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The '''Albert Einstein Institution''' (AEI) as described in its own website::Founded in 1983 by Dr. [[Gene Sharp]], The Albert Einstein Institution is dedicated to advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world. It is committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action.<br>To further its mission, the Institution has supported research projects (for examples, see our publications section), actively consulted with resistance and pro-democracy groups (including groups in Burma, Thailand, Tibet, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Serbia, and the Occupied Territories), and worked to publicize the power and potential of nonviolent struggle around the world through educational materials, analyses, translations, workshops, and media visibility.<ref>Albert Einstein Institution, [http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsorganizationsc506.php3?orgid=88&typeID=6&action=printContentItem&itemID=15html "Background"], Albert Einstein Institution website, accessed March 2009.</ref>

An alternative description is::In 1989, "The Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) has played the key role Institution’s Board of Directors, meeting in recent years in training and deploying youth movements September, approveda grant of $6,000 to help prepare the conditions for coups through fostering the impression that the targeted regimes are deeply unpopular[[Civilian-Based Defense Association]], and through destabilizing those regimes through their demonstrations and the likea one hundred percent increase over last year’s funding level. The group, which grant is funded by specifically to provide general support for the Soros foundations production and distribution of the US government, is led by former DIA officer Col. Robert HelveyAssociation’s newsletter, ''Civilian-Based Defense: News and Harvard UniversityOpinion''s Dr. Gene Sharp.[Mowat, " <ref>[http://www.onlinejournalaeinstein.comorg/Special_Reportsorganizations/031905Mowat-1org/031905Mowat02-3/031905mowatfall89-31.html]pdf Nonviolent Sanctions Newsletter], AEI, 1989.</ref>

==Swarming Adolescents==Some of this institute's activities were recently described in an article about the recent coup in Ukraine::In 1995, AEI noted that "The creation and deployment of coups of any kind requires agents [[Program on the ground. The main handler of these coups on the "street side" has been the Albert Einstein InstitutionNonviolent Sanctions]], which was formed in 1983 as an offshot of Harvard University under the impetus of Dr. Gene Sharp, and which specializes in "nonviolence as a form of warfare." Dr. Sharp had been the executive secretary of A.J. Muste, the famous U.S. Trotskyite labor organizer and peacenik. The group is funded by Soros and receives financial support from the NED. Albert Einstein's president is Col. Robert HelveyInstitution, a former US Army officer with 30 years of experience in Southeast Asia. He has served as the case officer for youth groups active in the Balkans and Eastern Europe since at least 1999.<br>Col. Helvey reports, in a January 29, 2001, interview now joined with film producer Steve York in Belgrade, that he first got involved in "strategic nonviolence" upon seeing the failure of military approaches to toppling dictators—especially in Myanmar[[Cultural Survival Center]], where he had been stationed as military attaché—and seeing the potential research arm of Sharp's alternative approach. According to B. Raman[[Cultural Survival]], the former director of India's foreign intelligence agency, RAW, in a December 2001 paper published by his institute entitled[[human rights]] organization, "The USA's National Endowment For Democracy (NED): An Update," Helvey "was an officer of to run the Defence Intelligence Agency of the Pentagon, who had served in Vietnam [[Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and, subsequently, as the US Defence Attache in Yangon, Myanmar Cultural Survival]] (1983 to 85PNSCS), during which he clandestinely organised the Myanmarese students to work behind Aung San Suu Kyi and in collaboration with Bo Mya's Karen insurgent group. at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs. . . He also trained in Hong Kong the student leaders from Beijing in mass demonstration techniques which they were to subsequently use in the Tiananmen Square incident of June 1989" and "is now believed to be acting as an adviser to the Falun Gong, the religious sect of China, in similar civil disobedience techniques." Col. Helvey nominally retired from the army in 1991, but had been working with Albert Einstein and Soros long before then.<ref>[http://www.onlinejournalaeinstein.comorg/Special_Reportsorganizations/031905Mowat-1org/031905mowat21_spring95-1.htmlpdf Nonviolent Sanctions Newsletter], AEI, Spring 1995.</ref>

