Proposal, National Endowment for Democracy, no date. 19. Gregg Easterbrook, "Ideas Move Nations," Atlantic Monthly,

14. AmeriCares Foundation
helped form rescue missions that helped Saigon children raise money for their welfare by shining shoes for U.S. soldiers. He went into personal debt to assist in the l975 evacuation airlift of Vietnamese associated with the U.S. occupation in Vietnam.(7,18) Closely associated with the elite conservative Catholic lay order Knights of Malta, AmeriCares currently distributes most of its goods through that organization in Central America.(18) Corporate magnate J. Peter Grace, head of the Knights of Malta in the United States, said he initiated medical shipments to Central America in l983 by calling Macauley and proposing that AmeriCares and the Knights of Malta work together in the region.(4) AmeriCares is a high profile organization. It is generally the first private voluntary organization to arrive at the scene of a disaster with humanitarian aid. Often a prominent political figure--in recent years frequently a member of the Bush family-- is on board to deliver the shipment, and the U.S. ambassador to

15. Americares Foundation AmeriCares was also the first U.S. humanitarian aid group on the scene providing supplies to refugees fleeing from Kuwait to Jordan. Initial shipments were met by the U.S. ambassador to Jordan, Roger Harrison.(42) The organization, working with the Knights of Malta, channeled more than $14 million in donated medical aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras between l982 and l984. The bulk of those supplies, valued at approximately $10 million, went to hospitals and clinics in El Salvador.(4) In 1985, the group sent $20 million in donated supplies to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The l986 total exceeded $20 million.(2)

16. AmeriCares Foundation through l984. Much of that total was distributed by the armed forces for its "model village" program aimed at resettling and "pacifying" Guatemalans displaced during counterinsurgency operations.(4). Honduras: AmeriCares began its official operations in Honduras in l985, aided by the longer presence of the Knights of Malta whose special diplomatic status facilitates the movement of AmeriCares supplies through customs and exempts the group from taxes. AmeriCares provides donated medicine and food to l63 clinics of the health ministry as well as to l3 private clinics.(19) A portion of the $680,000 in aid that AmeriCares shipped to

17. AmeriCares Foundation humanitarian assistance organization which has conducted major operations along the border between Honduras and Nicaragua. It has assisted Nicaraguan refugees, the contras, and contra families.(34,35) As in the rest of Central America, AmeriCares works closely with the Knights of Malta in Honduras. Their efforts support military civic actions and counterrevolutionary programs, but they also provide supplies to the Ministry of Health for clinics throughout the country.(19) The organization supplies the hospital and clinics of Friends of the Americas along the Nicaraguan border in La Mosquitia and in the Danli area. It also provides medicine to clinics run by the Brigadas de Salud in Catacamas, Trujillo, La Ceiba, El Progreso, San Pedro, Santa Barbara, Siguatepeque, and Choluteca.

On the island of Amapala in the Gulf of Fonsecas another clinic supplied by the group. This island has become an important communications and intelligence post for the U.S. military. As described below in Govt Connections, the combined AmeriCares/Knights of Malta operation in Honduras has a mutually supportive relationship with the Honduran armed forces.(19) In early 1990, a 20-member AmeriCares team traveled to southern Honduras to provide aid to an area along the border with Nicaragua. They were accompanied by Ted Keary of the Central America Medical and Dental Foundation (see below), a group which has provided extensive humanitarian assistance in Honduras.(32) Nicaragua: In l985 and l986, AmeriCares shipped more than $l00,000 worth of newsprint to the opposition daily, La Prensa, in
Managua.

This included delivery of 200 tons ofnewsprint to the newspaper in l986.(16,24) The Knights of Malta handled the local arrangements in Nicaragua.(28) Its l985 tax return indicated that AmeriCares delivered $73,136 worth of food and medical supplies to La Prensa, but Jim Schaffer, a former official in the organization, says that only newsprint was sent.(24) An attempted shipment of another l5 tons of newsprint from AmeriCares to La Prensa in April l988 was blocked by the Sandinista government which accused AmeriCares of

18. AmeriCares Foundation
network.(28) In February 1990, following the elections in Nicaragua which ousted the Sandinistas,
AmeriCares sent a team to the country to deliver humanitarian aid and assess Nicaragua's medical needs. The shipment of medical and nutritional supplies donated by the group was valued at about $1 million. The Catholic Church and the Knights of Malta were given responsibility for distributing the aid. The AmeriCares team was accompanied by Ted Keary and Einar Ruud of the Cape Cod Chapter of the Central America Medical and Dental Foundation, another humanitarian aid group. Keary and Ruud were traveling as advisers to AmeriCares.(32) Following the trip, AmeriCares intended to begin more regular assistance to groups in Nicaragua.(32) President Bush's son Marvin accompanied the second AmeriCares shipment to Nicaragua. This shipment was met by Knights of Malta ambassador Roberto Alejos Arzu, a man with a long history of rightwing politics and CIA links in Guatemala. Alejos lent his plantation in Guatemala to the CIA for training troops for the Bay of Pigs invasion.(37) Panama: AmeriCares was the first private voluteer organization to

19. AmeriCares Foundation Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and deputy secretaries of the Defense and State departments.(41) Mexico: AmeriCares moved into Mexico immediately following the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, sending an airlift of medical supplies valued at $1,514,755.(30,39) Work in Mexico is supported by the Knights of Malta and directed by Julieta Conroy De Hegewisch of the Fundacion De Apoyo Social I.A.P. There were four medical projects active in 1990: Jesus Obrero Parish, San Gerardo Mayela Parish, the Community of Fas Hidalgo, and General Hospital of Mexico. AmeriCares has worked cooperatively with SHARE in Mexico (See Private Connections).(30) 20. AmeriCares Foundation AmeriCares receives support from AID for its transport costs to El Salvador.(26) Honduras: AmeriCares received an Agency for International Development grant of $2.7 million for work on the Nicaragua- Honduras border.(8) Joint projects by AmeriCares and Knights of Malta in Honduras rely on the Honduran army for transportation assistance.

The joint operations also contribute supplies for the army's civic action programs, and the Fifth Battalion, based in La Mosquitia, has thanked the groups for their support of military civic actions along the Nicaraguan border in towns such as Awasbila and Ilaya, where contras have been based.(19) AmeriCares was 21. AmeriCares Foundation Bush. Ritter served in 1985 and 1986 on Attorney General Edwin Meese's commission opposing pornography. Ritter was an outspoken opponent of pornography of all types, considering it a bad influence that encouraged the sexual exploitation of the young.(31) Private Connections: AmeriCares has worked with, supported, or been supported by a number of groups, including the following: Knights of Malta, Christian Broadcasting Network, the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, Friends of the Americas, and Brigadas de Salud.(4,5,9,19) AmeriCares has a number of board members in common and works cooperatively with SHARE.

SHARE distributed in Mexico vaccines from AmeriCares that had been refused by the Philippines as being unnecessary and potentially dangerous.(37) The American Medical Association (AMA) solicited pharmaceutical companies for donations to AmeriCares for its January 1990 shipment of medical supplies to Romania. Members of the Knights of Malta accompanied the shipment which was met at the airport by the U.S. ambassador to Budapest, Mark Palmer.(40) During the 1980s AmeriCares sent more aid to Central America than the Knights of Malta could distribute. According to Knight's chief, Roberto Alejos, some shipments were turned over to the 700 Club, the Air Commando Association, and Covenant House.(37) Howard Rusk is on the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee and on the Committee of Sponsors of Helen Keller International.(13,14) Rusk is also on the Board of Directors of the World Rehabilitation Fund.(23) J. Peter Grace is chairman of W.R. Grace and Company which focuses its business activities in latin America. He heads the U.S. chapter of the Knights of Malta and was a board member of rodemca.