And there are more:==Funding==Between 2000 to 2004 they received some funding from<ref>Albert Einstein Institution, [http:As we shall see below//www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/2000-04rpt.pdf ''Report on Activities 2000 to 2004''], with such backingAlbert Einstein Institution website, Col2004. Helvey and his colleagues have created a series of youth movements including (pdf)</ref>:*[[Arca Foundation]]*[[OtporCalifornia Community Foundation]]! in Serbia, *[[KmaraGreenville Foundation]]! in Georgia, *[[PoraMertz-Gilmore Foundation]]! in Ukraine, and the like, which are already virally replicating other sects throughout the former Soviet Union, achieving in civilian form what had not been possible militarily in the 1980s*[[Miriam G. The groups are also spreading to Africa and South America.[ibidIra D.Wallach Foundation]]

Between 1993 and 1999 they received funding from<ref>Albert Einstein Institution, [http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/1993-99rpt.pdf ''Report on Activities 1993-1999''], Albert Einstein Institution website, 2000.(Pdf)</ref>:*[[Arca Foundation]]*Burma Project of the [[Open Society Institute]]*[[Compton Foundation]]*[[C.S. Fund]]*[[Ford Foundation]]*[[Friedrich Naumann Stiftung]]*[[Greenville Foundation]]*[[International Republican Institute]]*[[Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust]]*[[Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation]]*[[National Endowment for Democracy]]*[[New York Friends Group]]*[[Olof Palme International Centre]]*[[Ploughshares Fund]]*[[United States Institute for Peace]] ==People=====Principals===

*[[Hardy MerrimanJamila Raqib]] &ndash; Assistant to the Senior ScholarExecutive Director ''Staff 2000'' <ref>[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/22_fall2000-1.pdf Nonviolent Struggle], AEI, vol 7. no. 1.m Fall 2000.</Media and Outreach Coordinator ref> ===Advisors (1993-1999)===*Maj. Gen. [[Edward B. Atkeson]] (ret.)*[[Philip Bogdonoff]]*[[I. Roberto Eisenmann]]*Dr. [[Efrain Garza Fuentes]]*Rabbi [[Everrett Gendler]]*Prof. [[Donald Horowitz]]*Prof. [[Robin Remington Wallace]]*Admiral [[Gene R. La Rocque]] (ret.)*Prof. [[Adam Roberts]]*[[William Spencer]]*Prof. [[Hisham Sharabi]]*[Jamila Raqib[David Szanton]]*[[Peter Szanton]] &ndash; Office Manager/Translations Coordinator *[[Emilie AmstutzWilliam Langer Ury]] &ndash; Development Officer[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/1993-99rpt.pdf pdf] ''Former Advisors''*[[Chris MillerJames Farmer]]- 1994/95 [http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/20_win94_95-2.pdf]  ==Former Directors (1990)==Accessed August 2008: <ref>[http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/scannedPDFs/Biennial%20Report%20-%201988-1990.pdf Biennial Report 1988-1990], AEI, accessed August 6, 2008.</ref>

==Affiliations==*[[Peter Ackerman]]*[[Philip Bogdonoff]]*[[Chester Haskell]]*[[Joanne Leedom-Ackerman]]*[[Christopher Kruegler]]*[[Richard Rockwell]]*[[NEDThomas C. Schelling]] &ndash; funding source*[[Soros FoundationGene Sharp]] &ndash; funding source

==Contactinformation==

427 Newbury StreetPO Box 455<br>East Boston, MA 0211502128<br>

E-mail at: einstein AT @igc.org<br>WebsiteWeb: http://www.aeinstein.org

==Articles and Resources=====Related SourceWatch ResourcesArticles===*[[NED]] - former funder *[[Soros Foundation]]

==External Resources==*Jonathan Mowat, "[http[Category://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/031905mowat-1.html The new Gladio in action?Democracy]: Ukrainian postmodern coup completes testing of new template", Online Journal, March 19, 2005. Contains references to the role played by AEI in Ukraine.*Jonathan Mowat, "] [[httpcategory://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/031905Mowat-2/031905mowat-2.html Who is Col. Bob Helvey?think tanks]]", Online Journal, March 19, 2005. Contains discussion of the instigator of AEI.*Jonathan Mowat, "[http[category://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/031905Mowat-3/031905mowat-3.html The Coup PlottersUnited States]]: The Albert Einstein Institution", Online Journal, March 19, 2005. Contains discussion of AEI.[[Category:DemocracyPolitical Manipulation]]