Grace was board chairman of the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), a CIA-linked organization funded by the Agency for International Development that promotes pro-U.S. labor unions in Latin America.(37) Grace was a trustee of the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism, a group connected to the CIA that helped ex-Nazi intelligence officers escape prosecution.(47) William Simon and Prescott Bush Jr. are also members of the Knights of Malta, and Simon was also on Prodemca's national council. Both Prodemca and the Knights of Malta wereinvolved in efforts to support the contras and/or private sector opposition groups in Nicaragua. Simon, who was Treasury Secretary under Richard Nixon, was also the chairman of the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund (NFF), a fundraising organization set up in l985 by the Washington Times, a newspaper owned by the Unification Church. The NFF was established to raise funds for the contras.(12,17) Simon is an international 22. AmeriCares Foundation 45. David Ivon, "International Freedom Foundation," Covert Action Information Bulletin, #31, Winter 1989. 46. Phone interview with investigative reporter Sidney Blumenthal, Sep 20, 1990. 47. Penny Lernoux, "Who Knows? Knights of Malta Know," National Catholic Reporter, May 5, 1989.

23. American Security Council
Freedom Coalition and has been heavily involved with CAUSA USA, the political arm of the Unification Church.(3) Lev Dobrianski also serves on the board of the U.S. Council for World Freedom.(24) The delegation led by Generals Graham and Singlaub to Guatemala in 1979 was hosted by plantation owner Roberto Alejos, the Guatemalan co-director of the Knights of Malta, an ultra-conservative lay Catholic organization. Alejos also allowed the CIA to use his farm to train brigadistas for the Bay of Pigs invasion.(41) The manager of the Coca Cola bottling plant in Guatemala, John C. Trotter, was a consultant to ASC on a documentary film. Trotter had been implicated in some death squad killings of workers and union leaders at the Coca Cola plant.(11)

24. American Security Council served on the board of trustees of Freedom House, another right-wing group working internationally in support of "the institutions of democracy."(37) In 1982, Wigner received a $200,000 "Founders Award" from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon--head of the Unification Church.(36) Clare Boothe Luce, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, and Edward Teller are on the board of directors of AIM.(38) Clare Booth Luce was a Dame of the Knights of Malta, a conservative lay Catholic group that, among other things, is involved in U.S. Agency for International Development work in Central America.(39) ASC was listed in 1988 by Common Cause Magazine as one of 29 groups in the private support network for the contras. The other groups and their functions as described by Common cause were: The Stanton

25. American Security Council
Washington Post, Sep 17, 1984. 37. Freedom At Issue, Jan/Feb 1989. 38. Accuracy In Media brochure, undated. 39. Martin A. Lee, "Who Are The Knights of Malta?" National Catholic Reporter, Oct 11, 1983. 40. Saul Landau, "Dress Rehersal For a Red Scare," The Nation, Apr 5, 1986. 41. New Right Humanitarians (Albuquerque, NM: The Resource Center, 1986).

26. Central America Medical and Dental Foundation
ones have been limited to 15 to 20 people. The organization claims to be nonpolitical and non-religious, but has formed working relationships with government officials in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala as well as with highly politicized, anticommunist, rightwing groups. These include Allan Danforth's evangelical World Gospel Outreach, AmeriCares, and the conservative lay Catholic organization, Knights of Malta.(1,5,6,9) The Massachusetts chapter left the CAMDF organization in the latter part of 1900 to become "CapeCARES," (Central American Relief Efforts), an independent organization. The group is headed by Dr Mitchell Tishler, but Dr. Ted Keary serves on the board of directors. CapeCARES plans to build a permanent clinic in southern Honduras

27. Central America Medical and Dental Foundation
Ted Keary travelled to Nicaragua with an AmeriCares delegation immediately after the victory of the .S.-backed National Opposition Union (UNO) in February 1990. He was there as an adviser to AmeriCares to assist with its assessment of the medical needs of Nicaragua. On this trip Keary was assisted by the Catholic Church and the Knights of Malta with the distribution of 45,000 pounds of medical and food supplies.(12) Chiquita Banana Corporation sometimes assisted CAMDF with transportation of medical teams and supplies.(9) Pharmaceutical heir and philanthropist Josiah Lilly III has arranged for donations to CAMDF from Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company.(2) AmeriCares, a major supporter of CAMDF, has representatives from a number of leading pharmaceutical companies on its board of directors. AmeriCares' board also includes such political heavyweights as William E. Simon (former Secretary of the Treasury and associated with the Nicaragua Freedom Fund, Knights of Malta, PRODEMCA, Olin Foundation, Heritage Foundation, Council for National Policy, American Enterprise Institute, and Committee for a Free World), former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, and conservative corporate magnate J. Peter Grace.(16) Misc: The newsletters of CAMDF end with this note: "We have been

28. Central America Medical and Dental Foundation 14. John Leaning, "Cape Volunteers to Aid Hondurans," Cape Cod Times, Feb 6, 1989. 15. John Leaning, "A Trip Never To Be Forgotten," Cape Cod Times, Apr 18, 1989. 16. Penny Lernoux, "Who Knows? The Knights of Malta Know," National Catholic Reporter, May 5, 1989.

29. Cuban American National Foundation
J. Peter Grace is a powerful and wealthy international businessman. He heads the W.R. Grace conglomerate. He was a cofounder of AIFLD. AIFLD is considered by many to be a "government operative," and has been linked to the CIA.(21,23) Grace was the head of AmeriCares, a private organization that worked with third world countries.(21) Grace has chaired the conservative, lay Catholic group, the Knights of Malta, another private organization that carries out U.S. policy in third world nations through its distribution of material aid to targeted groups.(24) He was also on the board of directors of PRODEMCA.(25) Misc: There has been some question whether the CANF has used NED

30. Cuban American National Foundation
Sep 1989. 23. Colleen Lowe Morna, "Alleged U.S. Labor Link with CIA and State Department Worries Southern Africa's Trade Unions," The City Sun, May 1-7, 1985. 24. Penny Lernoux, "Who Knows? The Knights of Malta Know," The National Catholic Reporter, May 5, 1989. 25. Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America, Annual Report, 1986. 26. The Foundation Grants Index, 15th edition, 1986.

31. Christian Broadcasting Network
and CBN provided $2 million cash for shipping and handling. [Quotes in original AP story].(5,22,23) Several tons of the AmeriCares/CBN supplies were also transported to Guatemala and the Honduran Mosquitia region on U.S. Navy ships in the Navy's humanitarian aid program called "Operation Handclasp."(9) Some of the aid was to be distributed through Operation Blessing units in Central America, and also by Knights of Malta. While en route to Honduras in a C-130 full of medical supplies, Robertson told a reporter in Miami that "some [of this aid] may get to the contras."(23) According to Hap Lutz, Air Commando Association (ACA) vice president, Operation Blessing gave about $2 million to the ACA.(2)

32. Christian Broadcasting Network
them that one group named itself the Pat Robertson Brigade.(58) In May, 1984, Pat Robertson solicited U.S. viewers' contributions for the "freedom fighters" through a special telethon on "The 700 Club" and simulated mailgrams.(28) An undetermined amount of CBN aid was delivered to Miskito Indians on the Honduras-Nicaragua border by AmeriCares/Knights of Malta and the Friends of the Americas (FOA).(2,9) Louisiana State Representative Louis "Woody" Jenkins (Chairman of FOA) told The New York Times that "some of the aid...would go to the refugees and some to the rebels."(1) Jenkins said in 1985, "I'm all for the freedom fighters. I want the Sandinistas kicked out of Nicaragua. That's one of the main motivations of my work."(9) At a National Religious Broadcasters

33. Christian Broadcasting Network
Force Base to Central America where they were distributed by the ACA.(37) Private Connections:
CBN/Operation Blessing has financed or worked on joint humanitarian efforts with the Air Commando Association, AmeriCares, Brotherhood of Nicaraguans, Friends of the Americas, International Aid, Knights of Malta, and the Nicaraguan Patriotic Association (NPA)--several of which were a part of the private Nicaraguan contra supply network.(2,5,9,22,23,37,40) Juan Sacasas, Houston representative of the NPA-a contra front group--confirmed the CBN financing. Robertson denies any connection with Juan Sacasas.(3,9)

34. Citizens for America
Information Bulletin, No 31, Winter 1989. 25. Washington Post, August 11, 1985. 26. Group Research Report, Vol 25, No 3, Mar 1986. 27. Penny Lernoux, "Who's Who? Knights of Malta Know," National Catholic Reporter, May 5, 1989. 28. List of the board of directors of CIPE, July 1989. 29. Letter to the National Endowment for Democracy from the executive director of Krieble and Associates, June 13, 1989.

35. Committee for the Free Worl
former senior editor at Basic Books.(47) William Simon is or was a trustee of the conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation.(40) He is president of the Olin Foundation, a major funder of right-wing groups.(22) He is or was on the board of governors of the Council for National Policy.(39) Simon is also a member of the right-wing lay Catholic group, the Knights of Malta--a group very active in Central America.(36) Simon headed a major fund for private support to the Nicaraguan contras, the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund.(37) He also served on the advisory committee for AmeriCares, a group that received funds from the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund. AmeriCares not only supported the contras, but has been implicated in manipulation of the internal politics in

36. Committee for the Free World
34. Letter from the League for Industrial Democracy, received Sep 30, 1986. 35. Letter from the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, received Sep 23, 1986. 36. Penny Lernoux, "Who Knows? Knights of Malta Know," National Catholic Reporter, May 5, 1989. 37. The New Right Humanitarians (Albuquerque, NM: The Resource Center, 1986). 38. Science and Policy Research (Washington, DC: Columbia Books, 1988).

37. Council for National Policy
He heads the W.R. Grace conglomerate. He was a cofounder of the American Institute for Free Labor
Development (AIFLD), an affiliate group of the AFL-CIO.(12) AIFLD operates overseas and is funded by the U.S. government. It is considered by many to be a "government operative," and has been linked with the CIA.(5,12) Grace was the chair of AmeriCares, a private organization that works in third world countries, often coordinating its efforts with the Knights of Malta, another group which Grace has chaired.(5,13) The Knights of Malta is an elite, conservative, lay-Catholic organization active in carring out U.S. policy in third world countries.(13) Grace was also on the board of directors of the Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America (PRODEMCA).(14) PRODEMCA was formed to support incipient democratic processes in Central America. It has a controversial history because of its advocacy of the Nicaraguan

38. Council for National Policy
Lewis Lehrman was the founder and chairman of the Citizens for America, a lobby group supporting
anticommunist resistance groups around the world.(17,36) Lehrman was also a trustee of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that developed foreign and domestic policy strategies that were influential in the early years of the Reagan administration.(37) Lehrman is also a member of the Knights of Malta.(13) "Joseph Coors," wrote Al Weinrub in the Labor Report on Central America, "has used the power of the Coors financial dynasty not only to provide support to the contras, but to set a right-wing political agenda in the U.S...."(18) Coors was the chair of the Rocky Mountain region Reagan/Bush campaign in 1984.(19) He provided

39. Council for National Policy
11. Letterhead from Citizens for America, 1988. 12. Colleen Lowe Morna, "Alleged U.S. Labor Link with CIA and State Dept. Worries Southern Africa's Trade Unions," The City Sun, May 1-7, 1985. 13. Penny Lernoux, "Who Knows? The Knights of Malta Know," The National Catholic Reporter, May 5, 1989. 14. Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America, Annual Report, 1986. 15. Michael Massing, "Contra Aides," Mother Jones, Oct 1987.

40. Covenant House
has made generous donations to Covenant House and was a major supplier for its Central American
operations.(12) J. Peter Grace is a strident rightwing anticommunist. Grace was a trustee of the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism, a group connected to the CIA that assisted ex-Nazi intelligence officers escape prosecution. Grace is head of the Knights of Malta in the United States, and is on the board of directors of AmeriCares. His activities and those of his corporation W.R. Grace and Company have focused on Central and South America. He served as chairman of the board of the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), the Latin American arm of the AFL-CIO, which is very active in labor activities in Central America. He also chaired a 41.

Covenant House roots of Reaganism."(36) William Simon provides a consistent link among important private organizations active in Central America in the 1980s. Simon served on the board of AmeriCares, a group that sent millions of dollars in humanitarian aid to the contras. The aid was delivered by the Knights of Malta, an elite, conservative lay-Catholic organization of which Simon is a member.(12) He chaired the short-lived Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, a group founded in 1985 by the Unification Church-owned Washington Times to raise funds for the contras. The fund, which closed its doors after fewer than six months, gave its only grant ($165,000) to AmeriCares.(12) Simon also served on the national council of PRODEMCA (Friends of the Democratic Center in Central

42. Covenant House
Times Square Crisis center in 1977. Macauley, lifelong friend and school chum of President George Bush, is the founder and president of AmeriCares. AmeriCares helped deliver supplies to the Miskito Indians along the Nicaraguan/Honduran border and delivered newsprint to the Sandinista opposition daily La Prensa. It also delivered millions of dollars of humanitarian aid to the contras.(12) AmeriCares worked with or was supported by the following groups: Knights of Malta, Christian Broadcasting Network, the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, Friends of the Americas, and Brigadas de Salud.(12,21,22,23,24) The Knights of Malta is closely allied with Covenant House's Central American activities. AmeriCares consigns its shipments to the Knights and the Knights deliver it to Covenant House operations. Roberto Alejos, the leading figure of the Knights of Malta in Guatemala and the group's ambassador to Honduras, has played an important role in Covenant House's development in Central America.

He was considered to be the link to numerous donations, many of them anonymous, that Covenant House received from moneyed people around Central America.(12) Alejos, linked to William Simon and J. Peter Grace through the Knights, has a history of anticommunist activities and once ran as a rightwing candidate for president of Guatemala. He was described by author Jean-Marie Simon as "a thug in a business suit," and has been connected with the CIA and the contra aid network. When queried about Alejos connection with Covenant House, Jean-Marie Simon said, "its like having Idi Amin on the board of Amnesty International."(12) Misc: Marilyn Rocky, a former director of public affairs at Covenant House says "It is an old boys network....Bob Macauley is a strong supporter of Covenant House and the Knights of Malta, who are connected with Macauley, who is connected with Covenant House. The name names appeared everywhere...there's a very strong focal point for Covenant House around Simon, Macauley, Grace, and a few others."(12) Covenant House was implicated in the issuance of the baptismal certificate of a 10-year-old boy who died of leukemia to Kevin Kite

43. Covenant House
34. List of board of directors, Covenant House, May 21, 1991. 35. Russ Baker, "A Thousand Points of Blight," Village Voice, Jan 8, 1991. 36. Penny Lernoux, "Who's Who? Knights of Malta Know," National Catholic Reporter, May 5, 1989. 37. "War for the Children, Guatemala Covenant House Confronts Death Squads," Newsday, Oct 7, 1990. 38. Mary Jo McConahay, "Guatemala Waging War on Its Street

44. Center for Strategic and International Studies
William E. Simon is or was a trustee of the conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation.(21) He is president of the Olin Foundation, a major funder of rightwing groups.(22). He is or was on the Council for National Policy, an exclusive and secretive rightwing policy development group.(23) Simon is a member of the elite, conservative, lay-Catholic group, the Knights of Malta--an anticommunist group very active in Central America.(24) He headed the short-lived Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, a group founded specifically to provide assistance to the Nicaraguan contras.(19) He also served on the advisory committee for AmeriCares, the major recipient of contra funds from the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund. AmeriCares not only supported the contras, but has been implicated in manipulation of

45. Center for Strategic and International Studies
22. Sayid Khybar, "The Afghan Contra Lobby," unpublished paper, Mar 1988. 23. Mailing list of the Council for National Policy, 1984. 24. Penny Lernoux, "Who Knows? Knights of Malta Know," National Catholic Reporter, May 5, 1989. 25. John Spicer Nichols, "La Prensa, The CIA Connection," Columbia School of Journalism Review, July/Aug 1988. 26. AmeriCares letterhead, Nov 1987.

46. Thomas A. Dooley Foundation - Intermed-USA, Inc.
the last 25 years it has also worked with refugees and "primitive tribal groups" in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras (Nicaraguan refugees), India (Tibetans), Lebanon, Nepal, Pakistan (Afghans), Somalia, and Uganda.(9) El Salvador: The Dooley-Intermed Foundation provides medical supplies to the right-wing Catholic lay organization Knights of Malta. Gerald Coughlin, who is the country representative for both Dooley-Intermed and Knights of Malta, described their work with refugees in counterinsurgency terms: "If you're not eating and a private organization brings you food, then you're less likely to be recruited by the guerrillas."(1) Costa Rica: Dooley-Intermed reportedly works with Nicaraguan refugees in Costa Rica.(5,9)

47. Thomas A. Dooley Foundation - Intermed-USA, Inc.
Private Connections: For the last 25 years, the Dooley-Intermed Foundation has received medical supplies from the Detroit-based World Medical Relief.(2,3,4) Some of these supplies have been routed through the Air Commando Association (Ft. Walton Beach, FL) and Friends of the Americas (Baton Rouge, LA).(1,2) Some of them were distributed through the Knights of Malta in El Salvador.(1) Gerald T. Coughlin is country representative for Dooley-Intermed, Knights of Malta, and Direct Relief International.(1) Misc: On July 3, 1986, President Reagan wrote in a letter of praise to Dr. Verne Chaney: "It's a quarter of a century now since the legendary American physician and humanitarian Dr. Thomas A. Dooley III left this life... On this, the 25th anniversary of your [Chaney's] service to fellow man, I send you my heartfelt admiration and

48. Friends of the Americas
projects include a jungle hospital, several clinics and schools, mobile medical clinics, and giveaway
programs.(1,21,23) FOA has a staff pilot for emergency medical evacuations.(18) The group has six nutrition centers (four of them open) which provide milk, oil, rice, and flour. The food comes from the U.S. government (PL480) via the Honduran Ministry of Health and also from CARE.(9,10) The elite Catholic lay organization Knights of Malta is also a major supplier for FOA in the country.(11) Much of FOA's supplis have been transported to Honduras by the U.S. military through the provisions of the Denton Amendment. For example, 100,000 pounds of relief supplies (food, clothing, medicine, hospital equipment, and Shoeboxes for Liberty worth $400,000) were trucked to Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas for transport to the country in

49. Friends of the Americas
Robertson, Pat Boone, Nelson Bunker Hunt, Tim LaHaye, Gen. John Singlaub, and Oliver North are fellow CNP members.(2,27,41) FOA has received supplies from the Thomas A. Dooley Foundation for distribution to the contras, and in late 1988 received medical equipment worth $75,000 for its operations in Honduras.(4,25,26) Christian Broadcasting Network gives aid to FOA, as does the rightwing Catholic lay organization Knights of Malta.(5,11) Gen. John Singlaub, head of the World Anti-Communist League and the U.S. chapter, the United States Council for World Freedom, said that he has helped raise funds for FOA.(27) Woody Jenkins was an official with the Nicaraguan Refugee Fund, which held a fundraising dinner for the contras in 1985, at a cost of $250 a plate. At the dinner, Pat Robertson gave the invocation and led the Pledge of Allegiance;

50. Friends of the Americas 9. Interview with Alex (last name not given), FOA worker in Rus Rus, Honduras, December 18, 1985. 10. Interview with Michael Reinhard, AID contract worker, Honduras, December 18, 1985. 11. Interview with Francois de Peirecave, Knights of Malta Charge d'Affaires, Honduras, December 20, 1985. 12. Interview with U.N. High Commission on Refugees employee in Honduras, December 17, 1985. 13. Vicki Kemper, "In the Name of Relief," Sojourners, October 1985.